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This week’s edition of By The Numbers will be more of a regular addition as I will look at three players who are standing out for all of the right reasons.

 
98 – Tom Lincoln currently sits atop the league’s scoring leaders, and it really isn’t all that close.  The Meute forward has recorded 98 points in 61 games and currently has a 12 point lead over his teammate Unassisted and a 13 point lead over Toronto’s Edwin Reencarnacion.  Lincoln’s 43 goals is good enough to be second in the league, just two back of Reencarnacion, while his 55 assists has him four above anyone else in the Victory Hockey League.  It is realistic to think that Tom Lincoln may lead the league in goals, assists and points.  While the Meute are still ten points back of the Legion for first in the Conference, Lincoln seems prepared to not only win some individual hardware, but potentially his very first Continental Cup as well.

 
2 – There are two true candidates at this point for the Sterling Labatte Trophy.  One is Francis York Morgan who is a defender playing for the Davos Dynamo.  Davos is a very strong team in the European Conference and Morgan is one of the main reasons why.  He currently leads all defenders in scoring with 76 points and despite the strength of his team, he is one of the league’s best shot blockers with 110.  Additionally, he has recorded a solid 77 hits which shows that he is a very solid all-around defender with the ability to produce at an elite offensive rate.  The other candidate is Jeff Hamilton, who is second in scoring for defenders with 68 in 61 games.  While he is eight points back, which is not necessarily a small amount, he does have more hits with 91 and more blocked shots with 122.  While there are other really good defenders putting together solid seasons, like Black Velvet and Phil Hamilton, I feel that their offensive contributions are just a little too far back at this point.  The one thing that may separate the two for voters is that Morgan is nowhere near as active at this stage of his career in the training facility, while Hamilton is only continuing to better himself and work hard towards being the best.

 
.939 – Finally, let’s take a look at the reason the Toronto Legion are currently the best team in the league.  Despite having the third best offense in the league, the Legion find themselves ten points ahead of anyone else in either Conference.  Why? They have allowed the least amount of goals by 14! Hans Wingate has been masterful this season in easily one of the best goaltending performances in quite some time.  He boasts a league best 41 wins, 1.45 GAA, .939 save percentage and 11 shutouts.  Yes, he leads the VHL in EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY!  At this point he is well on pace to best Greg Clegane’s GAA record of 1.57, and while he is a ways off from the save percentage record of Anton Nygard, his current statistics would put him fifth on the list and just one point back from being tied for second with the likes of Nygard, Alex Gegeny and Benoit Devereux.  In other words, he is in some ridiculous company.  Regardless of what happens, Hans Wingate making a huge name for himself in his later VHL years and after a likely Scotty Campbell Trophy, the question will be if he is perhaps deserved of being considered up there with Shaw, Kanou and some of the other top notch goaltenders in league history.

How are the seasons going specs?
 
@Paramorise @svb @jack @linsangeles

I am good. Leading Brampton in SB and Hits. 3rd best scorer, so I think there will be no problem for ED to play in VHL next season. 

You're welcome for overpaying to help make your vhlm experience good

Me too.  I'm looking forward to the off-season.

How have we let this thread fall by the wayside? @Draper or someone with powers should pin this anyway, it's usually a central hub for discussion. What have people been seeing lately, and what are their thoughts?
 
I recently saw Suicide Squad in theaters with @Advantage Neither of us were blown away by it, and I certainly think that there is a few things that probably hold the movie down, but it was by no way as bad as the reviews are saying. There are some legit great scenes in that thing, and pretty much everything including the editing in the first 20-40 minutes were solid. Will Smith and Margot Robbie are the clear standouts, their takes on Deadshot and Harley were very fun to behold. Despite him being cut out of most of the film as well Leto's Joker really worked for me. The chemistry he had with Margot on screen stood out, and once they do a solo Batman movie with Harley and Joker I think people are going to be super into it. That said I'm waiting for the extended edition of that thing to add some more scenes, give some more characters some backstory and give Leto a bit more of a role in the movie. 

One thing to look forward to for the remainder of the season is that we have six games left against New York. Theoretically speaking, we should be able to beat them, and we should be able to score against them as well. Took a shootout to beat them today, but hopefully we can have some big games against them.

Have a few potential trades.  Kinda just discussing things at the moment.

Quick, someone take over in NY so I can draft this stud again.

@Streetlight YES

I know you guys are frustrated with the process right now, but keep up the activity and with Chris as you're gm, you'll be more than fine. I understand it sucks now but I'm your conference is weak as fuck and you have the correct pieces in place to turn it around very quickly. You might not make a lot of noise in S51 but this could very easily be a dynasty starting in S52

Busty maybe

Yeah, I've heard that one before.
 
Inb4 another scrub.

who

Draper knows about it and is fine with it.

I'm seriously at a loss.

With a number of prospects well on their way to the main squad, the Stockholm Vikings will be looking to surround them with some elite talent in Free Agency next off-season.  “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t planning on being a big player.  While we are rebuilding right now and having a tough season, we have as many as three or four prospects that will be making the jump and I feel we could make a big splash with lots of money available.”

 
The Vikings, who currently are being led by Ravenwing, Maxwell and Von Braxton IV, are having an awful season that has them struggling to score at all.  “It has definitely been a tough season but I know we are on our way up.  We have some good prospects, especially on defense, which really should help our core build.  I believe in our goalie and we have some excellent young leadership in Ravenwing and Maxwell.”

 
What may end up being most important for Stockholm is the reputation of their General Manager.  While he is just in his first season with the Vikings, Miller has a reputation of success from his days in New York where he won multiple Continental Cups and a record four consecutive Victory Cups.  If he can replicate that success in Stockholm, it should be an attractive place to sign with going forward.

With a number of prospects well on their way to the main squad, the Stockholm Vikings will be looking to surround them with some elite talent in Free Agency next off-season.  “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t planning on being a big player.  While we are rebuilding right now and having a tough season, we have as many as three or four prospects that will be making the jump and I feel we could make a big splash with lots of money available.”

 
The Vikings, who currently are being led by Ravenwing, Maxwell and Von Braxton IV, are having an awful season that has them struggling to score at all.  “It has definitely been a tough season but I know we are on our way up.  We have some good prospects, especially on defense, which really should help our core build.  I believe in our goalie and we have some excellent young leadership in Ravenwing and Maxwell.”

 
What may end up being most important for Stockholm is the reputation of their General Manager.  While he is just in his first season with the Vikings, Miller has a reputation of success from his days in New York where he won multiple Continental Cups and a record four consecutive Victory Cups.  If he can replicate that success in Stockholm, it should be an attractive place to sign with going forward.

With a number of prospects well on their way to the main squad, the Stockholm Vikings will be looking to surround them with some elite talent in Free Agency next off-season.  “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t planning on being a big player.  While we are rebuilding right now and having a tough season, we have as many as three or four prospects that will be making the jump and I feel we could make a big splash with lots of money available.”

 
The Vikings, who currently are being led by Ravenwing, Maxwell and Von Braxton IV, are having an awful season that has them struggling to score at all.  “It has definitely been a tough season but I know we are on our way up.  We have some good prospects, especially on defense, which really should help our core build.  I believe in our goalie and we have some excellent young leadership in Ravenwing and Maxwell.”

 
What may end up being most important for Stockholm is the reputation of their General Manager.  While he is just in his first season with the Vikings, Miller has a reputation of success from his days in New York where he won multiple Continental Cups and a record four consecutive Victory Cups.  If he can replicate that success in Stockholm, it should be an attractive place to sign with going forward.

Yeah just sent them in.
 
Just got back from camping with the gf.
 
Hopefully it helps.  Been frustrating, even if it is a rebuilding year.

-10 in the regular season... Oslo is killing me (I know I got traded, but I guess only I know that because I am still on Oslo )

Chillin at work.  So bored.

Wow, winning SO shot. So proud.

This week is all about the rookies because I frankly do not think they are featured enough in my articles.  Therefore, for good or bad reasons, I want to take a look at three rookies who are making headlines for one reason or another at this current juncture.


 
29 – Lets start with the obvious.  Thor Odinsson is currently leading all rookies with twenty-nine points in twenty-six games.  While he is not the only one to crack the twenty point mark (Gow, Donovan and Axelsson all find themselves with at least twenty), he is the only current rookie to be over a point-per-game.  Additionally, he also has a fantastic seventeen goals so far which puts him on pace for an insane forty-seven goals.  This would be a great total for any forward, much less a rookie on a young team that still needs to develop a lot.  Odinsson isn’t a top ten scorer in the league at the moment, or anything like that, but rather finds himself solidly fifth in goals and fifteenth in points.  If he can keep it up, Odinsson might just run away with the Stolzy this season.


 
2 – That is the amount of rookies who are featured on this years Stockholm Vikings squad.  While that is actually less than the Helsinki Titans and Calgary Wranglers (who have a remarkable eight rookies), it is noteworthy because they are really the two significant talents up front for the Vikings.  Maxwell has recorded thirteen goals and nineteen points while Ravenwing has fourteen assists and seventeen points.  Neither player has probably produced at the level they would like to, but their GM is looking forward to see how they develop.  “To me they are two of the best young players we have in the Victory Hockey League.  This year will be difficult for them due to our rebuild, but I see them persevering and helping others out as we continue to develop our roster.  We have several prospects that we expect to make the jump next year, and these two will be looked at as leaders for them.”  No other player on the Vikings has recorded more than four goals or eight points, so these two really are the life and blood of their offense.


 
0.5 – Sven Wolf is one of the top young rookies in the Victory Hockey League, but has unfortunately also been one of the most disappointing ones in his first season.  Wolf, who is a season fifty prospect, was expected to fill a good role on the Bears and try and benefit from having more developed players like AK47 and Podarok helping him along.  Unfortunately, Sven has recorded just two goals and twelve points in this young season.  While these aren’t awful numbers for a rookie, Wolf was expected to at least hit the 40-50 point mark.  Instead, there are questions about him even cracking thirty, which is concerning.  We believe that Wolf will pick it up and finish in the forty point range, but he needs to get it going to have the rookie season he expects from himself.

lol biggest group of virgins irl tho