DC Dragons Press Conference

[KC15 340]

Tough ones for me this week.

1. Who do you think is going to break out this season?

Ove Drydahl.  Had a great rookie season and can only see that rocketing forward this season.

2. How do you think our offseason went?

Boffo!  We are loaded for another run.

3. Are we going to win it all this season?

It's never a sure thing.  The VHL is super competitive.  But I feel it in my bones - YES!

4. If so, are you prepared to outwork every other team?

We have always outworked every other team.  That is how we have finally made it to the top.

5. What does DC need next in order to continue being a strong roster?

Going to have to find that natural scorer to replace Guy.  lol

6. Do you have any suggestions for management?

Keep on keeping on.  Best management anywhere.

[GRZ 179]

1 hour ago, fonziGG said:

Preseason pressers

 

1. Who do you think is going to break out this season?

2. How do you think our offseason went?

3. Are we going to win it all this season?

4. If so, are you prepared to outwork every other team?

5. What does DC need next in order to continue being a strong roster?

6. Do you have any suggestions for management?

1) This is the season Groovy hits the 50 goal mark, I can feel it.
2) Really good, got some free agent additions(some new, some old) and our draft went fine!
3) Hell to the yes.
4) Absolutely, nobody has seen what Ove can do yet.
5) Need to become more consistent, no more of those "1-1 DC" sims
6) Prepare the yeetus!

[bigAL 2,176]

1. Who do you think is going to break out this season?

I wanted to say Ove, but I think with our upgraded D this off-season, he's going to be pushed down the lineup a bit. Groovy has almost broken out a few times, so I say this is the year he leads the league in points.

2. How do you think our offseason went?

SO GOOD. I'm thrilled we got the defensemen that we did. Rock on.

3. Are we going to win it all this season?

We're certainly the team to beat in NA. Thank god Seattle went rebuild mode.

4. If so, are you prepared to outwork every other team?

This is a great reminder to spend my 59 banked TPE today.

5. What does DC need next in order to continue being a strong roster?

We're losing Benny and Guy next season. That's not good. Plan for that, fix that.

6. Do you have any suggestions for management?

Rock on. Love the high risk gambles on first gens. Do what you can to protect our picks, especially as we've seen a few high profile first gens take their toys and stomp off recently.

[fonziGG 1,068]

Sorry for late pressers

 

1. Who is your favourite teammate on the team?

2. Has anyone surprised you so far this season with their play?

3. Who would win at a shootout contest? My take is Wolski.

4. Who is your favourite athlete of all time?

5. What is your favourite drink - alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

6. What is something none of us know about you?

[GRZ 179]

9 hours ago, fonziGG said:

Sorry for late pressers

 

1. Who is your favourite teammate on the team?

2. Has anyone surprised you so far this season with their play?

3. Who would win at a shootout contest? My take is Wolski.

4. Who is your favourite athlete of all time?

5. What is your favourite drink - alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

6. What is something none of us know about you?

1) Can't pick one, the entire D.C organization is like a family to me.
2) Philiefan has been really good throughout this first stretch of games, hopefully he keeps it up!
3) Our GM did play hockey back in the day, im sure he could jump on the ice and show us some moves
4) I pretty much follow hockey only and started like 2 years ago, so nobody historic but currently favorite player is prob Zach Werenski

5) water is the best drink on the entire planet, sometimes a fizzy drink like fanta is fine too.
6) that I am a gaming colossus(real)

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

22 hours ago, fonziGG said:

Sorry for late pressers

 

1. Who is your favourite teammate on the team?

2. Has anyone surprised you so far this season with their play?

3. Who would win at a shootout contest? My take is Wolski.

4. Who is your favourite athlete of all time?

5. What is your favourite drink - alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

6. What is something none of us know about you?

 

1. I can't decide this one, honestly. I don't want to single anyone out! Everyone in the LR has been so great on and off the ice.

2. Block has been producing offensively at a better rate than the whole team. What a stud.

3. Guy Lesieur has always had some fantastic hands. Always kills the shootouts in practice.

4. Michael Jordan! Always an inspiration, even though it's from basketball. Hockey-wise, I would have to say Martin Brodeur. What an amazing career with unbeatable goalie records.

5. Iced capps from Tim Hortons!

6. I'm an elevator mechanic, personally. Some know it, some don't. Before you say it, yes, it does have it's ups and downs.

[KC15 340]

1. Who is your favourite teammate on the team?

Taking the same copout as my teammates above.  Just too hard to single one guy out.

2. Has anyone surprised you so far this season with their play?

Not really.  We are playing well and I expected us to play well.

3. Who would win at a shootout contest? My take is Wolski.

How can I disagree.  If you mean in most saves and not most goals scored. lol

4. Who is your favourite athlete of all time?

Too hard.  Going to reduce it to just favorite hockey player.  Ken Daneyko.  Others were much better and in the Hall of Fame, but I love that guy!

5. What is your favourite drink - alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

Gin and tonic - or coffee.

6. What is something none of us know about you?

My first car ever was a 1964 MG Midget that was a complete rust bucket and could not go over 40 mph.  My brother overhauled the engine and I got it up to 75 once.  75 feels like 120 in any other car.  lol

[STZ 5,360]

1. Who is your favourite teammate on the team?

GRZ is my fav hype man, Groovy is my favorite podcaster without internet, Wolski is my favorite voice of reason, Lesiuer is my favorite silent assassins, Eno is my fav shot caller, Fonzi is my fav asst shot caller, Mike is my fav salty old guy, omg is my fav S69er, X is my fav guys who keeps reminding us that he nurtured and raised Eno from the ground up, cait is my fav new draftee, 

 

2. Has anyone surprised you so far this season with their play?

I think Groovy Dude just keeps smashing this league up. He's definitely going to take this team forward and he'll go down as one of the DC Greats.

 

3. Who would win at a shootout contest? My take is Wolski.

I'll put my money on Guy

 

4. Who is your favourite athlete of all time?

Ninja

 

5. What is your favourite drink - alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

Beerz

 

6. What is something none of us know about you?

I'm pretty open, and I've been around the league so long.. I don't know if much of my personal life is really a secret lol. I didn't east fast food for all of Jan.. Maybe that's new info lol..

[bigAL 2,176]

1. Who is your favourite teammate on the team?

I love me some X, he's my buddy and we ride or die together even if we aren't on the same line anymore.

 

2. Has anyone surprised you so far this season with their play?

Benny isn't the washed up old fart everyone was predicting he'd be - he got 4 goals against London today!!!

 

3. Who would win at a shootout contest? My take is Wolski.

DCD-G is a shootout legend
 

4. Who is your favourite athlete of all time?
Big Alfie guy here. The Pizza Line in Ottawa was legendary, and it's a crying shame they never won a Cup.

 

5. What is your favourite drink - alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

Bubly is so damn good, it's literally just fizzy water with flavour so no sugar or carbs or bad stuff.

 

6. What is something none of us know about you?

If I told you, then you would know about it and that defeats the purpose

 

[fonziGG 1,068]

I forgot to press submit so super late edition

 

1. What is your favourite colour?

2. What are you training currently?

3. How do you think we're performing this season so far?

4. Who's the most fashionable in the group?

5. What is your favourite pasta?

6. How much can you bench press?

[GRZ 179]

On 2/6/2021 at 7:32 PM, fonziGG said:

I forgot to press submit so super late edition

 

1. What is your favourite colour?

2. What are you training currently?

3. How do you think we're performing this season so far?

4. Who's the most fashionable in the group?

5. What is your favourite pasta?

6. How much can you bench press?

1) Black/Purple
2) Working on those puckhandling skills
3) Pretty good, but we can be better.
4) Dood, that dude has mad drip
5) Love Penne and Linguine
6) Ove is a big boy, 195lb

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

On 2/6/2021 at 9:32 AM, fonziGG said:

I forgot to press submit so super late edition

 

1. What is your favourite colour?

2. What are you training currently?

3. How do you think we're performing this season so far?

4. Who's the most fashionable in the group?

5. What is your favourite pasta?

6. How much can you bench press?

1. Blue and black seem to be the clothes I usually buy.

2. Just getting everything back up that regressed in the off-season!

3. I think it's been good, but we have what it takes to be even better. We have tough times with consistency, for whatever reason.

4. Groovy Dood!

5. Chicken fettuccini alfredo!

6. I hover around 200 but it's been awhile since I've consistently been to the gym in real life.

[KC15 340]

1. What is your favourite colour?
Vert.

2. What are you training currently?

Back to 99 DF this morning.  Then on to PH and SK for the rest of the season.

3. How do you think we're performing this season so far?

Not too bad.  Should be a bit better, but as long as we gel for the playoffs...

4. Who's the most fashionable in the group?

Funny enough, for coming from a country known for its fashion, Guy doesn't notice that much.

5. What is your favourite pasta?

Fettuccine

6. How much can you bench press?
250 on a good day

[bigAL 2,176]

1. What is your favourite colour?

Green, but orange is making a charge these days

 

2. What are you training currently?

I've got my 99 DF and SC, 85 PA, 95 PH, so... I dunno what's next? Should I start banking?

 

3. How do you think we're performing this season so far?

We've got less 1-1 sims this year so that's amazing

 

4. Who's the most fashionable in the group?

Benny Graves wears hats

 

5. What is your favourite pasta?

Presidents Choice White Cheddar Mac n Cheese. Beats KD out of the water

 

6. How much can you bench press?

lol I like to run and do yoga

[fonziGG 1,068]

Post Valentine’s Day edition

 

1. What did you guys do for Valentine’s Day?

2. What limitations did you put out so you were prepared to play the next day?

3. Who is your greatest inspiration in the VHL?

4. How do you think we’ve been doing this season?

5. What could we be doing better?

6. How are you doing in the middle of the COVID-19 era?

[KC15 340]

1. What did you guys do for Valentine’s Day?

Nice dinner, exchanged nice gifts and just enjoyed one another.

2. What limitations did you put out so you were prepared to play the next day?

None.  Not necessary. 

3. Who is your greatest inspiration in the VHL?

Got to go back to Mikko Aaltonen.  Was the vet that took this young winger under his care and got me started right.

4. How do you think we’ve been doing this season?

Tad disappointing tbh, but as long as we make playoffs, anything is possible.

5. What could we be doing better?

Scoring more and stopping them from scoring as much.  lol

6. How are you doing in the middle of the COVID-19 era?

Getting really tired of it all, but seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

[BarzalGoat 728]

1 hour ago, fonziGG said:

Post Valentine’s Day edition

 

1. What did you guys do for Valentine’s Day?

2. What limitations did you put out so you were prepared to play the next day?

3. Who is your greatest inspiration in the VHL?

4. How do you think we’ve been doing this season?

5. What could we be doing better?

6. How are you doing in the middle of the COVID-19 era?

1. I went skiing with my girlfriend and another couple, was quite the conditions for East Coast skiing in the US.

2. I don't understand what limitations means? Am I not supposed to put 100% effort into everything?

3. Probably our former teammate's old player Gabriel McAllister, when I was first coming up in the league he was an absolute force

4. I think last year proved we just need a chance and to make the playoffs, so i'm satisfied so far

5. I think we need to do better at scoring high when our opponents are going low, if Wolski puts up a good performance we have to have his back

6. This question again?  My only complaint is that the heat in my apartment is not working, so it's been kinda chilly indoors

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

On 2/18/2021 at 8:42 AM, fonziGG said:

Post Valentine’s Day edition

 

1. What did you guys do for Valentine’s Day?

2. What limitations did you put out so you were prepared to play the next day?

3. Who is your greatest inspiration in the VHL?

4. How do you think we’ve been doing this season?

5. What could we be doing better?

6. How are you doing in the middle of the COVID-19 era?

1. I went snowboarding with some friends!

2. I made sure I wasn't playing bad in order to play well.

3. I would say Kendrick, because he's who originally brought me here.

4. A little worse than I thought, but still solid overall.

5. Scoring more goals than we let get scored on us.

6. I'm alright. It definitely sucks not being able to see everyone I want to, but I'm doing well.

[fonziGG 1,068]

Answer 6 questions for 2 tpe. 

 

1. Looks like we'll be facing Vancouver, are we ready to do the double on them?
2. Is there is a job in the VHL you'd like to take on and why?
3. Who is your favourite member within the community?
4. Do you have any suggestions for the management team here in DC?
5. Who has the funkiest fashion choices on the team and why?
6. Are you prepared to go all the way? Do you think we can?

[BarzalGoat 728]

10 hours ago, fonziGG said:

Answer 6 questions for 2 tpe. 

 

1. Looks like we'll be facing Vancouver, are we ready to do the double on them?
2. Is there is a job in the VHL you'd like to take on and why?
3. Who is your favourite member within the community?
4. Do you have any suggestions for the management team here in DC?
5. Who has the funkiest fashion choices on the team and why?
6. Are you prepared to go all the way? Do you think we can?

1. It's just a business trip, and we always get our business done, i won't feel bad

2. Once upon a time I fancied myself a General Manager, but nowadays I just don't have the time

3. It changes between one of the guys who joined in the same period as me between Eno & McWolf

4. Set lines to win games :), and you know that better than me

5. I mean, X gon' give it to em. You know he is the one serving the looks in the pregame 

6. I think we came about as close as you can last time, and this time we are going to close the deal.

 

[KC15 340]

1. Looks like we'll be facing Vancouver, are we ready to do the double on them?
2. Is there is a job in the VHL you'd like to take on and why?
3. Who is your favourite member within the community?
4. Do you have any suggestions for the management team here in DC?
5. Who has the funkiest fashion choices on the team and why?
6. Are you prepared to go all the way? Do you think we can?

1. Absolutely!  Doing it once proves it can be done!

2. Wanted to be an updater for quite a while, but now that I'm going on pause after this season and Lesieur's retirement, no.

3. Too many to choose from.

4.  Just keep doing what you're doing.  It's obviously working.

5. Can't say I even notice.  Fashion isn't my thing.  I like food, wine, and hockey and not in that order.

6. Yes.  Yes.  I'm not so arrogant as to say, "we've got this", but I know we can win if we play to our potential.  Now it's just up to us to put it all out there on the ice.

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

On 2/22/2021 at 8:56 PM, fonziGG said:

Answer 6 questions for 2 tpe. 

 

1. Looks like we'll be facing Vancouver, are we ready to do the double on them?
2. Is there is a job in the VHL you'd like to take on and why?
3. Who is your favourite member within the community?
4. Do you have any suggestions for the management team here in DC?
5. Who has the funkiest fashion choices on the team and why?
6. Are you prepared to go all the way? Do you think we can?

1. I wish we could have gone further in the playoffs. My answer here would have been yes.

2. Nothing, to be honest. I'm Head of PT and BoG already, and I've done VHL GM before. I'm in charge of the Updaters so I know what that's about too. I'd probably be open to simming one day.

3. It's hard to really choose just one person as a favourite. I have a number of them. I know it's controversial, but I would throw gorlab into my top list. He always makes things interesting and entertains me. Also helped me out with graphics many seasons ago when I was horrible.

4. Win harder. I don't know. We've had great teams with some great runs at the cup. I wouldn't ever give advice in that regard, I don't think.

5. Xavier. Dude always shines when out of his equipment.

6. I thought we could. I still think we can with a re-sim.

[fonziGG 1,068]

Answer 6 questions for 2 tpe. 
 

1.) How does it feel to go out so early?

2.) What are you going to do this off-season?

3.) Are we throwing a retirement plan for those retiring this season?

4.) Who’s throwing the first BBQ next season?

5.) Do you have any strange food restrictions?

6.) If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

[DollarAndADream 3,356]

14 hours ago, fonziGG said:

Answer 6 questions for 2 tpe. 
 

1.) How does it feel to go out so early?

2.) What are you going to do this off-season?

3.) Are we throwing a retirement plan for those retiring this season?

4.) Who’s throwing the first BBQ next season?

5.) Do you have any strange food restrictions?

6.) If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

 

1. Horrible. I think everyone in our LR expected better, and we really wanted to give our retiring players a last hurrah.

2. Nothing but train. I want to come back strong next season, and I don't want to be too affected by my age.

3. Hell yeah. Big party for all the retiring players! We have a lot of them.

4. The youngest player!

5. As long as you perform on the ice, I don't care what you're eating.

6. Netherlands!

[Spartan 4,404]

On 3/7/2021 at 9:00 AM, fonziGG said:

Answer 6 questions for 2 tpe. 
 

1.) How does it feel to go out so early?

2.) What are you going to do this off-season?

3.) Are we throwing a retirement plan for those retiring this season?

4.) Who’s throwing the first BBQ next season?

5.) Do you have any strange food restrictions?

6.) If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?

1. Well, I wasn't on the team this past season, but I can understand the frustration of being bounced before you expect it. I know we'll work to get even better this season.

2. I'm definitely going to train with @Mike ,@GRZ and @Philliefan to get to know my fellow defensemen a bit better. Chemistry is super important and we're going to have to get up to speed and meshing with each other as soon as possible.

3. Hell yeah, @omgitshim and Cinnamon Block are folks I looked up to so we gotta celebrate Block's career along with the other fantastic folks retiring.

4. I'll host, why not! Happy to introduce myself to my new teammates, and no better way than to get the offseason started with a nice BBQ.

5. I don't know if its strange since it's pretty common, but I'm allergic to peanuts. Also have an odd sensitivity to apples and cherries, I get some lip swelling when I eat those two.

6. Probably find some random state with a river so I can go kayaking for the day. River kayaking is very peaceful and relaxing.