I always hate and love these things in equal parts because I love saying nice things about my friends but also I always feel like I’m gonna forget somebody. Anyway if you’re not here it’s not because I don’t love you I’m just picking the people I’ve talked to most lately. There’s some overlap here but whatever. 

My Chicagos - all of you - I am so glad I get to play fake hockey with you. I love our locker room, I love our dumb inside jokes. There’s genuinely nowhere else I can imagine myself playing and out of all the discord servers I’m in because of this site, there’s nowhere else I feel more like I can be myself. I know this is a group thing but that's honestly because I could literally list the whole roster here - every single one of you is so important to me. You guys know who you are. @shots

My D&D group - Trips, Ruggsy, JURT, Nao, Geck - you guys never fail to put me in the best mood, and I look forward to our sessions all week. I also don’t know if I’ve really expressed how much of a confidence booster this campaign has already been for me as a DM - I had some pretty garbage experiences (some of which I know I have shared with you) that did a number on my faith in my own ability to tell a story, and the fact that a bunch of hockey guys will let a girl come in and run a campaign for them (albeit in character as a guy ) and haven’t bailed on me yet has meant a lot to me. I’m honestly not sure if that’s even something any of you have thought about, and I love you for that.

Team Sweden! - I had no idea what I was doing this year but you all got behind me anyway and that made my heart grow three sizes. Didn’t go the way we wanted this season, but holy shit our roster is stacked and we are gonna get it done real soon.

All the SMJHL GMs/HOs - I know I haven’t been around long but y’all have already made me feel like part of the crew and I think you’re all pretty awesome. Special shoutouts to Toast/Nham/Ace for always being just the nicest any time I talk to you (not that the rest of you aren’t nice too I’ve just probably talked to those three the most). Also, shoutout to the interns because I’m pretty sure they do more work than we do.

Everybody in Nevada - I had no idea what to expect coming in as co for a team I hadn’t even been on, and I was so afraid I'd feel like a complete outsider, but the folks who were already there have made me feel so welcome just in this short amount of time already, and our rookies are just absolutely amazing. Every day I talk to y’all I get prouder of the draft we had. I'm so excited to actually have a player out there with you in a few seasons.

And then just a few other people, some of whom are also part of the groups I just mentioned but I wanna call out just because.

@SecondSucks22- thank you for giving me the chance to come and GM a team with you - I think we make an amazing team, and I am already just so happy with what we’ve done so far. I can’t wait to see where our scrappy little rebuild team goes because I think we are headed up up up real fast. Also, I hope you get that dog.

@hhh81 - you have so quickly become one of my best buds on this site. I love our D&D chats, our not-D&D chats, I don’t know how we didn’t talk more sooner, but I’m glad we do now and I love running the JURT fan club with you

@"lespoils" - you already know I think you’re great, but I’m gonna say it anyway. I am so glad you played in Chicago and I’m so glad we are friends and honestly I think you’re one of the nicest, smartest people I know. Thank you for letting me scream at you about Strahd and for putting up with my emo nonsense about our fake hockey players. The world would be a better place if there were more guys like you in it.

Okay that’s all for now but if you aren’t in this post and you’re sad about it, message me and I will say something nice about you.