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Previous Entries Matthew Kai, Elfon Ashelf and Ian Smith Jack Todaro and Haydyn Chet Foreals and barry bigman Dirty Caufield Greg Santos Majestic Buffalo Dawson Thibert Ches Morrison Kiefer Leclerc John Smith Danny dimes Evgeni Shevkov Titomir Pukshuuter Laser Brewer George Patton Calix Pearce Cameron Elsby Whiskey Malone and Nicholas Corrigan Blake Bill Ryker Quinn Current Leaderboard 1: Matthew Kai 2: Calix Pearce 3: Cameron Elsby 4: Evgeni Shevkov 5: George Patton 6: barry bigman 7: Greg Santos 8: Elfon Ashelf 9: Kiefer Leclerc 10: Blake Bill 11: Nicholas Corrigan 12: Whiskey Malone 13: Chet Foreals 14: Dirty Caufield 15: John Smith 16: Majestic Buffalo 17: Jack Todaro 18: Titomir Pukshuuter 19: Ryker Quinn 20: Ches Morrison 21: Ian Smith 22: Danny dimes 23: Dawson Thibert 24. Haydyn 25. Laser Brewer I was there thinking that my Best and Worst Draft Picks of the Season 80’s podcast series was my most inconsistently timed series that I’ve ever done and then I remembered I’ve waited just over two whole years to get back to ranking the remaining 5000 players in the VHL Portal. So I need to make up for lost time here and, I don’t mean to spoil stuff early, but Matthew Kai may well have faced their strongest challenge yet for the title of “Best Player in the VHL Portal”. We kick things off with Jon Webber, who is managed by a user (webberj) who is still active to this day with his current goalie Jon Webber III. I don’t think I need to tell you what his second player was called. But I will. It was Jon Webber II. Webber was a very late entry into the Season 75 Draft, joining the Houston Bulls with only 26 games remaining in Season 74 as the team were the only one to offer for him and offered a highly convincing opening speech of “So I'll be 100% honest with you. The team is not great and that is mostly on me.” Entering the stacked Season 75 Draft coming off the back of a solid 11 points in 26 games, Webber was drafted with the 63rd overall pick by the Helsinki Titans in the VHL Draft, but selected far higher in the VHLM Draft, going 45th overall and back once more to the Houston Bulls. Jon Webber had a couple of good solid seasons in the VHLM post-draft alongside his brother Paul, with Jon leading his team in points in Season 75 and playing a big part in Houston’s Founder Cup push of Season 76, where they fell just one game short of success after losing the Final series 4-3 to Mexico City. Just as they were on the cusp of joining the Titans for the start of the season, they were traded to the Toronto Legion, they were traded to the Toronto Legion for a couple of thirds, a trade perhaps more notable for being amended after having already been accepted by both parties as it also originally included Asher Reinhart moving to the Titans for a first round selection. While one could look at their 64 points over their first 144 games as a slow start, it’s worth pointing out Webber was limited to just 11 minutes per game in their first season and fifteen minutes per game in their second season, so their points per 20 was actually amongst the highest on their team. Their rookie season was also Webber’s lone experience of playoff hockey, but they made a mark early, sending the first game of their series against Seattle to overtime with a late tying goal that ultimately led to a Toronto victory. Unfortunately Toronto wouldn’t progress through the series, but Webber would be satisfied at their contribution in limited minutes. At the conclusion of Season 78, Webber’s contract expired and he left in Free Agency to his third and final VHL team in the New York Americans. While they weren’t able to help New York get into the playoffs in any of those four seasons, they will be happy with their contributions to the team, namely in their penultimate season (Season 81), where they finished 26th in the league in points and broke the 100 point barrier. Webber is also by far the highest TPE earner we’ve seen to date in this series with 777 TPE, leading the nearest challenger (Calix Pearce) by over 200 TPE. But is that enough to best Matthew Kai as the Best Player in the VHL Portal? While Webber’s stats later on in their career were undoubtedly boosted by the meta-era (and their build followed suit) which would naturally lead Webber to look more impressive on paper than Kai, I think it would be fair to say Webber was more impactful for their respective team than Kai was, therefore I now dub Jon Webber THE BEST PLAYER IN THE VHL PORTAL! New Leaderboard 1: Jon Webber 2: Matthew Kai 3: Calix Pearce 4: Cameron Elsby 5: Evgeni Shevkov 6: George Patton 7: barry bigman 8: Greg Santos 9: Elfon Ashelf 10: Kiefer Leclerc 11: Blake Bill 12: Nicholas Corrigan 13: Whiskey Malone 14: Chet Foreals 15: Dirty Caufield 16: John Smith 17: Majestic Buffalo 18: Jack Todaro 19: Titomir Pukshuuter 20: Ryker Quinn 21: Ches Morrison 22: Ian Smith 23: Danny dimes 24: Dawson Thibert 25. Haydyn 26. Laser Brewer After that bombshell of a discovery, we now move on to discuss the respective merits of Pasta’s Joshua Herron and whether they are in fact the Best Player in the VHL Portal. They are not. Like Webber previously, Herron joined very close to the end of the Season 85 Draft Class window and were snapped up by Z16’s Ottawa Lynx promising second line minutes for the last half of the season, however three days later they were moved to the Mississauga Hounds. Liking the posts in that trade thread would be the last actions of Pasta in the VHL and, while they kicked off their career strongly with over a point per game in their six games with Ottawa, reduced ice time in Mississauga and a lack of progression saw Herron finish his only VHLM season with 17 points in 40 games, along with 2 points in a very surprising 4-1 playoff series loss against Herron’s first team, despite the Lynx finishing the season 48 points behind Mississauga in the standings. Herron’s inactivity didn’t stop Riga from drafting them in the middle of the 4th round of the Season 85 Draft, but as expected (given the lowest drafted player to make the VHL in that draft went twenty picks earlier) the pick did not pan out to anything successful. Herron’s earning history was short but interesting as they earned 12 uncapped through Practice Facility, First Generation purchase and even submitted a Junior Review, but didn’t earn a single capped TPE. They also were a keen tester of the hybrid attributes, adding at least one TPE to EVERY SINGLE HYBRID ATTRIBUTE. With it being so long since the last episode, this means I’m going to have to track back and think about just how good Joshua Herron is compared with the rest of the players on the portal. I think that it would be fair to say that Herron’s longevity puts them ahead of Kiefer Leclerc, but simultaneously below former best player in the VHL Portal Elfon Ashelf, therefore I dub Joshua Herron as the Tenth Best Player In The VHL Portal. New Leaderboard 1: Jon Webber 2: Matthew Kai 3: Calix Pearce 4: Cameron Elsby 5: Evgeni Shevkov 6: George Patton 7: barry bigman 8: Greg Santos 9: Elfon Ashelf 10: Joshua Herron 11: Kiefer Leclerc 12: Blake Bill 13: Nicholas Corrigan 14: Whiskey Malone 15: Chet Foreals 16: Dirty Caufield 17: John Smith 18: Majestic Buffalo 19: Jack Todaro 20: Titomir Pukshuuter 21: Ryker Quinn 22: Ches Morrison 23: Ian Smith 24: Danny dimes 25: Dawson Thibert 26. Haydyn 27. Laser Brewer And now it’s time to move on to the nastiest of boys, OzNasty’s Mitchell Osborne. Osborne joined the league late on Sunday March 21st 2021 and gave a 32 hour wait before committing to the Yukon Rush for Season 77 on the guarantee of first-line minutes. The thread did make me chuckle as RJ described his roster as “pretty bear”. That day break did mean that Osborne missed the first few games of the season, but they played prominent minutes for the Rush in their 69 games with the team, even though a mid-season trade for fellow defenseman Inunnguaq Kiak cost Osborne their spot on the first line. A very defensive defenseman, Osborne had their defense attribute at 72 with no other attribute breaking 50 and that defensive focus showed up in the number of shots that Osborne blocked, falling just four shot blocks short of breaking the top 10 for the VHLM in Season 77. However despite this defensive focus, they were still able to contribute to a degree offensively with 34 points in 69 games. While Osborne wasn’t able to earn capped TPE in their first week, they went on to claim welfare in their first four weeks along with a couple of press conference submissions, enough to get them to 82 TPE. However, April 10th 2021 was their last visit to the site and that inactivity led to Mitchell Osborne going undrafted in both VHL and VHLM Drafts. I know we just crowned Joshua Herron as the tenth best player in the VHL Portal, but I think we’re going to have to change that already as, despite Herron going above and beyond with the Junior Review, I think Osborne’s earning vastly outweighs Herron’s therefore I’m now dubbing Mitchell Osborne as the Tenth Best Player In The VHL Portal. New Leaderboard 1: Jon Webber 2: Matthew Kai 3: Calix Pearce 4: Cameron Elsby 5: Evgeni Shevkov 6: George Patton 7: barry bigman 8: Greg Santos 9: Elfon Ashelf 10: Mitchell Osborne 11: Joshua Herron 12: Kiefer Leclerc 13: Blake Bill 14: Nicholas Corrigan 15: Whiskey Malone 16: Chet Foreals 17: Dirty Caufield 18: John Smith 19: Majestic Buffalo 20: Jack Todaro 21: Titomir Pukshuuter 22: Ryker Quinn 23: Ches Morrison 24: Ian Smith 25: Danny dimes 26: Dawson Thibert 27. Haydyn 28. Laser Brewer Next Time: Duncan Montana, Hugh Mungus and Chase Keller

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Mocks are cool, drafts are cool. I figured I'd do a thing where I look at mocks from the past and compare where players went in the mock draft in comparison to the league draft and talk specifically about the player who dropped down furthest from the mock and the player whose stock rose the most and see how their careers played out and if they justified the rise and fall in stocks. I'm starting with the Season 38 Mock Draft written by Mike as that is the closest record I could find to a Mock Draft that was completed close to the draft's completion. I know Kendrick used to do some mocks but I think those got deleted after some things happened with his account and there was a Season 37 Mock by CowboyInAmerica that was obviously a good read as it always is with him, but also was written over a month before that draft so was a bit too far out to be an accurate gauge of draft stocks heading into the draft. Season 38 Draft Season 38 Mock by Mike Mike called all first ten players selected in the first round correctly (which wasn't as impressive a feat back then as it would be closer to now as there were sub-30 players in a draft class for many of the older classes) and half of those were picked exactly where Mike had predicted. There were only two players whose selections fluctuated by more than two draft positions and that was Dimothenis Vlasis (who rose from 7th in the Mock to 4th in the VHL Draft) and Ashton Galbraith (who fell from 5th in the Mock to 8th in the VHL Draft). The Mock Draft itself actually covers good reasons for why these players went higher/lower than they were predicted. Vlasis was the third best defenseman prospect heading into the draft, but the question was if Helsinki would go defenseman with both #1 and #3 given that they already had STZ's Season 38 defenseman and Hall of Famer Jake Wylde on the team via the GM rule. While the mock predicted against this (although did say there would be a possibility of it), Helsinki did wind up picking first-gen defenseman Don Draper at third overall having already taken Vojczek Svoboda first overall. Helsinki going with Draper at #3 absolutely wound up being the right decision as Draper wound up being one of two players taken in that draft (along with Hall of Famer Bruno Wolf) to surpass 1000 TPE and made up for Helsinki's first selection of Svoboda who was incredibly disappointing and lasted only three seasons in the league before retiring after Season 40, way earlier than had been anticipated. With Draper no longer available at #4, Cologne still looked to find the best defenseman available which is what led to Dimothenis Vlasis being taken three picks before the Mock had predicted. This was the right move as although Vlasis was not a star, you would likely have to say he had a better career than all of the skaters selected afterwards and goalie would not have made sense for Cologne here as they'd taken a goalie in the first round in the previous season's draft. Vlasis started off very strong, winning Rookie of the Year honours in Season 39, however after a down year the following season, they were traded to the New York Americans for a second round selection in Season 42. The only skater that perhaps rivaled Vlasis was Kachur's Chris Raymond who was selected seventh overall by Helsinki. Funnily enough though Raymond would make his way to Cologne via trade and was part of their cup-winning roster for Season 42 making him one of only three players selected in this draft to win a cup (the others being Vlasis and Percy Miller). Ashton Galbraith's career post draft more than justified his later selection than the Mock Draft anticipated. The user was marshall_222 who had previously managed the Hall of Famer Jochen Walser, however that Hall of Fame work ethic was not there with Galbraith unfortunately as Galbraith didn't earn a single TPE post VHL Draft and ended their career with 122 TPE. That did not stop them from playing in the VHL however as the Season 54 Bears snapped him up for 54 games, however they only played Galbraith for a grand total of 45 minutes, only having a chance to get a single VHL assist before never being seen in the pro leagues ever again. Despite that though, it'd be difficult to say Galbraith was much of a bust pick as there were only two players who got over 200 TPE that were selected after him, one of which Cologne drafted at ninth overall anyway in Leo Tesla, and both Tesla and Percy Miller were early retirees as well so Galbraith was not a big miss on Cologne's part.

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That’s correct, it was just edited in by the commissioners, no change log was posted.

So unfortunately this was a rule that was amended into the rulebook by VHL commissioners a year ago (which is why Rory's position change went through because it was before the change). If you're wondering where the announcement was, well there wasn't one unfortunately. I'd pointed that out to them that they were going to make a change to the rulebook that they'd never actually announced, but I guess they thought it wasn't necessary.

- I think this is the first Point Task that I've done since Podcasts got moved down to ten minutes about a month ago after I spent nearly 4 years of moaning about it being 15 minutes, so naturally I decided to make it a Media Spot instead. I probably will get back on the podcasting train at some point (we're now at a point where I can do proper judging of each team's best and worst draft pick of the S80's so maybe I'll pick that back up) but it's been a bit weird at the minute with car journeys at the minute as my usual car is out of action right now. - I've fallen off with Wayne Gretzky over the last season or so, but just broke the 1000 TPE with still a season before depreciation kicks in so I can still contribute at a good solid level. Looks like I'm eighth in TPE when compared with players from the same Season 92 Draft Class as Gretzky so at least I've overtaken a few of the players taken ahead of me despite starting with 30 TPE on draft day. - Anyone heard anything about Theme Week for this season? Ordinarily I think this would have been the week it would have taken place (given the 50 game point for this season I think would be occurring around Tuesday 21st this season, and theme week is typically week before deadline), but it's understandable if it wasn't this week given there's still a valid doubles week from Christmas to be spent. Not complaints if it's not happening this season since we've had very generous helpings of uncapped this season, but just hope I've not pre-empted a Theme Week announcement and have to do another Theme Week article later in the week! - Naturally with our most prolific avenues for recruitment from the S60s-S80s not being as accessible or fruitful as they once were, it's been difficult to get close to the 100 player draft classes the league used to see on a season-to-season basis. The most important thing though is making sure the players that we do get feel engaged and want to keep active in the VHL and it's seems like we are acheiving that to some degree, with a fair few players drafted in the late 2nds and early 3rds of the recent drafts still maintaining activity post-draft, which is a far cry from the first 20-30 seasons I was here when many drafts wouldn't have VHL players outside the first round despite having half the teams of the current era. - I miss that the S97 VHL index search page is not working as it should, it used to be one of my go to places to find out how each user's attributes compared with one another as, to my knowledge, there's nowhere that really fits that same bill on the portal and you're limited to just looking at player attributes per team. Luckily, I can work around it by going to the Season 96 version , clicking submit on Player Rosters Menu and changing the URL from 96 to 97 though, so I can still wonder if making my Puck Handling the best in the league at 98 was a terrible idea (Current Verdict: Probably).

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