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Woooo congrats @Lemorse7!!

I’m pretty sure the only team that has a winning record against Moscow this season is DC. So I don’t believe that is luck.

I’m in. Will probably be done next week

Unfortunately we signed two other forwards yesterday and have no more room. I appreciate you choosing us though! But you’ll have to choose a different team I am sorry

Houston Bulls Press Conference Week Ending July 31 1. The team is all coming together! We now have 18 skaters and 2 goalies! What are your thoughts on the moves management has made? 2. We clinched a playoff spot this past week! Where in the standings will we finish by the end of the season? (We are currently third). 3. How has your player been doing? If you're a new player, what are your expectations for your player? 4. Mr. Minion @Minion, our beloved AGM, is throwing a birthday party. You're all invited! What will you bring as a present? 5. Todd Cooke is top 10 in forwards and Jani Karppinen is top 10 for defensemen for points. Will anyone else make the top 10 by the end of the season? 6. Last but not least, what is your favourite day of the week and why?

LETS GOOOOO

River welcome back! Houston is looking for some more forwards to finish our depth while pushing for the cup. We’re third in the league and looking good! If you’d like to join, quote this message saying #FlamingBulls and I’ll send you a contract!

Tina!!! Welcome back! Houston has some good minutes for you if you’d like to join. We’re currently third in the league and pushing for the cup but we do need some more forward depth. If you’d like to join the team, quote this message with #FlamingBulls and I’ll send you a contract

Hey @maiafleur! Welcome to the VHL! My name is AJ, Houston Bulls GM. We are almost at the playoffs with 20 games left in the season, and are looking for some more forward depth on our team. Houston is currently 3rd in the league and going for the cup! For minutes I can offer you 4th line at the moment, but with time and activity, I would love to boost those for you! So if you would like to join the Houston Bulls, quote this message with #FlamingBulls and I will send you a contract. Good luck in the league!

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Hey @LikeTeemu4! Welcome to the VHL! My name is AJ, Houston Bulls GM. We are almost at the playoffs with 20 games left in the season, and are looking for some more forward depth on our team. Houston is currently 3rd in the league and going for the cup! For minutes I can offer you 4th line at the moment, but with time and activity, I would love to boost those for you! So if you would like to join the Houston Bulls, quote this message with #FlamingBulls and I will send you a contract. Good luck in the league!

Hey @Creeperrx! Welcome to the VHL! My name is AJ, Houston Bulls GM. We are almost at the playoffs with 20 games left in the season, and are looking for some more forward depth on our team. Houston is currently 3rd in the league and going for the cup! For minutes I can offer you 4th line at the moment, but with time and activity, I would love to boost those for you! So if you would like to join the Houston Bulls, quote this message with #FlamingBulls and I will send you a contract. Good luck in the league!

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Hey @Mint! Welcome to the VHL! My name is AJ, Houston Bulls GM. We are almost at the playoffs with 20 games left in the season, and are looking for some more forward depth on our team. Houston is currently 3rd in the league and going for the cup! For minutes I can offer you 4th line at the moment, but with time and activity, I would love to boost those for you! So if you would like to join the Houston Bulls, quote this message with #FlamingBulls and I will send you a contract. Good luck in the league!

After winning a Continental Cup with the Bears, I was soon hired as the GM for the Houston Bulls. I now have an addiction to trading and wanting to win again. The Bulls are 3rd in the league and have been a top 4 team all season. In all honesty, I feel like we have a good chance to win it. After making that recent trade with Miami for Ronaldono Ronaldono, our forward core has become so deep with 7/10 players having 100+ TPE. Our defence are now all 100+ TPE, and our goalie will be capped soon enough. I am feeling really great about this team and I want to win it for them so badly. Houston has also not won a cup since S68, and if my math is correct that is 16 seasons. That's a long time! So why not just go all out and completely follow the boom/bust cycle for one season. That is the cost of this season, is that for the next two I don't have much future in the draft classes. Luckily though, I am addicted to the forum and can somehow sign a bunch of waiver players. I mean we signed like 10 this season, so I am not too worried. One thing I am worried about is those stinky Vegas Aces. They have been the team to beat all season and while my team is starting to look more matched up with Las Vegas, they've found ways to beat us basically every game. So that will be the dragon to slay, and I am ready for it. I will be testing out line match ups all season and hopefully we will find our way to the finals to take shin and his squad on! Ex-Vegas GM vs Current Vegas GM would be a prettyyyyy fun final series

Also @Alex I think I caught your trade virus….

@ThomasSyster welcome to Houston! Let’s go chase that cup! Thanks again @Ledge for easy trade talks!

Mubble wrote a whole .com article in the title damn

@DarkSpyro WELCOME BACK! Houston has a backup spot waiting for you if you’d like to join! Quote this message with #FlamingBulls to join the team

Shin I didn’t know you were trilingual!

Hey @emidas! Welcome to the VHL, my name is AJ, Houston Bulls GM. Houston is currently 3rd in the league and looking for more forwards to add before playoffs. At the moment I would be able to offer your player 3rd line minutes, but with time and earning I could easily bump those up. If you would like to join Houston this season, quote this message saying #FlamingBulls. It’s nice to see members joining from Sister League’s so we’re happy to have you! Good luck in the VHL

Hey Jubis! Welcome back with your recreate Houston has a backup spot if you’d like to come hangout with us on our push to the playoffs. We’re currently 3rd in the league and rising. Quote this message with #FlamingBulls to join the team!

Bojo!! Welcome back with your recreate. Houston is looking for some forward depth heading into the playoffs and I’d love to offer your player some good minutes. Quote this message with #FlamingBulls to join the team.

With the Trade Deadline approaching tonight at 3am EST, Houston is preparing for the swarm of new players of recreates and new members to the league from now until playoffs. Houston has been a top 4 team all season and are building for a cup. Coming into S84, Houston experienced a GM change with Arce being promoted to the VHLE and myself being hired. I was left with 5 solid draft picks but no players on my roster. I went into the draft wanting to pick up 3 forwards and 2 defence, hoping I could sign a waiver goalie throughout the season. The plan went as expected and here is what the Bulls roster looked like after the draft: F - Daniel Weaver F - Todd Cooke F - Alex Ovechkin II D - Jani Karppinen D - Izaak Bobs With a very small roster, I had a good feeling that this would be a rebuild year to be ready and actually competitive for the next season. After talking with the team and getting to know everyone, I kind of did not want to wait to be competitive, I wanted the team to be strong now. I looked at my future season draft picks and saw that I had all of them, so why not make some trades to plump the team a bit. Here are the results of the four trades I made so far: IN OUT F - Damian Steele S85 HOU 1st D - Lloyd Braun S85 HOU 2nd D - Phil Strasmore S86 HOU 1st S85 PHI 3rd S86 HOU 2nd S85 SDM 3rd S86 HOU 3rd S84 SDM 4th S86 HOU 4th S86 PHI 3rd S86 HOU 7th So by taking a look at these trades, you can sort of see what I am doing. I wanted Strasmore and Braun from San Diego to fill out and complete my defensive depth since getting defence seemed like a struggle this season. Both players are recreates and the members behind these players know how to build. Then I traded for Damian Steele from Miami to give my forwards another top skater since we only had Weaver and Cooke as capped TPE forwards. I did end up trading a lot of picks, including both my 1sts and 2nds for the next two seasons. But for the future I am not too worried since in S85 I have four 3rd round picks and 2 4th round picks. I believe those six picks can produce pretty decent players, and maybe even players that play for more than one season. Now for waiver signings. Waiver signings in the VHLM is the easiest way to buff up your team. Fortunately this season, Houston leads the league in waiver signings with 7. 7 new players can make a huge improvement in your team's performance throughout the season. I have clearly seen improvements since the start of our season with 5 players on the roster, to now 15 players on our roster. It has been amazing meeting all the new people who signed and teaching them/motivating them to earn the most TPE they can. Not every waiver signing is a steal, but some of the players I signed have been amazing at earning so far. So now lets compare what the roster looked like at the beginning of the season, to what it looks like now: Pre - Season Present F - Daniel Weaver F - Daniel Weaver F - Todd Cooke F - Todd Cooke F - Alex Ovechkin II F - Alex Ovechkin II D - Izaak Bobs F - Damian Steele D - Jani Karppinen F - Brayden Albrecht F - Johnny Kalamazoo F - So-jun Lim F - Cash Aleksic D - Izaak Bobs D - Jani Karppinen D - Phil Strasmore D - Lloyd Braun D - Isamu Knievel D - Joel Rogers G - B.N.T.P. Guy I would say the present roster looks A LOT better than before. We now have a 8-6-1 roster with a good amount of depth. Here is the average TPA per position: Forwards: 132 Defence: 160 Goalie: 142 Having a team TPA average of about 144 is pretty crazy to me, especially with 15 players. While we lack a bit of depth in forwards (only 3/8 forwards being above that average TPA), we make up for it with our defence who you could argue are the best top 6 on a team in the whole league. Our goalie is also a max earner and should be close to the cap by the first playoff sim. I am really proud of what this team has accomplished so far heading into trade deadline. We are 3rd in the league and my goal is to catch up to Vegas if we can. Houston will be gunning for some more forwards in the next couple of days, and hopefully we can build a great roster for playoffs. Why not go for the cup right? The league seems to only have 4 good competitors with Philadelphia maybe being an exception at 5th. So let's do this.

Hey @RElblein! Welcome to the VHL. My name is AJ, Houston Bulls GM in the VHLM. We are just over halfway through the season and are looking for more players to fill out our roster. Houston is currently 3rd in the league and wanting competitive players to help us keep moving up. In the VHLM we praise members who work hard at earning TPE, so for now I would be able to offer your player 3rd line minutes, but with time and effort I would love to boost your minutes! Houston would be thrilled to have you and give your player a new home. If you would like to join the Bulls, quote this message saying #FlamingHorns. Thank you and good luck in the league!