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VHLM This Week (August 17, 2014)

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Welcome to :vhlm: VHLM This Week.

 

This is a brand new segment where every Sunday I'll be doing an overview of how to get your TPE over the next week, as sometimes things change or are adjusted, any big announcements that effect us in the VHLM, and any trades and waiver signings. We'll also go over some big games in the league and I'll show you some media and graphics or sigs that I think are neat. We'll also try to cover some players, either through an interview or a quick scouting report or season recap. I'm always looking for people to interview or review, so feel free to throw your name into the ring!

 

The entire point of this is to try and bring everything together in one place so you can see what happened around the league and what's happening in the near future, and to check out some of your fellow VHLMers and what fun and cool ideas they have when it comes to their media and graphics. I won't hold you up with an introduction anymore, let's dive into the fun!

 

TPE Earners

First up, let's review the less known ways or ways that are currently modified due to events this coming week to earn TPE.

These two we're going to group under one as right now they're modified by the recruitment drive.

a) First off, if you post in any other forums, any at all, you should post this .gif in your signature there. If you do that, until the end of this recruitment drive you will get +2 TPE (normally +1). You can do this with as many forums as you want, but only one forum a week will count.

b.) The player store is not normally an option for VHLM players as we don't draw a salary. Right now because of the recruitment drive, if you created in the month of August, you get a free $3 million to spend in the player store. There are 2 ways I would spend the money given to you. You can either buy a free week, or you could buy the +1 to Welfare and 2 extra weekly Fan590s.

A free week means you get a week off from doing the PT but you still receive +6 TPE, you simply just claim the purchase in your updates thread with a link to the player store. The other option where you bundle welfare and the Fan590s is one I would recommend if you don't feel you'll be able to devote a lot of time to the league but still want to gain TPE. +3 Welfare for a new player and +2 extra TPE from the Fan590s can be beneficial if you don't have the time to do PTs every week.

*Purchases made from the player store can only be used once. You cannot buy a free week and then use it more then once.*

 

Check out the Fantasy Zone. There are two zones, the VHLM version and the VHL version.

*Anyone can join the VHL fantasy zone, only VHLMers can join the VHLM zone. So go on and jump into both to try and double your gains!*

Most weeks both zones will only have 2 options for you. a) Pick 'em. You are given 4 games and you choose the winners of those 4 games. If you choose correctly and all 4 teams you chose are winners, you are awarded +1 TPE. b.) Predict the score. You are given 1 game and you must choose the winner and the final score. If you are right, you get awarded +3 TPE.

 

Sometimes the fantasy zones will have leagues or tournaments on. This week there's a new football fantasy league that's been put together. The league will award TPE to where you finish in terms of the league so even if you don't think you'd do well, join and make some new friends or rivals and learn about something you may not have known much about before.

 

As we head onto announcements, I just realized there is another way to get your TPE!

 

Announcements

The VHL has their Instagram account up and running. Just for following with your account, you get +1 TPE. Simply follow them and then post in the thread. There's also a two PT opportunities you can take a look at in the thread. Good to see social media expanding for the league.

 

The August recruitment drive is halfway over now, but if you haven't see the details on it take a look. It's a great way to pad your TPE and help the VHL grow, as any recruiting bonuses double. If you recruit someone and they hit 100 TPE on their character, you get 5 just for having brought them to the league. If you recruit someone now, that 5 TPE bonus turns to 10! They also have a bunch of really cool prizes, again, just for having recruited someone to the league. Check the page out to see what cool prizes you could win.

 

Smarch recently posted up the S39 VHLM Achievement Tracker. The long and short of it it's another way to earn some TPE by being awarded points for how well your player did during the season. This is another reason to keep your TPE going so you rack up the points during the season. The cap for the TPE gained from this is +20 TPE.

 

Ok, enough of the boring TPE gaining and announcements!

 

Media

Here are some media spots and Fan590s I was looking at I thought you guys might find to be funny or a good read.

 

The first one that caught my eye was a poll taken by Doomsday that found that most people don't think Tic Tacs are a good weapon. Who would've thought. Check out his results at his Fan590.

 

No homo(rism), but up next is a spot by GM of the Rush announcing their latest addition to the Yukon Rush's HOF. A quick recap on how he shaped Yukon's history. The full stats and overview.

 

Here we have a new player to the league in Mikko Koskinen. A young Finn he'll be joining us later in the segment for a quick Q&A session, so check out his quick intro.

 

We love seeing young players getting amped over their accomplishments, and here Oskars Harumpf goes over he notched his first career marker. Maybe you'll have some nostalgia while you read it here.

 

Heading over to medias, we open up with this funny adventure. If you remember the pick-your-adventure books from your childhood, you'll love what RomanesEuntDomus is doing with his story. While Chapter II was released this week, you have to read it in order, so Chapter I Part I and Chapter I Part II. Our best read of the week.

 

From our limited experiences with him, he's been an aggressive and outspoken individual. Here he is in his own words explaining what's happening. MF Percy Miller: Setting Shit Straight.

 

Related to that article we have this one by Kyrie reviewing the struggles of the Moscow Red Wolves as of late. Quick and informative on the situation of the Red Wolves, I'd recommend you read to get a better idea of one of your opponents.

 

Graphics

We'll take a quick look at some signatures. These are all made by users and we think these are really well done and recommend you check them out and other submitted sigs on ideas on how to make your own better.

 

This one by Wastlund we found to be really trippy and almost psychedelic. We like how he used some less then conventional colours to make this sig pop at you when you see it.

 

The next one by Mr.Baller comes across to us really aggressive with the use of the hard lines and explosive yellows against the greyscale of his player.

 

Finally, this sig by Molholt is one we found to be almost 3D as his use of greyscale in the background with the shattering around his player makes it look like his player is exploding out of the sig at you. Really well done with the shattering around his player.

 

Games

Let's check out how the league is shaping up at the end of this week.

North American Conference:

:brm: Blades - GP:42 W:36 L:5 OTL:1 P:73 GF:248 GA:141

:ssk: Wild - GP:41 W:35 L:6 OTL:0 P:70 GF:162 GA:104

:ott: Lynx - GP:41 W:35 L:7 OTL:3 P:65 GF:217 GA:133

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:yuk: Rush - GP:45 W:25 L:13 OTL:7 P:57 GF:250 GA:224

:min: Gladiators - GP:43 W:16 L:23 OTL:4 P:36 GF:149 GA:175

European Conference:

:mos: Red Wolves - GP:43 W:18 L:18 OTL:7 P:43 GF:143 GA:160

:ber: Royals - GP:42 W:18 L:21 OTL:3 P:39 GF:187 GA:199

:osl: Storm - GP:42 W:16 L:21 OTL:5 P:37 GF:161 GA:212

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:tur: Outlaws - GP:41 W:13 L:26 OTL:2 P:28 GF:147 GA:197

:brt: Watchmen - GP:46 W:5 L:39 OTL:2 P:12 GF:112 GA:231

 

We'll take a quick look at some of the big scores and conference leader match-ups.

This game ended 8-4 in favour of the Lynx over the Watchmen. Lots of goals scored in this one with the playoff hopeful Lynx taking the 2 points.

A big scoring game with the Rush winning over the Royals 7-6. Rush on the outside looking in picked up the big 2 points in this one.

Another big scoring game between the Royals and Rush, this one ending 9-4 for the Rush, with them picking up another 2 big points.

Conference leaders Blades and Red Wolves faced off for this game where it took a SO to decide it. The Blades picked up the extra point scoring twice in the shootout, winning 3-2.

The two Conference leaders faced off again for this tight affair. The Red Wolves bettered the Blades winning 2-1 with MF Percy Miller picking up the GWG in the third.

 

VHLM Player Spotlight

We have a rumour around the water cooler that a touted first-round pick, Thomas O'Malley has been looking at the Cologne Express as his VHL team. Sources say he's been in talks with Cologne's GM and they look to select him in the upcoming draft. We'll update you with any more details as they become available.

 

We finish off this week with two interviews, one from Mikko Koskinen, a new player in the league, and Cologne Express send-down Kez Kincaid.

 

We asked Mikko a couple questions about his entrance into the league.

 

Why did you choose to join the VHL?

I have had a lot of fun in the SHL, and I see the VHL mentioned often there. I have too much free time and hockey has always been one of my past times.

 

So far what has been your impression of the league?

I really haven't had enough interactions with people here to make a judgement call. I like that people are just as active here as in the SHL. I still am unassigned, and at this point I am prepared to wait until the offseason and the draft. Two players, you and one other, have been very helpful in helping me figure out how to earn TPE and nagivate the site. I like the league (although I think I still like the SHL more :P).

 

What are your feelings about the VHL moving forward?

I plan to stick with it and hopefully join a team and make some new friends.

*He has since been claimed by Brampton as a free agent. We'll follow up with him to see how his experience changes after being on a great club like the Blades.

 

Our other interview with Kez Kincaid, a Cologne Express prospect who got sent down to the VHLM this week for more conditioning.

 

How do you feel about being sent down, do you think you deserve to be on the big team?

At first, when coach approached me about going back down, I was a little surprised. I wasn't setting the world on fire, you know, but I had scored a few goals, got a few points, I was a plus player. I didn't think I was a detriment to the team or anything. But, you know, he talked to me and told me the plan was for the team to tank so they could get some better picks, and I was just too good, the team was winning too many games. He said they were expecting me to be awful and really be an anchor, drag the team down, you know, but that wasn't going according to plan since I was showing I could play with the big dogs.

But anyway, after talking, I could see the benefit in going down again and, you know, there's more opportunities to develop in the J, so I might as well take advantage of that and so next year I will be even better.

 

Do you think you can help Turku right their ship?

Ha-ha! I'm not a miracle worker, man, Turku's in a tough spot, you know, they were pretty competitive the last couple years but this season has not really gone so well. But, you know, I am here and I am going to go out and play my game and do the best I can. I've sort of accepted that the best contribution I can make to the team is to be a trade piece at the deadline, maybe another team is looking for that extra piece to make a run for the cup, and you know, you could do worse than have me on your team! Ha-ha, but, you know, that sort of thing is beyond my control, all I can do is lace em up and put on the jersey they let me wear, right.

 

Thanks for doing this with us. Do you have anything else to add?

Ok thanks man, not much else to add, just go play hockey and don't stress too hard about things, that's my motto! Cheers mate.

 

That'll wrap up this week's edition of :vhlm: VHLM This Week. Join us next week for more updates around the league. If you have any comments or requests, or if you want to be interviewed for next week's episode, drop a message here of PM me and we'll fit you in. Thanks, and keep your stick on the ice.

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This is great! Exactly what I thought it should be and then some.

Awesome! You had a great idea with the three stars, but since I had so much infrastructure to do and ideas being bounced and cut, I didn't have time to research the players. I might not go with solely stats, but maybe activity too or something. Like I posted in the other thread, that should make it this week.

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