diamond_ace

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This looks glorious

Go away we don't want you here.

 

loljk

Yes we do. His being back means I might actually have gotten decent value

Skills Comp should have been nominated

This is being taken care of, thanks

I have a small task I need someone to do. Message me if you're willing to do it. I'd mention what it is, but it's too similar to today's 12 days of christmas question and I don't want to spoil it for anyone who didn't figure it out. (If you figured it out, then you know what I'm asking you to do).

I have a small task I need someone to do. Message me if you're willing to do it. I'd mention what it is, but it's too similar to today's 12 days of christmas question and I don't want to spoil it for anyone who didn't figure it out. (If you figured it out, then you know what I'm asking you to do).

I am guessing he will sign....

I doubt it. He told me he wanted to go to FA, even after I offered a sign and trade, so it seems likely he doesn't have a team in mind already. That leaves Seattle with a slight edge due to being able to talk to him ahead of time, but I don't really think this changes things much from a regular FA. He might sign with Seattle, but as of now I think they have a 1 in 5 chance (each of the 6 playoff teams minus QUE who probably can't afford him).

Thanks for the time you spent here, glad we could give you some playoff runs, hope you get a cup wherever you go

SEA gets:

Rights to Felix Zamora

CGY gets: 

Keiji Toriyama

CGY Accepts.

I had asked Zamora about a sign and trade, but he expressed that he wanted to just go to FA instead. Given that, this is about the best I can get out of him, and Greg was willing to do the trade for just the rights. Buys him a couple days to talk to him too, if nothing else.

I don't even know what to say to that

That is Pocky, what our team is named after. It's cookie sticks dipped in chocolate (or strawberry, or almond cream, etc)

Que is going to win in 6. There was no 3-1 lead, therefore it can't go 7.

4th most points scored this is ludicrous my points against.

Most points for, and still finished 2 games back

Stamkos is now removed from the list, having posted in the article

For the other league

My articles are gold. Read them. Comment on them. You all suck for leaving them unloved. 

It's the most stereotypically Canadian thing I've seen.

I've always had trouble convincing myself to do things outside once it gets cold, even something as simple as going to the gym (which is about a 10 minute walk). Every spring I can pick it up again, and by the end of the summer I've made more progress than I've lost the previous winter, but I hate the two steps forward one step back game I've been playing. I want to play two steps forward one step forward, or at worst to the side. As you two are even more familiar with cold weather than I am (Pittsburgh gets pretty cold compared to USA cities, but surely almost all of Canada is worse) give me advice on how to get past it and just do it already.

Just in case I win....here's my post!

Same

First off, I'd like to congratulate the Storm and Doomsday on their season. As Doom said in his recent 590, no one expected the Storm to get this far, but they were able to upset the Iron Eagles and make it to the Founder's Cup. I'm sure Oslo will be a team to be reckoned with next year.

 

As for Ottawa, fuck yeah. 3 seasons of planning finally paid off with the ultimate VHLM reward. Our LR ranges from guys who have been around forever (Sterling) to someone who joined the site after the trade deadline (Stevo). Each and everyone of them has worked hard to improve their player this season and they all deserve this. I especially want to give a shout out to Jamie, who's our captain and the most tenured player on the roster. She wasn't exactly the happiest last season when I told her I wouldn't be trading her to a contender last season, but I promised her that we would win it all next season. The team turned out more stacked than I thought it would, but a large part of that is that Jamie stuck it out on a bad team and ended up having one of the VHLM's best players this season.

So Jamie pulled a S22 Higgins

Court Jester of S35, hahaha.  Good read ser.

finally a post!

Yes, the Neal knee was intentional (even as a Pens fan I agree with that) but anyone who thinks it's equal to Thornton is blind or a Bruins fan (or a Caps fan, in the case of Meg who I've seen comments on FB about the two incidents). Neal's 5 games are a bit much, I'd maybe have gone 3, but I can see 5. Thornton needs one that's much longer than that.

The King Is Dead; Long Live The King

An introspective look into the famed King of All S23, and whether his chances look good to ever repeat the task.

In season 23, VHL player-agent diamond_ace declared himself “King of All S23” with his most successful season to date. A Founder’s Cup with the then-Ottawa Ice Dogs, a team he was at the time the GM of, as well as a Continental Cup with the Calgary Wranglers, which was the team with his player, Lars Intranquilo- and to wrap it all up, diamond_ace won the “Fyodorov Challenge” which was a prediction series about how the results of the playoffs would break down over several questions, each of diminishing importance. While this title was self-imposed, it seemed quite accurate, as nothing could go wrong for him. It was as if everything he touched got picked up and followed him, whether it was the success of other players on the year, cups, random competitions, or just his own success in general. Season 23 was the type of season that every member hopes to have at least once in his or her career. Some have accomplished similar feats, although in diamond_ace’s case, it really turned into the icing on a cake that failed to rise and lay deflated for his first player.

Not to be confused with the creepy, hallucinogenic, and rather effeminate King of All Cosmos

Clark Marcellin brought more individual success than Intranquilo, which admittedly wasn’t hard to do, and also won a cup, but until just days ago, Marcellin paired up with his agent’s newest client, Martin Brookside, to make a run at reclaiming the title. King of All S35 was in diamond_ace’s grasp once more. With Brookside in Oslo, playing in the VHLM Finals, and Marcellin (along with diamond_ace as GM) taking the Wranglers to game 7 of the North American Conference Finals, it looked as though he had a fair shot at the title of King of All S35. Sure, there is no more Fyodorov Challenge, but including both players and the GM, there was the opportunity for three cups, which is one more even than the fabled S23.

Unfortunately, not only has the title of King of All S35 been relinquished (Calgary lost in the semis to Quebec, who are now in the finals and up by one game on Helsinki) but it looks as though diamond_ace won’t even be a prince and will have to settle for Court Jester of All S35. This title will be awarded to the member who has the most chances to win cups (in this case, three) and ultimately walks away with none. The elimination of Calgary has ended two of the three chances (Marcellin as a player as well as diamond_ace as a GM) and the remaining chance lies with Oslo, an untested goalie in Martin Brookside who hasn’t even tested the bigs yet, and a 3-0 series deficit to the Ottawa Lynx, coincidentally the descendant team from his own Ottawa Ice Dogs from back in S23 (S20-25, to be exact). Adding insult to injury would be if Brookside ends up on a Super Cup team and that team takes second place, losing in the finals. Actually, scratch the if. That is what will happen, considering how these last few days have treated the self-proclaimed royalty.

Some might say S23 was his crowning achievement

As long as diamond_ace remains at the helm of Calgary, then for one season in every player cycle, there will always be a chance to repeat the feat. His leadership of the franchise has proven to be one of the more successful tenures in recent memory; six consecutive playoff appearances as well as seven out of the last eight might seem minimal compared to New York's run of ten, but compared to the average run of three, it's simply phenomenal. If Streetlight/Devise's run with New York is the Gretzky of streaks, diamond_ace's lies somewhere around Ron Francis. Logically, there's a fair chance (greater than an even 1 in 5 considering there are five teams in the conference) that Calgary will be in the finals that year, and it's frequently the better teams that claim waiver players with practice time exemptions prior to joining (the fabled "carryover") as they'll be the ones that can give these players playoff experience. Therefore, whether the king can reclaim the throne will depend primarily on whether the GM retains the seat and the interest. It's all too up in the air to look that far into the future, but it's a good sign that such a challenge was in the offing a mere twelve seasons after the first claim, even if the challenge ultimately came up short.

hair gel

plaid shirts

meeting both of my first two girlfriends about a year apart at the exact same roller blading rink

the two years i was skinny

cross country (kind of ties into that last one)

Turn on whatever setting increases the likelihood of them getting rid of that terrible Doge.