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  1. Just theorizing here, but if a 116 TPE player is just going to use that TPE to get an attribute to 99, it'd be better to put it in puck handling than scoring.
  2. Asher Donovan is from Yellowknife, that's probably the closest we'll get.
  3. Okay, so I guess I was never exactly planning to go all out with mist4ke, but now that the update scale is harsher at the high end, a lower TPE build will be affected less than a high TPE build. Trying to get past the 90 point mark in an attribute will probably not be worth it for me, so I most likely won't. Sure, I may never be the "best goalie," (but also I still may be for a season or two), but it just doesn't feel worth it to try to TPE whore a goalie with the new update scale. That is specifically for goalies, though. I'll still be trying to earn as much TPE as I can for Maxwell. With goalies, the builds are a little more straightforward and differing playstyles you get by adding to different goalie attributes won't show up in the sim. With skaters, it does matter more. The harsher update scale could still turn some people away from trying to earn massive amounts of TPE, because of how much they will lose from depreciation, but I suppose that may be what ends up separating the good from the great. for mist4ke
  4. In an effort to give my Yukon Rush the best chance at winning this season, and to add some active players to the team, I've traded all draft picks that I have to acquire several players from the Saskatoon Wild. The Wild were in fourth place in the standings, and possibly had an outside shot at winning the cup. As things stood, the Rush were also somewhat of long-shots to win despite being in second place. The Ottawa Lynx just seemed too good. The trade is one I had tried to make throughout the off-season and the early into the season, although not quite this large but rather for just a couple players. I also wasn't planning to trade all of my picks in the deal. The idea behind the move is to win the cup this season, and worry about bringing the team back to being competitive for later. The trade isn't unlike what we've seen in the VHLM before. However, usually teams will trade away all of their picks or all their players over the course of several trades. It just so happened that here it was all done in one deal. for Maxwell
  5. Rookies Falter in All-Star Game For veterans Pietro Maximoff, Diana Maxwell, and Unassisted, the Season 53 All-Star Game was a chance to showcase their talent in a game featuring some of the best players in the league. For rookies Alexander Thrower, Astrid Moon, and M.T. Power, it was a humbling experience. This trio of first-year had arguably the three worst performances in the game, and while it would be expected that rookies might struggle, they did almost nothing at all. Of the three, Alexander Thrower is the only one even playing well in the regular season. Thrower is a member of an Express team that includes Joel Jarvi's quest to break single-season records that have been in place since the days of Scotty Campbell, and Thrower has accumulated 47 assists and 85 points for himself. Certainly a big part of his success has been in feeding off of Jarvi and the team's over-reliance on a handful of players, but numbers are numbers. His offensive statistics earned him his spot in the All-Star Game, even if his skills don't really match up to the league's elite. That skill gap was demonstrated in this game, as Thrower could not get anything going. In 21 and a half minutes of play, Thrower had a -1 rating and didn't particularly contribute anything other than his six of 13 face-off wins. As for the rookie goalies Astrid Moon and M.T. Power, it could be said that they should not have been in the All-Star Game in the first place; and frankly, I'm not sure exactly who made the decision to invite them. Moon is just one of two starting goalies, the other being TOR G, who has a save percentage under 0.900, while Power has the next worst in the league. What these two players have going for them is their wins; the two of them are currently tied for the fourth most wins at 33. Those wins are a largely a product of their teams, and these goalies have not actually played all that well individually. They were exposed as the young, inexperienced players that they are in the All-Star Game, as they combined to allow ten of the 12 goals scored. We had been headed toward a rare low-scoring ASG, until the rookies came in and things changed. Astrid Moon? More like Disasterid Moon. I think Thrower's inclusion was justified going in, but Power and (more so) Moon probably shouldn't even have been in the game. If not them, then who? I understand that players like Artom Zhumbayev and Dmitri Dadonov have had their save percentages inflated by facing a large numbers of shots; but still, these two players are more skilled and have at least had careers up to this point (and actually a pretty good one from Dadonov). Zhumbayev's save percentage this season is the highest among starters, and Dadonov's 0.921 greatly exceeds Moon's 0.895 mark. The wins are lacking, yes, but they are better players with better personal stats. In nothing else, the results of the All-Star Game should prove that Moon and Power did not belong in the game.
  6. Oop, thought I made the defense 5v5 all Volkov and Smallwood. Dw Greg you have more minutes on the way
  7. Zhumbayev or Dadonov tho
  8. Yeah, but.. you shouldn't have.
  9. Astrid Moon LVP what's he even doing here
  10. scoop

    VHLM All-Star Game

    we want krigars!
  11. VHFL is updated. The only change in the standings anywhere was Scooter dropping two places in Group B.
  12. Oh wtf I must not have saved them. Guess it's my fault BLAME ME But @Higgins put Lyle Smallwood on our roster pls. If you wanna be a super cool guy and upload the file after adding him to our roster that'd be awesome too
  13. That's a nice way to break my slump
  14. scoop

    YUK/SSK; S53

    I'm afraid to look at it
  15. scoop

    YUK/SSK; S53

    @TheLastOlympian07 To Yukon Rudolph Schmeckeldorf Shawn Gretzky Fuk D. World Aeschylus Jigglejawns Austin Hickey Torstein Ironside To Saskatoon S54 YUK 2nd S54 YUK 3rd S55 YUK 1st S55 YUK 2nd S55 YUK 3rd Chet Manley emphasis on Fuk D. World tbh Yukon accepts.
  16. @Will Parechkin's hits are off by a bit
  17. Quebec Stockholm Calgary Seattle
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