Exlaxchronicles

Nice! Manitoban here as well.

1. What personal goals do you hope to accomplish once you enter the VHL from Ottawa?
2. Have you built your character style on any other particular hockey player, or is it just a random build?
3. At this point in time do you have aspirations on one day getting voted into the hall of fame?
4. Do you prefer to play an offensive style game, more defensive in play etc?
5. Do you or have you ever played hockey in real life?
 

I'm a little late to the party with this post but anyways... Beave and I played in the Metroho league a few years back and became aquaintances in the game through trades and idle chat. I asked if he had left Metroho due to his tean being idle and he messaged me saying he had found the VHL and was very excited about the game. The guy convinced me to jump ship and I did with some apprehension, as I found the game overwhelming for my 53 year old mind.
Beave was a solid shit, who baby step walked me through the game and answered every question I had like how to do a simple copy and paste. Pretty sure I annoyed the fuck out of him but he was cool about it.
S57 was an awesome start to the game for me playing with Keaton Louth and being on a VHLM Ottawa club that won a cup and had a number of players score over 200 pts, including mine.
And even though throughout my whole players career I felt like an outsider in the game due to my age, Beave helped me out. Props goes to all you old timers in the game as well for giving me direction 👌.
I was a little shocked when I heard he left but I also knew it was inevidable.
So with that said a great game with a great bunch of people...Beave included!  Age is just a number, stay young people.
That should be good for 200 words and some future TPE.
 

To this day I still wonder how he is going to operate as a grown up in a office place where he disagrees with a coworker or boss. I mean the guy isn't stupid to say the least. Hes just very narcissistic. He was in University last I remember so he wasn't in the job force yet, but if you can't keep your ego in check at work, you better be the boss or someone irreplaceable. 

Not that it is true all the time but the phrase "If everyone around you seems like an asshole..." comes to mind.
 
Conversely from a purely numbers view, would you rather keep the 5 people or the 1 person if it was the case there? Altruistically its better to sacrifice the 1 versus the 5 unless the 1 provides more value than the 5.

I'm one of the losers that voted no Mainly because I don't believe in rehabilitation. Once a thief always a thief etc...etc.. 
 
While a certain number of people can change if they are willing to, the majority will not and this is backed up by evidence of relapse in the criminal system. The guy had more chances than I can remember to rectify the situation but he never did because that's just the way he is. You sometimes just can't change douchebags in the world. They will always be douchebags. 
 
It's not like he accidentally pissed off people, he made a conscious decision to.
 

Ok young man, first off fuck Mac/Apple/Chrome. The first two are over priced. Google owns Chrome and they're sketchy like Faceplantbook and steal your personal info.
They all run a variant of Linux but have propriety on the OS installed.
 
I myself like HP but they're not popular anymore. Stay away from Dell also. Cheap shit.
Higher priced Acers are decent which I know from. Experience. I bought one in 03 and the 17" screened prick is still ticking. Cost me $ 650 back then.
Also Sony Aveo are decent. Those are my picks.
If you do decide to swap out Shit Windows OS, I recommend Linux Mint. 
And lots of beer.

Jerry Garcia was born on August 9th, 1998, in San Francisco, California, to two parents who were perfectly normal in every way, thank you very much. 
 
...Well, not exactly. 
 
Eyes of the World: The Early Life
 
You see, despite incredibly improbable odds, both of his parents were conceived at Woodstock, were born in the spring of 1970, and embraced the counterculture movement of the '60s in ways which would make some hippies say "hey, man, let's take a step back here." 
 
"You know, I was never around at the same time as the Grateful Dead," said Garcia, who, not altogether coincidentally, shares a name with the group's all-time great lead guitarist, who died of health complications three years to the day before the defenseman's birth, "But you'd never know it from looking at me or my family. Other kids grew up with The Wiggles; I got 45-minute jam sessions." 
 
At home, Garcia's parents burned incense, smoked weed, and, well, kept smoking weed. "I have no idea how it's possible for anyone to be constantly stoned like that," says Garcia, "but it happened. I remember the first time I tried it, and I was 8 years old in the back of our old station wagon and we were driving from Boulder to Seattle to follow Phish." In this respect, however, the talented young player was quite different from his parents. "I hated it," he says. "I coughed for days on end afterwards and didn't feel much of anything. I decided to never touch the stuff again." 
 
The social dynamics of school proved to be a challenge for Garcia as well. It was a rare day when he did not face the ridicule of his peers for anything from his tie-dye shirts to his organic almond butter and flax seed sandwiches. Despite all this, however, he didn't hate his identity. In fact, he embraced it, picking up the guitar at the age of 12 and forming Grateful to be Alive, a local jam band which played gigs in San Francisco bars from when Garcia was 15 until he turned 18. 
 
At that point, though, he'd had enough. Enough of the counterculture. Enough declining his parents' offers of pot brownies. Enough almond butter and flax seed sandwiches. And though he continues to love their music, even listening to the Dead can wear thin on a 24-hour basis. As soon as Jerry Garcia could legally leave home, he packed up and did it.
 
Truckin': Journey to Houston
 
"In retrospect, that may not have been the smartest decision," Garcia remarked. "I had no idea what I was supposed to do. I didn't know where I was going to live. I'd worked at a local co-op at the end of our block that believed in 'sticking it to the man' and not following any federal laws. As luck would have it, that principle extended to the minimum wage, and my $4 an hour didn't really amount to much in savings." All of which, by the way, were in cash, as his family did not trust banks. 
 
"I fit everything I had in a suitcase and carried my guitar on my back," Garcia recalls. "I needed to get out, so I decided on Phoenix. I didn't really have a reason why I was going to Phoenix. I just wanted to. Anything is cheaper than San Fran these days." 
 
So he did. And as it was the middle of August, it was hot. Not just hot but Phoenix hot. "I stepped out of the car and it was a hundred eight degrees. 108! And it was like that all week. I spent my entire first week walking around a Walmart trying not to be noticed just because it was air-conditioned. Eventually I found an apartment and a full-time job at a rec center, and the very first thing I bought was the nicest window-mounted AC unit I could find." 
 
Eventually, Garcia became settled in with his surroundings, and as part of his job was to do some paperwork and organization for a local junior hockey team, he visited the rink one day to try skating for the first time. 
 
"To be honest, I really only walked in because it was cold," says Garcia. "I knew the manager, and he let me on the ice after hours for as long as I wanted to be there, so long as I resurfaced it afterward. Within a month, I was absolutely flying around the ice and was starting to get pretty good with a puck."
 
Good enough, in fact, that he was invited to try out for the junior team that winter, improbably making it onto the first defensive line a few weeks into the season and attracting scouts from some minor professional leagues. "It was unbelievable seeing this kid," said Alexander Pepper, Helsinki goaltender and general manager of the VHLM's expansion Houston Bulls. "He didn't look like anything special from an outsider's perspective. He really just looked like any other defenseman out there. But the fact that he'd gotten to that point and was competing with very talented players who had been playing their entire lives after just a few months was ridiculous. I put him on our draft board right then and there." 
 
Garcia woke up at 5:00 every morning, going to the rec center's gym before it opened at 8 and working out for three hours straight. And then he'd skate. Whether his team were there or not, if the ice was unoccupied, he was out there. "I kept a printed schedule of all the times the rink was available, in my car, in my apartment, just about everywhere I could. I'd skate for an hour, bring out the Zamboni for a little league game, skate for another hour, bring it out for the beer league, skate again, then practice with the team and put in a bit of extra skating work after that. The manager was great: he let me do all this as long as I had all the paperwork done for him by the next day. I'd do it during games and sometimes I'd take it home at night. Some nights I was up past midnight and I got up at 5 the next morning anyway. I'd take weekends off from skating, and sometimes I slept straight through Saturday." 
 
And when the draft rolled around, Garcia's dreams came true, when he was picked up by the Bulls with the 36th overall pick in the VHLM draft. Garcia has had a strong preseason so far, recording a goal and four assists through his first four games despite maintaining a defensive style of play. 
 
"I couldn't be happier," Garcia says about his arrival in Houston. 
 
Oh, and he still listens to the Dead.

Beave is solid as granite @Jtv123 when it comes to helping others out, even if you become annoying. And if he's not available you can ask me or anyone else around here, its a decent.community.

Go back to Discord son. Just remember when your mad, step away from whomever/whatever your talking or doing and take a breather before you come back and continue. And I believe your truly sorry.

Go back to Discord son. Just remember when your mad, step away from whomever/whatever your talking or doing and take a breather before you come back and continue. And I believe your truly sorry.

What a garbage voting committee.

If Podrick Cast gets a vote it's popularity only.

First off, congrats to @DilIsPickle because the awards show presentation went really well. Also, congrats to all the winners, and no matter how I might frame my following thoughts, I don't intend to cheapen or de-legitimize anyone's award win. Now, on to the hot takes (some may just be luke-warm)
 
1. MVP to Cast: let's kick this one off with a doozy. Cast is a great player, we all know that, and without him, Riga's 1C would be Pajari, which makes him an extremely valuable player to their roster this season. However, nothing about his performance tells me that he carried the team to greater heights. If you take Cast off the roster, I think Riga still would have been solidly in the playoffs. Same with Malenko and Thompson, honestly, so I don't think they'd be entirely deserving of the MVP either. You all know where I'm going with this. Without Stopko, Toronto is a basement team this year. I would have projected them to miss the playoffs or be trounced in the WC round if it weren't for their star goaltender. Instead, Stopko carried the team to a solid playoff berth this season, wherein they often competed with the top two teams for seeding. 
 
2. DDotY to Kovalchuk: I'll keep this one rather short by saying that Kovalchuk had not even entered my mind for consideration on any individual trophy this year. I was astounded to see his name as a finalist for anything and even more astounded to find that he'd stolen this right out from under McWolf's nose.
 
3. DotY to McWolf: this feels like one of those makeup calls refs make when they realize they made a chincy call earlier in the game. McWolf clearly deserved DDotY, so when he didn't get it, he was instead handed the DotY instead. Offensively, Malenko was head and shoulders above every other defenseman in the league in S64. It wasn't even close enough to have the gap covered by any sort of defensive prowess on anyone else's part.
 
Those are the only misses that stand out to me personally, make sure to let me know what you all think too in the comments.
 
364 words.

I've never seen anything in this league that was such a glaring popularity driven gifted awards in my life

Ive been saying this since midway through my players career.... Its a popularity contest with politics thrown in.

Kiaskov has packed it in. 

1. For any member: Do you guys think you can beat Toronto these playoffs?
2. Which player on your club will lead the team in scoring?
3. After game groupie sex....you wanna see a hairy 70's bush, a smoothie or landing strip? 70's bush here for me.
4. Which player do you hate to play against on Seattle and why?
5. Which club has the best logo on the whole site?
6. After game beer....light or dark?

Lavar Ball has signed a 1 year contract with Toronto

There is no reason to tag the entire league for this
 
Good luck Boom hope you get a bigger closet this time

1. How many points do you think you'll score during these playoffs?
2. Who's your most and least favorite player in the VHL?
3. After game beer...light or dark?
4. Where did the Gucci Garrop name originate from?
5. After game groupie sex...hairy 70's bush or landing strip? 70's bush for me here.

See ya soon out in the pasture.

Guess I was unfortunately correct in my MS stating TO may surprise everyone. Congrats TO, and to us for putting forth a valiant effort. 

Guess I was unfortunately correct in my MS stating TO may surprise everyone. Congrats TO, and to us for putting forth a valiant effort. 

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