Meh, if my history lesson memories serve, I'd argue that both leagues spawned from another one altogether. I wanna say it was called the ESHL. If I recall, that was a PT-based league run with NHL 2004 that had both the base members who would eventually form the VHL and the SHL. I don't know who ran it though, maybe Brooks or Scotty or Beketov or Fernando or Jay Mac or some shit. Anyway, that league shut down, Brooks opened this bitch up in 2007, Nando/Jay Mac were on board, and then two or three years later they decided they were lazy and thus the SHL was born. I'd say the SHL stole the VHL's idea as much the VHL stole the ESHL's idea. In reality they're all just evolutions of one another. The SHL is basically our little mentally challenged sister. Sure she's a bit soft in the head, but she's of our blood and we should love her all the same.
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