Pifferfish

Trunov was pretty good, sad to not have full time starting job to see the full potential on display

I guess the Ghost of Wayne Gretzky is GMing Canada eh...

@Banackock

Jørgen Løvstrøm (in the portal it is with regular Os but really his name is spelled with ø) Ben Bishop for a render, he is my all time fave but if you find a player who works much better I don't mind as the face for a goalie is pretty irrelevant Jørgen is planning on being a Malmo lifer but a nod to his roots as a Greenlander wouldn't be a bad thing. Full sig please with the gifs, those are soooo freaking cool meng. Like I said, some kind of overall nod to the fact he is a Greenlander would be nice but not a huge thing if missing, he is a Nighthawk first!

He has evolved like a digimon does.

Not even the fact Lem is stepping away, they don't own the damn pick. It's a non punishment.

So the Riga pick still is going down to 16th?

@Beketov @Spartan so what ended up being the final punishments? What is currently at the top of this thread?

As someone who is yet to come away with this bad news that I am told is very likely coming my way in the future (bad genetics and an EXTREMELY poor diet) I can say it's so scary to think about the potential of that. Sorry it's become your reality but glad to hear you have some of the proper supports to make that more doable. You got this dawg!

I meant @mattyIcemanlol

@Lemorse7 be Matt's AGM. Would be a legendary move by you. Regardless of the results great work in Riga man! And R6 later?

Yeah I guess I'll add to an impressive resume. Put me in coach

Well it's a matter of there could be impacts that you don't see and so giving no punishment is a bit like a problem in observational scope.

Remember this for future GM applications I put in.

Nyko I do see where you are coming from but let me throw out a hypothetical, just bc it didn't impact Riga doesn't mean there isn't impact. What if that accidental bot game is against NYA and that one extra win puts them in the postseason over CHI? Or if it was against LDN and they won now their seeding and lotto odds are worse. I'm not saying either of those necessarily occured as I have no clue when and where Riga played their bot, but there could be unforseen impacts

It is the mildest bc they don't own their first lol.

Can we just remove Riga's third, have LA lose their next 1st, and then divvy up the Helsinki and DC odds around already jeez. Also @Beketov it would be a lot less complex if the rules were broken 0 times, to be fair.

I said this is one of the good ones and I'm catching a stray

This assessment is valid, I think that's why I don't get any of the criticism of the trades, like clearly Lucy has a great ability to get players to buy in... She did it in HFX and she is doing it with the people we have now, she had us so bought in not one player on our team who was a pending retiree recreated at the TDL. So the lack of confidence in her to continue getting people in on Malmo and keeping them engaged I just don't understand from a logical POV. We will not be great, but still a playoff team, and honestly I wouldn't be shocked if we find our way back to contending before most of these other EU teams do.

Hey bud, took over a rough situation at like the worst time. I think people underrate how hard rebuilding is when 4 other teams want to do it too. Like you all are competing to sell players to the contenders and it's difficult. When you cant sell assets easily building a prospect pool to promote activity is hard. But you'll get there eventually, you got a couple of great foundational pieces, just gotta get scoring and hit on these late picks, recruit so buddies to make those classes deeper lol

You know the best teams in the VHL perpetually retool right? Seattle, Moscow, Vancouver... They rarely rebuild. Maybe 1 off seasons but thats the way right now. Trying to full on rebuild against 5 other teams trying to rebuild is dragging all of them down, now 1 of those teams is finally coming out ahead (DC) and the rest are still pretty awful... LA is kind of in this boat but that had to retool a rebuild to put themselves here.

Also, @Xhekajsleftankle is the #1 earning VHL User (as of yesterday) this past month, like Shaw and Weier made the trade look even ish to me if even just a small loss, but the way this player is coming around and grinding out TPE make it a big time W. I don't get why this trade (or really any) is viewed as this team winning and that one losing. Both teams won here. I doubt @McLovin was gonna turn these players into the high earners the same way Lucy has, not to say he is a bad GM or anything like that, it's just really hard sometimes to make the VHLM/VHL transition with a new GM you barely know and go to bat for them. Lucy is just able to get the best out of these guys and for McLovin, he took what he saw as B- prospects and turned them into an A, ain't a problem with that at all.

@Xhekajsleftankle

I like to think I cooked the whole way through but glad this part resonated lol

Yeah I mean I'm going to keep it a band, pretty sure I got this info from Hamilton like a lot of people know of Philly as a former psuedo capital during the revolution, but I believe post revolution New York became the center of the US government, then moving it to DC and VA while DC was built up was a concession made to the southern states for some type of support for some kind of law or something...something like that, I was better with this stuff when I didn't have historical VHL stats clogging up my brains CPU