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Season 1
 
Episode 1: 2 gms 0 pts fuk gota do it agen
Episode 2: i got eh rok
Episode 3: seekrits
Episode 4: hot kops
Episode 5: konfruntashuns
Episode 6: da troof kums owt
Episode 7: fite fiyr wit watur
Episode 8: da doktor
Episode 9: da thundur down undur
 
Get ready for it...

Look on the bright side, at least you can't fail them as bad as Daniel Braxton did!

YOU GIVE IDEAS, I BE OPPORTUNISTIC.
 
Shoutout to Muffins playing Pokemon because I'm a thunder stealer haha http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/9699-its-baaaaaaaaaaaaaack/

Daniel who?

For my next player. CnC.

I know, it's hard to distinguish between The Breakfast Club members.

Gorlab confirmed younger than 16 for referring to weed as "loud" and being serious.

Entertainment.

It's not the age that bothers some members, but the common nonintellectual verbal diarrhea a twelve year old tends to bring.  

You don't even know what loud is G. You smoke mids, therefore you need to check out your life, bro.

I think your ideas are sound Molholt and to be completely honest I don't think many people would exploit it if they were able to GM a team and have their player on another.
 
But to me it's about a principle. You don't structure the rules in a way that a conflict of interest could potentially exist or come up. Even if you hope and assume that the majority of the league won't abuse it, the fact that it COULD happen under that rule set when in reality it isn't that big of a deal to have a GM player be on the GM team. Specifically since VHL GM's with the exception of a few swap out at a decent enough time frame as it is. They create their players to fit in with the rebuild, and fit in with the core of their teams in most cases.
 
Keep in mind we aren't in a time were a team competes for a few seasons and then rebuilds either. Cologne was a re-tooling/trying to compete team every since they joined the league. Quebec as well. Both teams felt the blows of expansion depth but slowly became playoff teams and only now recently have rebuilt. That is 8 seasons. New York before Chri's recent rebuilt went 11 seasons of playoff action. Davos has been a top team for like 3-4 seasons now. Teams don't cycle as often in the VHL as they used to due to the sheer number of quality players we have. Literally a GM has to suffer one maybe two bad seasons with a team now, if that. Even Calgary/Helsinki are coming out of rebuild with somewhat competitive teams right now, and aren't just pushovers. 

In honour of your overlord's (that's me) birthday, everyone who likes this post gets 1 TPE.
#teepz #lovevictator #tpeinflation
 
Edit: for anyone still here, check the date. This is a decade old and is no longer valid, please don’t try.

Not a fan of that. Making the playoffs is a big deal when only 12 of 32 teams can go, what's the point if you're suddenly allowing half the league to get in?

Free Agency is over folks, Tarvaris Jackson went back to Seattle
 
Repeat time now!

So we got these hats at work today

It's actually a deep red and not orange like the picture seems to show

This will be a series in which I look at the reign of every GM of every VHL franchise and decide which GM is the best in team history, which is the worst, and which is the most forgettable.

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The Calgary Wranglers are one of the VHL's most esteemed franchises. With an impressive seven cup wins, Calgary has also been extremely stable, with only five General Managers in their thirty-six seasons of existence (easily the least of any of the original eight franchises). They have had a VHL record three GM's hold the position for at least eight consecutive seasons (for reference, only one other VHL team can boast having two such GM's). All things considered, this franchise has been a model of consistency in the league. But of course, with the constant ebb and flow of the league, there have been some down times in the franchise's history, much like any other VHL team, so here's a primer on some of the performances of the General Managers that have led the Wranglers in years past and present.

Best GM in Franchise History: Scott Boulet (S3-S10)

Record: 388-156-32 (67.4%)
Cup Wins: 2

Although many would argue that Brett Slobodzian should get this spot for an insane two-year run to start the franchise that saw Calgary win more than 80% of its games, I personally side with Boulet just because of the sustained success he had throughout his entire run. Boulet inherited a cup winning team from Slobo, and although most would attribute his first cup win in Season 3 to the building of the past GM, Boulet was able to keep his team in constant Cup competition with his masterful building.


Boulet was one bad mother fucker.

Boulet's consistency was truly a feat to behold. He led Calgary to seven consecutive 40-plus win seasons, only missing the playoffs once in that run in a Season 4 that saw division rivals Seattle and Hamilton both top 50 wins on the year. Boulet finally succumbed to a rebuild in his last year, picking up 56 of his 156 losses in Season 10 before passing the team off to Matt Bentz. It was the end of an era that saw Calgary dominate the VHL for the first nine seasons of the league's history.

Worst GM in Franchise History: Matt Bentz (S11-S19)

Record: 302-302-44 (47.6%)
Cup Wins: 2

It's very strange to see a GM with two Cup wins be called the worst in a franchise's history, but that's a testament to just how good Calgary GM's have been throughout team history. Bentz's run at the helm of Calgary finished with the biggest bang possible, as a huge free agency coup that saw the team court stars Alexander Sauve, Matt Bailey and Ryley Dawson in a two year stretch helped the GM end with two consecutive Continental Cup wins. With such a big finish, how can Bentz be called the worst GM in team history?

His main issue was his very slow start. Yes, he was leading the best franchise in league history up to that point through its very first rebuild, and yes, he did have to deal with the Bentz Curse, which described the surprising tendency of top Calgary prospects and players to retire on Bentz unexpectedly. However, it took Bentz until his seventh season in Season 17 to finally finish with a record above .500. He made the playoffs a couple times in his first six years, but those were extremely weak years in the North American Conference. Bentz won 112 games in his last two seasons as Wranglers GM, meaning that his teams averaged less than 30 wins in the other seven seasons he held the position. He was still an overall good GM, but for a franchise loaded with great ones, Bentz holds the spot at the worst one.

Most Forgettable GM in Team History: Jardy Bunclewirth (S20-S25)

Record: 177-230-25 (41.0%)
Cup Wins: 1

Somebody had to lose here. After Brett Slobodzian, Jardy Bunclewirth is the second-shortest-tenured GM in team history. He also boasts the worse winning percentage in team history. So why did he not go into the worst GM category then? The answer is simple: he had a couple years of strong success after taking over a team with essentially no assets, and then finished his tenure with one more rebuilding year. Unlike Bentz, it didn't take Bunclewirth seven seasons and a monumentally fruitful free agency run to win his cup. Rather, Bunclewirth put his team together through drafting and trades, and led the Wranglers on a fairly quick turnaround by winning a Cup just three seasons after the Bentz reign was over.

So what's so forgettable about Jardy then? Nothing really, but someone had to take this spot. He's sandwiched between the two longest running GM's in team history in Bentz (nine seasons) and Jason Glasser (eleven seasons and counting). Not only that, but Jardy's run of success was pretty short, and the aforementioned GM's he's sandwiched between have just been more buzzworthy in their runs than Jardy was (Bentz for the Curse, Glasser for his long-sustained success). Bunclewirth will go down as one of the better GM's in VHL history, but unfortunately, also finished his run in Calgary as the most forgettable one the team has ever had.

Great stuff Damien.  Nice to have you around
 
So I've been thinking about the lines.  I know Devise wants to be up but he isn't as close as I believe he expected to be.  Therefore, I feel it is best if he stays down.  What we have right now is 6 forwards, 2 defenders.
 
C - Tom Slaughter
C - GIYGAS
LW - Simon Tremblay
RW - Odin Tordahl
RW - Xin Xie Xiao
RW - Tony Stark
D - Conner Low
D - Andrey Zadorov
 
We can either stack the first line up with Tordahl-Slaughter-XXX or split up XXX and Tordahl and try to get two lines running well.  What do you guys think?

Thanks for signing bud!
 
You are definitely in the best place for you.

Went with something a little different. CnC.

That kind of works both ways though. John Calipari at Kentucky actively recruits those guys, knowing the likely one-and-dones are supremely talented but are less sought after. That way, he can chew them up and spit them out like the basketball factory UK is without ever having to worry too much about having them maintain academic eligibility for more than a semester. Believe both sides can be at fault here, the players for not wanting more and the schools for not caring enough to push them further.
 
Although with that said... fuck the NCAA and their terrible system of ineffectively mixing academics and athletics in general.

Kesler in any debate he's ever been involved in: