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12 games according to the sim's stats. falls under the 10+ category right.

12 games according to the sim's stats.

good game, guys. I guess battle of the top 2 d-men in the next draft goes to me this time?

which are your first favorite?

I need to work my way back to the first PP unit.

we can't win them all I suppose

probably not, seems like there have been no roster updates in a long while.

Viva Mexico! If you watch Felipe "Flip" Rodriguez play, you'll notice he stands out from the other players visually. From the green, white, and red stick tape on the blade of his sticks to honor his home country to the lime green (his favorite color) tape spiraled up the shaft of his stick to the Mexican flag mouth guard, he likes to make sure his sticks are flashy. He starts by have the blade taped with the lime green tape then has that same tape candy-striped up the shaft to create the barbershop pole design. Then he has first green wrapped a few times around the blade, then a band of white, and lastly a band of red. He's personally not a flashy guy but when it comes to his sticks and equipment, he wants people to know where he comes from. This tape design started a few years ago in the Liga Mexicana Elite when he was playing for the Teotihuacán Priests. One off season he was hanging around the equipment room and was looking at all the stick tape. The usual black and white was the most abundant but they had red, blue, yellow, green, and orange. He wondered what kind of rules there were regarding when and how the tapes can be used. As far as he could tell, the only rule was that the stick had to be under a certain weight, 737 grams. He also wondered how many different colors were available. He asked the equipment manager if he could get some lime green tape for him since that was his favorite color. For weeks he messed around trying to get the taping done just right. Then finally he had it. He just had to get the equipment guys to mimic what he had done. The tape he uses for his socks is also different from the usual. You guessed it, he uses a band of green, a bans of white, and a band of red tape on his socks as well. He makes sure to wear shorter pants during games, too. Not only does he feel it gives him more mobility, but he can show off his green, white, and red tape as well. All ways of showing he's proud to be Mexican especially in a sport in which his people are not very well represented. Now every time he hits the ice he has a piece of his heritage on display, no matter where he's playing. That, to him, is more important than the name on the back of his jersey. No matter how much money he makes or how much popularity he gains, he never wants to forget where he comes from. He hopes this can encourage other young Mexican children, boys or girls, to chase what interested them, even if it is the road less traveled.

3-1 Moscow

Moscow Brampton Ottawa

do these generally come out every week?

thanks, this was already graded so I will incorporate these into my next media spot which will NOT be an interview haha

okay so its a limit to TPE earned, not TPE used towards your player. Thanks

Flippin' Good: The Story of Felipe Rodriguez Felipe was born to a poor cobbler, Juan Dolores Rodriguez, and his wife, Josefina, on March 11, 1997 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He lived with his parents and grandparents in a small, two-bedroom house. His father and grandfather worked repairing shoes out of this house as their only source of income. Growing up, his parents were just barely scraping by. As soon as Felipe was old enough, he would try to earn whatever money he could by cleaning and shining shoes for people in the street. He would give what little money he earned to his parents to help put food on the table. He was taught from a very young age that life was not always easy. One place Felipe could find happiness was playing soccer. He would play soccer in the street with the neighborhood kids whenever he was not working. As to not ruin the one pair of shoes he had playing soccer, he would often play barefoot and come home with blistered and bloodied toes and feet. Felipe was a very gifted athlete and a great soccer player. A scout for the Guadalajara Chivas Junior team would often find young kids who played soccer in the street and sidewalks and would give them an opportunity to play for a real team if he thought they had what it would take. This scout took notice of a little dirty-faced six or seven year old dribbling his way around and through the other boys. The scout spoke with Felipe and asked him to speak to his parents about possibly playing for the junior team. Felipe was excited for the opportunity and was hoping this would mean his family could afford to get the things they needed like running water. Felipe spoke with his family and of course, they could not have been happier. This, oddly enough, is the beginning of how Felipe got interested in hockey. Felipe was a great natural talent when it came to soccer. He played all positions on the team excluding goal keeper. He seemed to have a knack for the defensive side of the ball. The Chivas Jr. training facility was like an exclusive, members-only gym. Televisions, vending machines, and even smoothie bars were sprinkled among the weight benches and treadmills. Every night after practice, Felipe would hang around and watch television, something he did not have access to at home. He was flipping through the channels when he came across something that would change his life forever, Liga Mexicana Elite, the local hockey league. He had absolutely no idea what he was watching, but he was hooked! He could not stop watching it. He couldn't stop thinking about it. That night, when he got home, he found some scrap wood, nails, and duct tape and made a makeshift hockey stick. He smashed a soda can, wrapped it in duct tape and that became his "puck." He recreated some of the goals he saw in the game with his new "stick" and "puck," failing miserably. He thought soccer, or futbol, was his best chance at success so he played that for may years, all the while dreaming of one day playing this new sport would be an option for him. He kept practicing hockey even though he never knew if he would get to play with anyone more than himself. His shot improved but he still had never had a chance to ice skate, he didn't even know if he'd be able to. One day, walking home from soccer practice, he saw a poster on the side of a building. "Open Tryouts for Liga Mexicana Elite," it read. This was the opportunity Felipe had been waiting for. The only issue was the ice rink was a 4 hour bus ride away. Felipe took some time away from soccer practice to focus on work and earning enough money for the bus trip. He worked as much as he could with his father and grandfather, neither of whom knew what he had planned. Once he earned enough money to buy a bus ticket, he told his family he was taking a trip with the soccer team, and left with nothing but the shirt on his back. He still loved soccer, but he felt if he did not try out, he would always regret not knowing what might have been. When he arrived at the rink, he had to wait in a long line just to enter. They took everyone's name, measured their height and weight, and asked if they were left handed or right handed, and what position they'd be interested in trying out for. He knew he enjoyed defenseman in soccer so that is the position he chose. He seemed to be the only one there without his own skates or stick. Fortunately for him, they had spare skates in his size and a right handed stick that had been left over from previous years' tryouts. It took him forever to get his skates on the first time. They were like nothing he had ever worn before. Also, once he got on the ice, it looked like a Three Stooges sketch with him "cleaning the ice." He fell several times at first, but once he got his "ice legs" he was a natural skater. All his work with his home made "stick" and "puck" had paid off too. He was impressive out on the ice, especially considering he had never had actual equipment to use. The try outs lasted a whole weekend so each day he was a little more comfortable skating and moving the puck. They performed shooting drills where Felipe excelled as well as skating drills, where Felipe could have used some more work. At 15 year old, Felipe was the youngest player to make a roster. The Teotihuacan Priests took a risk and snagged up this undersized defenseman from the streets of Guadalajara. His rookie year, the Priests went on to win the championship with him getting solid ice team for them considering the circumstances. He played for Teotihuacan the entire time he was in the Liga Mexicana Elite. Every year he improved with the team. Every aspect of his game got better simply by playing. This was a whole new sport to him, some of the athletic requirements of soccer prepared his body for the stamina needed for hockey but it was a huge adjustment. By his 4th season he was getting time in the first defensive pairing as well as playing point on the power play. There's not a big market for hockey in Mexico so he sought out playing elsewhere. In 2015 he made the jump to the VHLM where he joined the Ottawa Lynx as a free agent. And the rest, as they say, is history...

It doesn't matter when the work was graded, it only matters when it was originally posted. If you're ready for this to be graded it can be graded now since your last one was posted last week. Okay but what about the TPE cap for the week?

4-1 Bern

Yukon Moscow Ottawa

sorry, I'm on mobile so typos are inevitable. Thanks for grading.

Nevermind, I read the FAQ.

yikes, 4 goals on 16 shots

Goal and a win. Let's string a few together.

do not grade. The other media spot was already graded today

I'm playing more minutes but doing less with them.

are the first few media spots worth double?

Latino in The News: Flip's First Goal Felipe, or Flip, Rodriguez scored the first career goal in a 4-3 loss to Brampton the other night. It was assisted by LeAndre St. Pierre and Jonathon Stark. We caught up to this young defenseman in the locker room after the game to ask him a few questions. Reporter: "Felipe, how does it feel to get the first goal of your young VHLM career?" Felipe: "It feels good, great actually. Hopefully I can build off of it now. It would have been even better if the result of the game was a win but it is always nice to reach a milestone, even if that milestone is just goal number one. I'm more focused on the team's success, not so much focused on personal stats, but it is nice nonetheless." Reporter: "The team has hit a bit of a rough patch recently, what can you do to get back on track both as a team and on a personal level?" Felipe: "Our penalty kill is currently 5th in the league, we could probably improve there. We are still tied for 2nd most wins overall, so we were just giving the other teams hope they still had a chance. We'll pick it up and play at the level we were before. Personally, I could be shooting a little more often, I'm averaging less than 1 shot per game currently. Also, I have taken 6 penalties for 12 penalty minutes in 8 games. I can not keep that up with our penalty kill struggling like it is." Reporter: "What is your personal goal for your first season in the VHLM?" Felipe: "I would like to score more goals while leading the team to wins...lots and lots of wins. I would also like to put up some more points on the power play, that was my bread and butter in Mexico. The talent level is a lot higher here than in Mexico, that's for sure. If I can get close to 10 goals and 40 points this year, I will consider it a good year. Anything more than that is just great. I also want to improve my overall game. Even if my improvement does not show in the stats people generally take into account. I would like to get more blocked shots, force more turnovers, things like that." Reporter: "Have you thought about the draft next year and where you would like to play?" Felipe: "No, not at all actually. I have been so focused on this season and the games right now I have not thought about it. Now that you mention it, I guess it does not really make much difference to me. I want to play where I am wanted, in front of eager fans, alongside hard working team mates. If I can play with some of the guys I am playing with now, I wouldn't complain." That is all for this edition of Latino in The News. We'll catch up with Felipe again very soon, maybe next time it will be after his first career hat-trick. Stay tuned and keep an eye on this kid, he might be something special. P.S. This will be my last "interview" for a while. Didnt expect my last one to get responses so I created this one with my own questions. Hopefully it doesn't cost me points but I will understand if it does.