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Zach6668 · Guru

Round 1, Game 7 - March 14, 2017

Zach6668 · Guru

1. T.J. Oshie
2. Artemi Panarin
3. Aleksander Barkov
4. Logan Couture
5. Jeff Skinner
6. Marcus Johansson
7. Rasmus Ristolainen
8. Jared Spurgeon
9. Marc-Edouard Vlasic
10. Derek Forbort

-- Edited by Zach6668 on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 06:46:11 PM

-- Edited by Zach6668 on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 06:53:43 PM

Zach6668 · Guru

One game 7 in the main tourney, two in the MDG.

Jay · Turning Back the Clock

Cheering for you, Zach.

Zach6668 · Guru

Jay wrote:
Cheering for you, Zach.

You'd rather face me than Josh? Haha :P

Zach6668 · Guru

Though if I do win, it could potentially set up a finals rematch.

Jay · Turning Back the Clock

Zach6668 wrote:
Jay wrote:
Cheering for you, Zach.
You'd rather face me than Josh? Haha :P

You're the regular season champion. I want to play the best.

SBriand · Guru

Oh well would have lost in 6.

Now back to caring about the DannyG cup.

Zach6668 · Guru

Jets-Devils has been postponed.

Zach6668 · Guru

Pretty fair trade. We each lose a key player. Ehlers for me, Wheeler for Duane.

I think my replacement is better though, so a lucky gain for me, perhaps.

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

Jay wrote:

You're the regular season champion. I want to play the best.

I would say you're wrong, but you're a 3 time champ. So I'll shut up now.

MLP · Guru

Its so much easier to pick a team to root for and against in the AHL.

Fenxis · Guru

Zach6668 wrote:
Pretty fair trade. We each lose a key player. Ehlers for me, Wheeler for Duane.

I think my replacement is better though, so a lucky gain for me, perhaps.

I also loose the not-so amazing Henrique and down to 9 skaters. Will be lucky to even overcome the no-goalie handicap.

Zach6668 · Guru

Oh I didn't even think about NJ players. Ouch.

That's really brutal. I hate cancelled games. They **** everything up.

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

Random annoyance: On the records page for most playoff appearances, it says max = 9, but I think it should be higher.

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

Also good luck to Duane and Zach. I feel bad for the loser. I don't know about you guys but the day you are eliminated from the FCHL playoffs, is annually the worst day of the year for me. I want to dig a hole and cry all day.

Fenxis · Guru

Zach6668 wrote:
Oh I didn't even think about NJ players. Ouch.

That's really brutal. I hate cancelled games. They **** everything up.

Who knows... maybe one of my players will channel some hidden talents and make this interesting :)

Backstrom
Carter
Sekera
Suter
Rielly
Stewart
Pyatt
Killorn
Russell

Zach6668 · Guru

Ottawa_Biatch wrote:
Random annoyance: On the records page for most playoff appearances, it says max = 9, but I think it should be higher.

I always took that to mean that was the highest total achieved.

It should be the total number of seasons played, I think?

Zach6668 · Guru

Fenxis wrote:
Zach6668 wrote:
Oh I didn't even think about NJ players. Ouch.

That's really brutal. I hate cancelled games. They **** everything up.
Who knows... maybe one of my players will channel some hidden talents and make this interesting :)

Backstrom
Carter
Sekera
Suter
Rielly
Stewart
Pyatt
Killorn
Russell

This is EXACTLY the kind of lineup my team would lose to in a game 7.

It does have potential to get interesting late. You've got Carter and my goalies

MLP · Guru

Ottawa_Biatch wrote:
I don't know about you guys but the day you are eliminated from the FCHL playoffs, is annually the worst day of the year for me. I want to dig a hole and cry all day.

I feel ya!

Jay · Turning Back the Clock

Even in the middle of a game, if I'm losing then I find I'm pretty grumpy. Not necessarily in the regular season but in the playoffs for sure. Alternately, the best feeling is when you need a goal and you see that team score and you wait and wait for the update to finally see that it was your player.

When Marchand scored his first goal last night to give me the lead I was jumping around the house just like when Joey Bats hit the bat flip homerun.

-- Edited by Jay on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 03:11:28 PM

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

Zach6668 wrote:
Ottawa_Biatch wrote:
Random annoyance: On the records page for most playoff appearances, it says max = 9, but I think it should be higher.
I always took that to mean that was the highest total achieved.

It should be the total number of seasons played, I think?

Yeah max seasons. Its a given that my playoff total is the highest achieved by an owner. So no need list that stat twice

Zach6668 · Guru

Ottawa_Biatch wrote:
Zach6668 wrote:
Ottawa_Biatch wrote:
Random annoyance: On the records page for most playoff appearances, it says max = 9, but I think it should be higher.
I always took that to mean that was the highest total achieved.

It should be the total number of seasons played, I think?
Yeah max seasons. Its a given that my playoff total is the highest achieved by an owner. So no need list that stat twice

I think we need to strike 2005/06 from the record here. the playoff appearances list is the only place it remains.

weve had 11 real seasons, plus the trial season in 05/06.

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

I'm ok with that

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

I think it should just be removed from everything

SBriand · Guru

MLP wrote:

Its so much easier to pick a team to root for and against in the AHL.

Rooting for Biatch and Dale in AHL

rooting for Biatch and Zach here.

Bistch is still an assh0le but it's funny when people get in arguments with him

and he can keep pointing out that he's a proven winner. Zach is an expansion team so why not make it so I'll be the only expansion team that will never win a title.

Fck. Now I'm mad again.

MLP · Guru

Jay wrote:
Even in the middle of a game, if I'm losing then I find I'm pretty grumpy. Not necessarily in the regular season but in the playoffs for sure. Alternately, the best feeling is when you need a goal and you see that team score and you wait and wait for the update to finally see that it was your player.
When Marchand scored his first goal last night to give me the lead I was jumping around the house just like when Joey Bats hit the bat flip homerun.

-- Edited by Jay on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 03:11:28 PM

Agree completely with the happy/grumpy part of being in the playoffs, and winning/losing. I am truly glad that you experience it all in the same way that I do, nice to know I'm not the only one whose mood changes based on what an FCHL team does in the playoffs. lol! The last 4 games I just lost my **** a little more every game night, and then boom, all gone last night. If fckng Matthews scores a bunch tonight, Im going to put him on the block, and somebody can have the asswipe.

MLP · Guru

AHL- Biatch is probably still my pick, but man do I love Swacker Dave+Ortenzio. I guess Roy as partner makes me like Swacker Dave more in that conference, and on the other side, its Biatch. I like Dale, but Dan is my boy!

FCHL- I think my sentimental pick is Zach, but I worry that he wont be as awesome as Commish as he has been once he wins and gets lackadaisical about the FCHL. Winning breeds complacency, maybe we need Zach hungry to keep this league at its optimum Admin level.

Zach6668 · Guru

MLP wrote:
Jay wrote:
Even in the middle of a game, if I'm losing then I find I'm pretty grumpy. Not necessarily in the regular season but in the playoffs for sure. Alternately, the best feeling is when you need a goal and you see that team score and you wait and wait for the update to finally see that it was your player.
When Marchand scored his first goal last night to give me the lead I was jumping around the house just like when Joey Bats hit the bat flip homerun.

-- Edited by Jay on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 03:11:28 PM
Agree completely with the happy/grumpy part of being in the playoffs, and winning/losing. I am truly glad that you experience it all in the same way that I do, nice to know I'm not the only one whose mood changes based on what an FCHL team does in the playoffs. lol! The last 4 games I just lost my **** a little more every game night, and then boom, all gone last night. If fckng Matthews scores a bunch tonight, Im going to put him on the block, and somebody can have the asswipe.

Lol. Completely agree with the playoff experience. You guys see my 20 posts a night where I go through all of the emotions. Hahah.

Zach6668 · Guru

MLP wrote:
AHL- Biatch is probably still my pick, but man do I love Swacker Dave+Ortenzio. I guess Roy as partner makes me like Swacker Dave more in that conference, and on the other side, its Biatch. I like Dale, but Dan is my boy!

FCHL- I think my sentimental pick is Zach, but I worry that he wont be as awesome as Commish as he has been once he wins and gets lackadaisical about the FCHL. Winning breeds complacency, maybe we need Zach hungry to keep this league at its optimum Admin level.

pfft, I considered quitting the other day if I lost game 5 and 6. Lol

You may notice scores get updated a lot quicker when I'm winning lol so don't worry about complacency

Ottawa_Biatch · Guru

Thanks for the love!

MLP · Guru

Zach6668 wrote:
You may notice scores get updated a lot quicker when I'm winning lol so don't worry about complacency

Ya, but the winning I meant is that you finally get your title. Once you pop your FCHL cherry, you may no longer look at it in the same way.

Its great when your chasing the title and the closer you get, the better. But once you get there, it may not be that great, and then it begins to seem a little bit same old same old after a while.

(are we still talking about a hockey pool, because this sure is beginning to sound like a woman)

Jay · Turning Back the Clock

I'm cheering for Zach here too. I don't need another title...as long as I kept my streak alive.

Hurricanes playoff appearances: 8
Hurricanes 1st round exits: 0

-- Edited by Jay on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 04:39:23 PM

Zach6668 · Guru

Jay wrote:
I'm cheering for Zach here too. I don't need another title...as long as I kept my streak alive.

Hurricanes playoff appearances: 8
Hurricanes 1st round exits: 0

-- Edited by Jay on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 04:39:23 PM

Wow. That's impressive.

MLP · Guru

SBriand wrote:

Fck. Now I'm mad again.

SBriand · Guru

Ottawa_Biatch wrote:
Thanks for the love!

Get hit by a taco truck assh0le.

MLP · Guru

I want an honest opinion on what you would, cant help myself, I need to ask this:

IF I had won last night, tonight would be my game 7. I was curious to see how badly this postponed game would have hurt me, and I realized, really bad. Out: Schiefele+THall, In: Marchessault and....nobody! Mark Stone is out too, so I would need to go empty on game 7, OR.........call up a farmie. Say, Mitch Marner.

Game 7. Would you burn a whole year of Marner on possibly just 1 game? (I know some may argue I should have done it long ago, but honestly, would have made 0 difference)
I'm also thankful I lost last night now, cause that decision would have been insane for me.

sorry to crowd up this great game 7 thread with my crap, but Im really curious what you guys would do. I do think Id have the balls to call him up frankly.

-- Edited by MLP on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 06:11:01 PM

SBriand · Guru

I would have called him up but probably for different reasons. I've made playoffs 3 times and won 1,2,2 games each year. My desire to get out of the 1st round would force me to do it. Plus I have no clue wtf I'm
Doing 83% of the time.

Zach6668 · Guru

MLP wrote:
I want an honest opinion on what you would, cant help myself, I need to ask this:

IF I had won last night, tonight would be my game 7. I was curious to see how badly this postponed game would have hurt me, and I realized, really bad. Out: Schiefele+THall, In: Marchessault and....nobody! Mark Stone is out too, so I would need to go empty on game 7, OR.........call up a farmie. Say, Mitch Marner.

Game 7. Would you burn a whole year of Marner on possibly just 1 game? (I know some may argue I should have done it long ago, but honestly, would have made 0 difference)
I'm also thankful I lost last night now, cause that decision would have been insane for me.

sorry to crowd up this great game 7 thread with my crap, but Im really curious what you guys would do. I do think Id have the balls to call him up frankly.

-- Edited by MLP on Tuesday 14th of March 2017 06:11:01 PM

I probably would. Getting past Jay is an accomplishment and would make you the favorite to win the title. I think you have to. I've done it before, but not with anybody as good as Marner (or even close, really).

Zach6668 · Guru

I hate my choices to replace Ehlers.

I have Johansson in now, but also available are Coyle, Rask, Eberle...

I just hate the matchup for both Johansson and Coyle (facing each other) and Rask and Eberle are kind of a notch down in expectation this season.

Johansson is a step up from Coyle too, so I kind of have to go with him.

I don't know if this is valid at all, but it may be useful to load up on Caps to kind of try to neutralize Backstrom, who is one of just two real impact players left in Duane's lineup (I also have Oshie).

Zach6668 · Guru

Good luck, Duane.

Zach6668 · Guru

Oh man, I *almost* put Schmidt in. Dammit.

Oh well maybe an Oshie assist there?

Barkov goal too!

Zach6668 · Guru

Backstrom picked up the primary assist, Oshie the secondary. Works for me.

Jay · Turning Back the Clock

Arp, I would have called up Marner for tonight.

I haven't looked. Would you have the cap space to do it?

rich · Overselling players since 1993

Yeah I call him up but as established I stink.

Zach6668 · Guru

Zach6668 wrote:
Backstrom picked up the primary assist, Oshie the secondary. Works for me.

Seems they took away Oshie's assist. I thought this may happen. Surprised it took so long.

MLP · Guru

Jay wrote:
Arp, I would have called up Marner for tonight.

I haven't looked. Would you have the cap space to do it?

Ya, I sort of always had the cap space there for just such a possibility for the playoffs. I used it to call up Ryan Murphy once I had D injuries, and would have used it on Marner, if I decided I was that hard up. Marchessault though, lol. Would have been fitting considering it was you. :)

MLP · Guru

Zach, whats your score? too lazy to go to Yahoo, too worried to see my own team once I do.

Zach6668 · Guru

MLP wrote:
Zach, whats your score? too lazy to go to Yahoo, too worried to see my own team once I do.

I'm at 2.5, he's at -0.5 but I have my goalies left. I'll post an update of who's left once the early games are done.

Zach6668 · Guru

Alright... three late games left... SJ/BUF and LA/ARI at 10:30, and half of EDM/DAL left.

Scores are current through the EDM/DAL game at 4-1.

Toronto Rockets - 2.5
Logan Couture
Marc-Edouard Vlasic
Rasmus Ristolainen
Derek Forbort
SJ goalies

Injured Reserve - 0.0 (OT)
Jeff Carter
Andrej Sekera
Kris Russell

It's not over. A Carter goal and 3 against the Sharks and IR would get the win.