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Following his S97 performance, many questioned whether time-traveller and 2C Johnny Tsunami could continue the momentum he had carried from the end of the season. After a career breakout season, it was expected that Johnny would either regress and at best maintain his offensive pace. Little did anyone expect Johnny to immediately hit the ground running, at the halfway point of the season he was leading the league in goals - there were even some talks of potential awards on the horizon if he kept it up. During this time of his peak efficiency, the rest of Davos struggled to get the offense initialized so it was clear he was soaking up a lot of the share of points from other potent scorers like Bucatini and Pastanap. After that offense got initiated about halfway through the season, Tsunami basically took a step back to his role as a 2C but ultimately passed his S97 marks for the S98 season - scoring 40 goals and assisting on 48 more for a total of 88 points. A 7 point improvement. It's not really a question whether Davos as a team will do well this season, they sit firmly set up to be atop the EU standings with only the occasional contention from other powerhouse teams. It'll rather be a question of who on the team starts outputting at the beginning of the season and will they set the tone for the whole season. 236 words

Reviewing! Woah - this is incredibly well done! The color palette that you ended up choosing for this meshes really well and looks very visually appealing. The font you chose (and the choice to use the outline for the first name) are very good composition choice and again, it meshes super well with the rest of the graphic. I only have one gripe with this if you can call it that. It's that there's not really a reference to what team they play for! The next logical step would be to edit the render before putting the effects on to include the team logo or maybe replacing the NHL with the VHL logo. Otherwise, WOW WOW WOW. 9.5/10

1. There’s a new VHL Fantasy opportunity called World Cup Face-Off! Will you be participating? Probably not. I've been kind of paring back my interest in the VHL as a whole I think. 2. How have you kept yourself busy this offseason thus far? Playing on my other sim leagues lol 3. What are your super early predictions for the winners of the NA and EU this upcoming season? EU dominance as always 4. Any thoughts about the shuffling going around the league now that the salary cap has dropped? League needs help right now. There are a lot of issues compounding at once and it's start to make the league seem weak and shaky. It has me low key worried for the short-term future of the VHL. 5. If the team went out for a karaoke night, what would be your player’s go-to song? TEQUILA *instrumental break* 6. We are now officially a season away from S100. What should the VHL do to celebrate? Reminisce of course

Ride the wave! Glad you're with us on Davos!

MY GOODNESS AM I BLESSED TO BE ON THE BEST DAMN TEAM IN THE WORLD RAAAAAAA

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1. We bid goodbye to AKK and Del Rocco. Thoughts on our new acquisitions in Joshua Schwarzer and Jorgen Lovstrom? Sad to see our good friends go, but as always I'm sure they will fit in perfectly where they end up. 2. Do you think having a low TPE goalie is the new meta? Eh, kinda? We've seen good goalies completely body games singlehandedly enough. 3. What are your plans for the offseason until S99 starts up? Just keep grinding tpe 4. If you could build a franchise around one active VHL player, who would it be? Probably some power-earner? 5. Did you sign up for ProAm? No, I usually don't either. Don't see a reason to, but I should. 6. What would you do for a Continental Cup win? What wouldn't I do

Congrats Calgary! The Victory Cup curse lives on!

1. The end of our season was an unceremonious one, but do you have any final reflections? Eh, it is what it is. Next year we'll have a decent chance again. 2. What do you wish to achieve in S99? ....the cup of course. 3. Out of the remaining teams, who is your pick to win the Continental Cup? EU > NA 4. Do you believe offseasons should be shorter? Or is it already the perfect amount of time between each season? I thinkk both the seasons, and offseaosns should be faster. 5. What is your favorite defunct VHL, VHLM, or VHLE franchise? Stockholm Vikings 6. Which series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs do you think has been most entertaining thus far? Battle of Florida is always so gritty.

Just doing my part to sabotage Moscow as much as possible.

Maybe this is the year the Victory Cup curse is broken, who better to break it! GL and GG Moscow!

1. We face Moscow once again! Predictions for series length? If you’re answering after the series is over, did we advance? First line Tsunami = Sweep, anything else might take it to Game 7 2. Who do you believe the NA champion will be? Probably Toronto 3. How would you rate your player’s individual performance in the wildcard round against London? Decent. Some good output. 4. In your opinion, what makes a good player name? Closeness to reality 5. What is your favorite point task to do in the VHL? I guess the graphics 6. As our playoffs currently line up with the Stanley Cup playoffs, who is your favorite to win the Stanley Cup this year? Pantherrrrs

So try just duplicating the text layer and make the duplicated layer pure black. Add a slight blur effect and it should make it look like the text has a bit more depth.

- @Gustav (Let's Invent a Stat: Ranking Every Draft Bust of the S80s) Coming into the VHL as a first-gen and not really knowing what I was doing, I was kind of shocked to learn that I was being considered for a higher pick in the first round. I was active, and after a few seasons with Toronto...I wasn't. Long story short: it was school. I needed to finish school and I just kind of had to put my head down for it. But ever since I had to do that, I had this feeling left in me that I left something unfinished and more importantly I felt that I left a lot of potential on the table. Coming back to the VHL with Johnny Tsunami was my way of finishing what I started and making amends where I could. So of course Johnny Tsunami took a bit of a hit this time around when it came to draft stock, but boy I ended up in exactly the right place. @Alex was my GM for my first-gen player in the VHLM and was (I think) pretty aware of how I operate as a person and worked with me from the get-go of drafting me again. I'm usually a person who is more fond of defense and defensive play, so making a forward was a new jump for me. Johnny at first was rocking the minors - putting up decently high numbers, performing well in the off-season tournaments and showing up consistently on the stat leaderboards. But the glaring issue was that come playoff season, he would vanish into thin air. After an extremely disappointing rookie season with Davos, there was some concern that Johnny might end up being a bust. At this point, I became worried. Then it followed up with an almost equally as abysmal second season. I was lost and really unsure what else to do except to keep earning and to put it towards the skills he was lacking most in. Come season 3 and it's an absolute banger, finally a breakout career season and then...again? At the beginning of this past season, Johnny started putting up 4-5 point games. Then suddenly he was at the top of the stat boards. At the conclusion of the season 4 in the majors, Johnny is looking at his best season yet, with 88 points and an almost even split between them with 48 goals and 40 assists. With regression still far on the horizon and this task being submitted to officially bring Johnny above 1000 TPE, a feat I couldn't reach last time - I think I can safely say...redeemed. Now let's see what this guy is capable of! 435 Words

Reviewing! Firstly, as always I must recognize my heritage as a Floridian and bias towards the amazing name. And not only is he Florida Man, he is Florida Man, Second of His Name. I think a little more depth should be added to the 'FM2' part of the graphic, just something to make it look like it wasn't just pasted in. The background is awesome and a great tie-in with the render and logo in it. The logo on the jersey swap looks a little weird with the blue outline on the font of the logo but a great start nonetheless! 8.5/10!