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1. The time has come, trade deadline is here and players can recreate for the S95 draft. With that being said, a new Right Winger joins Houston! Konstyantyn Shevchenko comes from Ukraine and is looking to add to our playoff push! How is Houston looking now heading towards playoffs? We currently are tied with Saskatoon for 1st in the Western Conference. It's always dope to have new players sign with us right before the deadlines! IT's just dope to have more players with us in general! I think we have a real good shot of sniping this cup out from everyone's feet! 2. Hulk Smash just recently got engaged! Congrats brother! Of course we will all be invited to the wedding, what wedding gift are you bringing? As GM I am bringing season tickets for everyone that was invited. Woo! I think I'm just gonna bring some good snacks. You'll always be running out of snacks especially until you get used to shopping for two full time! 3. Houston is cruising now! Less than 20 games to play and we still are fighting for 1st in the West. Playoff format follows as 1v8, 2v7, 3v6, and 4v5 by league overall. If playoffs started today, as 4th seed we would play 5th seed Las Vegas Aces. Is Vegas a team you do or do not want to face in the first round? Are there other teams you would prefer to play? I think that that matchup would be our most advantageous. I think in this particular setup, we need to let some of the big boy teams have some bad luck runs with some underdog teams while we get matched with a team that we had a good record against. 4. I'm always itching for summer as it is my favourite season of the year and I don't have school to worry about. What are you most excited for this summer? I'm heading home to work on the water again and I am very excited for that. I think just more time off class! Though really thinking about it, I'll have the same amount of classes just online now. 5. Houston is a southern state known for Space Exploration apparently. If you could travel through space where would you go? I'm heading out of the milky way to find aliens in other galaxies. I would love to see what a black hole looks like in person. It wasn't until recently that we were able to visualize a black hole so I could only imagine what it would look like with the naked eye. 6. How has your week been? Anything exciting or fun happening lately? What do you have planned for this week? No, though 4/20 is this week....heheh.

Reviewing: Ok, this is pretty awesome. First off, a very good job on using the font of the 'Phantom' to blend with the frames curls and what not. Also gotta mention that turning the sword into a hockey stick is hilarious, well done there. Only thing that I can really mention is that the VHL logo just looks a bit out of place where its currently at. Maybe in the bottom left corner with a drop shadow or something. I say leave the cape as it is! Well done! Edit: 9/10

This is for my in-progress scouting report, I was gonna like, put this along with it as a summary. I know that there is room for improvement here so I would love to hear y'alls thoughts

I do see it, I'm not sure why I only saw the one without the emblem! I agree with you it does seem a bit...floaty. lol

I must be blind because I still can't see it haha

And I'm applying because a) Miami, b) to spite @mattyIceman

"A problem for future me." lmao

Posting for credit

1. Two new Bulls enter the locker room! Ray Stanton @horoscope and LaClapbomb Hitsick IV @Greasy Garyjoin the team and bring our total of defenders to 4. What are your thoughts on this trade? Finally! Some defense! We desperately needed defenders on the blue line and this should help round us out. Hopefully we can all find our vibe before the playoffs! 2. Speaking of trades, Trade Deadline is just around the corner! As announced in today's Theme Week post, TDL will be on April 15th, meaning we only have 10-14 games to play until that point. Does management need to make any more moves before then? Or is our roster looking ready to go for playoffs? Sincerely? I don't think there is much else we can do at this point without really dipping into those draft picks. If the GM was hard set on a cup win, it might be worth throwing those picks around, but it's probably better to see how this team pans out first. 3. After Trade Deadline is over, players entering the S95 draft class are allowed to recreate and join the VHLM as waiver players. If Houston could sign one upcoming waiver player, what position or skills would you want this new player to have? I don't really follow the waiver wire. I'm only focused on the one that matters, Johnny Freakin' Tsunami. 4. Houston is in a slump! 3-6-1 in our last 10 games played. Have you noticed something that has caused this bump in the road for us? Will the new defenders we traded for help us climb back up the standings? I've definitely not been performing my best. I have only 5 goals on almost 130 shots. That's a 3.9% shot percentage. That's garbage. 5. It's the second week of April and I think everyone has finished their "second winter" phase of Spring. How is the weather in your area? Currently where I am it's been rainy and cold all last week, this week is looking better. We just had a cold front blow in today...I just want spring to be here. 6. What was your favorite thing to do growing up as a kid? (You can answer in personal or player perspective). I always enjoyed playing street hockey with my best friend who lived across the street while I was a kid. We would play in the mornings until the street lights came on at night. I wish I could re-live one of those memories just one more time. Surfing has always been a relaxer for me. I'm not good enough to like, go professional or to make any money off being an influencer in surfing. So it may as well just stay a hobby!

He's gonna try to claim it too, you just know it.

Reviewing this! Mmmm, I love the Toronto Legion colors so much because they blend so nicely together. The filter/effect layer over the top fits well, though I would have loved to see you maybe incorporate the Legion logo somewhere on there, maybe the helmet or like a shoulder patch. I love the attention to detail on the text, that little jaggedness you added makes it mesh so well with the rest of the graphic, it honestly looks like the text was taken with the photo of the player. Well done! 9/10

It's not that I don't like the logo...I just think it could be more on brand for Miami. I had to do pretty much all of the assets myself. I did use some free-use vector images like the shield and the sunburst.

We're just gonna leave you on that side of the pool, bud.

1. 19 wins so far this season! Only Halifax and Ottawa tie us for most wins in the league right now. How pleased are you with the team's play lately? Honestly, I have not been pulling my weight like, at all since I got here. I'm hoping that I can start producing myself and not sandbag the team more than I have been already. 2. Yesterday was April Fool's Day! I'm sure you all got that @ members tag from Beketov... were you fooled as hard as I was? I fell for one hard earlier in the day so I was on high alert already when I saw it. That said, the VHL gags are always the best. 3. As we all know Houston is allergic to signing defensemen this season as we have stuck with only Joel and Mintus on the blue line. I am officially confirming that Houston will be looking to trade for a third and potentially a fourth defender before Trade Deadline approaches. What do you look for in a good defenseman? What are the best attributes in your eyes for our blue liners? We need puck thieves! Being able to force the turnover and feeding the puck to our potent scorers seems to be a really good plan. 4. We were able to sign a new center in the past week! Johnny Tsunami @Vice sits on our first line now taking faceoffs. Little does Tsunami know, we planned a surprise welcoming party to welcome the kid to Houston. What type of party is the team going to throw? I think we should go paintballing or something. Aw! That's very sweet of y'all. Maybe a pool party? I've always liked water parks. 5. After our party for Tsunami's welcoming party, your GM has one more surprise for the team, we're going on vacation after this season!! Win or lose I'm going to spoil you, but we need a location. Where should the team go on vacation? Do we want fun in the sun? Do we want the snowy Nordic countries? I've always wanted to see Canada, I've actually not gone there yet so maybe a great Canadian adventure? 6. Easter weekend just passed, if you celebrate or not, how was your weekend? Decent weekend, got a lot of chores that have been needing done - done. Which is fantastic, now I have a bunch of practice time!