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3lewsers · 11-22-2021, 07:04 PM

*WithTheMoose* · 11-22-2021, 07:26 PM

Prompt 2
Honestly I've not been in this league long enough to experience any particularly bad losses. In fact most of my losses I've had were pretty fun. In my first season I was with Vancouver and we were supposed to be a bad team, but managed to take some games off the best team in the juniors that season and it was hilarious fun and plenty hype. My next season I was on a Anaheim team that got blown up half way through it with all the players getting moved and traded and I ended up on a Nevada team that was supposed to be bad. Really I've yet to be on a team that was supposed to win or supposed to be really good, so I've yet to have a defining "L" as this prompt put it. Everything has gone exactly according to plan and so this prompt was made a little difficult for me to complete as a whole.

Z-Whiz · 11-22-2021, 07:40 PM

Prompt 1:
No one likes losing, especially to old people. The future is now, but apparently it wasn't when it came to this game. Perhaps the youngins got to cocky the night before by drinking their livers into submission, while the olds were wise and went to bed at 6:30PM their full 10 hours of sleep. Meanwhile, half our team showed up still buzzed from the night before. To be honest, we looked good in that first period, but you could tell during that first intermission that the hangovers were starting to kick in. If I had to do something different, it wouldn't be not go out and party the night before. Instead, I would do one of two things. Either party even harder to the hangover doesn't start until after the game, or have some rally beers pregame and during each intermission. I play just as good drunk (maybe even better) as being sober. But hungover hockey is the worst.

**leafsftw1967** · 11-22-2021, 08:19 PM

The biggest L I have taken during Mats Marner’s career has been the season sixty challenges cup finals where the Chicago Syndicate were up three games to one against the Buffalo Stampede only needing one more win to become the Challenge Cup champions. Somehow as a team we let this series slip away from us with multiple goal game losses and the one that hurt the most was the overtime defeat in game six where it seemed like we had the game in the bag but somehow lost. It was the first season Marner joined the Syndicate along with his brother Poroshenko and defense Jukka. The team as a whole was peaking in terms of their skill level and development so it was extra heart breaking in that sense. Without jinxing things so far it seems like the Syndicate have recovered in season sixty two as they have come out strong during the regular season establishing themselves as the top team in the western conference

JayWhy · 11-22-2021, 09:04 PM

I have held so many Ls in my time on this site, and honestly I will continue to do so I'm sure. Just look at my drafting record, having taken Oliver Kovacs second overall in S43 is definitely a big, fat L that has helped inform my decision-making. Though, I do still have situations where I fall back into that kind of situation again.

Probably the biggest in sim loss that I've felt was in S17. You would think that my only time losing in the Challenge Cup Final would really hit the hardest, but that wasn't that big of a deal. What hurt me was that in S15 I had a huge season as a goaltender, arguably one of the best ever, and because of that they changed the update scale and weakened goaltenders. But that didn't hinder me, and in S16 I won a Cup for the second time in a row. S17 we came in with the best team we had possibly ever had in Edmonton and ... were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by an inactive back-up goaltender getting insanely hot and getting some unlucky bad bounces.

At least I cursed Los Angeles when they beat us then and they haven't won another Cup since. Same goes for Seattle in S18. Let that be a lesson, I can curse people.

Oh I also hold a lot of Ls every day as copypastas come out constantly and I am always mocked, but hey, that's life. Sometimes you get made fun of relentlessly, and nobody really cares because you aren't one of the favorites. Oh well.

An old man's dream ended. A young man's vision of the future opened wide. Young men have visions, old men have dreams. But the place for old men to dream is beside the fire.

Thanks to Jackson, Copenhagen, and Harry Hans!

GOING DOWN IN STYLE. TOAST4LYFE

***hhh81*** · 11-22-2021, 09:21 PM

Prompt 1

Well, that sucked. After starting to get into sync with this team the first few games, the game against the Hall of Famers undid all that good work. Harry Carpet got chased 3 minutes into the 2nd period, and the HOFers led the entire way. The Grizzled Vets are no strangers to hard, physical hockey—outside of Gibbles, Seger, Carpet, and Zheng, every other player has experienced deep playoff runs and Challenge Cup wins. Still, the referees swallowed their whistles as Tor Tuck, Mike Izzy, and Ben Dover took copious cheap shots on the veteran squad. This gave players like Jason Visser ample extra space to dangle his way to 4 goals (2 in the first period). The shutdown pairing of Alonso Garbanzo and Bojo Biscuit completely erased the powerful top Steelhawks unit that embarrassed the up-and-comers in Game 1; Aaron Wilson finished the game playing 18:43 with a -3, 1 hit, and 2 shots on goal.

After Dover tripped Martijn Westbroek and slashed the back of his neck with his stick, Corey Kennedy stepped in to defend his longtime teammate and friend, leveling the old Steelhawk. Dover received no penalty, while Kennedy was given a game misconduct. The passionate defender blew his top, shouting and spitting in the face of totally-not-biased referee Hallsy. The grizzled vets put together some of their best pressure offense on the resulting penalty kill, including their sole goal of the night; Brennan Kennedy Jr picked Joe Kurczewski’s pocket, and slid a pass to mid ice. Barry Batsbak collected it on the change, dangling for a few seconds before hitting Andreas Kvalheim with a drop pass. Kvalheim barreled down the ice, made a pretty dangle past Garbanzo before hitting Michael McFadden 5 hole.

Even then, the final score of 7-1 burns. During a post-game meeting, the team committed to never have another game like this. The group of veterans--representing the last 14 Challenge Cup Champions—grit their teeth and got ready for the next game.

.Laser · 11-22-2021, 10:27 PM

Honestly, on the Simulation Hockey League website, I don't think that I've ever taken too hard of an L besides my entire career on the site so far. So really, pretty much all of it. I first created a winger named Halfwit Nordstrom, who I earned all of about ten TPE on and went inactive as I had tried to get into too much at once between ISFL, PBE, and SHL. Nordstrom was kill at the deadline in S54, making me a S55 'recreate' named James Kimanje, who I still am in control of to this day. I have won a single award in my lifetime with Kimanje, and that was the most underrated player award with the Nevada Battleborn back in S56, when I put my head down and busted my ass and just earned for the team and they pushed for me to get recognized for that. I greatly appreciated it at the time and still do. But other than that, my players have been absolute dogwater. I haven't finished a season above 0 +/-, and maybe not even above -10. But it is what it is, I'll keep my head down and keep busting my ass for the forge. It's the least I can do.

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Thanks to EAB and sulovien for the sigs!

*ZootTX* · 11-22-2021, 10:52 PM

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