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Phil did have a Cup. Get fucked

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Hamitlon's Epxirence at 104 now.. img im drunk where's that drubjk thera?

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What is This Contraction? What would the VHL look like contracted down to 8 VHL teams? It is a legitimate question. Rumours have been flying off the handles about whether the VHL should contract to try to increase the parity levels. The discussion usually happens in times like these, where you have five strong teams and 5 terrible ones. What was odd (and frustrating for members of the Toronto Legion) was that this season, 4 of those teams were in one Conference and it was Toronto who had to miss out, despite having more points that any of Europe’s teams. But it is a little bit ludicrous that the longest surviving sim league on the internet will have some seasons where a couple teams can’t even fill a line of players (let alone active ones) so one obvious solution to not having enough players is to shrink the number of teams in order to fill out the rosters, right? I mean, there is another obvious solution and that is to actually put effort into recruitment but that does not seem likely. So what I am interested to know is how would this change the face of the league? Of course, historically, we have always had eight teams - for the first 32 seasons that is. When The Expansion happened in S32, it was a big deal and there was much change going on at the time. We were switching boards, Commissioners were switching, and Expansion was going to happen. Among all this chaos, however, I do not think that this was fully thought through. For even when we had 8 teams, there was an obvious cyclic life cycle of a VHL team: get a young core, fill it out, compete for 3 seasons, sell everyone off, get draft picks. Rinse and repeat. With 10 teams, that remained pretty much consistent. Now with our integration of the second-player rule, I think that we are in a position to actually give GMs other alternative to the build-up, break-down nature of the league. It is my belief that if we do revert back to eight teams, that even the weak ones would at least have one competitive line, and therefore only be a couple of pieces away from competing. Because of the salary cap (which probably should be raised a little but that is an issue for another day), with less teams and more deepened rosters, GMs will have to be closely monitoring their acquisitions and caps. This should lead to more players being on the block and also more competitive choices for players to go in free agency. Can we finally break the cycle and have a Detroit Red Wings-like dynasty for once? The long and the short of it is that we probably never should have expanded to ten teams and it was a decision made in a time of much change and confusion and was probably not fully thought through. This season’s league parity was shocking and if we do not want another season like this it is best that we look at contraction as a serious possibility.

KnightTime #86 I tried to make this as short as possible because IN THIS EPISODE: - I am tispy - Random sounds - I put @The Bread Man to bed Knight Brothers Question Thread Songs: I've Been High - R.E.M. This is a division of KnightTime Radio. Run Time: 10 minutes

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you go girl

Love you @Victor

Can I help and break your laptop with my gifs?

#BogDown4Beke

This one would be much simpler to achieve but HELL YES #Beketov4BOG

queue @BobertZ's entry

LISTEN HERE. .... actually that kinda makes sense.

NOPE TOO LATE - WROTE IT LAST NIGHT, POSTED IT THIS MORNING CUP RUN 101

uh.. not sure if we're that Godly that we can retroactively change VHL history... but sure?

Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrretty much

Shankly is doing almost exactly as much as his player agent, Phil Knight, predicted him to do so far these playoffs. Before the playoffs began, Knight pulled him aside and set a goal for him. He told him to average 0.5 points per game and about 5 hits. Well he’s averaging 0.45 ppg and about 4 hits per game. The hard-hitting rookie definitely feels like he’s contributing more to the team that he did in the regular season and this seems to put him more at easy. He was pretty nervous about his lack of points during the regular season, but has definitely grown into his new role as the enforcer and protector of Essian Ravenwing and the other forward (lines were swapped around a bit, but those two have stuck together). The Americans are currently up 2-1 in the Finals of the VHL and will be looking to take a 3-1 lead back home.

The Board of Governors have already started voting on some of the VHL awards and I have to tell you, it’s already paying off. After years of outspoken confusion as to why just the eight or ten GMs vote on the awards, some years with obvious bias or even no thought put into it, the league has finally decided that the voting should take place in an open conversation among the Board of Governs. The members then have the opportunity to make a case for a candidate and others can state their opinions and own views on the subject, which can (and already has) provided some extra perspectives of a candidate. But most of all, is the idea that there is a general consensus among a decision. And if there isn’t, then at least the members will know exactly why a discrepancy and the other side of the argument .

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- Hopefully by the time you record this - we'll have won the Cup! How's it feel? (Especially knowing the fact that the last time you won was in Helsinki with me?) - Good news for you if we are linemates next season - I'm getting scoring and checking up even higher! - New York seem that they may run into cap space problems next season. How would you fix this? - Because of this heat wave, my ice rink is gone. CONSOLE ME! - Do you ever watch movies? What was the last one you saw? - Do you have a TPE goal in mind with Ravenwing?