Kaarlo Kekkonen jumped on a flight out to Edmonton this week to catch Game 3 of the Challenge Cup finals. After all the controversy that’s hit the league this season the games have been almost empty and so the league’s commissioner Cory gave Kaarlo the full VIP treatment in order to make the game look better attended. Kaarlo brought a load of his boys with him and they spent the evening drinking martinis and smoking cigars pre game. It’s rumoured Cory grew more and more worried with each round and soon regretted his offer. After hitting the game up they went out and found the most expensive fillet mignon in the city, and decided to stop there for some food. After eating as much as they could physically fit in, they hit the town, visiting some of the most cool and expensive night spots in Edmonton; not exactly spoiled for choice I know. After giving Cory’s card one last sweep they headed to their luxurious hotel to sleep it off. A limousine was booked for the next morning and they were out as quickly as they arrived, leaving Cory to pick up a heartbreaking tab for their fun.


The Hamilton Steelhawks and the Edmonton Blizzard have both decided to raise funds to help every regular user of a website known as "simulationhockey.com" a copy of a game known as Franchise Hockey Manager 6. It's not exactly clear why they decided on this as a viable fundraising cause, or in fact chose this particular game, but it's understood that they are raising as much cash as they can to avoid letting everyone down. The game retails for around 30 dollars and with 200 or so regular users of the site, there is $6,000 that needs to be raised between the two teams. In order to get this money they have decided to release a nude calendar that features some of the more attractive members of both teams, with some big names confirmed including Hugh Jazz and Teddy Cuddles. If they can sell 500 calendars then everyone in the SHL will get a copy of FHM 6 for an undisclosed reason, so dig deep everyone!


After a series of freak injuries that have hit all the Texas goaltenders and left them unable to play, GM Sven Karlsson and coach Nikita Nevzorov were left with no choice but to ask rookie forward Kaarlo Kekkonen to step in and play in goal. Kaarlo has absolutely zero experience playing in goal and has never done it in his life, so to do so may be a little different for him and doing so in the SHL may not exactly by the ideal first go. It is unclear why Texas didn't simply use some of the millions in cap space they have to pay a free agent to step in, but that kind of speculation does little to fix things. Kaarlo has good puck handling and skating, and it's possible that he may get very lucky and have these translate into some sort of useful goaltending ability, although to be honest this is highly doubtful and the most likely outcome will be him playing very badly and the team suffering for a few painful games.


Kaarlo is looking forward to listening to every single album released by The Eagles. He has long been known as a fan of the tasteful palette of rock music of the late 70s and has been heavily rumoured to favour The Eagles out of all the bands of the nature. Kaarlo plans on taking at least 90 minutes per day to sit in a comfortable chair, drink a glass of expensive red wine and listen to an Eagles album with his eyes shut. He puts great value on really focussing on the music and taking in the message of each song. It’s not easy for him to pick favourites but he does consider Hotel California a seminal work and enjoys some of the more experimental moments on the album. Additionally, Kaarlo will spend some time exercising just to make sure he doesn’t come back to training camp fat. But otherwise his main focus will be soaking up the musical vibes of one of America’s greatest.


New sim engine soon,
Old sim engine has perished
Time to start anew


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