Juice

We will win. That's a promise. Helps that we are 2-0 right now this season so far Also @Ledge and Dairynice link to the same post on the post itself

That's actually an amazing idea, I figured the name being the team name wouldn't be a good idea as then even the player's can't say their own team name, however factored into the logo would be a great idea. My girlfriend told me that even the Hungarian people call the Magyar that came over here Huns ( ), and that the plural would be "Hunok", so maybe that?

Yukon Rush Press Conference (for week ending in 6/6) 1. The Yukon Pick of the Sim is a new tradition being officially started this season (based on something previously done for a short time a few seasons ago). We currently have the leaderboard spread out across 6 players, and with @Zetterbergcurrently being the All Time Leader in Picks held. What do you think of this new tradition? 2. Another game against the Marlins, another dub which brings us to 2-0 in our season series against them. When we win, what would you like @thadthrasherto sing in front of all the VHL? 3. We're now closing in slowly to the half-way part of the season. Mid-season update on your thoughts about your player? 4. The VHLE expansion league took the league by huge surprise, what are your initial thoughts? Any team/place you'd hope to get a team one day? 5. How often do you order in food with delivery per week? 6. Controversial Opinion of the Week: I like to eat/drink cold things (slurpees, iced capps, frozen fruit, etc.) when it's cold inside. Agree or Disagree, and thoughts?

Claim 2/3 for week ending in 6/6

About to go to bed, still nothing from him so my vote is: DOMG

Doom was sus for both the fake-psychic and real psychic

Thoughts on Jarry's future for the Pens

Basically Ptyrell is a 5000 IQ Genius. Definitely un-sus and a tracker imo.

1. Pytrell either got super lucky on the guess or is genuinely the tracker, so I'm still slightly sus. 2. We can use him for the town... until he decides "lol lemme steal your loot", so also slightly sus 3. Yes.

nvm he fully admitted it

Why would we trust your claim if you admit in the same sentence that you lied about your role? You could have just come out and say that you tracked him from the get-go. Seems sus

I didn't forget it was happening, but I definitely overslept as I stayed up until like 4 am writing a media spot lmfao.

Well, that just happened. When it came to resolving roster issues, a 3rd league was the last thing I was expecting. With the recent surprise announcement of the VHLE, among the chaos of hype and questions regarding the entire not-expansion expansion, it had the cogs in my head from two perspectives. First, as a player I'm absolutely pumped that eventually I'll be able to play in another league and see how that's going to work with a lot higher TPE minimums than the VHLM (will recreates still dominate?) as well as the additional year retirement cap added. However, as a GM in the VHLM it has me both curious and hesitant. (skip the below if you don't want to read VHLE concerns and want to go straight to why Budapest would be a sick VHLE team location) The hesitant: I've mentioned this to a few people and talked about it at length over discord with a few others, but as a VHLM GM I would be lying if I'm not a bit concerned. First and foremost, as it seems this is the conclusion most people think when they hear this, but not being competitive in the VHLM shouldn't be the main goal whereas development should be the main focus. The people that interact with me the most know that my main goal is to find gem first gens and guide them to become core community members and overall have fun with the league. With that touched on, my main concern for this expansion league is that it hurts the VHLM. I think with the lack of recreates that will ever touch the VHLM for more than half a season (If you create at a certain time, you'll be able to play roughly half a season to hit the 200 TPE cap ahead of the draft) hits a bit hard. This is due to that recreates help hype up the locker-room and help guide new players, and although having them for a part of a season is good, I think it's quite different compared to from start to end of a season. The other reason for me that concerns me is regarding the 200 TPE cap, as I think this will hurt in several ways. First being that of course it effects the overall structure of the league as most players that are at least earning at a respectable level will be gone in under a season (and I understand that is the main goal, however I could see the VHLM being a place where welfare + practice players stay for a few seasons and that's it, which isn't exactly the best place to show new people to the league for how locker-rooms work if they aren't active past that). The second reason is that in my mind, the job as a GM in the VHLM changes quite a lot where before you were there as a stepping stone for some that know what they are doing and can help your team in multiple ways (compete + be present for new players) as well as helping teach new people the ropes of the league and hopefully give them a look into what they'll experience up in the VHL, whereas at the same time personally as a GM you're practically learning the ropes to maybe eventually being a VHL GM. With the new change, with pretty much anyone who earns well leaving immediately, the VHLM GM job seems more like only being a greeter type job whereas the VHLE GM is your new go-to to learn more to be a VHL GM. Overall, I think my bias plays in (Yukon raised GM'ing for Yukon) as I'd hate to feel be more useless with the new league being introduced, but I'm more than willing to have an open mind and give it several seasons to see how it works before being fully set in with my idea of it. With the above being said, I am still really looking forward to the changes and hoping for the best with the 3-league change. Now, to go to the fun part. Why I think Budapest would be a location to consider for a VHLE Franchise. Registered Hockey Players per Country Stolen from @dlamb, sorry 1. Rising hockey popularity in Europe As you can see in the above, if you disregard the obvious big hockey countries (Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czechia), Hungary sits 9th in registered hockey players in the world, and if we take out the already taken countries used for VHL franchises, Hungary would be 5th for European countries left. Now while Hungary might not be known as a powerhouse of a hockey country (Frank Banham being the only Hungarian descent to play in the NHL...and he was born and raised in Canada), however with the growing rate of registered hockey players I have a feeling that we could have another Germany situation where we'll add another European country to pop out good hockey prospects and players. Map of Europe, with Hungary's location being pointed out 2. Location Location Location What is the one thing that always needs to be taken into consideration when settling any sort of sports team? Where is the best place to put the arena and house your new team! And looking at where Hungary is located, besides Czechia (who already has a team) and Germany there is no better centralized place to put a team in my opinion. While it might be a bit different in person compared to a lot of other places due to it being an ex-Soviet country and not exactly the first place you'd think of when you hear about heading to Europe, Budapest is a beautiful place and could attract a lot of tourism, fans, and even vitalize the growing hockey market. This as well as it'd be close by a few already established VHL teams, so it's an easy place to bring both attention to the VHLE and VHL. Team Name idea for the franchise, not created by myself 3. The Budapest Raiders The other important thing for a team is of course the franchise's name. I would probably play into the history of Hungary, being technically from the Steppes in the East and coming West to where Hungary is now today with the Magyar, which were several dynasties of clans that were known as fierce warriors, invaders, and raided their way here. That being said, I'd go with the Budapest Raiders as the team name. I'd have to mock up an idea for the team logo, as I'm awful with art and had to find the above from google, but I think with the right graphic it could be a wonderful team name and logo. One of the many really good Hungarian draft beers 4. Cheap Beer If the above didn't help you consider it, I'm gonna have to pull out my trump card. Welcome to the land of cheap beer, which means also cheaper beer at the hockey arenas. Based on a World Beer Index, Hungary ranks 18th in the countries of the world in average cheapest price for a beer. And if we take into account just European countries, that number goes up to 5th for lowest average beer price with the countries ahead being Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, and Spain, and with those countries in mind only two are more hockey countries than Hungary. I'm a huge fan of drinking beers when watching hockey, but the outrageous prices (looking at you Rogers Arena) always makes me sigh and I usually pass on ever getting one. However with the cheap beer in mind, a hockey franchise would be able to make a fortune on relatively fair prices on beer for hockey standards that are well above average for the country itself. Fields of Lavender in Tihany 5. Lavender Putting this one in for @fishyto help play to the admins as well as anyone else who loves the purple goodness that is lavender. It's quite popular in Hungary, with huge fields spread-out through the country as well as an entire town near the capital city being dedicated to growing lavender (Tihany, if interested) as well as throwing lavender festivals. This, as well as the yearly Christmas markets always having several places that sell nothing but lavender, lavender scented products, as well as anything remotely they can make purple. Pain 6. I Live Here I got pied for a moment like this, please bring a team here. In summary, although there are a ton of good options (I'm keen towards Germany and France getting teams as well), I think Budapest, Hungary should be heavily considered either at first or for future VHLE expansion if we ever get to that point as I believe it could be an amazing location to play into. Even though my bias is definitely showing, I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else would be down for this as well as if anyone would be able to mock up a graphic for the logo as if I attempted it then the entire idea would instantly be shot down by anyone with a reasonably good vision, my art abilities are that bad. (1533 Words)

It begins

Awww yeah, let's get it! I'll be sending you a discord invite shortly.

WELCOME TO THE VHL! Hey @Silver Warrior! Welcome to the VHL, this is your first step in becoming a VHL star. I am Juice, the GM of the Yukon Rush. Yukon is sitting in a prime position to make a run for the Cup this season, and we'd love to have you on our journey! We almost have a full roster, but we are still in need of a backup goalie. If you are interested, we could get you a decent amount of starts as our backup. We have a team full of VHL veteran users, so there's a ton of people who can help you along with your character if you have any questions as well. Pretty much every team has a starting goalie at this point, so joining a team that is contender is definitely a strong play for you. If you are interested in joining the Rush, quote this post and reply with #FeelTheRush . This would signify you are interested in joining us and from there we will send you a contract and hook you up with our team Discord information. Regardless of where you end up, I wish you all the best on your VHLM journey!

Hamburg Ers

I heard about the famous Town of Salem games and figured I wouldn't be able to do it due to timezones. But screw it, I'm IN.

Review: Dlamb cleaning up in the graphics department lately. What can I say that most haven't already, this is a fantastic graphic. The colour and logo swap is subtle (due to the similar colors on the original jersey), but absolutely perfectly done, the background + silhouette of the mask blends well together with the player and overall enhance the graphic by a good margin, and the text used is simplistic enough to both pop as well as it flows together great. Killing it yet again, 9.5/10!

Review: Hot damn AJ, already off to a hot start with a great media spot! I love that you wrote it from your player perspective from start to end, and you used a wonderful amount of diversity in your vocabulary to keep me entertained all the way through! Despite not having the hottest start, your activity and love of the team is easily shown on the effort you made here, and that is definitely why you've been given the "A" for the team. Although I'd prefer to usually have the formatting a bit more touched up (paragraphed up, as it can be hard to read a block of text) as well as some pictures, you've absolutely killed it for your first media spot and I can't wait to see more going forward! I'd give this a solid 8/10

Yukon Rush Press Conference (for week ending in 5/30) 1. The Rush has exceeded all expectations I've had so far this season, having points in all 10 of the games played and starting 8-0-2! Only behind the streaking 11-0-0 Halifax 21st, did the start of the season go as you figured? 2. The roster's depth scoring is on display, with 8 players by the 10th game being PPG or more. How many players do you think will keep this PPG pace by the end of the season? 3. We've rallied the Ottawa Lynx under @dlambto our side against San Diego, while the Philadelphia Reapers under @KaleebtheMightyhas gone rogue and are now on the Marlins side of the war. What would you have to say to the traitors on the Reapers? 4. The NHL playoffs irl are underway, and we already have quite a few playoff series ending! How is your team doing? And if you are not following the playoffs, are you currently watching any other sports now that most are back in action? 5. Meillä on nyt paljon suomalaisia joukkueessa, joten haluan esitellä tämän viikon suomalaisen kysymyksen! Pidätkö rentoutumisesta saunassa? 6. Controversial Opinion of the Week: Nutella is trash, long live Peanut Butter. Agree or disagree?

pepehands, glad to have a long-time pal on my first VHL team and it'll suck to not have you here any longer, but best of luck on your new create