diamond_ace

Not referring to "at the time"

Ottawa will also offer. I can prob start you off on 1st pair, Renner's been gone for a bit

To be fair, a lot of vets have a guy that was a failure. Let's not bring up Vaclav Hrdina, for example (other than to point out that there was a reason I had 63 TPE at the draft with Lawson, and that reason was no carryover)

week 2

You can't be too upset taking either me or Bassolino. For that matter, given the quality of the draft on the whole (as in, not much) you can't really be too upset taking LPLL at 5. Hood was a big swing and miss as was Laurent. The interesting case for me is Shpeen, because that could easily have been Marvin Harding but for a few seasons, since Shpeen was Muffins. (Also, I'm kind of glad Tribuncovs never worked out, was not a fan of the member)

Tristan Iseult @SlapshotDragon

I guess this is the official thread then. Anyway, you'll find an offer from me in the portal shortly - Ottawa has one active goalie, and the member is established and I know he'll be active, but his player is as new as yours. I could do a timeshare of sorts, split the games about in half, only beginning to favor one or the other if one of you pulled away in activity. I'm confident that my current guy will get it done, but with as saturated as the goalie market is, I look to create a spot wherever I can. Oslo is probably a better spot for you, to be completely honest, but I can still give you more than just the standard backup role a lot of teams will have.

Congratulations to all players selected to the All-VHL and All-Rookie teams for S62! As a reminder anyone voted onto the 1st team shall receive 2 TPE and the 2nd Team / Rookie team shall receive 1 TPE. The All-VHLM teams shall be selected soon by the @VHLM Commissioner So, without any further adieu, here are your All-VHL teams for S62! 1st team: F - Podrick Cast @Victor F - Matt Thompson @Beketov F - Keaton Louth @Beaviss D - Maxim Kovalchuk @Banackock D - Mats Johnsson @Quik G - Norris Stopko @Bushito 2nd team: F - Jasper Canmore @Bushito F - Vyacheslav Smirnov @Banackock F - Edwin Preencarnacion @Tagger D - Colton Rayne @Spade18 D - Dragon McDragon @JardyB10 G - Tristan Iseult @Arthur All-Rookie team: F - Vyacheslav Smirnov @Banackock F - Leph Twinger @DollarAndADream F - Sergei Kovalev @Laflamme D - Maxim Kovalchuk @Banackock D - Robert Malenko @pennypenny G - Johnny Havenk Carison @Donno100

It wasn't directed at you, it wasn't directed at anyone, just the general notion that everyone passed on them. I know how it feels to be passed on - Intranquilo was drafted after a pass, so it's a bit of a personal sticking point. So far it seems to be fueling them rather than discouraging them (at least Crosby, Madden is new enough that I've yet to really discern the pattern) but having been on the other side of it, I want to make sure they know they were at least noticed on some level

FTFY

Dear VHLM, Let it be known that in both of the last two drafts, Ottawa has wanted to continue drafting. In both of the last two drafts, there were still people on my board. Admittedly, the vast majority of these people ended up going inactive, but for the sake of correcting the record of "every GM passed" - Sidney Crosby was on the board. John Madden was on the board. Obviously we can't just draft into perpetuity or we'd still be there, but I'm uncomfortable with continuing the notion of claiming no one noticed these guys. There wasn't much to notice in either case, I'll admit - in both cases they were near the bottom of the board and the only indication was recency of last visit, which is kind of the last bastion of anything and essentially a lottery ticket (and it fails the vast majority of the time, hence having guys like Ajay Minhas on the board in the same category, who have never been seen again). I've let that be the record for the sake of not making waves. In old drafts, there was no sense in pushing because at that point, half the drafts there weren't people and the other half there was only 1-2, all of which ended up leaving. In newer drafts, there have been closer to 10 people. Still a lottery ticket, sure, but you have a better chance of winning the lottery if you have 10 tickets. @Banackock can even vouch since the last draft was just a few days ago - I said at the end to him "I can keep taking guys" but that I would stop if the others wanted to stop. It's fine, both guys ultimately went to teams and it didn't end up hurting in the end, but I'm getting a little tired of sitting there and hearing how I let a guy pass that was in fact on my board, twice. - Sincerely, The Vet.

Maxim Kovalchuk @Peace

I'll get all vhl when I get home from work

@Trifecta now that you're back, I think Oslo is the only remaining team with a possible starting goalie spot?

The one brand I specifically wanted to avoid wasn't selected. I'm theoretically open to any brand. Some I like better than others, but we'll see what we got. Send me your offers, and try to underpay as much as possible. I will refuse to sign for too much, but not for too little

Keaton Louth @.sniffuM @SlapshotDragon

If he doesn't, take him on as asst.

"Underdogs"

It means I know you're as high in Ottawa as you'll be, since I'm not stepping down anytime soon, so I want you to have an opportunity with Oslo that you don't have with Ottawa.

One vote away from my "never vote for myself" policy costing me TPE.

@McWolf

Yeah you having Helsinki 1st makes it make more sense. Didn't know that (I see your team giving away picks and I assume it's all of them, since it's you). This isn't as much of you trying to be in the wild card as it is you trying to make sure Helsinki isn't.

Depends on how much value you put on being a solid side. Depends on if you consider being a playoff team a goal, outside of being cup contenders.

Devise is so opposed to draft picks he'll take on a bunch of older players in a year he's not really competing. For Davos, this trade is great - hell of a way to start off the rebuild. Goalie prospect in the pipeline is key, plus all the picks. For Toronto though, this confuses me. By the time they're competing, half these guys will be retired. It maybe jumps them into the window of the wild card game a season or two early, but they're not about to have a shot at a cup.