Spartan

Cheers man, was always fun to compete with you!

I love apple juice

Gorgeous song, if you've seen Arcane, the scene its used in is so good too. Check it out if you haven't yet! Kazuma Satou and Halifax's season is over, knocked out by Ottawa in game 7 of round 1 in the M playoffs. I spoke about it a bit on @SMYLS4 and @flyersfan345's podcast (which you should check out here) but I didn't go into this season with the expectation that Halifax would be a contending team in the playoffs due to the roster composition and youth of the team. While some of the E reintroduced players had solid impact, I figured I'd be thrust into a significant role as a waiver player which meant that chances of making the playoffs were slim. However, under fantastic leadership by @LucyXpher, Halifax defied the odds and made the playoffs while hanging in there against "better" opponents all season long. It'll be disappointing to not be able to return to Halifax due to Satou currently being ranked #1 in the M draft and HFX not owning a first round pick, but I'm sure they'll position themselves well regardless. Speaking about drafts, Satou will be heading into both the S97 VHLM Dispersal Draft and the S97 VHL Entry Draft. So far, there hasn't been any discussion with M teams and just interest from 1 VHL team, so I'm hoping it'll be an exciting few weeks ahead as we lead up to the drafts. I do have some hopes in mind for the VHL team that drafts me and some thoughts on how I want my career to play out, but I won't expect VHL GMs to be reading these articles to get their information. I still hope anyone who wants to draft me will speak to me beforehand though. Since I expect to go to a rebuilding team, I think my contract requests should be pretty feasible, but I also have been flitting with the idea of an early career position swap to forward since defense is so saturated in this class. Getting some bonuses and higher salaries early in my career would definitely help make that possible if the VHL team is also interested in that avenue. Lastly, it might be a bit unconventional, but I do hope to have some input or sway in the direction and moves of the team that drafts me. Despite being a rival GM, I'd like to enjoy most of my career with the team that drafts me this go around while keeping my GM side separate. From past experiences, there are times where moves aren't made or are too slow to be made that leads to a split. I've also traded myself away plenty of times from Moscow to better position the team and safeguard other players from being traded. This time, I'm willing to stick around for as long as the team wants me, but I would like to be involved in decision making to best position myself and the team for success. I think it can definitely be done, and I have offered advice in informal capacities to teams I've been on in the past. I'd just like to be definitively involved in management decisions or at least be consulted. Maybe it's too bold or brash, maybe GMs during the draft scouting process will tell me its absurd to request. If so, I'd drop the ask and just go along for the ride. I'd just love to help make another franchise as successful as Moscow's been without switching the team I GM.

GG Malmo

I shouted out @LucyXpher, @Moon, @Banackock, @FrostBeard, no clue how many others but I think we talked about DC a fair amount too @qripll

Well not if you're applying fantasy scoring that prioritizes different things

Well if you're going to compare stats across eras you've already opened and consequently ignored era adjustment no? How are you going to fairly compare players who dominated in the meta era to players in eras where scoring was much lower? Your title is even comparing modern defensemen to legends but you don't adjust for era differences.

It's definitely not a record but with Letang we lost game 7 of conference finals because I speared a guy and got ejected, then we lost on the PP after that

@SMYLS4

Banger, we all hate @Adrest245

holy tampering!?

You guys toss around FA in articles too much for my liking smh

Oops I forgot pressers for a week, apologies! 1. We're still comfortably in 1st place in the EU, but Calgary is still in fighting range for the Victory Cup. Do you think we hold on? Do you even want to win the Victory Cup with how cursed it is? 2. We're likely going to have 5 players with 100+ points by season end. Has this been one of the best team offenses since the meta era? What are your thoughts on why this team has clicked so well? 3. Is there a team you don't want to run into during the playoffs? What do you fear in them? 4. Small prospect shoutout to River Harrington @kirbithan who's having a strong season for Ottawa, any words of advice for our young prospect who'll be looking to have a big impact in the upcoming M playoffs? 5. How are you preparing for the playoffs? How do you plan to spend the bye round since we'll be avoiding the wild card? 6. Linkin Park and Poppy dropped albums a couple days ago and I've been binging them on repeat when I have free time. What're you listening to these days?

Sorry, I've had folks over at my parents' house since 9 am. Swamped all day. Bugged Adrest, only got a single mafia visit to N0H

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So we have two spies, two TP, and jhatty is a consort?

I mean I don't fully believe Eagles' spy claim either, because it seems too convenient after a 15 minute gap when he asked for spies. And then has two people on Doom who died and one person on me who claimed RB'd immediately. But what's your reasoning?

So prob an SK given N1 attack?

Yea but roleblocked so I have nothing, will prob need a TP on me now tho

Lol rip jester I was role blocked last night, screw you to whoever did that.

Yea I was about to say, jeez, 7 town to 4 mafia, good luck townies.

1. It's not even 50%, there were 3 trades! 2 of them were fine so we're at 66% which is still technically a fail by american standards. 2. Uhh like a 3 I suppose, idk why they picked me for financier. 3. Well it's me! I'm happy to be back (and cursing VAN for a 3rd time) but surely this time will be different. Since I snapped my curse, maybe we can break @Beketov's curse this time. 4. I'd say like an 8 I guess, I like to win since I'm a competitive person so I'll take GM'ing stuff and running the league fairly seriously. But it's still fun in the end so I don't mind it! 5. Honestly this situation is a weird one where VAN doesn't have the picks and can easily just....not be able to make the trade. WAR knew the risk and did it anyways. However, if VAN owned the pick and traded it away so WAR couldn't get it, I think GMs would think twice about trading with VAN in the future which would be a big issue. 6. Nah that was probably only if the S99 situation happened, but it won't so there's no issue. 7. Asterisk for the punctuation, Asterix for the Gaul!

Agito did you use ChatGPT