Aces & Insights, The High Rolling Aces and My Future as a VHLM GM

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Aces & Insights, The High Rolling Aces and My Future as a VHLM GM

 

This has been a fantastic season for my Aces this go around, and it's made me reflect on my career as a GM so far, and where I want to go from here on out quite a bit. This isn't a resignation letter, or even an intent to resign contemplative media spot. I've been in this job for a while now however, and it's worth it to put my thoughts to pen and paper (or in this case keyboard and pixels) and assess what I want to do in the future, and how this season is shaping up to be.

 

I've always wanted to be a VHL GM, pretty much from the moment I joined back in 2019. I initially joined the Reapers back in S66 as a member of the cup winning team, and it was perfect. I got to see how a winning team should look, what they're comprised of and what it takes to win it all. Jumping from a winning team in Philly to a winning team in Vancouver was incredible, and my last three players since were made to chase that high and relive a bit of my glory days from back then, to little avail might I add LMAO

 

When I got brought on by Blazzer to AGM for the Aces, it was like a dream come true. I had AGM'd before, during Helsinki's big runs in the mid 70's, and it was the most incredible time. I was constantly writing pressers, I got named team captain for a season and we even made a couple of deep runs into the playoffs. It set me up for the hope that I could one day run a VHL team myself and go for cup runs too. A little known thing called COVID got in the way of that however, and between that and all sorts of other things going on in my life at that time, I ended up forgetting about my player and wasn't on the website for a handful of years. Come 2023, I decided to return in full force, writing a ton of articles and maxing out my earnings on my new player. I definitely wanted to become a GM again, but I had to first learn all the new things I had missed since I was here last. There was a whole new league, all the people I knew from the S60's and 70's were all but gone, it was wild. Blazzer took a chance with me though and named me AGM of the Aces, made me captain of the Aces during a run we made in S89, and that was the start of my new (but familar) journey. 

 

Blazzer resigned as GM of the Aces only a month or so after naming me AGM, so naturally I applied to be GM of the team. They were in big ruts up to that point, never being a super high tier team but never being bad enough to compete for first overall picks. It was hockey purgatory for any well versed GM. I referred a couple of friends to the VHLM, signed and drafted them to the Aces, and we made a couple of pretty good runs. We only ever ended up making the finals once however, and we got swept in our showing. It was definitely a tough time to say the least, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't contemplate resigning after that run. Three solid runs and next to nothing to show for it is ROUGH. After a rebuild season and a half or so, the Aces are back and we're once again at the top of the VHLM standings, and I find myself back in all or nothing mode. If this season works out, every goal I had as a VHLM GM would be complete, and I'd feel inclined to move on and find something else to work towards in the VHLM. At the same time, I feel almost obligated to stick around through it all, and keep pushing until the drive disappears.

 

All in all, I love this league, this team, and what I do here on my free time. I feel like if ever I were to move on from the Aces, I'd want to GM one of my old teams from back in the day, either the Titans or the Wolves, but I want it to come naturally and I want it to feel right when it happens. Until the moment however, Imma stick with my team, and I'll keep riding out the highs and lows until I don't have that drive to anymore. I WILL WIN ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP IN THIS IRL DECADE, I CAN'T BELIEVE THE LAST ONE I WON WAS IN THE 2010'S THAT'S CRAZY.

 

That concludes my rant/introspection however! Thanks to those that actually stuck out reading this whole thing, I appreciate you! 

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