He is a Peace of Riga’s Winning Puzzle - VSN Full Contact Interview With Rylan Peace

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

He is a Peace of Riga’s Winning Puzzle

 

VSN Full Contact with Rylan Peace

 

This weeks VSN Full Contact, VHL edition, focuses on the Rookie Rylan Peace @Peace  of the Riga Reign. He was Drafted 12^th over all in S63 and spent S64 in the minors on the Saskatoon Wild where he took home his first cup. The Riga Reign are in 1^st place in the VHL. This week’s interview will give you a look into the mind of a rookie player with a shot at another championship run

Rylan is early for his interview, showing up to the studio 15 min before, he mentions that he hates to be late for appointments, especially professional ones.  He makes himself comfy on a chair in my office, he accepts my offer of refreshments and relaxes back into the chair while sipping on his newly acquired coffee. With an easy smile on his face he indicates that he is ready for the interview to begin. I start by asking how he feels Rega is doing this season, and if he thinks they will win the cup?

 

Peace states "I feel Riga is doing well, but I'm frustrated with my lack of production. Long scoreless streaks are not really contributing to my team’s general success, are they? Lately Riga has - offensively - been as dry as a desert, we're barely scrapping through games even though we're getting a ton of shots. The top line has had to carry us to victories, so it's personally frustrating and I'm upset that despite everything I try to do nothing seems to be working. Overall though I think Riga's chance at defending the cup is strong and we're a hopeful group." He ends his statement with a wry smile as if he was punctuating his statement of hopefulness.

 

I continue to bridge the conversation by asking Peace who he thinks is Riga’s biggest competition this season. To this he supplied an answer I wasn’t really expecting. "Individually I have to say Helsinki. In fact - until recently anyway - nearly half of my career shots had been against Pepper and he saved all but one. As a team though I have to say Seattle, right now they're firing on all cylinders and against our struggling team they've been blowing us out of the water, it's not even close really. Seattle has found a way to be a constant threat no matter who they play and their top players are leading the team to brighter pastures, and if we can't find a solution I anticipate falling to Seattle when it matters."

 

I thought now would be a good time to bring up the subject of rivals. I asked Peace if he was still in a rivalry with Dahlberg @Nykonax to which he quickly replied that he doesn’t waste his effort on competing with players that didn’t have a good character. surprised to hear this I asked with genuine curiosity as to who Peace considered his rivals to be. Rylan’s response was most intriguing “Most people would assume my biggest rival would be Dahlberg or any of the rookies playing in the VHL, but in reality, it's Alexander Pepper @Sonnet. If you remove the stats from my last handful of games or so, Pepper had literally saved half of my career shots on goal. He only let one in, one, so it's either a testament of how good he is or how trash I am, although it is kind of ironic my rival ended up being the assistant general manager for the Saskatoon Wild - a team I manage in the VHL Minors."

 

The next question I asked Peace was if he missed any of his teammates from Saskatoon and if keeps contact with any of the guys. Rylan’s face goes sullen as he states "Sadly I've been so busy managing Saskatoon and playing hockey with Riga I've fallen out of contact with most of my Saskatoon teammates. Every once and a while I'll talk to Wahl, or perhaps Gebauer @Sova, Puigdemont @Eudaldkp too. Oh, I suppose I talked to Gary @CurtisG93, Edvin @caltroit_red_flames and Toast @Toast prior to them being traded from Saskatoon quite frequently. Beyond that, however, I can't say I've had too much contact with anyone else. Even though I don't talk to them often, I do take a moment to look up how they're doing every once and a while - but I think that's more because of my duties as a general manager." You can see that he takes his job as interim GM of Saskatoon very seriously. Although we did get a quote from Brick Wahl that helped shed a little more light on this situation “Peace is a great GM, but don’t let him fool ya, he makes a good effort to bring Sask Alumni back into the locker room and get to know his rookie player and visit with him. It is actually one of the best things about playing in Sask; once wild always wild, you can’t tame us.”

 

Speaking of locker rooms, my next question to Peace was about the atmosphere in the Riga locker room right now. What is it like, because VHL fans are dying to know what is going on in the locker room of one of the top teams in the league? "I think it's pretty tense right now, but that's because we're barely winning against teams, we felt were inferior. Maybe we're over confident in our abilities, or maybe there is something wrong with our chemistry on the ice. I'm not sure how public it appears, but internally we're upset. Keep in mind I could be reading the atmosphere wrong because I'm upset at my own performances over the last two dozen games or so, and on top of that I'm also irritated with how we're 'finding ways to win'. I genuinely think that VHL fans will find it surprising that this is the current mood in the Riga locker room, you would expect the team in the number one slot to be more fulfilled with their performances. Which begs the question of what Riga GM @hedgehog337 has to think about all of this?

 

My last formal question to Peace was about unwritten rules of the VHL. I asked him what the unwritten rules are of playing in Riga. He chuckled lightly before answering. "I think most teams have the same unwritten rule: Give all you've got and never give up. Pure in simple, a relentless work ethic for a full sixty minutes."

 

For the Fans

Best post game tweet: "HERE'S SOME SALT FOR YOUR PEPPER!" Picture of Pepper covered in salt after Peace poured two salt shakers on his head

Favorite Color: Hazel

Player #: 36

Do you have a pet: Two dogs.

If you had to pick a TV show or movie character to represent your personality who would you choose? William Adama from Battlestar: Galactica

Nicknames that you have been given by teammates and that you have given to teammates. Never really had a nickname for myself, but I've given some to others. Puggy for Puigdemont for example.

 

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Edited January 23, 2019 by BladeMaiden

[Nykonax 1,568]

9 hours ago, BladeMaiden said:

I thought now would be a good time to bring up the subject of rivals. I asked Peace if he was still in a rivalry with Dahlberg @Nykonax to which he quickly replied that he doesn’t waste his effort on competing with players that didn’t have a good character.

what a saint.

[Quik 4,113]

10 hours ago, BladeMaiden said:

Favorite Color: Hazel

 

Explains a lot, tbh @Peace

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

1 minute ago, Quik said:

 

Explains a lot, tbh @Peace

I keep thinking he miss read my question and thought i was asking about eye colour but I kept it anyways because i though the answer was very Peace like. Lol

[Peace 1,562]

10 minutes ago, Quik said:

 

Explains a lot, tbh @Peace

 

6 minutes ago, BladeMaiden said:

I keep thinking he miss read my question and thought i was asking about eye colour but I kept it anyways because i though the answer was very Peace like. Lol

 

It is what it is. 

It is Peace like, as in he doesn't read and apparently had poor comprehension. 

 

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

1 hour ago, Peace said:

 

 

It is what it is. 

It is Peace like, as in he doesn't read and apparently had poor comprehension. 

 

Perfect good  thing I hired you as VSN editor,  not like you need good comprehension to do that lmao

Edited January 23, 2019 by BladeMaiden

[Peace 1,562]

3 minutes ago, BladeMaiden said:

Perfect good  thing I hired you as VSN editor,  not like you need goid comprehension to do tgat lmao

 

Here, allow me to start now: 

Perfect! Good thing I hired you as a VSN editor - you don't need good comprehension to do that anyway. L.M.A.O 

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

6 minutes ago, Peace said:

 

Here, allow me to start now: 

Perfect! Good thing I hired you as a VSN editor - you don't need good comprehension to do that anyway. L.M.A.O 

Awesome, another smart ass on my crew. You will fit right in ;) Nice to see you taking on your new roll btw Peace just remember even when I'm wrong I'm right because I'm your boss L.O.L.

[Peace 1,562]

2 minutes ago, BladeMaiden said:

Awesome, another smart ass on my crew. You will fit right in Nice to see you taking on your new roll btw Peace just remember even when I'm wrong I'm right because I'm your boss L.O.L.

 

You don't may me enough to me my boss. 

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

Just now, Peace said:

 

You don't may me enough to me my boss. 

Looks like i'll edit for you this time

"You don't pay me enough to be my boss"

 

and you'll get paid as soon as I do

[Peace 1,562]

Just now, BladeMaiden said:

Looks like i'll edit for you this time

"You don't pay me enough to be my boss"

 

and you'll get paid as soon as I do

 

I'm off duty when I'm on mobile. 

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

Just now, Peace said:

 

I'm off duty when I'm on mobile. 

You corrected me when i was on mobile, I only thought I was fair I do the same

 

 

[Peace 1,562]

1 minute ago, BladeMaiden said:

You corrected me when i was on mobile, I only thought I was fair I do the same

 

 

 

Just you wait until drunk Peace edits an article. 

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

7 hours ago, Peace said:

 

Just you wait until drunk Peace edits an article. 

I look forward to editing Drunk Peace's work lol

[Peace 1,562]

24 minutes ago, BladeMaiden said:

I look forward to editing Drunk Peace's work lol

 

FTFY

[BladeMaiden 1,807]

4 hours ago, Peace said:

 

FTFY

You love me all the time, don't even play like it's less lol