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depreciation

STOP THE HATER MAN

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the new depreciation rules are unfair for nine-season players.

With nine-year career you get 72 more games with terrible stats that tank your career point per game average No chance to win the Stoltzy Likelihood of being on a team full rebuild In many cases lower first season salary as GMs unlikely to give the $3 million pity salary for going back down to minors. We knew that going in, but now this depreciation on top of that. Yikes.

Surely the point of being a max earner, to the extent that you can jump up to the VHL in your D+1 season, should allow you to spend excessively as your activity gives you the right to be a premier player, not just one that plays at a "fairly high level"

Isn’t it funny that if you claim a free week, you can’t claim your VHL.com 5x4 modifier. I was shocked this morning to see that Spartan had denied my update based on this fact. What’s the point in getting a free week then? I do a VHL.com article every week for 2 TPE, so a free week should allow me to avoid writing a VHL.com, right? I’m rather confused and I wanted to call out Mr. “HE HATE ME” Spartan for making my free week not so free. With that said, it’s still a grim time in Seattle. We can’t score regularly, and we could just as easily finish in 6th place in the conference as we could in 4th. I thought that we would not be rebuilding again, based on the moves the team made, but it seems actually that maybe holding onto another lottery pick would have been the better move. I’m not a GM, just my piece. Boga’s started scoring more regularly, which is nice. I think I was on the worst producing line in the entire VHL for the bulk of the season so far, but some nice stats towards the end of the season will go a long way to not tanking my end of season points per game record.

Thanks for picking my name Bek. Look forward to the 5 uncapped TPE for my services.

Ok

Why should those who are active enough to get to play a ninth season get hit with such painful depreciation?

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you tried

1. Not at all. Boga has had a terrible season and is not living up to my expectations. 2. Honestly, no. Living in a Muslim country means no time off for Christmas, so we just work through. 3. I've enjoyed rye whisky with ginger ale recently, but my favourite adult beverage is Fernet Branca 1. What are you going to spend your theme week doubles TPE on? 2. What do you see as the area in which your VHL team needs to improve this season? 3. Who is going to win the FIFA World Cup? Do you have any interest in it?

I guess this will be another OOC post. I don’t particularly enjoy doing them, but here we go. I’ll start with a little bit about myself. I joined the VHL in S75. I signed up during the offseason and signed as a waiver signing with the Saskatoon Wild. I missed the boat by signing up at the trade deadline. The first thing that I would say is worth doing is not to get disheartened. What do I mean by that? After signing up and enjoying my time in Saskatoon, I entered the VHLM Dispersal Draft for my second season and I was disheartened about the fact I would be leaving Saskatoon and moving to Miami. I loved the Sasky LR at that time and didn’t want to move. However, I could stay in the LR and still contribute while playing for a new team, meeting new people. At the end of the day, Miami won the VHLM title that season, but I was more active in the Sasky LR. Another thing about getting disheartened. Real life got in the way of many things at the back end of 2021. I went from being a relatively close-to-max earner to becoming a clicker. I think there was a two-three month spell when I was only collecting welfare. As a result, Hlozek maxed out at a 800 TPE earner. Despite that, Hlozek finished his career as a point-per-game player, and I managed to keep my VHL activity at a level that was manageable for me at the time. Instead of leaving the league altogether, I managed to stay active enough to still contribute (based on my past earning), and continue welfare earning so that I could maintain my TPE level. In short, you have to do what is right for you at the time. Contribute and earn when you have the opportunity, as you never know when real life comes around. If you have to earn welfare, don’t feel bad about it, and don’t be disheartened, because there will be a time when you can be active, and you have a player that you can add your TPE to. I would say my other big recommendation is to make sure that you find the right group of people that you want to be active with. Sometimes VHL gen chat isn’t the best place for that. Stick to your LRs, and most importantly, stay in your LRs even if you move on. Maintaining those relationships is crucially important. And third and finally, if you’re a first gen. Listen to the experts. There are loads of guys who have experience of STHS and know how to get the best out of your player. It can be appealing to dump your TPE into the stats that make the build that you want your player to be, but I continue listening to the experts who let me know what would be best for me to make the build that I want to do with my new player. I’ve found a method that can get me my 12 TPE in the space of an hour or so. That’s manageable for me. I don’t take anything else on. I urge you all to try and make sure you contribute in a way that is manageable for you. We want to be here for a long time, and a good time.

The Seattle Bears and the London United are tied 1-1 after two periods in Sunday night’s game, and VHL Gameday goes live to our reporter Julia Schmidt, who is with Bears forward Yaroslav Bogatyrev. JS: Yaroslav, it’s been a back and forth game. How are you seeing things from your end YB: We know that London are a hard skating team and they’re giving us issues in the neutral zone. When we break the trap we’re able to set up in the O-zone and generate chances though. JS: You got the Bears on the board with your 10th goal of the season in the second period there. How did you see the play? YB: It was a good play by Tavish. He managed to get me the puck in a high-danger area, and I just did the rest. JS: What does Seattle need to do in the third period to get the win? YB: We’ve got to be hard on pucks and put the effort in. This is a game that we know we can win, and now we have to put in a good 20-minute effort to get the victory. The Seattle Bears would manage just four shots in the final period and go on to drop the game 3-1 thanks to goals by London’s Velociraptor Greg and Yun Chiang.

MOSCOW, December 5 (Shaiba.ru) - We’ve reached the halfway point of the S86 regular season, and things are looking a little shaky for the Seattle Bears. The Bears dropped their last three games amid a downturn in form that has seen the Washington state-based club fall from third to fourth in the North American Conference. It’s difficult to find fault in the play of goaltender Dusty Wilson and the team’s defence. Everyone knows the sort of game that Seattle is going to play. They clog the middle, and hound the puck. As a result, they have the second best defensive record in the entire VHL, conceding just 90 goals in 42 games. On the flipside, the team can’t score goals regularly. Seattle’s second unit has been notoriously poor when it comes to finding the back of the net, and the team’s 97 goals through 42 games is one of the worst markers in the league. Winning now is important for the Bears. Why? They traded away the Los Angeles Stars’ first round pick to the Toronto Legion at the start of the season in a move for wily veteran defence Ryuji Sakamato. At present, the Stars have the second worst record in the league, which means that the Bears are going to have to start making some noise for this trade to go down as anything other than a loss. “It’s hard to say how we’re going to get out of this hole,” Yaroslav Bogatyrev, rookie forward for the Seattle Bears, told reporters after his side’s loss to London United on Sunday. There have been some rumours of further trades to come for the Bears ahead of next week’s trade deadline. As it stands, some offensive firepower is definitely needed, although it remains to be seen how much of Seattle’s future management is ready to mortgage for a run at the Continental Cup, when many aren’t looking at Seattle as a contending team at this time. “I think when we look at how we’re doing off the puck, things are good. We just came off a great three-game run in which we only conceded one goal across 180 minutes of hockey. However, when we’re not at our top defensively, our offense isn’t able to get us one of those games. For that I’m partly responsible,” Bogatyrev said. Despite coming into the VHL with a large amount of hype around his name, Yaroslav Bogatyrev has struggled in his first season in the best hockey league in the world. The big-bodied Russian forward has only managed to tally 18 points in his first 42 VHL games. When he scores, he scores in bunches, such as a four-point game earlier this season. However, the Nizhnii Tagil native has developed a worrying trend of being held off the scoresheet for multiple games in a row. “I need to be better, just as the team as a whole needs to be better. We’ve still got some time to figure out what is going wrong, and how we can be better. We have to keep working at it,” he said.

Yaroslav Bogatyrev - Biography Few people outside of Russia could point out the Urals Mountains on a map. The long, thin mountain range that winds through central Russia demarcating the continental border between Europe and Asia has a significant place in Russian history. Dating back to the Imperial Russian days, it marked the end of Russia and the beginning of Siberia, a place that was often associated with exile labour and prisoners. The Urals has a proud place in Russian history though. The gentle slopes of the Ural Mountains are home to a wealth of mineral resources that have been harnessed since the eighteenth century. All across a region the size of present-day Poland, hundreds of metalworking plants were established in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Cast iron ore turned into cast iron. High-grade iron ore was turned into iron sheets and exported westwards. Did you know that iron from the Urals is actually featured in the British Houses of Parliament? In the Soviet times, many of the more rural factory towns were closed, and production was centralized in some of the region’s largest, most advanced ironworks. This is where Nizhnii Tagil. What was once the crown of the Demidov family empire in the nineteenth century was repurposed by the Soviet government and turned into a sprawling town that could live on more than just the factory. Nizhnii Tagil is a rather unforgiving place. The climate is harsh. The winters are long, dry, and cold, with the mercury often dropping below -30 Celsius. Summers are relentlessly hot as well. Tough people come from here. It’s difficult to call the Urals a hockey hotbed, despite the harsh climate. The region’s only great team can be considered to be Metallurg Magnitogorsk, although this city, another factory town, is hundreds of kilometres away from Nizhnii Tagil. It’s not hard to see why. Many of the best Russian players from the northern Urals first move southwards, to the larger population centres of Ekaterinburg or Magnitogorsk. From there, the best move to Moscow or St. Petersburg. It’s how it’s always been. Yaroslav Bogatyrev followed a similar trajectory. He was born into a family of a railway worker and an elementary school teacher. The Bogatyrev family had little connection with hockey, except that his father was an avid watcher of the late-Soviet teams featuring Kharlamov, Krutov, Maltsev, etc. Pytor Bogatyrev never played professionally, but he loved the game, and pushed his son to play at any given opportunity. Yaroslav was always a big kid. His frame topped out at 6’6’’, and he was always an imposing physical specimen among his peers as a child. With a frame that size, many expected Bogatyrev to become the next great Russian defenceman. We’re not talking about someone of the skill of Fetisov, but instead the brawn, bravery, and hard-nosed skill of Alexander Ragulin. At school, Yaroslav did enough to get by, as his mind was always on the rink. Of course, he learned how to recite Pushkin. He studied the works of Tolstoy. But his mathematics and English-language fell by the wayside. At school, he would draw up plays in his head, analyze his past games. He was only interested in anything and everything to do with hockey. Hockey took Yaroslav to many places across Russia. From Nizhnii Tagil he moved to Magnitogorsk. From Magnitogorsk he would move to Moscow. Life in the Russian capital was tough for a boy from the provinces. Moscow is an all-consuming metropolis, and a far cry from life in small-town Russia, if we can even call Nizhnii Tagil a small town. Yaroslav’s parents were unable to make the move to Moscow with him as a 15-year old. They were required to work. Yaroslav would stay in the team camp, living in dormitories with his fellow migrants. Life in a hockey dormitory wasn’t all sugar, as the typical Russian proverb goes. Disagreements often broke out, possessions were stolen. However, Yaroslav was able to tough it out knowing that the greater goal lay ahead. When he turned 18, Yaroslav moved out of the team dormitory. He began playing for professional sides, and impressing greatly. This salary allowed Yaroslav to bring his parents out of Nizhnii Tagil and relocate them to Moscow. This coincided with some of Yaroslav’s best form in the Russian Vysshaya Hokkeynaya Liga, highlighting the importance of a strong family environment. Of course, as his mother would always say, “how can you play well if you haven’t had cabbage soup for lunch.” And before you turn your nose, cabbage soup is fantastic. Bogatyrev’s professional hockey career has seen him leave Russia, perhaps for the foreseeable future. He’s now spent time in Texas, Germany, and Seattle. However, no place will ever be able to replicate his love for his home town. It may be grey, it may be cold, but it’s his home. His Nihznii Tagil.

1. I expected Riga to be top of the standings. Very surprised. 2. Press conferences, as I have to wait until the AGM does them. 3. I've never had a thanksgiving meal, so I can't say. 1. How early is too early to put up the Christmas tree? 2. What is your favourite Christmas song? 3. Why are you posting in the Answer 3, Ask 3 thread?

Yaroslav Bogatyrev wasn’t expecting to be drafted second overall. In many of the Mock Drafts ahead of selection day, the big-bodied Russian forward was projected to slide down the rankings. Maybe to fifth, maybe further. Cue his surprise when the Seattle Bears decided to select the Nizhnii Tagil native with the second overall pick. With draft-day selection comes a number of decisions. Bogatyrev was one of only two players (along with #1 pick The Frenchman) to make the jump to the VHLE after just 20 games in the VHLM. At that time, the Cologne Express deemed Bogatyrev good enough to play up a level, and the same was the case with Seattle. Bogatyrev joined a Seattle Bears roster that was looking for improvement following the preceding season’s disappointment. Management made significant moves to completely overhaul the team’s defensive core. “The rebuild is over”, many were saying. The Russian forward showed in the VHLE that he could find the back of the net. He had 59 points in his only VHLE season, but what impressed scouts the most was his commitment to defensive play, something that many doubted ahead of the draft. Bogatyrev joined the Seattle Bears and went straight into their RW hole on the second line. Many projected that this could create problems for him, given how Seattle overloads their talent on the top line, but the Russian forward has still shown that he has what it takes to compete at the top tier of world hockey. Roughly one week ago, Bogatyrev shocked the world with a four-point performance against London United. He grabbed two goals and two assists in a dominant display that underlined his star credentials. However, a 9-game point drought followed in the wake of that outburst. What this shows is that while Bogatyrev’s rookie season has had its moments, finding consistency has been a major problem for the Nizhnii Tagil native. As the season moves towards the halfway stage, Bogatyrev knows that he has to be on his game every single night if he wants to make a contribution in the VHL. There are no off games, there are no days off. The VHL requires players to be at their best every single night, and this is something that the 6’6’’ forward knows. There’s no other goal for the Seattle Bears other than making the playoffs in S86. Bogatyrev experienced playoff pushes in the VHLM and VHLE, although we all know that winning in the VHL requires something completely different.

For current players. If we graduated from the VHLE, can we still write one and claim it back?

Week 3

It's time to relocate Rory.

It hasn’t been the start to the season for the Seattle Bears that many expected. After the management made some ambitious moves during the summer, acquiring star defencemen Tavish DeGroot and Alessandro Nano, many predicted that the Bears should be eyeing a playoff berth. However, the Seattle Bears’ season has been marked by inconsistency. After a slow start, the Bears went on a 5-game winning streak to launch themselves from seventh to fourth in the North American Conference. However, the Bears have since gone on a strange run of winning two games in a row, only to then lose another two on the bounce. The Bears dropped a pair of games against the Helsinki Titans, and rookie forward Yaroslav Bogatyrev spoke out about the frustration many on the team are currently experiencing. “It’s been a strange run. I don’t think anyone expected us to struggle this badly. We’re having a really hard time generating offence. We’re not scoring many goals. Yes, we play a defensive system, but sometimes that’s failing us in games as well. We really need to find a way out of this as a third of the season has already passed and we’re treading water,” Bogatyrev said. The rookie forward has just 11 points through 23 games, and said that he had to be better. “Our line for whatever reason isn’t working. We’re trying, but nothing seems to be going our way,” he said.

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