Phil

That's a bloody stupid sig for jarvi...

Oh.. so @Mr. Power I guess you're not wanting to draft me

Jeff with the assists. Yes brother, yes. Maxime Verstappen comes out of nowhere.. planning on finishing in pole position eh @Green?

Then I'll create an assistant coach. That's never been done. +10 TPE into Asshole Disciplinarian +10 TPe in to Team Spirit +10 TPE into Talent Management

Also, good idea with Mist4ke. That will keep the league fresh! @Streetlight

OMG THAT MEANS ONCE HAMMY RETIRES... I SHOULD MAKE A GOALIE!

nice.. first in the league for another season. thanks for this @Streetlight. I was wondering when this was going to be done again, since @Jamie doesn't love me/us anymore

LOL THAT HYPE VID!! @JardyB10

i dunno... i think @stevo would be pretty mad if i did

tbh, the really could be more than a legitimate contender, depending on what happens in FA

Re-Tweaking the VHLM Practice Facility So this idea is raw. Very raw. In fact, I wrote it out all at once with only a minute idea about what the idea actually was. First off, let’s get some history down on record. From the time I entered the league in Season 18, the Practice Facility was just a forum where the coordinator posted a weekly thread. Those eligible would then post with their player name and team name and link it to their update thread to claim an extra TPE each week, allowing our most active members to earn 10 TPE every week whilst in the VHLM. Then a while back (the date is not known in my head but I think it was the early S40s) the BoG decided to try to get members to post more in the game threads. So we devised the idea of linking three posts in separate game threads to the Practice Facility in order to claim your extra TPE. There’s some dispute right now about the finicky nature of this change. Some think it’s a pointless waste of time and doesn’t generate any meaningful discussion while others are looking at the bigger picture and realizing that at least there are more posts in the game threads now directly because of this change. Now the entire point of the Practice Facility is to give our new players (and especially our new members) a boost to get them ready for the VHL in a timely fashion. If we can kill two birds with one stone by generating more posts in game threads, then fine. If we want it more relevant however, I would suggest something a little different. The way I see it is that it’s almost like a mini Team Training Camp. So here’s what I would do, and I’ll use Phil Shankly as an example. This week in training, I am focusing on bringing up Shankly’s hitting. Therefore, I will be planning to add the TPE from the Practice Facility into Hitting. In order to claim it for hitting, I must find a VHLM Game where either Shankly or another player has made a hit and make a two-line comment about it. For example: “Oh Wow, I really laid into Bern this game. I can feel the gains already. Definitely becoming more dominant on the ice!” So I would link that comment into the Practice Facility Thread with a “+1 TPE: Checking”. This way, there’s a legitimate comment being made that’s actually relevant to your player’s progression and to the game itself. Because it is only one comment, it’s less of a pain to do and it still encourages members’ participation in the game threads, especially if you are using tagging. This would require a little more effort on the part of the VHLM Practice Facility Manager, as I would suggest that he/she must scroll down through the comments to make sure the comment is relevant to the attribute, and then post a claim list tagging the members who successfully completed the weekly Practice. If you are updating an attribute like Strength or Puck Handling (one that’s not necessarily visible in the sim, the same thing applies - make a two-line comment regarding that attribute. Examples are below: +1 TPE: Strength “Good game from Shankly this time. Looks like I only got hit once. Seems that I am standing my own ground firmly. I’ll be a tank by the end of the season.” +1 TPE: Puck Handling “I deked through that neutral zone and around 3 players before shoveling it to Dortch for that assist. I know you can’t see it in the sim, but that’s definitely what happened” +1 TPE: Rebound Control (I’m now Rubber Band) “Fun fact: none of the 4 goals I allowed in that game came off rebounds. They were all lucky shots that I was most definitely, 100%, screened on.” I actually tested it in the Practice Facility this week aha. Here's the post: So you get the picture. I hope that this re-tweaking actually strikes a favourable middle ground with everyone. I believe it will still contribute to game thread discussions as well as actually be relevant to the reward. Let me know your thoughts and comments below.

wow, that made me tingly, but I doubt it's true aha

lol I actually wrote 8 parts... so #9 then

@stevo A Day in the Life of Dennis Feinstein - Part IV Dennis and AJ do indeed have quite a long history together, albeit coincidentally. They grew up in the same small town in Ohio and Dennis took an instant disliking to AJ, the same way you’d take a disliking to a bird shitting on your shoulder. They were in the same class at school. Of course, the entire Grade consisted of one class, which only had 10 students in it, and one would think that this would make the group a tightly-knit community of close friends, but not in the case of AJ and Dennis. On the first day of Grade 1, AJ decided it would be fun to play “Face Meets Dirt” with Dennis. He ran up behind a young, slightly unkempt looking Dennis, and shoved him into the soggy ground, plastering his face with muddy earth. In the classroom, it was no different. Dennis would often be the target for AJ’s spitballs, bits of his lunch, and sometimes even shit-stained bits of paper. The other children would laugh along, alerting the teacher, who would whip around from the chalkboard and peer down at them with her glasses halfway down her nose, but by the time she’d have done that, everyone’s expression would be innocently blank, except Dennis’ which would often be filled with tears. This, sadly, was always lost on the teacher and would turn back to resume her lesson. Dennis would always put up with it because he did not know what else to do about it. His father and mother both worked jobs and thus never had time for small chit-chat. When his mother got home, she would start rushing around, putting dinner in the oven, then promptly forgetting about it, subsequently being reminded of it when she heard the potatoes explode. The meat was always burnt and charred on top, which ironically, was exactly the way Dennis’ father liked it. It always had the look of a beloved pet that the fireman had salvaged from a fire, but no one else fussed so Dennis thought he shouldn’t either. Besides, whenever he opened his mouth to say something, he’d be interrupted by one of his parents blurting out something or other that needed to get done. After dinner, his mother would continue to rush around doing household chores while his father would settle down in front of the television and watch his favourite shows until they both went to bed, suggesting that Dennis do the same. So Dennis took AJ’s bullying. It never even occurred to him to ask the teacher to intervene because of his environment at home. They were there to teach the class and then get on with their lives – nothing more. For 12 straight years Dennis endured AJ’s favourite pastime, which was modified through the years, going from “Face Meets Dirt” to “Shove the Loser in a Locker” to “Beating the Shit Out of Shit-Brain in the Shitter”. Dennis longed for the summers where he could stay at home, or go to the park and keep his head down in the books he loved and not be bothered by anyone. AJ was never around in the summer as he was always shipped off to Camp to expend some of his pent-up energy. From this it seems quite evident that Dennis was not a “sports guy” but in fact, he was probably the biggest one in town. Although he didn’t participate with much exuberance in his physical education classes (which was more of a function of AJ being there than anything else) he was a huge sports fan. Most of the books he had his nose stuck in were actually books on sporting feats and underdog stories. He would spend hours upon hours of reading and analyzing the sports pages in the newspaper, specifically of baseball and basketball – Baseball, because there were so many different categories of statistics to look at (that and because it’s one of America’s treasured pastimes), and Basketball, being a fast-paced game of mostly giants intrigued and captivated him. He would watch as many games as he could on the television and when he was not reading in the park, he would be practicing his shooting or his pick-and-rolls with invisible offenders and defenders. The only year he played a school sport would be in Grade 12, when he decided he just didn’t care about the added bullying it would cause him. He would be off to college after that and would not have to see any of these people ever again. His coach was stunned during the tryouts. AJ was silent with rage. Dennis understood the game on a level never seen before by anyone in this town this close up. Dennis was always open without the ball. He always found an open man with the ball. He rarely missed. He was instantly assigned the role of point guard, AJ’s position for the past 6 years. After the tryouts, he beat Dennis badly in the changeroom, fracturing his nose. Dennis told everyone he had fallen. Dennis dazzled everyone that season, including all of the scouts that had come to watch, and was offered a full scholarship to UCLA which he took immediately. Dennis knew of the reputation UCLA had of course, from the papers he read every day since he was 5. Best of all, he thought that finally he would never have to see AJ again… …but AJ Dell wasn’t anywhere close to being finished with tormenting Dennis Feinstein.

The best Media Spot series ever written in sim league history... A Day in the Life of Dennis Feinstein

THAT'S WHAT I SAID!!

aha nice pun, now just bear with me while I think on this

OOOO okay... this explains why suddenly DaBears give a shit about me. muhaha

He'd just funnel all the FA elsewhere... and we thought this season was bad... @gregreg

I must come visit

That fucking backdrop, though!!!

holy fucking shit just... what? .wat.