Tickenest

The best part is that I'm the Flyers fan. And I have to say, the NHL '94 Flyers were in fine form last night, doing all the things (especially failing to accept passes and failing to knock guys down whom they ram into the boards) that makes them so sucky in this game.

At Buffalo: Buffalo 5, Vancouver 2 GG

At Montreal: Montreal 4, Philadelphia 2 At Philadelphia: Philadelphia 3, Montreal 4 GGs smozoma. Now you know why I finally had to stop being Philly after all these years.

JESUS!!! I just realized something. I left out a league from my totals. Usually, an understandable omission, but you know what makes this such a painful mistake for me? IT WAS MY OWN LEAGUE Yes, I refer, of course, to the defunct NHL '94 Cup Chase. Sadly, the website, too, is defunct, but I've got all the info on my home computer, so I'll be adding that later (since everyone totally cares.) I chuckle at myself.

You can find the Fins over at http://www.nhlgamer.com, and you can find us on IRC in #nhl94 on IRCNet. The league isn't as active as it used to be but if you come into the IRC channel and try to chat people up (they all speak English well) you should be able to at least get some practice games.

It was actually a metric ton.

At Hartford: Hartford 3, Montreal 4 At Montreal: Montreal 4, Hartford 1 GGs, though the second game was pretty lame because Hartford took a ton of penalties.

Yes, go me. Sadly, I'm doing the opposite of that these days. Stupid Classic league isn't being at all like classic Classic leagues. Honest. Look them up on nhl94online.com. The old seasons. No, not last season. Before that. Oh, and Gens. I mean Gens.

(I guess I'll keep updating this regularly until I get far enough behind that I have to go back and recalculate everything.) I had a little time on my hands today so I did a little accounting of my NHL '94 life. I'm sharing it with everyone on this board because it makes me feel important. Here's how it all shakes out as of right now (unless I've forgotten a competition) (and I'm counting OTLs as losses): Gens, North America 2008 Spring - 7-10 (ongoing) GEL Tournament - 9-10 2007 Fall - 17-23 2006 Fall - 24-16 2006 Spring - 32-8 (13-10 playoffs) 2005 Fall - 23-6-1 (7-5 playoffs) Total Record: 132-83-1 Gens, Finland NHL '94 Spring league 2008 - 9-3 (ongoing) #nhl94 routaliiga'07 - 11-7 (6-5 playoffs) NHL '94 Kesaliiga - 13-4 (4-4 playoffs) NHL 94 Sm-Liiga - 4-14 AHL Summer League - 25-25-2 (2-4 playoffs) Friday the 13th Tourney - 2-4 NHL '94 MM-Kisat '05 - 1-3-1 Total Record: 77-73-1 Total Gens Record: 209-156-2 SNES, North America 2008 Spring - 3-8 (ongoing) Capitalism - 68-14-0 (ongoing) September 2007 Nostalgia - 37-27-4 (1-4 playoffs) March 2008 Juiced - 34-25-1 (6-5 playoffs) Total Record: 149-83-5 Total All-Time Gens and SNES Record: 358-239-7 So if we estimate about 10 minutes/game, 595 games...that's almost 100 hours or a little over four days of my life, and that's just counting actual competition games, not practice games. And to think, the woman who's my wife has lived with me all throughout that stretch. Frankly, it's something of a miracle.

The scene: Montreal is finally about to win a game, this one against Detroit. Montreal's up 6-5 late in the 3rd period, and Detroit takes a penalty. The event: Time's almost up and Detroit has a player with a breakaway, but there are only about 5 seconds left, not enough time for the player to get to the goal. I decide to let go of the keyboard to minimize the chance of a penalty. Instead, my CPU defender (who's just behind the Detroit player) delivers a check with :03 left, just after the Detroit player has earned a breakaway. The aftermath: Time ran out, and jrodimus thought that the game was over. I could have just disconnected there, claimed the victory, and that would have been that. Instead, I let the game run, and sure enough, the game awards the penalty shot. Of course, j scores it and ties the game at 6. After that, the game ended completely (no OT), so we restarted, and Detroit nearly scores 11 seconds in, but Montreal is bailed out by an interference penalty just before a certain goal. On the ensuing power play, Montreal gets a cheap "defenseman charges his own net and winds up sticking the puck in" goal to win it. Man, I was THIS close to proof that the universe has decided that it's just not happening for Tick or Tock.

At Detroit: Detroit 4, Montreal 3 At Montreal: Montreal 7, Detroit 6 (OT) ggs Read my writeup thread for more.

It's true, all of it. Edit: And I did sit in my own end and I did blame losing on Carse having Chicago. Though I guess the "it's true, all of it" should have covered that. Anyway, no slander here!

Painfully true.

NHL Rule 78 is silent about the instance of an opposing player checking a defender into his own goalkeeper. Now, the check wouldn't be a penalty by itself, so is there another provision in the rulebook covering this instance that I didn't find in the rulebook?

Perhaps Poti should have learned from the first time he blatantly slashed and tripped Kapanen earlier in OT that he'd used up all of his credit with the refs when they failed to call that one (it stopped a 2-on-1 break and was even more blatant than the trip on Umberger.) Or maybe he learned that he could get away with whatever he wanted in OT. I don't know. (So says the Flyers fan.)

The truth is in my pants and this post.

Are you suggesting that you would only have been impressed had they eliminated the eighth seed in, say, the conference finals? Cuz that would have been an absolute miracle. Meanwhile...yeah, I'm a Flyers fan. I can't say I follow the team all that closely, but getting their fans' hopes up and then smashing them to pieces is pretty typical for a Philly team, so I'd say they're set up pretty nicely for a 4-1 loss tonight.

You can remove me from the Gens A/B list. addison just hasn't updated the standings yet with my latest games (I'm up to at least 8.)

With this board's default font, the "0" actually looks pretty skinny.

Normally, I say that every single word is true. This time, however, I'm going to go as far as saying that every single char is true.

Promises were broken by Mr. Oh-I-Suck-You'll-Beat-Me.

At Montreal: Montreal 5, Winnipeg 3 At Winnipeg: Winnipeg 6, Montreal 4 ggs

Stupid little bro who's not me, log out next time, jerk.

Pfft, stupid Tock, not logging out. I'll be sure to give him a noogie tonight.

What, no snarky response to what I wrote? You're slipping, Darrell.