My VHL cup win, Kadachi's progress this season

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I wanted to write something a little story driven and in universe if that make sense, having reporters talk about the Seattle Bears winning the cup and what it mean to Kadachi and how he spent his day with the cup and so on and so fourth. But sadly as of late I just can't bring myself to type something up like that. You'd think winning my first VHL cup might spur me on but.... sadly I still have been feeling a lack of a drive to do much, and it's only been getting going down each season. I don't want to do those quarterly reports for this season like I have in others. I've just been wanting to spend my time on other things and the league is really taking a back seat for me. I admit part of the reason I'm even writing this is because I got a doubles week from donation and I don't want to waste that so I'm kind of forcing myself to write this up, that's not say I didn't want to write something at all, there was a part of me that did want to talk about my first Continental Cup win.

 

For a bit of history, I joined this sim league about halfway through S69 (ik, nice) and my first player was goaltender Jaxx Hextall. The highlight of his career would be winning the Founder's Cup in S70 with the since moved Minnesota Storm. That team was very dominant and didn't loose a game in regulation in the post season, Hexy went on to play seven seasons with the Toronto Legion and only made the playoffs three times. I'd come back into the league with a new player right after Jaxx retired in S77, I made a center named Jonathan Ori who would, like Hextall, would go to the finals with Minnesota storm, sadly it wouldn't be an exact repeat as the Storm would come up just short in those finals. Ori would spend the bulk of his career with the Helsinki Titans before joining Seattle for two seasons, including a run to the finals, and then finishing out his career with the D.C Dragons. (Joining the Dragons may have not made the most sense at the time for my player or D.C but I wanted the chance to play for/with the person who recruited me into this league, that being Enorama, and knowing that he would be stepping down soon from GM of the team, I was happy to spend Ori's final season there.)

 

finally we have my current player, Toby Kadachi. after taking about two and a half seasons off from the league I came back halfway through S89, to somewhat celebrate my 20th season anniversary since joining the league. Since I joined after the trade deadline it mean Kadachi's draft season wouldn't be until 91, I guess I didn't want a repeat of Hextall who joined just a little before the deadline and was a 70 draftee instead of S71, could you imagine how different things might have been if he was a S71 draftee? Regardless Kadachi joined Houston in S89 for the last 22 games of the season, before only getting five games deep in the post season. Toby would find himself back in Houston after the draft but the team knew it wasn't gonna get very far early on so traded out it's best players, Kadachi would find himself in Canada in Mississauga, a team with a lot of promise. He'd put up 41 points 54 games for the team before entering the post season and winning it all, Kadachi notching eight points in that run. It will always standout to me that with each of my players so far, they have each made the finals during their short time in the M. If it hadn't been for Ori just coming up just short in S78 I could be talking about how each of my players won a Founder's cup in the M in each of their first full seasons, but that is not the case. It's still impressive what has happened so far though.

 

Finally we jump to his time in the in the big leagues. I choose to skip over the E and go right to the top, even though I knew that meant a rough rookie season. It was fine though since Seattle was in a rebuild/retool so Kadachi wouldn't hurting the team badly, we knew we weren't making the playoffs. Kadachi's first post season appearance would come in 93, after notching a career high 21 goals the team which was not viewed a favorite, at the start of the season, did the impossible and won the Cup. It was quite surprising to me as I thought for sure this was just going to be another growing season for the team with playoffs as a possibility but Bana pulled off some voodoo black magic and got the team to the summit. I know it wasn't just my first Continental Cup on the team, Ricer got his first as well. It was a tough seven games series that's for sure, and I can't lie, I thought our run would end there and it would be back to waiting for another chance. But we beat the odds and now, 24 seasons into this league I got my first Continental cup, coming 23 seasons after winning my first Founder's Cup. In terms of actual seasons played at the top, it was my 18th, which probably isn't that bad all right?

 

Looking ahead to the current season, season 94, Kadachi is off the his best start, he's got 16 points in 20 games, split between eight goals and assists. I realize now Kadachi might never be a point per game player but if he can be close to it and I can get him up to 30 goals I'll be pretty happy with that. I've always been one to build my player the way I want to, I know the defense stat is king but I don't like worrying about the meta or what I should focus on beefing up first, I think it makes things more interesting when you do something a little different. I think it'd be really boring to hard focus the same stats player after player. I'm sure it can make fitting my player into the lineup a little frustrating but I'm glad there are GM's out there willing to sign my player.

 

(geez this ended up being a lot longer then I meant, word count 1080)

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claiming for June 9th, also doubles

 

 

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Claiming for second time June 16th. Also claiming for doubles week purchased from the store.