Kirby Rambles: Midseason Check-In

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Welcome to another edition of Kirby Rambles! Unfortunately this will be my last Rambles before my final semester at college begins, and I’m not quite sure I’m ready to be a functioning adult once I graduate, but the date is fast approaching. It’s kind of weird how my perception of time has been extremely messed up ever since the pandemic, because it felt like these past four years flew by like nothing. I can still remember not being able to sleep before my first day of college because I was so incredibly nervous.

 

Anyway, enough about me. Let’s get into the VHL stuff. With Theme Week commencing tomorrow, I’m looking forward to seeing what topic BOG has decided on. I’ve also finally sent in my donation for this season so the doubles week for this Sunday and next will hopefully do wonders. My player, River Harrington, has had a good rookie season but I wouldn’t call it stellar. Since he’s on a strong Moscow team with a lot of support and on a pairing with the reigning best offensive defenseman Jillian Woods, this is to be expected, but as long as the team is successful, I’m just happy to contribute any way I can. Kinda crazy that I now get to play on the same VHL team as my first ever M GM and got to see many wonderful folks on that S84 waiver Marlins team follow in his footsteps! I definitely want to cook up a longer player interview spot in the future, but I’ll have to brainstorm and really get into the River character once more. 

 

In 44 games, River has 28 points (7 goals, 21 assists), and I was hoping my SC-PA gap would help with accumulating goals but ultimately not. Definitely something to workshop once I bank enough TPE to make a difference. Honestly, hybrid attributes are really interesting to me because unlike a goalie, where you can just dump TPE into one trait and know exactly when it’s going to bump up, you really have to think and strategize about what to do with hybrid attributes and make smarter decisions, which has been fun to try to figure out. 

 

Davos and Moscow’s seasons have been interesting thus far considering it’s a dogfight for the top half of the conference, with the lower half lagging behind after many seasons of being the more dominant of the two VHL conferences. Overall, Davos sits 4th and Moscow sits 3rd with just a single point separating each of the top four. It could go any way by the end of the season and I’m looking forward to seeing how it pans out. 

 

Onto VHFL, where I currently sit second in my group by just 14.4 points. With another half of the season to go, there is a lot of time to make up that gap and I’m hoping my squad of Goncalves, Bucatini, Tuominen, Leitner, Hardy, and Spider Panda can bring it home for me for a third season in a row. I’m still super confident with my picks and if my team, especially Bucatini and Goncalves, keep scoring and landing those SB and hits like mad, I could be poised for success once more. 

 

With that, concludes another Kirby Rambles! Thank you for tagging along and as always, hope to see everyone in the next edition.

 

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