scoop

No the problem is that he's not touching me in the Brampton LR.

Riga Quebec Toronto New York

3-2 nya

Agreed, should've been more like 4-1 Brampton.

ahhh damn

friendly reminder that this is a thing

Here's a video of me juggling if anyone wants to see it https://www.facebook.com/sam.helberg.5/videos/1111832218863404/ and here's a picture I took of meself

This past off-season, we saw four teams trade away their first round draft pick in S50: Toronto, Cologne, Riga, and Seattle. Toronto and Cologne currently top their respective conferences, making their picks less valuable. Going into the season, it was pretty evident that these two teams would be making the playoffs, both with a good shot at making the finals. The season is turning out as expected for them. Seattle and Riga, on the other hand, may be losing their bets. The Bears hired a new GM this off-season, bringing in Blake Campbell, who had an incredible run as the GM of the Bratislava Watchmen in the VHLM. Despite the high level of competition in North America, Campbell felt confident enough in his new team to trade away his first round pick, expecting it would be a later pick in the first round. While he did acquire AK47, a decent prospect, he would not be worth the lottery pick that Seattle may have given up. Seattle is currently fourth in North America with 37 points, which would be enough to put them first in Europe, but that's irrelevant. The Bears sit 11 points behind third-place Quebec, but we have more than half of the season left to play. Seattle will need to win more games against those teams ahead of them in the standings if they hope to make the playoffs; they have a combined record of 3-8 against Toronto, New York, and Quebec. One thing that could potentially play out in their favor is the fact that those three teams ahead of them have not played against each other very much, so if one of the three struggles against the other two, it could make an opening on which Seattle can capitalize. The Bears have struggled mightily on offense compared to the teams above them. As for Riga, there was less of a risk involved in trading their first round pick for two reasons: the player they received in return was Pietro Maximoff, and Europe is a significantly weaker conference than North America. Looking at Maximoff, who had just been drafted fifth overall, we see a reliable player with somewhat limited potential. It's likely, yes, that the best players in the S50 draft will become bigger stars than Maximoff, but as far as a known quantity goes, Maximoff could certainly be better than the unknown quantity that is a draft pick. He is making steady improvement and will likely do so throughout his career. As far as Riga's position in Europe goes, they are currently last, but it is close; they sit one point behind Stockholm and five behind Helsinki. Even second-place Davos is within striking distance just nine points ahead of them. The Reign have played a relatively tough schedule thus far, having played (and lost) 13 games against the top three teams. They have a 6-3 record against the teams with which they are competing for a playoff spot (ignoring Cologne). If they can continue to win against these teams, Riga could easily end up as one of Europe's playoff teams. The teams that hold their draft picks are no doubt rooting against the successes of Seattle and Riga. Stockholm holds Seattle's first round pick, which, along with their own, could give them two lottery picks. Riga traded their pick to Cologne, who as find themselves with a chance to make some noise in the playoffs as Europe's strongest contender. The Express have done what they can to keep Riga down thus far, winning the three matches that the two teams have played thus far. There is plenty of time for things to change, but this season could demonstrate the risk that is involved with trading your first round pick as a fringe team.

At the rate things are going, I won't even get 20 TPE from the achievement tracker. Honestly, that's priority number one in the VHLM, with the second priority being winning the Founder's Cup. I put most of the blame for this on my GM, Evans. He's been MIA from team activity for most of the season. Banackock submitted line for us once partway through the season, but since then I've requested that I be moved to the first line, particularly as a result of my recent struggles. Just last week I was leading the league in points and now I'm not. Nothing has changed in our lines as far as I know. But I should certainly be playing better than I have over the past several days. But the season is going to shit for me and something needs to change. If I'm not on the first line soon, I may even demand a trade. I don't care about winning the Founder's Cup as much as I do preparing myself as best I can for when I make it to the VHL. Yes, I want both, and that should be a reasonable expectation given that I started the season already having to bank TPE. Maybe I should've added more to passing or defense in my build but I didn't, and I'm still being outscored by worse players around the league.

fuck dis shit

3-2 Bern

158 Bern Royals vs Brampton Blades 159 Moscow Red Wolves vs Oslo Storm 160 Bratislava Watchmen vs Saskatoon Wild

If you can correctly predict the score of this game you will win 3 uncapped TPE. How neat would that be?! 157 Bern Royals vs Ottawa Lynx

Predict the winners to earn 1 uncapped TPE 158 Bern Royals vs Brampton Blades 159 Moscow Red Wolves vs Oslo Storm 160 Bratislava Watchmen vs Saskatoon Wild

Correct picks 110 Brampton Blades vs Oslo Storm 111 Yukon Rush vs Moscow Red Wolves 112 Saskatoon Wild vs Bern Royals Winners of 1 uncapped TPE are the following: @Streetlight @solas @eaglesfan036 @Dangles13 @Banackock @bukss_a @Tixe

Correct score: Ottawa 4 Bratislava 3 Winners are none.

Hello?

wowo thanks friends

You need more points for the sake of my VHFL team

Needs more Lincoln and Koponen

Just looking at this from my perspective, I would personally want to wait a few seasons before creating a second player anyway. When I was new, I wasn't hyper active, just getting a feel for the league in my first couple of seasons. I what I probably would've done if this had been a thing back then would've been created a second player a few seasons after I had my first and then focused on my second player as my main guy, knowing that I could make him better than I could've made my first dude. But that's just my perspective and I guess some people might think otherwise. As far as this being too much, I definitely think it is. I don't think it's necessarily and it just brings added complication to the league. It brings in a second update scale that updaters have to get familiar with. As someone who this wouldn't really be relevant to, it might slip my mind and if I'm talking with a newer member I might feed misinformation because of it. Someone who has different update scales on two players could easily just make a mistake and use the wrong scale for one player because mistakes happen, and that's more for the updater to deal with again and it's not like they aren't already doing more work than their job pays them for. I guess I don't know what was said in this conversation with the Yukon peeps, but I don't really see a need for this. But I guess that's just because I can't see this from the perspective of someone who would want to make a second player immediately. You know there will be members who ask "so I have to do two point tasks a week?" when of course you don't have to but that's how they'll view it. Members could burnout real quickly if they try to take on too much by creating two players right away.

With under 20 minutes a game, and having played one fewer than most other teams, Diana Maxwell currently leads the VHLM in points (31) and is tied for first in goals (19). Her lead in points is not great, and there are several names close behind. First is AK47, with whom Maxwell shares the lead in goals, at 29 points. Four other players are within five points of Maxwell, but they all play more minutes than she does. Her 1.84 points per 20 minutes speaks to this, as the closest to her in that regard has a 1.58. Maxwell's success, as well as her decreased playing time, might both be explained by the fact that she is playing on the second line. Normally she would be a first line player, but the Blades are splitting up her and Theo Axelsson in order to spread the offensive firepower to multiple lines. With a Founder's Cup as the primary goal of the season, Maxwell also hopes to win some individual accolades. Brampton is currently first overall in the standings with a 12-4-1 record, but given that Maxwell and Axelsson will not be getting any better throughout the season, other teams will be able to close the gap unless the rest of the Blades can improve themselves. Sven Wolf will be a much better playmaker by the playoffs, but the rest of the Brampton roster is a concern.

Maybe I'm overestimating the effects that the two-player system will have, or underestimating just how many people will actually play much further beyond eight seasons, but I don't really see this being a huge issue.

huh