Erik Andersson – Introduction and (new) First Impressions - SHL and VHL Rivalry?

[Ace 85]

So, this afternoon I received an email from the Victory Hockey League. I had participated in this community a long time ago. My last attempt at creating a player here came 30 months ago, in August 2019. I did one update cycle and I think I never came back to the site. When I got the email, it struck an interest for me as I am the Recruitment Head over in the SHL. I’ve been trying to do something similar to this email blast that I received, and when the VHL Recruitment team talked me through how they did it, and expressed a willingness to even talk to me, someone who is a SHL-first guy, a long-time “rival” league, it made me intrigued in giving the community another chance. If this one-time heated rival could share some information that they have to help me out with nothing in return, I would be happy to return and give it another go. I did recall how incredibly different the VHL Portal was, and I think it was probably in its infancy the last time I gave it a go.

 

When I created my player, I was greeted with very smooth performing site that gave me an opportunity to inquire with teams about signing as a Free-Agent. This was new to me, and the first team I inquired with, the Ottawa Lynx, accepted my signing. I confess I did not do much research, but I have had some great chats with my teammates already. One suggestion I would make is have a more detailed and streamlined rookie guide that is included when a player is approved, because I have had to harass my poor Ottawa teammates with an avalanche of questions as I try to get my feet underneath me here in this community. I was told that I could do Trivia tasks, which sounded easy enough. I navigated to the Trivia area and I was greeted with questions that were very difficult to answer. One question was Longest Active Playoff Streak, and I couldn’t do that with the Portal because it only went back to S83, and the correct answer was further back than that. The next question asked who was the last user to have two players to win a Continental Cup, and I was like a deer in headlights on that question. If a user wants to max-earn, they should probably be armed with the equipment to answer these questions early in their VHL tenure, and I definitely wasn’t.

 

Now, less about my experience so far, and more about the future. My player Erik Andersson is a Danish right winger. He projects to be a forward will be a savvy two-way winger who is relied upon in the defensive zone, and a competent player at making a play in the offensive zone. I expect Andersson to be a mainstay on the PK and core member of whatever team he’s a part of. For now, he wants to help the Ottawa Lynx be the best club they can be.

[dlamb 1,328]

Welcome back!

Yeah, trivia is definitely not geared towards new members. Doesn't help that the portal is just straight up incorrect sometimes compared to the HOF section of the forum. I'd always check there for historical questions before the portal.

[Beketov 9,101]

6 hours ago, dlamb said:

Doesn't help that the portal is just straight up incorrect sometimes compared to the HOF section of the forum.

Most times*
 

Ultimately the portal’s stats are a database made up of the players that it contains. To have it be completely correct we would have to go through and add every single one of the hundreds of players that existed before it and would require their individual season stats to do that, many of which we don’t have.