Advantage

On 4/21/2024 at 9:46 PM, KaleebtheMighty said:

  PRESS CONFERENCE

Week of: April 28th, 2024

Answer 6 of these questions for 2 TPE

 

1. Malmo is making a push for the 1st overall position in both the EU conference and the VHL. Did you think we would be here at the beginning of this season?

2. Who would you rank as our team's MVP?

3. How did your player perform this season?

4. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

5. What team are you rooting for in the Stanley Cup Playoffs?

8. HYPOTHETICAL: You woke up this morning and the world has transformed into the last movie you watched. How screwed are you?

1. Definitely knew we had the talent but hard to tell with this simulator honestly sometimes. 
 

2. Stone has been an absolute monster this year.  Ash doing his thing too!

3. Pretty okay with Jensen although with how he started the season, I was admittedly hoping he’d break 100. 
 

4. Neopolitan honestly. love all 3

5. Anyone but Boston and Toronto for this guy

8. Oh dear..Last movie I watched was Poor Things…so yeah yikes. IYKYK

Forgot to do mine for this season too.

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Doubles Week

That original Malmo LR was so fun.

I have been feeling pretty idealess for a while when it comes to writing topics and while I had other “series” that I ran in the past (and ultimately dropped) I have wanted to look at the infamous Hall of Very Good talents who were just not quite great enough to be in the VHL HOF, but still found their way on the ballot for a number of years.  This isn’t going to be some major deep dive into their entire career, but rather a simple reflection on their career and perhaps touching on some of the reasons they should and/or shouldn’t be in the HOF.

I don’t necessarily think I will discover many talents where we all of a sudden look at them again, and consider putting them back in the HOF, as I do think the BOG does a good job generally with this aspect.  With that being said, I think it’s cool to shine a light on some of the great players that shaped our league, that are perhaps not remembered as well as those who graced the VHL’s version of Cooperstown.  Without further ado, I bring you to our first player…Nikolai Lebedev.

Hall of Very Good - Nikolai Lebedev (S25-31) – @probably not noah

RS: 504 GP, 318 G, 335 A, 653 P, +280, 771 HIT, 63 GW, 1.30 P/G

PO: 61 GP, 29 G, 32 A, 61 P, +9, 74 HIT, 4 GW, 1.00 P/G

Accomplishments

S28 Brett Slobodzian Trophy (Most Outstanding Player)
S28 Lemieux Trophy (Most Points in VHL)
S28 Joe Malone Memorial Trophy (Most Goals in VHL)
S28 Dustin Funk Trophy (Most Improved Player)
One Continental Cup (S28)
Member of Triple Gold Club

4th All-Time in Seattle Bears Goals

6th All-Time in Seattle Bears Points

Season-by-Season Finishes

Goals - 1st, 6th, 9th, 9th
Assists - 6th
Points - 1st, 8th

All-Time Rankings

Goals: 65th
Assists: 311th
Points: 122nd
P/G: 94th

If we handed out the HOF based on a single season, Nikolai Lebedev would have a pretty strong argument for his tremendous Season 28 campaign.  Heck, it pretty much built his entire resume that earned him a ticket on the ballot from S32 to S35, before he was swiftly removed when the Board of Governors did its rehaul of the ballot.

Lebedev was a consistent player who never once had below a point-per-game, which is a pretty impressive feat even in an era where it was easier to have a consistent talent like that.  His rookie season was his worst offensive performance with a still very respectable 74 points in 72 games, to lead all rookies.  While his Season 28 tally was a dominant 128 points, taking the scoring race by 4 points over Hall of Fame pivot, Leeroy Jenkins.  Capping off that impressive year in style, Lebedev would score the GWG in the deciding Game 6, the only one in a tight 1-0 win.

Nikolai doesn’t exactly jump off the board when you look at his all-time placements, but a lot of that has to do with his seven season career.  Unlike many of the VHL’s best players, he only played 504 games but was an offensive juggernaut throughout those seasons, finishing top ten in goals four different times.  With that being said, one has to remember that this was only an eight team league at the time, and the top teams typically fielded no more than two lines of players, meaning it was a lot easier to be in the top ten than it is in the present day.  With that being said, Lebedev still has a pretty eye popping 318 goals and 653 points in 504 games, and while there are definitely players that fall closer to the HOF line (Tyson Kohler comes to mind), Lebedev still ranks among non-HOF players as fourteenth all-time in goals.  Add his tremendous hardware and consistent overall play, and Lebedev showcases just how solid he was for his seven year tenure in the Victory Hockey League.

Lebedev would play 434 of his regular season games with the Seattle Bears; a team that the user was pretty familiar with over his time in the league with multiple players.  To this day, Lebedev sits 4th all-time for Seattle Bears players in goals, 6th all-time in points and even 2nd in Game-Winning-Goals.  While I do agree with the decision to have not put him in the Hall of Fame, his dedication and consistent strong play (and even playoff heroics) made him someone who deserved to have their number retired by the organization and sadly that seems to have been missed.  While perhaps not the highest profile player in team history, he absolutely was an important one in the contribution to the franchises overall history.

I totally forgot what day it was and sat here shocked for a good few minutes. 

Happy birthday old man!

20 minutes ago, Berocka said:

If Hatty is vamp I will stake GLU as it's sus they rb'd the known jail target

 

Rory jail who else hasn't voted Alex and adrest on Rory. Adv go for a drink and enjoy your last night on the earth

Sad   

Advantage 

Alex

Rory

Jacobaa19

Berocka
 

5/8 on Hatty right now. 

Also what is the record for pirate kills?

4 seems wild as someone who has been one lol

@Gustav

I like the idea.  I don’t know if there is harm there but Doom did investigate him before and the other options were Survivor and Amnesiac no? @rory 

im going to jump on it.  I feel more sure of one of the two and then we can put him in jail if we don’t like what Hatty is.  
 

Unvote Berocka

Vote Hatty

1 hour ago, Berocka said:

How about vote Hatty if they aren't a vamp then jail me I can't do any harm in jail

I’m fine with this @rory  up to you tho

Im Pretty confident Hatty ain’t town at least

Unvote Hatty

Vote Berocka 

Definitely with you on that one @rory.  I think both are pretty suspicious but one is being a lot more open about it.
 

im willing to swap around with more evidence tho but i agree with Rory’s reasoning. 

46 minutes ago, rory said:

Idk everyone, i think the remaining players are too smart to not convert Advantage after confirming himself as vig.

 

VOTE BEROCKA

Is this something I’d receive info on if I was converted? Like does Gus tell you if you were bitten?  I don’t remember being in a game with vampires.  
 

I was between shooting those two specifically cause I also don’t really believe the vamp hunter since we haven’t had any vampire indications.  I know doom investigated it and we were unsure on what he may lie on but it may be a chaos creator to confuse us too.  

1 hour ago, Berocka said:

Can you throw in a vote then please 

yes it’s early in the day sorry lol.  I’m at work so my ability to answer is a bit less flexible.  
 

VOTE HATTY

I definitely wanted to kill Hatty but yeah took a shot.  Just felt like Adrest had been confirmed by LO and Woogs post made me pretty confident he was medium.   
 

I’m sorry @Doomsday   

1 minute ago, Berocka said:

Who should we vote then

I think we should get rid of @jhatty8 If he is a jester like some thought, so be it but based on @rory thoughts when he jailed him, I don’t think he’s town if nothing else.  

2 minutes ago, rory said:

I’ll throw hatty in jail tonight. 

Would you prefer to jail someone else and let me take a likely non town shot?

@Berocka  I have 2 shots left still (Vigilante obv) since jailor executed my target. Anyone in particular you are concerned about? I may just take a shot and risk getting hung for it but I also don’t really want to take out 2 townies that way lol. 

Unvote Woog

It’s definitely hard to imagine faking all of that honestly.  
 

I don’t think it’s the end of the world if we are wrong, but yeah not sure either. 

15 minutes ago, Doomsday said:

Hold up.

 

Doesn't the Medium get to talk to the dead all day, as opposed to only at night like the actual game?

Correct. Can technically feed as much info as they want.  Not all of it is truthful from the sources themselves of course.  And then after death they can seance with one alive member once. *From my memories of being one so hopefully I’m not wrong (was my first ToS game when I was one). 

Vote Woog

7 minutes ago, woog said:

If the votes pile up against me, I believe Rory is the player I'll visit in seance. He seems adequately protected, because he's still alive, and bad folk keep dying. 

 

Dead or alive, I'll help town prevail.

I mean I am happy to change mine.  I usually go with something I believe early in case I get tied up at work.  But open to change if evidence persists.

I haven’t been fully trusting of @woog for the most part (in game of course lol).  I also don’t mind removing a medium if it means getting rid of a potential bad/neutral.  Like it sucks if that happens, but the risk isn’t massive and I’m not buying the “evidence” brought forth and have been sus for a bit.  

Well that’s a good night.  I was going to shoot Trifecta just in case he didn’t get jailed.  So ultimately I didn’t take my shot since if jailed, it doesn’t use it.  Just didn’t want to risk it on anyone else. Well done @rory