Phil

Game 49: Legion vs. Express Final Score: 0 - 4 Cologne headed to the Ricoh Center in Toronto to face the indomitable Legion, who started off the season 9-0, much to the surprise of the 1 free agent @Higgins who left to head out west to Calgary, where all the oil money is. Cologne also had an unexpectedly good start to the season, with a record of 6-3 and never thought the result would shape out this way. The express dominated the first period, outshooting the Legion 11-4, but Clegane @Victor stood tall in net, shutting out the Express for a fourth consecutive period. It was an oddly clean affair as well, as not one player took a penalty. The Express went into the break with momentum on their side. It took just under a minute for the Express to strike in the second. Phil Hamilton collected the puck behind his net and blazed a pass straight onto the tape of Lincoln @brovy, who darted across the blue line and found a wide open Skovgaard @Tim streaking into the crease and lifted the puck over Clegane's shoulder for the first goal of the match. 30 seconds later, Parechkin @DollarAndADream took a stupid penalty, allowing for the top line powerplay to dominate. Jarvi @gregreg fed the puck over the P. Hamilton, who took a slap shot that was barely saved by Clegane but Skovgaard found the rebound first and stuffed it home to double the advantage! 30 seconds after that, Parechkin took another stupid penalty and the Express found themselves up a man again. This time it was Kyanon @tfong and Hamilton passing the puck at the top of the blue line to each other, before Hamilton wired a shot towards the target, which was marvelously redirected by Lincoln through Clegane's five-hole to give the Express a 3-0 lead. within 3 and a half minutes of the seconds period. But Cologne was not finished then. Parachekin, late in the period got a double minor which Cologne, almost laughingly, decided to punish him, this time with Jarvi and Lincoln connecting before Kyanon cannoned it in to make it a 4-0 game. The third period was rather ugly. Toronto, knowing they'd lost the game, resorted to dirty tactics. A general fight broke out 8 minutes in involving the Lincoln, Skovgaard, and P. Hamilton, and Hyvarinen TOR LW2, and TOR RW1. Skovgaard was wrongly ejected from the game for apparently instigating it, but I think the refs where just showing some pity for the home fans. Toronto got a consolation goal, however still got outshot in that period, 10-8. Zhumbayev @fever95 played very well, stopping 19 of the 20 shots while the Express offense managed a whopping 40 on Clegane, their former FA target. In the last episode I said revenge was sweet and nothing says "you should have signed here" better than piling 4 goals past the netminder in front of his home fans. The Express are the surprise of this season so far and things seem to be going well for the apparently-not-so disheveled team 3 Stars 1 - Tom Lincoln (COL) 2 - Artom Zhumbayev (COL) 3 - Biggu Kyanon (COL) Game Link

3 goals in 2 games - much better production. I must have been updated in the sim lol

woo 2 goals. way to be

CHOO CHOO

WOO BIG WIN!

14 shots; 1 goal? alright... fine. I'll take what I can get

7 shots, 0 points? fuck u sths

an assist? I"LL TAKE IT!

you beautiful, beautiful man!

I'm new! Right? <3

@Victor - this is wat u get and just to put you in your place... here's the remains of your teammate: Phil Hamilton beats up TOR RW1 at 8:37 of 3rd period

Godlik smites us down @Beketov

Threepeat

do the rolex sweep

Explain the Holik effect. Don't know it? Make it up! Favourite player you've created in the VHL? Favourite Team Logo (ever... even teams that doesn't exist any more) Favourite GM?

Feedback: - "Eh" D'wire. There. Now I'll never mispronounce it again. - He was singing "I'm on a boat" by the Lonely Islands. - Calgary did get the better free agents... except for goalie - awkward silence.. - more awkward silence.. I think I'll sing to myself in the meantime: "Another turning point, a fork stuck in the roooadd" - o! He's back - one sentence with a yawn... and more silence.. lol get a cup of coffee! - Yee everyone went to party with the horses. Little do they know that horses are fucking terrible people. - nope not the toughest schedule, but we did end up beating Davos... and Riga... and we lost to Calgary in a SO.. so Cologne for president! - People wouldn't want Hamilton just cuz of cap-space and price probably - ssk won't win because brt will!! - Shootout losses are the worst - brovy's on Cologne now so he's automatically one of the cooler members of the site. - Dortch is tearing up the VHLM atm. Soon Shankly though hopefully

Feedback: - @der meister I'll give you 14 TPE. Draper or Higgins may take it away though - Yea the FA situation was stupid this year. Cologne should win though because they didn't get any FAs and Victor signed with Toronto instead. So vote for Cologne!! - Wranglers are definitely not doing as well as Toronto - Yea Helsinki aren't in the best of positions, but with a few moves, they can compete as early as next season. - Dadinov will probably keep slowly updating, but Daniel just couldn't continue with the GM role - I think the only way Helsinki can get out of this situation is not necessarily trade off players, but rather draft picks in the off-season for some players in their prime. They'll definitely be set for a Cup run because their core will be at the start of their prime. - NICE! Hotel that's paid for. Score! - Yes you are! And you've released your extended short story (novelette), What Happened Next. Can't wait to read it! - it was $1:30 Canadian so I shelled out big dough for it - Goood podcast.

I'll read the Piano again first tonight before starting this. I'll write my review at some point tomorrow!

Whenever you get a chance, link me!

"Breaking News: Kohler signs with the Horses"

slobo will be coming back any day now

lol yes Jonsson, though Labatte did get over 700 as an S1 Yea you took the record, then coach, then svec, then me. Then it got too easy to earn TPE and it didn't count after that. So we are the best. That would seriously be interesting. Sounds like something streetlight could compile haha

Nice dealings GMs!

lol horses got lucky