ROOKIE745

Day 8

7 days

day 6

Day 5

Day 4

1. Was a good run, not the ending you wanted but should be very proud of how far ya'll went. 2. I think it's probably still the same, but what do I know? 3. Pretty good, I was just in NY so they're doing what they need too. 4. Good luck you guys!! 5. Probably a forward based on the age of some of your current forwards. 6. Was there anything on there you still wanted to watch? If not then just wait and chill, watch more youtube videos perhaps.

day 3

Day one

1. Excellent RS, disappointing playoffs, you guys have what it takes to win a cup, I believe that. 2. I will say yes. 3. You might be playing less intense because those teams just don't measure up and the games aren't important because it's not playoffs yet, so might be hard to play that more intense hockey when the PO does start. 4. Maybe? But idk how much you guys need to change things up tbh. 5. Scoring I guess. 6. 100% Gotta give the guy respect for doing so.

claiming for Dec 8th

The New York Americans made the season 96 playoffs but bowed out in five games against the Vancouver Wolves who went on to when the cup. At this time Toby Kadachi has not resigned with the Americans so free agency is looking like his destination. He's coming off his best regular season performance with 37 goals, 36 assists for 73 points, his first time finishing above a point per game. His 37 goals is a career high too, just beating out his last season performance. It's been a pretty steady climb for Kadachi, last season he had 71 points, the season before 65 points and the two before that 42 and 43 respectively. Kadachi has been pretty big for the Americans on the power play and game winning goals side as well, having nine game winners last season and eight this season, in both season he got 10 power play goals. His career totals sit at 432 games played, 148 goals scored, 159 assists for 307 points. His games isn't just goals and points though, he's always been known for his toughness, as it stands he sits just 9 penalty minutes away from 1000 and has landed 1704 hits so far. His 443 shots on net are the highest of his career with the previous season he had 372 shots on net and the season before 367. For his career he sits at 1774. His penalty minutes and hits did come down this season from the season prior, likely as Kadachi was depended a bit more on for production for season 96, he went from 245 PIM to 189 which is still the second highest in his career, and his hits came down from 375 to 322 which is his third highest, it's three hits behind the 325 he had in season 94 for the Bears. Wherever Kadachi ends up a franchise is picking up one of the toughest players in the league who can still net you 30 plus goals. S96 was Kadachi's third time appearing in the post season, and it was his shortest with just the five games, he scored two goals and one assist for three points. He has played 36 games in the post season, netted 11 goals, 8 helpers for 19 points. Kadachi has returned to Russia for the time being to spend time with family as he usually does, some rumours say he might be looking to join a European team for the chance he might feel a little more at home but he's not for sure on that yet, some say he's looking to jump to the NHL but Kadachi has denied that, saying that he would like to play out his full 9 seasons that one can in the VHL. "You only get this one chance to enjoy the VHL and I want to make the most of it." Was his reply, he's eagerly awaiting free agency to open up, he wouldn't tip his hand for what he's thinking but said he his hoping for something specific to happen. (Word count 508)

1. Probably a return to normalcy, it's hard to keep up that high tempo the whole through, on the bright side it a strong start means you got some leeway, atm your still 5 points ahead of the Wranglers and 7 points ahead of the next 3 teams. 2. Just to keep doing what he's doing, believe that the points will comes. 3. Probably the Wild with their 68 win season back in S69 4. I think so, you'll likely loose a player or two though. 5. I.... have no idea.... keep your distance? 6. I did, though I do not celebrate it. No one comes to my house either since it's pretty far out of the way.

1. I haven't seen any articles to do with if teams win the victory cup do they win in the playoffs, so I don't know how strong the curse is, I'm gonna say no. 2. Keep looking to one up the other, friendly competition is good!! 3. I have no idea really, a little out my league in terms of guessing what it could be. 4. It probably drops down by a player or two but otherwise I think you can keep it going 5. Nah, just unlucky timing, Penguins are doing the Sharks thing of putting off the rebuild when it's pretty clear they need it. Imo at least. 6. Well my favorite team is the Sharks so.... at least they won some games before October was over?

With my media spot done I need to come up with something for a article, being rather unsure I guess I'll talk about the future? After Kadachi's career in done I have no doubt I'll be taking another break again, really not sure how long that one could be, I knew that I wanted to come back in S89 after Ori's career, I set that as my goal but after Kadachi I may wait even longer to decide on if I want to come back with a fourth player. if I do I've been pondering what I'd want to return with, the idea of going back to a goaltender sounds fun to me, I have some names I'd like to use for a goalie. If I didn't come back with a goalie then I think I'd do a position I haven't done yet, which would be a right winger or a blue liner. Personally doing a defensemen sounds the least interesting to me so I'd probably go for the right winger. If I did come back with a goalie I can't help but feel that I'd probably be a back up quite a bit more which could be interesting in it's own right. Maybe I end up jumping around with different teams quite a bit, could be fun to be in a number of different locker rooms. (word count 227)

Alright my mind has been drawing a blank for sometime now, sadly I just can't find that same level of enthusiasm and energy I use to have for the VHL, even after the break I took I just didn't feel full recharged. Feels like I used up all my creative hockey juice during the careers of my first two players. I feel I was doing well enough for the first few seasons of Kadachi's career but that drive has dropped off hard, there are weeks where I'm like "Crap I need to claim TPE for my VHL player". Honestly the only thing that reminds me to do that is because I always have a VHL tab open, just so I can check up on things easily and see who won since I am still curious about that. I hate that I'm becoming a "clicker" (I believe that's the right term) but again, I just can't find the energy to do much more than hit practice, welfare and trivia. Which of course Trivia can always be a bit of a crap shoot because I don't know where to find the answers for some stuff and don't always wanna bug someone for answer, a lot of the time I just wanna make a guess and move on. Something that happened before the off-season was the closure of the VHLE, I was never was a huge fan of it personally but I can understand why it was created. Probably the saddest thing to me is that we didn't get back the VHLM teams that were taken for the E, the Yukon Rush and Minnesota Storm, especially the Storm in my case since I spent two seasons there with two different players. Sure it's only two seasons totally but one was with my first player Jaxx Hextall who got to be apart of one of the best M teams ever and then won the cup that season with no regulation loses in the playoffs. Second time with Jonathan Ori, he was apart of a run to the final with the team, while we came up short it was still special. Maybe in the future they'll add again, I can't deny the thought of completely brand new teams would be cool. I never had a player play a proper season in the E, Ori missed out on it though he did play in that thing to help determine draft positions if I recall correctly, and I decided to go right to the top league with Kadachi. Speaking of Kadachi how is he doing so far this season? Well he got off to a rocking start but has since cooled off which was sadly expected. I definitely recall Ori getting off to a strong start here and there only to cool off a little later. He's fallen under a point per game, he's got 11 goals and 9 assists for 20 points in 22 games. Still good and he could get back above a point per game. That would be the main thing for me, is for him to finish at or above 72 points. 40 goals would be my hope for this season. The Americans are currently 13-8-1, they are tied with two other teams at 13 wins and one behind the Wolves with 14. It remains to be seen if they can make the post season this season. Kadachi is one of four players to have over 100 hits with 102, and fourth in penalty minutes with 58, his teammate Yannick Jenser is third with 65. (word count 592)