The Deer
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THat would be sick!!!
I have no idea how it would be pulled off (my internet knowledge is poor), but if it's doable, consider me interested in having one of my games called!
Great initiative!
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BS, you know what league and console the94kid plays on. Everybody does. It's posts like that that have to stop if this place is going to be cleaned up the way Evan, Schwartz, and the majority of posters want it to be.
As for you Biffy, anytime you want to play "Queerbec", you know where to find him.
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I for one like to play without a goalie sometimes just to sharpen my defensive game. You sure don't slack off on defense when you know there's no goalie back there. Once you get really good, you find yourself making saves with your defencemen!
Many times I've practiced against the computer with no goalie. Good way to practice, and it's a little more fun than repeatedly whipping the computer 12-0.
A good challenge, if the other party isn't offended by it, is to play without a goalie against a weaker opponent who is using his goalie.
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I think that the mods should set a certain amount of time for someone to log/confirm games, and if one guy has done it and not the other after said fixed amount of time, then the mod should be able to just confirm/log the games himself. I do not like having to wait like a week to get credit for my wins.
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Bryan Fogarty was actually an incredible talent. He had one of the best careers in the history of junior hockey. He broke Bobby Orr's OHL records for goals and points by a defenceman in a season, scoring something like 48 goals and something like 150-some points for Niagara Falls in 1988-89, and was named CHL Player of the Year that year.
However, in one of the NHL's more tragic stories, Fogarty's life and career were ruined by drug and alcohol abuse, which was apparently fuelled in large part by a personality/social disorder that he used drugs and alcohol to try and escape from. His NHL career was a bust, as he bounced around from team to team and never even came close to realizing the potential he showed in junior, and his troubled life came to a terrible end a couple of years after he played his last NHL game, when he was found dead in a school in I believe it was Branford, Ontario, due to a drug overdose. As I said, one of the sadder stories ever involving an NHL player.
The Quebec Nordiques had two first round picks in 1987. It wasn't until their second one that they selected Joe Sakic; they used their first on Fogarty. That tells you how highly touted he was coming out of junior.
I wasn't saying that you were saying Fogarty sucked, I just felt like telling his story for any that were unaware.
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It's now been EIGHT days since a SNES A game was logged.
On this topic, Blazer- please log our games.
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LOL love it, we have some solid journalists on this board!
Keep this s**t coming!
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Excellent write-up! Some of the best journalism this forum has seen.
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Back to real league games against real SNES A players...........
The Quebec Nordiques were in action for the first time since an upset loss at the hands of Calgary. They had thought that they were in action with four games against Boston, but it turned out that the guy representing Boston wasn't really their SNES A League coach, so those were just ummmmmmm practice games I guess.
For the first time ever, including last season, Deer and Blazer hooked up for some SNES League action. Last year I had already played Dallas when they were being coached by Schwabe before Blazer took them over. In that game, Quebec scored possibly the craziest comeback in league history, scoring a 4-3 OT win despite heading into the final minute of regulation down 3-0. However, that comeback would at least get a run for its money today!
The first game was close throughout the first period, after which Quebec led 3-1. Vancouver scored early in the second to make it 3-2, but after that the Nordiques went absolutely insane, ripping the game wide open, and next thing you know they had a 9-2 second period lead. The blowout would continue, as the Nordiques would go on to win 14-3 and set a new standard for goals scored by one team in a single game for this SNES A season. The 14 goals also tied the all-time SNES record set by the94kid last year in a similar 14-3 win over the New York Islanders.
HOWEVER
The easy 14-3 win made Quebec a bit overconfident heading into the rematch at Pacific Coliseum. They played a pretty nonchalant first period, figuring the goals would start pouring in for them sooner or later, but the next thing they knew, Vancouver was all over them, and the score was 4-1 Canucks in the second period. A little nonchalance can go a long way in toppling a team, and it almost did for Quebec. Coach Pierre Page then called a timeout, and the Nords responded immediately with a pair of goals from Mats Sundin to cut the Canuck lead to 4-3 heading into the third.
Early in the third, Sundin scored yet again to tie the game up at 4-4. Figuring the momentum was totally back in their favour, Quebec started playing nonchalantly AGAIN, and just like the last time, they paid for it. Vancouver scored the next two goals to stake a 6-4 lead with under two minutes remaining, and it looked like the Nordiques were done.
Not so fast! The Owen Nolan show was about to begin. Nolan scored with 1:11 remaining to cut the score to 6-5, and suddenly the game that felt like it was over felt attainable again for Quebec. They still had trouble getting much going off the next faceoff, and the Canuck checking kept forcing them back into their own zone. It wasn't looking good at all, especially when Pavel Bure got a breakaway with 30 seconds left, only for Ron Hextall to make the game-saving stop. Finally, Nolan grabbed the puck, made a few really tight moves, including a few dead stops to allow Vancouver defenders to just miss him, and then fired home the tying goal with just 18 seconds left to play. The Nordique bench was jubilant, and this time was determined not to let the comeback be for naught. But there would be one final scare. Trevor Linden got a partial breakaway in the dying seconds, but Hextall stayed with him and the defender clawing away at Linden's back threw hiim off just enough to have his deke attempt glance off the side of the post. How many lives did Quebec have in this game?
We then went to OT, where the unstoppable Nolan saved the best for last. After a little over a minute of tense overtime action, Vancouver not wanting to lose after being up 4-1 and 6-4, and Quebec not wanting TWO major comebacks to go down the drain, Nolan used a couple of Vancouver defenders as a screen, and fired it low glove side past Kirk McLean for a very improbable 7-6 OT Quebec win.
Despite having won the game, Quebec knew they didn't deserve to, and that they relied on a last-minute panic that only works a very small percentage of the time to bail them out. Vancouver was the team that showed more hunger throughout much of this game and my hat is off to them for rebounding so well from a blowout loss the game before. The second game was definitely a reality check for me, and hopefully will go down as a lesson learned that you can't take an opponent lightly even if you pumped 14 goals by him the previous game.
After a loss in Calgary and that crazy scare in Vancouver, Quebec is happy to get the hell off of the West Coast with four points out of six.
These games have yet to be logged because Blazer had to go immediately after them. Here's hoping they're logged soon.
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OK so there was some confusion. Evidently you are not Boston of the SNES A League, and those weren't league games.
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OK so if he's not the Boston coach (he told me he was........ ugh) then my games against him don't count. In that case, where the f**k is the real Boston coach?
Getting pretty frustrated.
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Dude, I thought you told me you were Fatty, coach of the Bruins in the SNES A League.
Maybe we're confused and you're actually not Boston's SNES A coach. Maybe you think those were just exhibition games we played and maybe that's why you're not logging our games.
Can someone help me here? I'm beyond confused.
Played two more games with this guy tonight, still under the impression he was Boston SNES A. He once again bailed without logging the games.
Scores:
Que 4 @ Bos 1
Bos 2 @ Que 3 (OT)
Still need to log last month's scores:
Que 4 @ Bos 3
Bos 0 @ Que 5
If this is even really Boston SNES A coach.
If he's not and there's some misunderstanding, then no worries, but where the hell is Boston's coach?
Confused.
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That was confusing man.
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Does that mean you were turned on?
If so, mission accomplished.
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Same as the94kid!
I'm interested to know how many Canadian players are in the leagues vs how many American players............ and there are a few people (Fenty, Stalakosa off the top of my head) that are from Europe as well.
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I used to be the same way about icings, sending my goalie after the puck so as not to stop the game, and I'll still do that in friendly f**k-around games.
But in competitive games, either in this league or in championship play at the94kid's place, I've changed and now will touch up for the icing. Winning the faceoff in the other end and scoring could end up being the difference between winning and losing an important game. I know it's annoying to have the game stop, but I want to provide myself with as many chances to score as possible, so yeah gimme the faceoff at the other end now.
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I'm sorry about that Schwartz man, I still love you, you know it.
I just wanted to try and help get this show back on the road. 
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There's tons wrong with SNES A - 1/3 of the guys don't even play their games.
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Hahaha awesome thread, too funny boys.
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And a few years before that, in St. Louis, Gilmour got something even better................... from a teenaged babysitter!!!
I'm not sure how many Leaf fans heard that one about their folk hero.
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I can see how you love that avatar, BS..........
it brings back warm, fuzzy memories of the time that the Leafs "kinda almost came close" to winning a Stanley Cup.
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Almost every time I log on to AIM to try and find a game, it's always the same guys on. There are a good # of guys in this league that are almost NEVER on, and seemingly are making very little effort to play their games.
Speaking in general terms doesn't seem to be improving anything so I'm going to start calling guys out by name, even if it doesn't do much for my popularity.
Where the hell are the following guys?
- Fatty (Boston), I've seen him on once all season, played two games, and he still has yet to log them.
- IAmBlurb (Buffalo), have seen him twice this season I think, has three games played.
- Smack (Dallas), have seen him once all season, he has three games played.
- Blazer (Vancouver), not sure if I've ever seen him online, has nine games played, and hasn't responded to many "Schedule A Game" posts I've made trying to get our Month 1 games played.
- Cajanek (Washington), was a hell of a guy to get his games in last year, was around in the very early going this year and has totally disappeared.
- Schwartz (Hartford), a good friend of mine and all but I'm calling out everyone who's not playing enough games even if they're friends; one of the guys running the league should have more than eight games in.
I'm pretty disappointed in the snail's pace progress of this league. I figured that last season was when all the growing pains would be worked out, and that this year the fat would be trimmed and we'd be left with nothing but the most dedicated guys. I figured the season would run pretty smoothly and that the ship would be pretty tight. It started out pretty good but I'm sorry it's gone to hell lately; you can log on for days on end without seeing any new games having been played.
I'm a bit worried about the state of this league that I enjoy so much. Boys s**t or get off the pot and let's see some games played; it's not like it should be a chore, we all joined this league because we enjoy playing NHL 94, right?
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Good job on mentioning which console you play on. You're now OK in BSDaemon's books.
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Are you familiar and comfortable with playing online? If so, I'll hit you up for some games for sure! Nice to see another SNES player come along, it seems there are less of us out there than there are GENS guys.
Radio Broadcast NHL 94 Games
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God knows if something (i.e. a late night of drinking Friday night lol) will come up in the meantime, but as of right now, I'm up for getting up for 9:30 my time on Saturday for a game. I love this idea of having a game radio broadcast. I still have no idea how someone else would be able to watch a game, but I'll leave that up to those a lot more computer savvy than I.
Auggie- after the game, think there'd be any way I could hear what the broadcast sounded like? Is it going to be recorded anywhere and sendable as a file over the computer?
Anyway sounds like fun! Schwartz would be a great opponent for such a game.