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Which I guess is exactly what I did in a super public way hahaha u fonzi

Yeah I didn't wanna post my own questions again and question your authoritah

Groovy Dood has worked himself into a pickle. He's short two capped TPE on the week. But he's got a problem. His team has no reporters, media, or managers that care what the players think. When I played in the minors, they had their shit together, an exasperated Dood vented to no one in particular. There was a press conference every week to make us feel like real professional simulation hockey players. They were prepping us for the big leagues when there'd be microphones in our face all the time. They promised the world would want to hear what I had to say all the damn time. I even heard there was a VSN with cameras on us 24/7. Pfft, yeah right. I haven't seen the bright lights of a reporter in so long. I thought D.C. was a hockey hotbed. Turns out it's just a hockey lukewarm bed. If someone from the front office would just come out and ask me some damn questions, I wouldn't be out here now dragging the Draggins through the mud like this. bigAL, Groovy Dood's agent and a former AGM himself, stands behind the ranting star, nodding slowly. Could this be a ploy for Dood to get his AGM fired and replaced with his mentor bigAL?! Finally, there's a question worth answering! Groovy Dood looked pumped to be talking about something else. bigAL works for me, and I'm not sharing. He's not going back into management any time soon. He's going to negotiate me a fat second contract and coast off my commissions for the rest of his life. And on that note, VHL Bookies have opened up a new bet: What will happen first - Groovy Dood's exit from D.C. or bigAL getting back into management? (spoiler: neither will happen) @fonziGG@Enorama *** PS: did we lose the spoiler button on the new forum layout??

o shit waddup wit dat!!!

This weekend, our D.C. Dragons played six games. Surprising simultaneously everyone and no one, the Dragons went six-for-six in weekend games. Check out bigAL’s Quick Hits for all six games below: Game 253: D.C. Dragons (W) at Chicago Phoenix Final Score: Dragons 6 | Chicago 2 This game came down to goaltending. The shots were pretty well even (30 to 29 for D.C.), but poor J-P Camus was absolutely shelled in the almost-two periods he played before getting pulled. Five of the Dragon’s six goals were let in by Camus. That D.C. second line of Groovy Dood - Xavier Laflammant - Benny Graves has fully rebounded from that mini-slump that plagued them last week. The trio put together three goals - enough to beat the Phoenix by themselves. S73 MVP candidate Benny Graves is playing with a chip on his shoulder. In addition to scoring 3 points, the skilled forward accepted Lee Xin’s invitation to fight at the end of a blowout game. To add insult to injury, Xin lost the fight nearly as badly as the Phoneix lost the game. Game 264: London United at D.C. Dragons (W) Final Score: London 2 | Dragons 3 We’ll call this game the Guy Lesieur Show. He single-handedly decided D.C. wasn’t losing this game. Guy snuck a powerplay marker into the London net with seconds left in the first period. The United followed that up with two unanswered goals in the second period, and took a 2-1 lead into the third. About halfway through the period, Lesieur decided he had enough of trailing. He scored two goals in 21 seconds to erase the deficit and carry the Dragons to their second win of the weekend. Game 271: D.C. Dragons (W) at Los Angeles Stars Final Score: Dragons 3 | Stars 2 Finally, a close game. The Dragons snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and needed a shootout to earn them the extra point in the standings. The Stars came out guns a-blazing with Gary Neal potting the first two goals of the game. Neal’s second goal came halfway through the third period. With the game looking locked up, the Stars eased up at the end of the third. That proved to be a fatal mistake. Inside the last three minutes, both Lance Flowers and Benny Graves scored to tie the game. Seeing offensive production from the big-name free agent signing Flowers is another positive note in this noteworthy weekend. Xavier Laflammant scored the only goal of the shootout to give the Dragons their third W on the weekend. Game 279: Moscow Menace at D.C. Dragons (W) Final Score: Moscow 1 | Dragons 3 Finally, the Dragons stop beating up on expansion teams and pick on someone their own size. Despite Moscow’s best efforts, this game was settled by the end of the first period. Xavier Laflammant scored both the game winner in the first period and an insurance marker in the second. The Menace gave Stone Cold Wolski a run for his money though, launching 32 missiles at the masked man. Clearly Moscow didn’t want to lose, but fuck ‘em, too bad. Game 286: D.C. Dragons (W) at Los Angeles Stars Final Score: Dragons 4 | Stars 2 This game was a chance at revenge for the Stars, but alas, they just couldn’t quite pull it off. Going into the third period, the Dragons were up 3-0 thanks to a first period goal by Liam Flaten and a pair of second period goals by the Groovy Dood. Something switched in the third period. Stars MVP Gary Neal scored a shortie while teammate Marcus Nygren watched from the sin bin. Ryo Yamakuzi followed the goal up six minutes later and brought the stars within one. The Stars pulled Doug Dimmadome late in the third, but it wasn’t enough. Boris the Forest, struggling this season, added a much needed goal with an empty netter to seal the win for the Dragons. Game 294: Calgary Wranglers at D.C. Dragons (W) Final Score: Wranglers 3 | Dragons 4 Another real test against a contender, the Dragons held their own in this wild shootout with Calgary. The real action happened in the second period, as the two teams took turns scoring three goals each. Every time the Dragons took a lead, the Wranglers quickly undid it. The wild back and forth meant the second period ended tied at 3. The always-excellent Xavier Laflammant scored yet another weekend game winning goal in the third period to ice this game at 4-3. Weekends are supposed to be for resting, but our D.C. Dragons did nothing of the sort. To win the Cup, you have to take advantage of easy games and not leave any points on the table. In a six game weekend, with four games against struggling expansion teams, the Dragons sent a strong message to the league that they are interested in competing this year. The tests continue this week, as they face Helsinki twice, Vancouver, and a rematch with Calgary. In between these heavyweight matchups are games against the New York Americans, Toronto Legion, London United, and the Warsaw Predators.

Minecraft dungeons has been awesome

The real irony is that I was the 1OA pick last season ?

I’m rattled that this Members tag worked and literally no other one on the site. Oh well, the world needs to know about the tweeter machine

Yes it does!!1!! The government is trying to cover it up like they cover everything up! Pigeons are drones controlled by the CIA and they disappear in the winter to get their batteries changed!

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Coooool, love the Brady render! Thanks Pat!

1. That DCD-G has been holding his own. He's been getting starts and not absolutely sucking, so that's impressive. I keep aiming for his face and he keeps on taking those bullets right in his pie hole, so that's impressive. Someone should get that dude a helmet. 2. I'm gonna take a big picture meaning to "the league" and go with our buddy and draft pick Jackson Philliefan who's tearing it up in the minors. Can't wait for him to join us in the bigs next season. 3. Green has historically been my favourite colour, but Orange has been creeping up the standings lately. 4. I'll watch the hometown teams, but not really follow many other sports. Love the Blue Jays, just can not be bothered to care about literally any other MLB division other than the AL East. I hopped on the bandwagon in 2015-16 and never looked back. Being at playoff games at the SkyDome changed my life. 5. Hopefully the MVP of the season comes from my VHFL team... 6. Phase 1: substance abuse. Phase 2: TBD - working in physical schools has been nervewracking and terrifying. Those kindergarteners are petri dishes at the best of times, and this is certainly not that.

D.C. has been called a lot of things since its entry into the VHL via expansion. The Dragons. Drafons? Eno’s home for misfit toys. D.C. (Dog Crap). Probably the most insulting, the most deep cutting, the most ruthless adjective thrown our way is mediocre. But is it a lie? No team wants to be mediocre. The mushy middle of the standings is the worst place to be. The system is set up to reward bad teams in the hopes that they don’t stay bad forever. Last place teams get first draft picks. Even sort of bad teams get marbles entered in the draft lottery. A run of truly bad seasons speaks to managerial incompetence more than it reflects the league as a whole. And of course, teams want to be good. Flags fly forever. Chips n dip. Winning isn’t everything, but it is everything. The Continental Cup is the whole reason why we play, why we grind the TPE, why we go on the ice twice a day. Competitive sports are exactly that - competitive. There’s a winner and a loser. No one wants to be the loser. So if being truly bad isn’t that bad, and being good definitely isn’t bad, the only bad thing is to be in the mediocre middle of the standings. By that measure, boy howdy that makes the D.C. Dragons terrible, horrible, no good, very bad hockey team. It’s October 1st, and most teams have played 30 games. The Dragons have played 31, which makes it unpossible for them to be truly, evenly, mediocre, but those goofballs certainly tried. Check out this stat line: The Dragons have played 31 games. They have won 12. They have lost 12. They have won 4 in a shootout. They have lost 3 in a shootout. (If they had only played 30 games, I bet the 31st game would be the SOW, giving them a perfectly mediocre split.) They have scored 94 goals. They have let in 92 goals. In every possible way, they are a .500 team. Perfectly average. Miraculously mediocre. The best at being the not-worst. The world’s tallest midget. In a league where each day brings two games, the Dragons regularly and most frequently earn one win and one loss. The players have taken to cheering for a 2-0 sim, or even a 0-2 sim, because they are sick and tired of the mediocre 1-1 day. It’s not like the days make sense either. The Dragons will shut out the best team in the league, like this 4-0 thumping of the Malmo Nighthawks before sliding over to Moscow and getting absolutely dominated with a score of 7-2. The logic of the mediocre curse knows no bounds. The Dragons are good enough to hang with the contenders, or get blown out by the crummy expansion teams in the first week when the Phoenix Chicagos were at their literal worst. The games don’t have to make sense when you’ve got a team as aggressively mediocre as the Dragons. To get good, these Dragons had better either get good, or get bad. Maybe they’ll land a first overall lottery pick that will actually get them out of the mushy middle.

I think it’s wild how much content we as a community produce, and how most of it lies dormant on the forums where only the updates see it. We should be posting sick gfx on Instagram and linking to epic articles on twitter. All the blues/bogs have to do is hire someone/team to organize and distribute it. Hockey Twitter is a huge world full of bloggers and podcasts and regular ol people who are missing writing and reading about hockey these days. Let’s go get them! (And leave the 12 year olds on YouTube and out of our discord)

That's.... mature of you. Good one Elijah, you can't undo the past but you can work to make the future better. Keep that up and we can have a big ol Discord party in 9 months!

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@Enorama@fonziGGmake sure our Drafons don’t miss out

I thought Ricer was part of that OMG/Devise cabal from from the first 2 days that I didn’t trust, and boy was I wrong on all of them. I was just afk when we were voting up caboose haha whoops

@fishyis there any sort of tracking sheet for fantasy? I’m not even sure of the rules or scoring actually

One more hour and I might actually live to end of a game! I’m no longer a trivia statistic!

It’s already over? F. Can we custom build a VHL players tag like the VHLM does? @members links to some inactive member

Phew, I thought I screwed up hard claiming vet as publicly as I did. VOTE FERK FTW

I don’t know what’s up with important threads’ member tags not working, but I got here via “latest post” and not a notification. That being said, I love that this is a BOG-VSN partnership now. Great job getting the messaging across and letting the serfs in the fields know what’s up in the castle. Keep it up Adv!

I’ve been calling Ricer all game. I’m happy to VOTE RICER

You confirmed the Vet? I’m the vet! I went on alert N2 and killed Josh.