btw, just to be clear, JesRian shippers dni. also AnnHale-ers what are you doing

if i had a nickel for every fictional womanizing knight with the surname gautier in video games (that i know of) i'd have 2 nickels which isn't very much but its odd that i've seen it twice

I can’t have been the only person who instantly made the connection

ANYWAYS JUST FINISHED MUTINY IN THE MIST FOR FIRE EMBLEM THREE HOUSES AND LIKE I KNOW I COULD SAY BETTER THINGS ABOUT IT BUT INSTEAD I’M JUST A SYLVAIN SIMP NOW. I DUNNO WHY. BUT I AM.

I’M STARTING TO SEE A PATTERN *looks at Darien Guatier, Julian Devorak, Kaeya, and all the other flirty characters I simp for*

Guys he’s a moron too.

I love him

CANTLON: PLAYERS AND COACHES ARE ON THE MOVE

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - It's the time of year that moving companies love when it comes to the hockey industry. Coaches and players are both moving all over the place. Ex-Hartford Wolf Pack/New York Ranger Sylvain Lefebvre. After being hired as an assistant coach for the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, he leaves the San Diego Gulls. Lefebvre is the second assistant coach to leave former Hartford Whalers' great, Kevin Dineen’s staff. Ex-Pack, David Urquhart, returned to Montreal to be the head coach at McGill University (OUAAA). Alex Tanguay, an Iowa Wild assistant coach signs with the Detroit Red Wings.

KRAKEN AND CHECKERS WORKING TOGETHER

The expansion Seattle Kraken announced they would have a dual affiliation arrangement with the Charlotte Checkers for their first season in 2021-22 while building a new facility in Palm Springs that's currently under construction. The irony is that current Seattle General Manager and Whaler great, Ron Francis, had a six-year relationship with Charlotte while he was with the Carolina Hurricanes. The Checkers were the Hurricane's AHL affiliates up until last season. They and are now in Chicago with the Wolves. The Kraken will likely send 8 players, but that number could climb to as many as 12 players to the Checkers. Francis has been operating at his North Carolina home since the COVID pandemic started. The team will supply the Checkers with an assistant coach who will likely become the first head coach of the Kraken's Palm Springs (CA) affiliate when they come on board in their brand new 10,000 seat arena in 2022-23. It will be the second straight year that the Florida Panthers will have a dual affiliation. Last season the defending Stanley Cup champions and current finalist, Tampa Bay Lightning, shared the Syracuse Crunch.

NHL DRAFT

The Seattle Expansion Draft is set for Wednesday, July 21 at 8 pm and broadcast on ESPN2 in Seattle. The entire NHL Draft is held and broadcast over two days, with the first round covered across the US by NBCSN. For the second year in a row, the draft will be done remotely. On Saturday, the NHL Network will broadcast rounds 2-7. NBCSN is going to be closing shop soon. The draft broadcast team will be composed of members of their staff and ESPN/Turner Sports, where hockey coverage is going to be moving forward, as well as TSN in Canada talent.

KARMANOS NO LONGER AN NHL OWNER

The NHL announced Carolina Hurricanes majority owner Tom Dundon completed his acquisition of the remaining minority ownership stake of Peter Karmanos. As a result, Dundon is now the sole owner of the team. The transaction formally ends Karmanos' relationship with the Carolina Hurricanes/Hartford Whalers that began in 1994.

AHL NEWS

The AHL Board Of Governors (BOG) approved and announced the sale of the Rockford IceHogs to the Chicago Blackhawks. Read more about that HERE. The AHL BOG then announced that the City of Abbotsford and the Vancouver Canucks had finalized the lease for the AHL team and that the Aquillini Investment Group (AIG) arena management portion of the deal. AIG is the parent company of the Vancouver Canucks. The Abbotsford Centre is a multi-purpose entertainment and sports facility. Aquilini Investment Group will manage staffing, event bookings, ticketing, and food and beverage management.  More on that deal HERE. Revenue sharing is also included in the contract. The city benefits from enhanced financial gains by sharing profits if there are an average of 5,000 tickets sold per regular season game.

MOVEMENT

Ex-Pack Brian Gibbons (Salisbury Prep) leaves Lausanne HC (Switzerland-LNA) to play for Linköping HC (Sweden-SHL) next season. Adam Musil, the nephew of former Whaler and Ranger Bobby Holik, switches teams in the Czech Republic, going from HC Liberec to HC Dynamo Pardubice. Ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger (now Islanders) goalie Kevin Poulin leaves IF Bjorkloven (Sweden-Allsvenskan) and signs a one-year AHL deal with the Laval Rocket. The UCONN Huskies will be getting defensive depth next season in Jarrod Gourley, a grad transfer defenseman from NCAA Divison-1 independent Arizona State University (ASU). He is the 51st NCAA grad transfer in the hectic college hockey off-season that has seen 108 players switch schools via school or grad transfers. Gourley is a left-handed shooter who hails from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He will be in Storrs in a few months. The 22-year-old is undrafted, and his younger brother, Connor Gourley, is currently playing with Camrose (AJHL) and will be at ASU next year. Quinnipiac University (ECACHL) added veteran coach Mike Corbett as the new assistant coach for the Bobcats. Corbett coached Alabama-Huntsville (WCHA) for the last seven years.

GUITE AND OTHER MOVES

Ex-Sound Tiger Ben Guité, who has been with his alma mater an assistant and associate head coach with the Maine Black Bears (HE) for eight years, did not have his contract renewed. Guite was named the interim head coach in May after the sudden passing of one-time Yale assistant Dennis “Red” Gendron. UMASS assistant coach Bill Barr was hired in early June as the new head coach. Sadly, the WCHA Men's Hockey conference is shutting down after 70 years. They lost seven schools to the new CCHA and saw the University of Alabama-Huntsville and the University of Alaska-Anchorage went dark this year. The University of Alaska-Fairbanks will play as a Division-1 independent next season. It's possible that in the next couple of years that the WCHA will return as a true Western-based US college conference. The WCHA women’s conference will continue as is.

PLAYERS CALLING MOVING VANS

Nic Pierog (Canterbury Prep/Sound Tigers) leaves the Indy Fuel (ECHL) and signs with HKM Zloven (Slovakia-SLEL) for next season. Leaving HKM, the defending Slovak league champion is ex-Pack, Allan MacPherson who departs for HC Kosice (Slovakia). Ex-Sound Tiger, Jesse Graham, leaves KalPa Kuopio (Finland-FEL) and signs with Augsburger (Germany-DEL). On his new team and also switching clubs is Marek Bartunas. He is the cousin to Matej Baca, the nephew of former Whaler Jergus Baca. The younger Baca is returning to HK 32 Liptovsky (Slovakia-SLEL) after being traded last year in mid-season. Ex-Sound Tiger Tomas Malec, who nears the end of his career at age 39, drops down from the Czech Elite League HC Brno to HC Brno-B (Division-3). Former UCONN Husky, Spencer Naas, departs Tranås AIF (Sweden HockeyEttan Division-1) for HC Amiens (France-FREL).

US WORLD JUNIOR TEAM NEWS

The 44-player tryout camp for the United States World Junior Team is set to play July 24-31 in the World Junior Summer Showcase at the USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan. Included on the roster for defense is Scott Morrow (Darien). He will head to the defending national champion, UMASS-Amherst (HE), in the fall. Morrow, has played for the Shattuck’s St. Mary’s program for the last three years. A WJC returnee from the Bronze medal-winning squad from last year is Jake Sanderson, the son of former Whaler great Geoff Sanderson. He skates for North Dakota (NCHC). Another returnee, but at forward, is Rangers draft pick Brett Berard of Providence College (HE). He is the son of former UCONN head coach David Berard, now the Director of Administration at PC. The elder Berard played as an undergrad, graduated from PC, and was an assistant coach for twelve years. He is no relation to former NHL’er Bryan Berard. There is also Matthew “Mackie” Samoskevitch (Newtown). He is heading to the University of Michigan (Big 10) in the fall and is NHL Draft eligible this year. Lastly, a sophomore from Quinnipiac University (ECACHL), Ty Smilanic, a draft pick of the Florida Panthers last year. The WJC tournament will run from December 26th through January 5th in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. USA Hockey named its roster and coaches for 2021 Hlinka Cup in Breclav, Czech Republic, and Piestany, Slovakia. There is just one local name associated with the team, Assistant Coach Jared Walman, from Hamden, Connecticut.

CHL DRAFT NEWS

The 30th annual CHL (Canadian Hockey League) Import Draft that involves the three Canadian major junior leagues was held early this year. Normally it's held a week after the NHL Draft. 85 players were selected, including 52 forwards, 26 defensemen, and seven goalies were chosen by 57 teams compromised of the OHL, QMJHL, and the WHL. The top three countries to have players selected were Russia with 16, the Czech Republic with 15, and Belarus taking 11. Just two players had Connecticut connections. UCONN defenseman Yan Kuznetsov, who left school two years early after signing an entry-level deal with the Calgary Flames, played six games with the AHL Stockton Heat, who, because of Covid-19, played their games in Calgary last season. Kuznetsov was taken in the first round (22nd overall) by the QMJHL Saint John (NB) Sea Dogs. Kuznetsov is 6’4 and 225 lbs. He will not be turning 20-years-of-age until March 2022. He is still Russia WJC eligible, so he could wind up in the Q getting valuable playing minutes depending on the organizational depth in Stockton. 6' tall defenseman David Spacek is the other player selected with a connection to Connecticut. He was taken in the second round (67th overall), is a right-hander, and was selected by the QMJHL Sherbrooke Phoenix. Spacek 18, is the son of former Beast of New Haven defenseman Jaroslav Spacek. He played last year for HC Litomerice (Czech Republic Division-2). He is signed to play for HC Plzen (Pilsner) in the Czech U-20 league this year and is WJC eligible. His father is the national team assistant coach and is also an assistant with HC Plzen with the Czech Elite League (CEL) team. He could play in the Q get playing time like Kuznetsov, but the NHL Draft in three weeks will likely play a factor in where he goes if he is drafted. NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE HOME   Read the full article

July 02 in Music History

1581 Birth of German organist and composer Johann Staden in Nuremberg. 

1589 Birth of composer Guillaume van Messaus.

1636 Birth of German composer Georgy Daniel Speer in Breslau. 

1714 Birth of Austrian-German composer Christophe Willibald Von Gluck.

1723 Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi is hired at the Pieta girls school in Venice to compose and perform two concerts per month.

1737 Birth of composer François Leonard Rouwyzer.

1746 Birth of composer Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck.

1763 Birth of composer Peter Ritter.

1778 Death of Swiss-French writer, music critic, and composer Jean-Jacques Rosseau, in Ermenonville.

1788 FP of M. Haydn's "Die Ährenleserin" singspiel, Salzburg.

1793 Birth of composer Antoine Prumier.

1808 Birth of English viola-player Henry Hill. 

1814 Birth of composer Therese Annette Wartel.

1823 FP of Donizetti's "Alfredo il grande" Opera seria, Naples.

1828 FP of Herold's "Lydie" Paris.

1836 Birth of German Wagnerian tenor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

1845 Birth of English contralto Rosina Brandram in Southwark. 

1857 Birth of composer Francesco Spetrino.

1862 Death of German composer and pianist Charles Mayer in Dresden. 

1870 FP of Guiraud's "Le Kobold" Paris.

1876 Birth of Italian tenor Edgardo Gherlinzoni in Stellata di Bondeno. 

1880 Birth of American musical and operetta composer Albert Szirmai. 

1880 Birth of Czech tenor Mirro Stork in Peague. 

1990 Birth of German tenor Robert Bussel in Dresden. 

1897 Birth of American composer William Herbert Brewster. 

1900 FP of the orchestral version of Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia. Robert Kajanus conducting in Helsinki.

1904 Birth of composer Carl Weinrich.

1906 Birth of American composer Robert Levine Sanders in Chicago.

1910 Birth of American composer Earl Hawley Robinson in Seattle, WA. 

1910 Birth of American composer William Douglas Denny. 

1911 Death of Austrian composer and conductor Felix Mottl in Munich.

1914 Birth of American conductor Frederick Fennell in Cleveland, OH.

1914 FP of Miaskovsky´s Symphony No. 1, in Pavlovsk. 

1922 Birth of Polish-Belorussian composer and pianist Genrih Matusovich Vagner in Zhiradov.

1923 Birth of Hungarian baritone Gyorgy Melis in Szarvas Hungary. 

1924 Birth of American composer Rick Besoyan in Alameda, CA. 

1929 FP of George Gershwin's musical Show Girl, at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC.

1931 Death of French composer Charles Quef, aka Paul Florimond, in Paris. 

1932 Death of Swedish soprano Martina Petrini. 

1933 Birth of composer David Lewin. 

1935 Birth of American pianist Gilbert Kalish.

1938 Death of Italian composer, conductor and organist Oreste Ravanello

1939 Death of Hungarian tenor Otakar Marak.

1939 Birth of Italian bass Gian Carlo Luccardi.

1941 Birth of French tenor Robert Dume' in Nice. 

1942 Birth of tenor Attila Fulop.

1944 Birth of South African baritone Christian Du Plessis. 

1945 Birth of American trombonist and composer James Orville Fulkerson in Streator, IL.

1948 Birth of French conductor Sylvain Cambreling in Amiens.

1948 Death of Russian bass Vladimir Kastorsky.

1949 Birth of American composer Todd Barton.

1949 Birth of soprano Mani Mekler in Haifa.

1949 FP of John Alden Carpenter's revised Symphony No. 2. Chicago Symphony with Fritz Busch conducting at Ravinia Festival.

1952 Death of Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans in Amsterdam. 

1953 Birth of American electronic music composer Justin Saragosa in Pioche, NV.

1963 Birth of American electric guitarist and composer John Fitz Rogers.

1968 Death of German composer Hanns Wolf in Fuessen. 

1980 Birth of American composer Darien S. Shulman.

1983 Death of American bass-baritone Donald Gramm. 

1983 FP of Libby Larsen's Deep Summer Music. Minnesota Orchestra, Joseph Giunta conducting in Terrance, MN.

2002 Death of American Avant Garde composer and trumpeter Earl Brown. 

2002 Death of French composer Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur in Paris.

/Played in Elder Scrolls Online

I do this because I like numbers and stats. If you like them too, then this is fun. If not, don’t worry about it. In January I wrote down every character I had and what their playtime was. 12 of people did not exist at that time. Drishari and Tennir on my main account (they are Wardens which are only 40 days old) and my entire cast of characters on my second account were added after January 1st, thus their playtime is low and new. You can clearly see from these hours who is my favourite (Riven) and who has been quested on the most (Riven, Rijani, Jacort, Vishtani, and Trinity). They are also my oldest characters in the lineup. Rijani and Jacort are married to my husband’s characters. Trinity was played as a threesome with my husband and our real life friend Ash. Yes, this stuff counts standing around, camping, waiting for trails to start, waiting for groups, waiting for bounties to wear off, reading dialogue, farming, EVERYTHING that I happen to do when logged into game. And yeah, Steam apparently counts when your launcher is open, so if you leave it up overnight, or during the day, so it can update it’s counting that as “played” time. I did not include that here, as it thinks I played 930 hours an did not. It added a full 400 hours of idle time!

June 30th 2017 /Played Count:

GamerAeryn

Riven Sylvain - 76 days, 0 hours, 47 minutes Rijani Shadowheart - 27 days, 9 hours, 13 minutes Jacort Firestar - 13 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes Vishtani Moonwhisper - 14 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes Celesti Riverwing - 7 days, 20 hours, 19 minutes Darien Morningstar - 8 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes Caeiel Lorcus - 8 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes Elias Lafae - 6 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes Aeilla Lafae - 6 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes Petyr Lafae - 6 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes Trinity Lafae - 14 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes Tristiel Silverleaf - 7 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes Drishari Darkpaw - 1 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes Tennir Stormwatch - 0 days, 13 hours, 30 minutes

GamerAeryn2

Walks with Moonlight - 5 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes Cariel Rainflower - 2 days, 23 hours, 16 minutes Reynie Willowgrove - 1 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes Sleeps in Cool Water - 1 days, 10 hours, 33 minutes Sumire Nilvu - 2 days, 0 hours, 4 minutes Jorian Elsinaire - 1 days, 14 hours, 31 minutes Davryn Arnaai - 1 days, 3 hours, 36 minutes Laial Silinosin - 1 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes Swift in Shadows - 1 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes Heals with Colours - 1 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes

Hours Total Jan 1st 4254.9 June 30th 4781.16 Difference 526.26 Dead People = another 1k hours on main account

2nd Acct: 509.55 (Steam counts when launcher is open/loading etc - this is actual time played - no one has been killed on this account)

Total Game Time in ESO since Pre Launch (March 30, 2014) = 6290 hours or 262 days cumulative.

CANTLON'S CORNER: OFF-SEASON NEWS AND NOTES - VOLUME II

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - Much has gone on in the hockey world. In the AHL Calder Cup Playoffs, the best-of-five first-round series have mostly ended and there are a few surprises. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers won Game 4 in overtime 3-2 in Hershey to extend the series to a deciding Game 5 on Saturday night at the Webster Bank Arena. That game went to the Bears who advanced to the second round with a 3-2 OT win on a Brian Pinho goal. In game four, Oliver Wahlstrom scored his first pro goal at 1:13 of the third period to tie the game at two and Matt Lorito scored at 1:13 of overtime to claim the win offsetting ex-Pack Jayson Megna’s second period unassisted shorthanded goal and the first Hershey goal was scored by ex-pack Ryan Sproul. Kyle Burroughs paced the offense with two assists. Hershey will take on the Charlotte Checkers in a best of seven series starting Friday night. One series that didn’t last long, was the only sweep of the first-round as the Toronto Marlies continued its strong second half by eliminating the Rochester Americans. Ex-Pack, Chris Mueller led the way with five points. The Marlies will play the Cleveland Monsters who knocked off the Syracuse Crunch in four games with a 3-0 shutout on Thursday. The Monsters feature Simsbury native and Westminster Prep grad, Tommy Cross, and ex-Pack, Dan DeSalvo. San Diego eliminated the San Jose Barracuda in four games. The first game of the series that kicked off the Calder Cup playoffs was a wild 6-5 OT win for the Gulls in one of the craziest first periods you’ll ever see with six goals scored in 10 minutes and both starting goalies were pulled. Ex-Pack TJ Hensick scored the first goal of the AHL postseason and added an assist on the third goal as the Barracuda had a 3-0 lead after just 6:15 of play. The Gulls starter Kevin Boyle was pulled after just six shots on goal. The Gulls roared back to tie the game at three in a span of 3:08 forcing San Jose’s Antoine Bibeau to an early shower after just eight shots on goal. Former Beast of New Haven, Dallas Eakins, is the head coach with a pair of ex-Pack players from different era’s, David Urquhart and Sylvain Lefebvre are the assistant coaches and a third ex-Pack, J.F. Labbe is the Gulls goalie coach. Ironically, Bibeau was recalled the next day by the parent San Jose Sharks. The Gulls will play the Bakersfield Condors, winners over the Colorado Eagles in four games. The Iowa Wild defeated the Milwaukee Admirals in Five games defeating ex-Pack captain, Cole Schneider, and another ex-Pack, Vince Pedrie, also on the Milwaukee roster. The last game of the opening round was played Sunday between the Chicago Wolves and the Grand Rapids Griffins. The Red Wings top farm team features ex-Pack’s Dylan McIlrath, Matt Puempel, Matt Ford, Wade Megan (Salisbury Prep) and Dominic Turgeon, the nephew of former Whaler Sylvain Turgeon. PLAYER MOVES Ex-Pack Desmond Bergin signs with his fourth AHL team this year with the Cleveland Monsters. He spent most of the year with Adirondack (ECHL). His other AHL stops were; Providence, Milwaukee, Binghamton. The last player to wear a New Haven pro hockey jersey playing in an active top level league has retired. Ex-New Haven Knights (UHL) Hungarian forward, Arpad Mihaly, announced his retirement after playing for ASC Corona Brasov (Romania-MOL) after five years with the team. Nathan Lutz, a defenseman who played two playoff games for the Knights and who skated in the Canadian senior hockey league this year with the Porcupine Plains Blues (Saskatchewan) of the Wheatland Senior Hockey League (WSHL) (names not made up) is the last one who remains playing. It will be unknown until November when Canadian senior hockey regular season play commences, if Lutz, 41, will share the honor with Mihaly or become the last one. The last Nighthawk to play was Steve Moria at 50 in England and the last Beast of New Haven players to skate were Bryon Ritchie in Sweden and Herbert Vasiljves in Germany. Ex-Pack Chad Nehring leaves Fischtown (Germany-DEL) to Dusseldorfer EG (Germany-DEL) next season. Ex-Pack Tomas Zaborsky leaves Tappara (Finland-FEL) for SaiPa (Finland-FEL) next season. Travis Turnbull, the cousin of former Nighthawk, Randy Turnbull, goes from Iserlohn (Germany-DEL) to EHC Straubing (Germany-DEL). Ex-Bridgeport Sound Tiger and New York Ranger, David Desharnais, goes from Avangard Omsk (Russia-KHL) to HC Fribourg-Gotteron (Switzerland-LNA). Two former Sound Tigers have hung up the skates, Peter MacArthur Adirondack (ECHL) and Tyler Barnes Worcester (ECHL). Francis Drolet (Salisbury Prep) played with HC Briancon (France Division-1) signs for summer hockey with Newcastle (Australia-AIHL) whose regular season begins next weekend. Cheshire’s Rob Malloy, the team captain, of Newcastle returns for his seventh AIHL campaign. Ex-CT Whale, Andreas Thuresson, signs with ERC Schwenniger (Germany-DEL) joining ex-Pack, Matt Carey, as an offseason signing for the 2019-20 season. IIHF World U-18 tournament is underway in Sweden as the US romped over Latvia 7-1 and in the quarterfinals shutout Finland 6-0 on Thursday. The US lost to the Russians on Saturday in one semifinal and in the other semi, Canada lost to Sweden. The United States won the Bronze medal after defeating Canada 5-2. The US team features goalie Spencer Knight (Darien), who picked up 21 saves in his first shutout. A former Avon Old Farms player committed to play at Boston College (HE) in the fall and will likely be selected in the first three rounds of the NHL Draft in Vancouver in June. His fellow Winged Beaver teammate, Trevor Zegras, BU bound in the fall helped set up a hat trick for the likely number one overall pick by New Jersey in Vancouver Jack Hughes in the win. Latvia’s assistant coach is the aforementioned former Beast of New Haven forward, Herbert Vasiljves. Latvia features Raimonds Vitolins, the youngest son of former New Haven Senator, Harijs Vitolins. Canada has Samuel Poulin, the son of former Hartford Whaler, Patrick Poulin, who skates for Val D’Or (QMJHL). In men’s action, the IIHF Division II Group B World Championship playing in Mexico City, Mexico one of the six teams, is Israel. Their head coach is former Whaler and Ranger, Robert (Bobby) Holik. Holik also coached their Division 2 Group B World Junior and the U-18 team this season as well. The countries in their pool were Iceland, the nation of Georgia (great logo), New Zealand and North Korea. The IIHF Division III tournament is in Sofia, Bulgaria has Turkmenistan, Luxembourg, Turkey, host Bulgaria, Taiwan (Chinese Tapei), and South Africa who features Charl Pretorius who was the first South African to play in the US minor leagues with Elmira (FHL) after finishing collegiate hockey at Division III  Nazareth College (UCHC). The IIHF Division III Qualifying tourney was held in Dubai and host UAE (United Arab Emirates) was the winner beating out teams from Hong Kong, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Kuwait, Thailand, and Kyrgyzstan. The US has named some of the first players for the red, white and blue squad that will play in Kosice, Slovakia at the World Championships in two weeks. The group included current Ranger, ex-CT Whale, Chris Kreider, and current Ranger and ex-Pack, Brady Skjei. Current Hartford GM and Rangers Assistant GM and Trumbull native, Chris Drury was named GM for the team. The US Advisory committee features current Rangers GM, Jeff Gorton, former Nighthawk, Don Waddell (Carolina), Paul Fenton (Minnesota) and former Ranger goalie great, John Vanbiesbrouck (US National program). Hockey titles in Austria in the EBEL elite league was decided as  KAC Klagenfurt knocked off the Vienna Capitals in six games winning the title-clinching game 3-2 in OT. Vienna featured former CT Whale Kelsey Tessier. The VHL (Vyasa Hockey League) the AHL to Russia’s KHL league saw Sary Arka Karaganda (Kazakhstan) knocked off Rubin Tyumen in a four-game sweep. NCAA RECRUITING CHANGE A long overdue change in the NCAA recruiting process for hockey was finally passed and becomes effective May 1st. The recruiting period for high school sophomores is limited until after January 1st allowing for phone calls, e-mails, texts, unofficial school visits, and camp and clinic conversations only. Then a window starting August 1st of their junior year when a scholarship offers can be made verbally by the school, official visits can be made and off-campus visits can be done. Not perfect, but a start to the present system that is wide open, with no structures and kids as young as 14-years-old were making oral commitments to schools. Conferring adulthood, so early has been the sin of the college recruiting process in part to counteract the Canadian major junior leagues ability to offer more inducements to young hockey players to go that route. Presently, a hockey player can play Canadian Junior A hockey which is a step below major junior in leagues like the BCHL or AJHL and still retain their NCAA eligibility, but if they play a minute of hockey with a major junior team, pre-season or regular season, they are ineligible to play collegiate hockey. This is the first step to curb the insanity and bring some normalcy to the process and a perfect example of this is 15-year-old Max Namestnikov, the son of former Wolf Pack Evgeni "John" Namestnikov, and the brother of current Ranger, Vladislav Namestnikov, just made an oral commit to Michigan State (Big 10) for 2023-24 ! The pyramid for a young US born hockey player who wants to gain a scholarship is first public school, then prep school, then the US junior or Canadian junior A and then college. Read more HERE. Read the full article

There’s A Lot to Keep Track Of...

in ESO. When you have a lot of characters, especially newer ones (the bottom 6) you have to work on lots of things at once and keep track of lots of things at once. Plus, with new updates always coming in there’s things that become more or less important over time. Enjoy a peek at my notes as of Jan 17,2017.

Characters:

Riven Sylvain 381/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 20 Legerdemain 2  Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9  Undaunted

Rijani Shadowheart 345/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 20 Legerdemain 0  Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9  Undaunted

Jacort Firestar 330/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 15 Legerdemain 0  Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9  Undaunted

Vishtani Moonwhisper 324/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 20 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9 Undaunted

Celesti Riverwing 304/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 43 blacksmithing 41 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 42 woodworking 14 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 9 Fighters 9 Mages 12 Thieves 4 Undaunted - 25/200

Darien Morningstar 267/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 13 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9 Undaunted

Caeiel Lorcus 249/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 48 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 47 woodworking 12 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 11 Thieves 9 Undaunted

Elias Lafae 228/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 47 blacksmithing 46 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 45 woodworking 9 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 11 Thieves 5 Undaunted 85/200

Aeilla Lafae 195/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 44 blacksmithing 46 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 44 woodworking 8 Legerdemain 2 Dark Brotherhood 9 Fighters 8 Mages 12 Thieves 4 Undaunted 160/200

Petyr Lafae 223/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 44 blacksmithing 43 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 42 woodworking 6 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 11 Thieves 7 Undaunted 5/200

Trinity Lafae 311/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 43 blacksmithing 43 clothing 50 enchanting 48 Provisioning 43 woodworking 14 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 10 Thieves 7 Undaunted 190/200

Tristiel Silverleaf 249/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 42 blacksmithing 42 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 41 woodworking 9 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 9 Mages 9 Thieves 6 Undaunted 80/200

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tempering alloy - 99 dreugh wax - 155 rosin - 47 kuta - 39

voidsteel - 5.7k voidcloth - 6.0k shadowhide - 5.3k nightwood - 5.5k

rubedite - 7.4 ancestor silk - 7.6k rubedo leather - 5.5k ruby ash - 9.5k

/played

New counts on how long I've played ESO for the new year. It's this +1000 hours for dead people. Gonna try and do this every six months. To keep up. Because I like numbers.

Riven Sylvain - 71 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes Rijani Shadowheart - 25 days, 20 hours, 37 minutes Jacort Firestar - 12 days, 2 hours, 4 minutes Vishtani Moonwhisper - 13 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes Celesti Riverwing - 5 days, 11 hours, 15 minutes Darien Morningstar - 7 days, 18 hours, 10 minutes Caeiel Lorcus - 7 days, 15 hours, 44 minutes Elias Lafae - 4 days, 19 hours,  0 minutes Aeilla Lafae - 5 days, 2 hours, 19 minutes Petyr Lafae - 5 days, 14 hours, 0 minutes Trinity Lafae - 13 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes Tristiel Silverleaf - 4 days, 14 hours, 3 minutes

Update 13

Housing is here and all the hoarding and selling and stashing has finally come to pay off. Or, at least it should. Here are my  notes on my characters and whatnot as of today. I have yet to buy a house, as I’m not in the mood to mess with furnishing it, but I can proudly say that I earned every penny of this money and material. Of course, this is after playing nearly every day since 3/30/2014 so it’s not like it’s spectacular or anything, lol!

5.550 million gold

MATS ____________________ tempering alloy - 136 dreugh wax - 185 rosin - 78 kuta - 79

voidsteel - 5.1k voidcloth - 6.1k shadowhide - 5.7k nightwood - 4.8k

rubedite - 7.1k ancestor silk - 7.5k rubedo leather - 5.7k ruby ash - 9.2k

GamerAeryn - all CP752 ________________ Riven Sylvain - Temp - magic 381/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 20 Legerdemain 2  Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9  Undaunted

Rijani Shadowheart - NB - stamina 345/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 20 Legerdemain 0  Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9  Undaunted

Jacort Firestar - DK - stamina 330/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 15 Legerdemain 0  Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9  Undaunted

Vishtani Moonwhisper - DK - stamina 324/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 20 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9 Undaunted

Celesti Riverwing - Sorc - stamina 307/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 43 blacksmithing 41 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 42 woodworking 15 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 9 Fighters 9 Mages 12 Thieves 5 Undaunted - 115/200

Darien Morningstar - Templar - stamina 267/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 50 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 50 woodworking 13 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 12 Thieves 9 Undaunted

Caeiel Lorcus - Sorc - stamina 249/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 50 blacksmithing 48 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 49 woodworking 12 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 11 Thieves 9 Undaunted

Elias Lafae - DK - magic 250/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 47 blacksmithing 46 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 45 woodworking 9 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 11 Thieves 5 Undaunted 145/200

Aeilla Lafae - NB - magic 202/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 44 blacksmithing 46 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 44 woodworking 8 Legerdemain 2 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 8 Mages 12 Thieves 6 Undaunted 45/200

Petyr Lafae - Templar - magic 223/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 44 blacksmithing 43 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 42 woodworking 6 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 11 Thieves 7 Undaunted 65/200

Trinity Lafae - Sorc - magic 311/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 43 blacksmithing 43 clothing 50 enchanting 48 Provisioning 43 woodworking 14 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 10 Mages 10 Thieves 8 Undaunted 45/200

Tristiel Silverleaf - NB - stamina 269/381 Skyshards 50 alchemy 42 blacksmithing 42 clothing 50 enchanting 50 Provisioning 41 woodworking 12 Legerdemain 0 Dark Brotherhood 10 Fighters 9 Mages 9 Thieves 6 Undaunted 120/200

GamerAeryn2 - 60k gold

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Walks with Moonlight - Templar - magic -10 3/346 Skyshards 1 alchemy 1 blacksmithing 5 clothing 1 enchanting 1 Provisioning 1 woodworking 1 Legerdemain 3 Fighters 2 Mages 2 Undaunted 55/100

Cariel Rainflower - Sorc - stamina - 10 3/346 Skyshards 1 alchemy 2 blacksmithing 2 clothing 2 enchanting 1 Provisioning 2 woodworking 2 Legerdemain 3 Fighters 1 Mages 2 Undaunted 5/100

Reynie Willowgrove - NB - stamina - 6 2/346 Skyshards 0 alchemy 0 blacksmithing 0 clothing 0 enchanting 0 Provisioning 0 woodworking 0 Legerdemain 0 Fighters 0 Mages 1 Undaunted 45/50

Sleeps in Cool Water - DK - stamina - 6 2/346 Skyshards 0 alchemy 0 blacksmithing 0 clothing 0 enchanting 0 Provisioning 0 woodworking 0 Legerdemain 0 Fighters 0 Mages 1 Undaunted 45/50

Sumire Nilvu - DK - magic - 6 0/346 Skyshards 0 alchemy 0 blacksmithing 0 clothing 0 enchanting 0 Provisioning 0 woodworking 0 Legerdemain 0 Fighters 0 Mages 1 Undaunted 40/50

Jorian Elsinaire -  Sorc - magic - 6 0/346 Skyshards 0 alchemy 0 blacksmithing 0 clothing 0 enchanting 0 Provisioning 0 woodworking 0 Legerdemain 0 Fighters 0 Mages 1 Undaunted 45/50

Davryn Arnaai- Templar - magic - 6 0/346 Skyshards 0 alchemy 0 blacksmithing 0 clothing 0 enchanting 0 Provisioning 0 woodworking 0 Legerdemain 0 Fighters 0 Mages 0 Undaunted 45/50

Laial Silinosin - NB - magic - 6 0/346 Skyshards 0 alchemy 0 blacksmithing 0 clothing 0 enchanting 0 Provisioning 0 woodworking 0 Legerdemain 2 Fighters 0 Mages 0 Undaunted 45/50