Kirby Rambles: Wishes for the Future

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It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these, and since there’s lots to talk about and catch up on: let’s get this ball rolling! To start, holy crap— college has been kicking my butt. I hate that I haven’t been as active as I would like on the forums and Discord, which really hurts because I’m in that Davos AGM role and don’t want to let the team down, but I know at the end of the day, that getting my degree is my ultimate goal and I know I can’t put my grades on the backburner. 

 

On Monday (which is tomorrow at the time that I’m writing this), I have my dreaded three hour night class that runs from 7PM to 10:40 PM and starts with a quiz that I may have been procrastinating studying for. Yay. Good thing is, we only meet in person three times and the class ends mid semester: for the two quizzes and final which is next week, and starts my second hell week of the semester with four exams (send help). This Thursday, I also have a presentation that I have yet to finish, but have written out the script for, luckily, so that’s one less thing to worry about.

 

Asides from college beating me to the ground, there has been a TON of things going on in the VHL, as expected during draft YPE season. Starting with the fact that Lachlan Summers is no longer a member of HC Davos Dynamo. While it was difficult to let him go, it was the best for our team and honestly, at this point, I was looking at this move from more of a GM perspective than a player one. I would have liked to have spent my first player’s career on one team, but he’s aging and Davos is in a rebuild. It makes sense to move him for pieces that can be used for our next cup window. I hope he can secure a place in the Hall of Fame with Warsaw, though that may be more challenging with the changes in goaltending for STHS coming up next season. Only time will tell!

 

Transitioning into said cup window, I’m super stoked about our new prospects from yesterday’s exciting draft (complete with my favorite debate: is a hot dog a sandwich?). We snagged Antonia Bucatini, Forum Content, Aleksanteri Kaskiniemi-Kekkonen, Steve French, Billy Joel, Kendra Cavill, Russell Sprout, Masa Akimoto, Magni Jinn, and Blaze Thunderstrike, which marked our busiest draft since S87! It was exciting to see this was such a first-gen heavy draft and that teams were taking them high, and honestly, first-gens can have some of the highest ceilings of all players, if you take into consideration they may be more active and inclined to earn more than someone who has had two or three players. 

 

To round out this Kirby Rambles, I want to express how excited I am to be able to recreate for the first time. I do believe that picking goalie was the best thing I could have done as a first-gen because the TPE allocation isn’t as complicated as the hybrid system so it was easier for me to transition into things. It’s weird to think Lachlan will be retiring at S94’s TDL and that I'll have been a VHL member for two years soon, but I’m excited to bring my next player to the league! I have had my mind set on this since Lachlan was still in the VHLE and have decided to build an offensive defenseman as my next player. I know I’ll need a ton of help, but luckily, there’s many awesome people in the league that I’m sure will be happy to lend their advice! 

 

That’s all from me this fine Sunday evening, folks. Hope you have a great week and see you in the next edition of Kirby Rambles!

 

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