Quik 4,113 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 S68 Expansion Megathread Tuesday, September 3rd, 4:00PM EST (20:00 UTC) Welcome everyone, new and old members alike, to the S68 VHL Expansion Megathread. In this thread, we will announce the two new team names and locations, the rules for the S68 Expansion Draft and Expansion Lotteries, as well as the rule changes that will be made to accommodate the VHL expanding to twelve teams for the first time in its history! We will begin, with the two new franchise names. The logo unveiling for both teams will be coming during the Expansion Draft on Thursday, however, we are extremely pleased to introduce our two newest franchises: @diamond_ace: Spoiler Introducing one of the two new VHL teams, this team will go in the EU conference, and fills a gap in the league's hockey coverage. The Czech Republic has a long and storied hockey history, but to this point the VHL has yet to tap into that market. This team changes all that. It's not exactly a surprise that this team is in Prague, but it's time to reveal the full identity. Brought to the league by former Calgary Wranglers GM Jason Glasser, welcome your new Prague Phantoms! @Enorama: Spoiler From the same city that brought you the birth of a nation, the District of Columbia (D.C.) ushers a team into the league as the VHL's latest addition to the North American conference. For those with even partially-keen eyes, the location should come as no surprise, but the team name may catch some off guard. The D.C. Dragons will be competing in the VHL starting in S68, helmed by fledgling GM Eno Rama! With the league now expanding to 6 teams in each conference, we will also be introducing Divisions, with 4 divisions consisting of 3 teams in each conference. These Divisions will be aligned as follows: Spoiler NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE Division 1 Calgary Wranglers Seattle Bears Vancouver Wolves Division 2 D.C. Dragons New York Americans Toronto Legion EUROPEAN CONFERENCE Division 3 Moscow Menace Prague Phantoms Riga Reign Division 4 HC Davos Dynamo Helsinki Titans Malmo Nighthawks The Playoff format will also be seeing a first for the VHL, as it will now be expanding to 8 teams, 4 per conference. This means that there will now be three full rounds of playoff hockey in the VHL, all of which will be decided in a Best-of-7 format, with the top team in each conference facing the 4th place team, and the 2nd place team facing the 3rd place team, in the Conference Semi-Final. The winners of that round will move on to face each other in the Conference Final, while the winners of that round will move on to the Continental Cup Final. With this format, Division winners will be guaranteed a spot in the playoffs, but not home ice. There will also be no cross-over should 5th place in one conference hold a better record than 4th place in the other. There are a couple other minor changes that will be adressed later in the off-season, including the official names for the 4 divisions, but these are the most important/pertinent changes to the league following this round of expansion! With this business taken care of, let's move on to: S68 Expansion Rules With the first 2-team expansion since Season 31, we will see the re-introduction of a true Expansion Draft, which will be taking place on Thursday, September 5th, 2019! With a 2-team expansion comes an additional lottery, whereby the winner will decide if they pick 1st in the Expansion Draft or take the higher Draft Slot in the S68 VHL Entry Draft. The full rules are as follows: Spoiler Expansion Draft Rules Each existing team may protect up to 8 players (skaters and/or goalies), as well as their GM Player, for a maximum of 9 protected players All players eligible to play in Season 68 (S61-67 draftees) are eligible to be selected, if left unprotected (including pending UFAs) Draft picks may not be selected, except for: If a team does not put forth one active player who is under contract for S68, a 3rd round pick in any of the upcoming 3 drafts (S68-70) is attached to any inactive the expansion team will select There will be 6 Rounds in the Expansion Draft There will be an Expansion Lottery, whereby the winner will decide if they pick 1st in the Expansion Draft or take the higher Draft Slot in the VHL Entry Draft. Whichever team selects 1st in the Expansion Draft will receive the lower pick in each round in the S68 Entry Draft No team may lose more than 1 player to the expansion draft Two Compensation Picks (slotted at 17th and 18th Overall) will be available for selection by the Expansion Teams S68 Entry Draft The Expansion Teams will pick anywhere between 5-12, in each round, as determined by a random lottery The selections will be back to back in each round S68 Expansion Lotteries EXPANSION LOTTERY #1 The winner of this lottery will get to decide if they choose 1st in the Expansion Draft, or take the higher Draft Slot in the S68 VHL Entry Draft. EXPANSION LOTTERY #1 RESULTS Spoiler WINNER: PRAGUE PHANTOMS @diamond_ace EXPANSION LOTTERY #2 This lottery is to determine what slots in the S68 VHL Entry Draft the two Expansion Franchises will be selecting from in each round. The lottery itself will be a random selector of 5-11, where the random slot, and the slot directly after it, will be awarded to the Expansion teams. EXPANSION LOTTERY #2 RESULTS Spoiler The two teams will be selecting: Spoiler In the following slot: Spoiler In each round: Spoiler (tired yet?) Spoiler PICKS 11 & 12 The team that won Expansion Lottery #1 has decided that they will be: Spoiler Selecting 1st Overall in the Expansion Draft Thank you everyone for coming to the Expansion Megathread. Best of luck to @diamond_ace and @Enorama, in their innaugural seasons! We are extremely excited for the upcoming season, as the league grows to places its never before been. Elmebeck, Jbeezy76, Kekzkrieg and 7 others 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruins10 128 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 that was a lot of info for one post haha like the new team names for the expansion teams. the new alignment is also a great touch guys Philliefan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayzor_7 741 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Beautiful names, can't wait for the logos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esso2264 772 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 hell yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motzaburger 1,590 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Spoiler alert McWolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quik 4,113 Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 7 minutes ago, Bruins10 said: that was a lot of info for one post haha like the new team names for the expansion teams. the new alignment is also a great touch guys 'twas a Megathread, after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayzor_7 741 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Quik said: With this format, Division winners will be guaranteed a spot in the playoffs, but not home ice. Then what's the point of divisions? They were already guaranteed a spot since there are 4 teams making it and being 1st means you could only be as low as 4th in the conference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowboyinAmerica 2,705 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Good stuff, the self-interested person in me is interested what *spoiler* means for the VHL Draft too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Wilcox 85 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 hell yeah brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lil OG z 1,556 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Good job to both newly appointed general managers, not a fan of either city but I really like both names. Sure they will grow on me, happy to see more teams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STZ 5,280 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Lookin forward to seeing this all play out. Rules seem pretty solid - expansion GMs have a lot of work to do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotAVHLM-GM 1,858 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Seeing these divisions i hope they wont influence a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 8,642 Posted September 3, 2019 Commissioner Share Posted September 3, 2019 23 minutes ago, Rayzor_7 said: Then what's the point of divisions? They were already guaranteed a spot since there are 4 teams making it and being 1st means you could only be as low as 4th in the conference. Scheduling is the main thing. With 10 teams things were nice and even. Face everyone 8 times and hit 72 games. Unfortunately the schedule doesn’t work out that well for 12 teams so the options were to introduce divisions to split things up or have teams getting their extra games randomly assigned. Divisions is nicer since we can get some actual co trip over the schedule plus it introduces the concept of divisional rivalries which the league hasn’t never really had before; at least in a formal sense. Rayzor_7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quik 4,113 Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 28 minutes ago, Rayzor_7 said: Then what's the point of divisions? They were already guaranteed a spot since there are 4 teams making it and being 1st means you could only be as low as 4th in the conference. Looks like Bek already answered, but it's also an eye to the future, to prepare for future expansions. Rayzor_7, Devise and McWolf 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sullvino 289 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 LIT! - loving the team names Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayley 419 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Omg DC Enorama 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devise 4,475 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 3 hours ago, Quik said: With this format, Division winners will be guaranteed a spot in the playoffs, but not home ice. There will also be no cross-over should 5th place in one conference hold a better record than 4th place in the other. 3 hours ago, Quik said: Division 2 D.C. Dragons New York Americans Toronto Legion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,532 Posted September 3, 2019 Admin Share Posted September 3, 2019 Division 4 gonna be carnage. ShawnGlade and wcats 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastOlympian07 2,388 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 not sure if im a fan of D.C Dragons. I like the alliteration. but not sold on D.C. Prague is a nice touch though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnGlade 1,002 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 4 hours ago, Quik said: EUROPEAN CONFERENCE Division 3 Moscow Menace Prague Phantoms Riga Reign Division 4 HC Davos Dynamo Helsinki Titans Malmo Nighthawks ohhhhhhh my fucking god Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quik 4,113 Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 1 minute ago, ShawnGlade said: ohhhhhhh my fucking god 5 of the top 6 teams are Euro. Next season gonna be hell week. ShawnGlade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devise 4,475 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 1 minute ago, Quik said: 5 of the top 6 teams are Euro. Next season gonna be hell week. Meanwhile us over in NA cruising on auto-pilot haha. Feels like CGY/VAN for 1st going to be the only race that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnGlade 1,002 Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 1 minute ago, Quik said: 5 of the top 6 teams are Euro. Next season gonna be hell week. legit, that 4th division is FUCKED no lie, i could see all 3 teams making it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,532 Posted September 3, 2019 Admin Share Posted September 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, Quik said: 5 of the top 6 teams are Euro. Next season gonna be hell week. Poor Prague is gonna get one hell of a beating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quik 4,113 Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 1 minute ago, Devise said: Meanwhile us over in NA cruising on auto-pilot haha. Feels like CGY/VAN for 1st going to be the only race that matters. Yeah, divisions ain't solving that haha ShawnGlade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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