Advantage

This league needs more jersey retirements and in this tough year I want to shed some light on something positive with the Stockholm Vikings.  I actually wanted to do this last year but I had difficulty finding anyone that could do a banner.  Therefore thank you to @boubabi for doing this despite who he was making it for.  Also thanks to Molholt who made it after the fact when he realized he had forgotten, and while I am using Boubabi's, his was equally as nice and he still put the effort in.
 
All in all though, this jersey retirement is for a player who certainly put his time in and produced some impressive accomplishments from Season 42 to Season 49.  While he probably went a little overlooked due to seemingly always being just behind in voting for Thomas O'Malley and perhaps a few others, he still can look at his career at the end of the day, and see that he certainly had a tremendous one.  Karnage is arguably the hardest worker of any VHL player in league history.  Some have even gone on to suggest that his career may be considered a disappointment given how hard he worked to be the best player possible.  I just don't see how this player can be considered a disappointment though.  We are talking elite company when looking at someone who recorded 800 points and 2000 hits.  How elite? Leeroy Jenkins is the only other player who can claim to be in this company, and he finished behind Karnage in the hits department by almost 500!
 
Lord Karnage was an easy Hall of Fame induction and given that those 800+ points and 2000+ hits were mostly recorded in Stockholm, he is easily the greatest player in Vikings history (assuming that we are not including Vasteras in the history books).  While I am uncertain on where he would fall statistically if Vasteras was being counted (just due to record books being hard to get for every season going back to the inaugural one) I can safely say that no player matches him since Stockholm came into the league.  He is the team's all-time leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, PIM, Hits and GWG.  There has been no one like him for the Vikings, and while he may not have won as many awards as he wished he had and perhaps even should have, there is no doubting his place among the league's greatest to ever play.
 

 
 
STATISTICS
554 Games
347 Goals
422 Assists
769 Points
+256
2527 Hits
74 GWG
 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x Victory Cup Winner (S43)
1x Terence Fong Trophy Winner (S47)
4x Scott Boulet Trophy Winner (S44-S47)
1x Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy Winner (S42)
Vikings All-Time Leader in Goals, Assists, Points, Hits, Plus/Minus, PIM, GWG and GP
1st All-Time in Total Points Earned

Thanks for the kind words everybody. Thanks to @Advantage as well for doing this, I really appreciate it. The infamous number 69 is now retired in stockholm ! ?

This league needs more jersey retirements and in this tough year I want to shed some light on something positive with the Stockholm Vikings.  I actually wanted to do this last year but I had difficulty finding anyone that could do a banner.  Therefore thank you to @boubabi for doing this despite who he was making it for.  Also thanks to Molholt who made it after the fact when he realized he had forgotten, and while I am using Boubabi's, his was equally as nice and he still put the effort in.
 
All in all though, this jersey retirement is for a player who certainly put his time in and produced some impressive accomplishments from Season 42 to Season 49.  While he probably went a little overlooked due to seemingly always being just behind in voting for Thomas O'Malley and perhaps a few others, he still can look at his career at the end of the day, and see that he certainly had a tremendous one.  Karnage is arguably the hardest worker of any VHL player in league history.  Some have even gone on to suggest that his career may be considered a disappointment given how hard he worked to be the best player possible.  I just don't see how this player can be considered a disappointment though.  We are talking elite company when looking at someone who recorded 800 points and 2000 hits.  How elite? Leeroy Jenkins is the only other player who can claim to be in this company, and he finished behind Karnage in the hits department by almost 500!
 
Lord Karnage was an easy Hall of Fame induction and given that those 800+ points and 2000+ hits were mostly recorded in Stockholm, he is easily the greatest player in Vikings history (assuming that we are not including Vasteras in the history books).  While I am uncertain on where he would fall statistically if Vasteras was being counted (just due to record books being hard to get for every season going back to the inaugural one) I can safely say that no player matches him since Stockholm came into the league.  He is the team's all-time leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, PIM, Hits and GWG.  There has been no one like him for the Vikings, and while he may not have won as many awards as he wished he had and perhaps even should have, there is no doubting his place among the league's greatest to ever play.
 

 
 
STATISTICS
554 Games
347 Goals
422 Assists
769 Points
+256
2527 Hits
74 GWG
 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x Victory Cup Winner (S43)
1x Terence Fong Trophy Winner (S47)
4x Scott Boulet Trophy Winner (S44-S47)
1x Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy Winner (S42)
Vikings All-Time Leader in Goals, Assists, Points, Hits, Plus/Minus, PIM, GWG and GP
1st All-Time in Total Points Earned

This league needs more jersey retirements and in this tough year I want to shed some light on something positive with the Stockholm Vikings.  I actually wanted to do this last year but I had difficulty finding anyone that could do a banner.  Therefore thank you to @boubabi for doing this despite who he was making it for.  Also thanks to Molholt who made it after the fact when he realized he had forgotten, and while I am using Boubabi's, his was equally as nice and he still put the effort in.
 
All in all though, this jersey retirement is for a player who certainly put his time in and produced some impressive accomplishments from Season 42 to Season 49.  While he probably went a little overlooked due to seemingly always being just behind in voting for Thomas O'Malley and perhaps a few others, he still can look at his career at the end of the day, and see that he certainly had a tremendous one.  Karnage is arguably the hardest worker of any VHL player in league history.  Some have even gone on to suggest that his career may be considered a disappointment given how hard he worked to be the best player possible.  I just don't see how this player can be considered a disappointment though.  We are talking elite company when looking at someone who recorded 800 points and 2000 hits.  How elite? Leeroy Jenkins is the only other player who can claim to be in this company, and he finished behind Karnage in the hits department by almost 500!
 
Lord Karnage was an easy Hall of Fame induction and given that those 800+ points and 2000+ hits were mostly recorded in Stockholm, he is easily the greatest player in Vikings history (assuming that we are not including Vasteras in the history books).  While I am uncertain on where he would fall statistically if Vasteras was being counted (just due to record books being hard to get for every season going back to the inaugural one) I can safely say that no player matches him since Stockholm came into the league.  He is the team's all-time leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, PIM, Hits and GWG.  There has been no one like him for the Vikings, and while he may not have won as many awards as he wished he had and perhaps even should have, there is no doubting his place among the league's greatest to ever play.
 

 
 
STATISTICS
554 Games
347 Goals
422 Assists
769 Points
+256
2527 Hits
74 GWG
 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x Victory Cup Winner (S43)
1x Terence Fong Trophy Winner (S47)
4x Scott Boulet Trophy Winner (S44-S47)
1x Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy Winner (S42)
Vikings All-Time Leader in Goals, Assists, Points, Hits, Plus/Minus, PIM, GWG and GP
1st All-Time in Total Points Earned

This league needs more jersey retirements and in this tough year I want to shed some light on something positive with the Stockholm Vikings.  I actually wanted to do this last year but I had difficulty finding anyone that could do a banner.  Therefore thank you to @boubabi for doing this despite who he was making it for.  Also thanks to Molholt who made it after the fact when he realized he had forgotten, and while I am using Boubabi's, his was equally as nice and he still put the effort in.
 
All in all though, this jersey retirement is for a player who certainly put his time in and produced some impressive accomplishments from Season 42 to Season 49.  While he probably went a little overlooked due to seemingly always being just behind in voting for Thomas O'Malley and perhaps a few others, he still can look at his career at the end of the day, and see that he certainly had a tremendous one.  Karnage is arguably the hardest worker of any VHL player in league history.  Some have even gone on to suggest that his career may be considered a disappointment given how hard he worked to be the best player possible.  I just don't see how this player can be considered a disappointment though.  We are talking elite company when looking at someone who recorded 800 points and 2000 hits.  How elite? Leeroy Jenkins is the only other player who can claim to be in this company, and he finished behind Karnage in the hits department by almost 500!
 
Lord Karnage was an easy Hall of Fame induction and given that those 800+ points and 2000+ hits were mostly recorded in Stockholm, he is easily the greatest player in Vikings history (assuming that we are not including Vasteras in the history books).  While I am uncertain on where he would fall statistically if Vasteras was being counted (just due to record books being hard to get for every season going back to the inaugural one) I can safely say that no player matches him since Stockholm came into the league.  He is the team's all-time leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, PIM, Hits and GWG.  There has been no one like him for the Vikings, and while he may not have won as many awards as he wished he had and perhaps even should have, there is no doubting his place among the league's greatest to ever play.
 

 
 
STATISTICS
554 Games
347 Goals
422 Assists
769 Points
+256
2527 Hits
74 GWG
 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x Victory Cup Winner (S43)
1x Terence Fong Trophy Winner (S47)
4x Scott Boulet Trophy Winner (S44-S47)
1x Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy Winner (S42)
Vikings All-Time Leader in Goals, Assists, Points, Hits, Plus/Minus, PIM, GWG and GP
1st All-Time in Total Points Earned

This league needs more jersey retirements and in this tough year I want to shed some light on something positive with the Stockholm Vikings.  I actually wanted to do this last year but I had difficulty finding anyone that could do a banner.  Therefore thank you to @boubabi for doing this despite who he was making it for.  Also thanks to Molholt who made it after the fact when he realized he had forgotten, and while I am using Boubabi's, his was equally as nice and he still put the effort in.
 
All in all though, this jersey retirement is for a player who certainly put his time in and produced some impressive accomplishments from Season 42 to Season 49.  While he probably went a little overlooked due to seemingly always being just behind in voting for Thomas O'Malley and perhaps a few others, he still can look at his career at the end of the day, and see that he certainly had a tremendous one.  Karnage is arguably the hardest worker of any VHL player in league history.  Some have even gone on to suggest that his career may be considered a disappointment given how hard he worked to be the best player possible.  I just don't see how this player can be considered a disappointment though.  We are talking elite company when looking at someone who recorded 800 points and 2000 hits.  How elite? Leeroy Jenkins is the only other player who can claim to be in this company, and he finished behind Karnage in the hits department by almost 500!
 
Lord Karnage was an easy Hall of Fame induction and given that those 800+ points and 2000+ hits were mostly recorded in Stockholm, he is easily the greatest player in Vikings history (assuming that we are not including Vasteras in the history books).  While I am uncertain on where he would fall statistically if Vasteras was being counted (just due to record books being hard to get for every season going back to the inaugural one) I can safely say that no player matches him since Stockholm came into the league.  He is the team's all-time leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, PIM, Hits and GWG.  There has been no one like him for the Vikings, and while he may not have won as many awards as he wished he had and perhaps even should have, there is no doubting his place among the league's greatest to ever play.
 

 
 
STATISTICS
554 Games
347 Goals
422 Assists
769 Points
+256
2527 Hits
74 GWG
 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x Victory Cup Winner (S43)
1x Terence Fong Trophy Winner (S47)
4x Scott Boulet Trophy Winner (S44-S47)
1x Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy Winner (S42)
Vikings All-Time Leader in Goals, Assists, Points, Hits, Plus/Minus, PIM, GWG and GP
1st All-Time in Total Points Earned

This league needs more jersey retirements and in this tough year I want to shed some light on something positive with the Stockholm Vikings.  I actually wanted to do this last year but I had difficulty finding anyone that could do a banner.  Therefore thank you to @boubabi for doing this despite who he was making it for.  Also thanks to Molholt who made it after the fact when he realized he had forgotten, and while I am using Boubabi's, his was equally as nice and he still put the effort in.
 
All in all though, this jersey retirement is for a player who certainly put his time in and produced some impressive accomplishments from Season 42 to Season 49.  While he probably went a little overlooked due to seemingly always being just behind in voting for Thomas O'Malley and perhaps a few others, he still can look at his career at the end of the day, and see that he certainly had a tremendous one.  Karnage is arguably the hardest worker of any VHL player in league history.  Some have even gone on to suggest that his career may be considered a disappointment given how hard he worked to be the best player possible.  I just don't see how this player can be considered a disappointment though.  We are talking elite company when looking at someone who recorded 800 points and 2000 hits.  How elite? Leeroy Jenkins is the only other player who can claim to be in this company, and he finished behind Karnage in the hits department by almost 500!
 
Lord Karnage was an easy Hall of Fame induction and given that those 800+ points and 2000+ hits were mostly recorded in Stockholm, he is easily the greatest player in Vikings history (assuming that we are not including Vasteras in the history books).  While I am uncertain on where he would fall statistically if Vasteras was being counted (just due to record books being hard to get for every season going back to the inaugural one) I can safely say that no player matches him since Stockholm came into the league.  He is the team's all-time leader in Games Played, Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, PIM, Hits and GWG.  There has been no one like him for the Vikings, and while he may not have won as many awards as he wished he had and perhaps even should have, there is no doubting his place among the league's greatest to ever play.
 

 
 
STATISTICS
554 Games
347 Goals
422 Assists
769 Points
+256
2527 Hits
74 GWG
 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
1x Victory Cup Winner (S43)
1x Terence Fong Trophy Winner (S47)
4x Scott Boulet Trophy Winner (S44-S47)
1x Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy Winner (S42)
Vikings All-Time Leader in Goals, Assists, Points, Hits, Plus/Minus, PIM, GWG and GP
1st All-Time in Total Points Earned

Thanks to the two that voted for me!
 
2 players captain at the same time, Smarch agency so proud 
 

Lets celebrate with some wins!
 
Happy Birthday!

HAPPY BDAY @Advantage!!!

This week's edition of 'By the Numbers' focuses on three players who have surprised out of the gate for good reasons and in addition will outline my expectations as the season goes on.
 
87 - I am already breaking my rule because I will be looking at one additional player, with this one being a combination of John Sleeman and Niels Skovgaard.  Normally I would never write about an inactive player, but this combination has been absolutely electrifying this year and is a major reason why the Cologne Express currently find themselves with a 14-3-0 record, for the best in the European Conference.  John Sleeman has had a torrid start with 23 goals and 19 assists for 42 points (which is a pace of 97 goals, 80 Assists, 177 Points).  Sleeman, who has been a real good player in his career playing much of it with Quebec, was expected to be one of Cologne's offensive leaders, but even he could not have expected this kind of start.  Niels Skovgaard is the one I am most surprised about though, as I really didn't have any expectation.  Skovgaard has recorded 17 goals, 28 assists and 45 points through the first 17 games (a pace of 72 goals, 119 assists and 191 points).  How good are these seasons? Sleeman's pace has him breaking the record for most goals in a single season, as held by Scotty Campbell, by 8!  Meanwhile, Niels Skovgaard is on a pace to beat Patrick Bergqvist's assist record of 114 and narrowly beating Scotty Campbell's point record of 191.  With all that being said, there is no way that either of these players keep this pace.  I do expect both to be over 100 points, just because their starts have been too good not to expect that, but I don't think either of them will finish with record breaking statistics.
 
.943 - Speaking of Cologne, it is time to talk about their goalie and the one guy I supported the most out of all of them in the Fantasy Leagues.  Dmitri Dadonov is off to a brilliant 14-3-0 start with a .943 SV% and 1.88 GAA.  At the moment, Dadonov is first handily in save percentage, fourth in GAA and first in wins, with Jakub Holik just trailing behind him with some impressive numbers of his own.  With the Express lacking a lot of the depth, they needed their stars to come out and perform for them, and that is exactly what has happened.  We already mentioned Sleeman and Skovgaard, and Dadonov has been just as good as both of them,  I feel he has a better chance of keeping a similar pace than the other two, but I still expect him to finish around the .930 SV% mark with a GAA around 2.00.  This would certainly put him in the conversation for the Aidan Shaw Trophy, given the uncharacteristically average start by the majority of the 'elite' netminders in the VHL. 
 
25 - After the Legion's mediocre start to the season, the team seems to be finding their way and is starting to play as we all expected them to.  The Legion have won three of their last four and one of the big reasons why is the play of the potentially future Hall of Famer, Phil Hamilton.  Phil has come out flying as he leads defenders in scoring with 25 points in 16 games (on a pace for 112 points), which is a tremendous accomplishment if he can hit the triple digit mark.  Hamilton has even been quite physical with 35 hits in 16 games and has blocked 24 shots while averaging over 30 minutes a game on the ice.  I expect the Legion to be one of the best teams in the NA Conference.  I think they can pass New York and Seattle, but they will need to add depth and have their top players, like Phil Hamilton, playing at their best.  I think Phil has to be the favourite for Top D and is certainly in the conversation with the likes of Jeff Hamilton and Black Velvet for the award.

@STZ Good game for you.
 
Domi with da 8 hits.  
 
Gotta get THE SNATCH going.

I dont think so no.  GAA and losses will be higher but HOF really only cares about save percentage and awards honestly.

I demand a trade to a VHLM team where I might play against people my own skill level

DeGrath making his case for Funk next season

DL LINK
Password info inside zip. If you don't know the answer, PM me
 

Also I guess I should remember that being shitty leads to better picks so that's good too

Yeah based on what some said, I agree.

Not really.  I mean..there were a few more legitimate reasons brought up but there were a lot of times you were pretty close.  We have a rule where you need a certain percentage to get in and I think that probably didn't help but you were mentioned when some of the past few have gotten in.
 
I think, to be honest, some people (including myself) forget how integral you were to the league in the 20's and chose to remember your later years as a GM, which some deem perhaps not as impressive.
 
Either way, well deserved and congrats

Oddly enough, I think your case would've been better and more supported had you not set the record for longest tenure as GM.

Hey I was in Kolari too. Then I got drafted to Riga and went inactive  
 
At least I'm hitting people, inside the Top 10 so far.

Hayley <3

Strength helps score goals too but yes.  It was probably me.

It was my understanding that there is a correlation between:
 
Scoring/Skating = Goals
Passing/Puck Handling = Assists
 
I think that's what I remember.. It was early in my career when someone told me that.. Might have been ADV when I was in Kolari

Also good job beating up Max, Taker