Daniel Janser

Welcome back @chikn I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Sock Monkey. Daniel Janser

Welcome @JeQuavis I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Lamar Jequavis. Daniel Janser

Welcome @Flarisper I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom four spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Kieran Kell. Daniel Janser

Welcome @Gavin Winterstein I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Gavin Winterstein. Daniel Janser

Welcome @Juhnux I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Juhnu Anttonen. Daniel Janser

@6:31 minutes... is that something Miss Jardy would confirm? @JardyB10 Mississauga runs a 10-5-2 roster at the moment (and we traded five of our most promising players already during the season), but will lose some due to inactivity end of this week.

So I will go with a historic Dreamteam instead of with a team consisting of players my player has competed with (or against), as my players career is relatively young and the sample size is just not there. Without further ado, here is my VHL Dream Team: As Center, the choice can only be: http://i.imgur.com/tuv0z.png Scotty Campbell I mean, there is a reason, why the MVP trophy is named after this Century Talent. But there is not only his personal silverware haul which is impressive. He won it all, four VHL titles with three different teams, WC-Gold with Team Switzerland, and is to this day leading goal scorer, assist giver, best +/-, most game winning goals in the league all time and a Swiss to boot. How can I not pick him? As Left Wing, my choice is: http://i.imgur.com/owPIO.png Scott Boulet This Geneva-born winger ticks all the boxes for me. A-typicical Gritty presence on the ice for a native French-speakler, Boulet was not spoilt by his undeniable talent and was happy to muck in and do the dirty deeds. Always looking out for his team mates and the designated scorers (though his 737 points in 432 games are nothing to scoff at). A player who could be relied onshutting the door in the dying minutes of a game seven Victory Cup match as well as score the game winning goal. It is not for nothing that the trophy for the best two-way forward is named after this Wranglers legend. For Right Wing, my choice is: http://i.imgur.com/D2EOa.png Brett Slobodzian While the career of this Saskatoon native was not as long as it could have been, this Calgary house-hold-name deserves none the less the spot on the right wing. For a time, Campbell and Slobodzian were named in the same sentence when fans talked about the best players in the league. The haul of individual and team trophies this gifted skater accumulated beggars belief, especially considering that his career, like that of Bobby Orr, was cut short by a knee injury. As with Boulet and Campbell, a trophy has been named after Brett and it is given to the most outstanding player in the league. As Defenders I choose: http://i.imgur.com/1qfQr.png/ Sterling Labatte Jake Wylde I think one would be hard pressed to find two finer defencemen this side of the Pearly Gates. Their reputation, achievements and legacies speak for themselves. Both were a force on both ends of the ice and gave the forward lines of their respective generation a run for their money and could be relied on by their coaches every shift of every game of every season for the entirety of their careers. And as with the previous members of the Dream Team, Trophies were named after both these staples of any all-star defence. Last but not least, I choose between the pipes: http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo349/noahlefevre/Shaw_zpsb1dee817.png Aidan Shaw Arguably one of the best netminders to grace VHL ice, Aidan Shaw led the Legion to their Victory Cup win against Davos in S21 and is to this day as a benchmark when it comes to goaltending. I am aware that there is an apparent concentration of Swiss/Calgary players contained in this selection. Alas, it cannot be helped and here I am with my choice for a dream team. I hope you enjoyed my presentation and gave you thought for your own list.

Welcome @Connor Mcjesus I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Connor Mcjesus. Daniel Janser

Welcome @megamonster213 I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Nikoli Redding. Daniel Janser

Welcome @bens I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Benoit Moinet. Daniel Janser

Splendid, A contract offer is on its way. In the meantime here is the invitation to our discord https://discord.gg/QdcUqNFA Welcome to the Pack Daniel

1. No not really. But I am never happy with what I have achieved. On the other hand I know I have given my all and the rest is RnJesus working its magic... by and large I wish to be more consistent. 2. I have barely used to old format, and with me being GM and doing articles and PC all the time I do not need the trivia... but I think it is better if every member has a random question so they really have to do something for it and not wait for someone to spam the replies in discord. 3. No I have not, I like my Mississauga GM spot. I have seen that Ben applied and since he is a Calgary prospect, the chance of conflict of interest is small... I am sure Ricer will make the right call. 4. I always have been a fan of aviatics and therefore plane all the way. 5. Difficult to say. I think we work very well as a team and the scoring rest on a lot of shoulders. Klamasteris has been a solid backbone for us and always gives us a fighting chance, so I think the call must land on him if I need to point a single player out. 6. Well since I learnt that my name means 'God is my Judge' in Hebrew I am more inclined to make sure I will find a mild judge when my time comes to stand trial for my actions and omissions. So yeah a given name can influence you, but this must not be necessarily true for everyone.

At the time you posted this, Marcel Janser trails the Monster by 3 shots blocked. TBH if it wasn't my brother, I would not have cared to point it out and I take it, it took you some time to do this article and stats change fast, so please take this correction in the spirit it was intended... to give props to my bro and not to be nitpicking on your excellent review. Cheers.

Welcome back @canucksaccess I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Stefan Teske. Daniel Janser

I agree with the statement about Thad, on the other hand I have not seen anybody attacking him personally (the team as such yes, but that is collateral, I do not think anyone accused Thad to be a 'meta-goalie'. Again I am not saying that Nyko is fixing the tests at all (I would never do such a thing without solid proof). But to state that a GM who has won two consecutive titles with a meta-team (and is dominating the league in a third season) is NOT profiting from the status quo is a little blue-eyed. Nyko the BOG has an interest in getting rid of the Meta because it becomes a retention problem sooner than later. Nyko the GM of Vancouver has a high interest that everything stays as it is, so his team can continue to win titles. There is clearly a conflict of interest, and we can only hope that BOG-Nyko wins this fight. Just to make this clear, I cannot know which interests prevail and I am not saying that Nyko is putting his GM interest above the League's, but in my point of view it is a legitimate question to raise (again as somebody looking from the outside in). In my personal opinion, it would be an ideal scenario (at least PR wise) if Nyko took a Hiatus from GM-ing the Wolves. It would soften the above argument of conflict of interest. @Nykonax I am not accusing you of any wrong-doing at all, I just have a habit of questioning 'the man' - if that gives you any discomfort, I apologize for that

Ok so I must have misunderstood previous postings in the past and I apologize if anything I wrote added to the confusion.

Welcome back @Travis I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom four spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Travis Gibson. Daniel Janser

I think what bothers some people is that the one who is running all the tests (as I understand it) is the one who at the moment is exploiting this meta the most (I am not saying he is the only one). Now, I am not saying that he does sabotage the testing or rig it or deliberately prolong the meta existence. All I am saying is, if you are from the outside looking in, it doesn't give you a fuzzy feeling about it, due to the apparent conflict of interest. Imagine Exxon gets a monopoly to find an alternative fuel, with everyone else being benched on the problem. So Exxon is working on this alternative fuel on a (perceived) snail pace, while everyone else is forced to watch and twiddling thumbs, while Exxon is still selling oil and makes a shitload of money. Every now and then there is a PC from the Exxon brass 'We are working on it, a solution will be ready when it's ready, we cannot rush these things', while ripping everybody and their mothers off at the pump. During my NCO training I was taught that a mediocre solution (or even a bad one) in time is a better solution than the perfect solution too late. I appreciate that BOG wants to make the right moves and to spare a 'trial and error' phase. And honestly I my self do not give a damn about the meta, I play my player as I see fit and do not define myself over success in a virtual sports league at all. I think there will be a point of no return where so many players will have meta builds, because they are sick and tired of being in the passenger seat when not doing it that we can as well throw a dice at the beginning of the season for all the trophies. At that point we can as well nuke the VHL and restart from square one. I hope it will not come to that.

If you are referring to 'Snussu', Swiss people who are interested in Hockey know it as 'Snus'...

Welcome back @Snussu I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Dens Oden. Daniel Janser

Splendid, An invitation to the locker room and discord will follow in a separate mail. I will send you a contract offer as soon as possible, which kindly accept. In the meantime, please do not be shy to ask any question you may have concerning the league. Welcome to the Pack Daniel

Welcome @Erik I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom six spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Akio Suzuki. Daniel Janser

Generally the skill level on almost everything has increased compared to 20 or 30 years ago. A lot more players can pull of a Michigan nowadays for example. And they do. It is called evolution. To me skating is not meta for ice hockey it is a prerequisite. Also of note clutch and grab is gone because the implementation of the no tolerance rules. You cannot find a player in the NHL anymore who cannot skate. Of course if you can skate like McDavid this will give you an edge.

I do not think that it is fair to compare a one in a million irl skater with the meta-cancer that we have right now. McDavid has a god-given talent (insert superior being of your choice) and I do not even want to know how many hours of practice and how many injuries he had to endure to get at the point he is now. Meta builds though do not require skill and only limited amount of time. The vexing thing is that it does not even require extensive effort (read: Max earning) as you deliberately neglect an IRL essential skill (Passing) and therefore can invest the tpe in the big four. It is in fact the opposite of what McDavid had to do to get where he is now. McDavid's meta (if it is one) is acceptable, because there are maybe 10 people on his level in the best league in the world and not dozens or hundreds. And in the NHL a player like him makes 12.5 Million a year (i.e. 1/7th of the cap for the whole team). So you can not dress a full squad on his level (even if that many players on his level existed). By my account for a fully fledged meta player you need around 780 TPA. You never need to go beyond that. As per the rule book for a veteran player of that skill level you pay minimum 4 mill p.a.. Which means you could afford 10 maxxed out metaplayers (ignoring the need for a goaltender for a moment). So if you have a compassionate max earner assembles close to 1500 TPE in his career, this meta players never ever need to buy a regression fighter as they can simply replace the skill lost with the spare TPE. Hence there is no need for the GM to raise the salary in order for the player to be able to buy a 'Jagr' & Co. as same are simply not needed. Also if Connor was as meta as you want us to believe, how come he has not won a Stanley cup yet?

Welcome @ctots I am Daniel Janser, the GM of the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM. @Ente2997 is my AGM. We are a franchise in a rebuild phase and we can offer you a bottom four spot. The Hounds encourage locker room activity and the management and the Alumni are always willing to help to develop your player. We encourage you to build the player as you imagine him to be, but also offer assistance if you are at a loss how to achieve your preferred build. If you want to be part of this rebuild/project and we could attract your interest, please quote this message and add #releasethehounds. We will send you an invitation to our discord channel (this is not mandatory but helps enormously with communication) and a contract which kindly accept in order to join us. Whatever team you decide to join, we wish you best of luck and more importantly lots of fun with Baxter Arcanum. Daniel Janser