NHL Mega-Mock Draft Reboot - Discussion / Draft Thread – HISTORIC PHASE TWENTY!

[Striiker]

I’ve been on vacation for basically one day. Turning around and heading home because my mom fell and broke her hip, so I’ll do my best to check in when I can. Apologies if I miss some prompts.

This shit never ends, does it? Just one after another.

Hope she's doing ok.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

I’ve been on vacation for basically one day. Turning around and heading home because my mom fell and broke her hip, so I’ll do my best to check in when I can. Apologies if I miss some prompts.

Sorry to hear, Jojo. I know I’m probably line thousandth in line but if you need help with anything in area let me know.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

HCette has had an upper respiratory issue for about the last week. I’ve had it to a lesser degree. She’s taken a few at home Covid tests and they’ve all been negative.

She did a telehealth thing with her primary doctor today because it hasn’t really gotten better. According to HCette she was basically just told “it sounds like Covid but since you’re out of the window nothing you can do now. If you don’t feel better by Friday let me know.”

Much help.

Neither of us have tested positive for it up to this point almost three years in.

 

[Lord Defect]

HCette has had an upper respiratory issue for about the last week. I’ve had it to a lesser degree. She’s taken a few at home Covid tests and they’ve all been negative.

She did a telehealth thing with her primary doctor today because it hasn’t really gotten better. According to HCette she was basically just told “it sounds like Covid but since you’re out of the window nothing you can do now. If you don’t feel better by Friday let me know.”

Much help.

Neither of us have tested positive for it up to this point almost three years in.

Bronchitis?

 

[Beef Invictus]

HCette has had an upper respiratory issue for about the last week. I’ve had it to a lesser degree. She’s taken a few at home Covid tests and they’ve all been negative.

She did a telehealth thing with her primary doctor today because it hasn’t really gotten better. According to HCette she was basically just told “it sounds like Covid but since you’re out of the window nothing you can do now. If you don’t feel better by Friday let me know.”

Much help.

Neither of us have tested positive for it up to this point almost three years in.

Do you want me to beat up her upper lungs

 

[Asnito]

I’ve been on vacation for basically one day. Turning around and heading home because my mom fell and broke her hip, so I’ll do my best to check in when I can. Apologies if I miss some prompts.

Good luck. Sounds like their getting to that age where accidents come a little more frequently. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to offer some ideas as I spent almost 20 years as a caregiver for my parents.

 

[Magua]

I’ve been on vacation for basically one day. Turning around and heading home because my mom fell and broke her hip, so I’ll do my best to check in when I can. Apologies if I miss some prompts.

Sorry to here, Jojo. My mom also broke her hip slipping on ice a couple Februarys ago, so if there’s anything I can help with, just holler.

 

[BiggE]

HCette has had an upper respiratory issue for about the last week. I’ve had it to a lesser degree. She’s taken a few at home Covid tests and they’ve all been negative.

She did a telehealth thing with her primary doctor today because it hasn’t really gotten better. According to HCette she was basically just told “it sounds like Covid but since you’re out of the window nothing you can do now. If you don’t feel better by Friday let me know.”

Much help.

Neither of us have tested positive for it up to this point almost three years in.

Hope you both feel well soon.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Thank you all for the well wishes. Truly.

Have we heard from Chuck since the storm? Do we know if he's ok?

 

[Striiker]

Thank you all for the well wishes. Truly.

Have we heard from Chuck since the storm? Do we know if he's ok?

His most recent post was when he responded to you on Friday.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Sounds like the Philadelphia Flyers are having an indifferent start to the preseason. I wouldn't know. I have more important things to care about.

Let's keep a good thought for @Chuck Downie and hope everything is OK up there. He usually checks in at least once a day, so we'll go ahead in the order and he can pick as soon as he gets back. We start the morning with @Striiker on the clock, @pit on deck, mja on the lido deck, and Milord's useless dumb ass on the lido afterdeck.

Holy shit, one of you has to go and figure out a way to stop the "Bachelor" franchises from ever making more seasons, except for "Bachelor in Paradise," which I haven't watched yet, so no spoilers. I finally watched the f***ing finale of "The Bachelorette" yesterday while I was doing other stuff, but about halfway through I ran out of the other stuff, so I was just watching. I only watched it to prepare for "Paradise," so I'd know the guys going on there, and also so I could get it off the f***ing DVR. F*** my life. I swear to you, at one point I actually, like, squealed out loud three times in quick succession because I was cringed to my f***ing soul.

They had two bachelorettes this year, right, f*** knows why, and one of them is really hot as shit and pretty cool. The OTHER one, though, is f***ing rotten. I'm not going to go into all the ways she sucks, but she f***ing sucks. And she's not even remotely hot. And she picked the biggest tool shed you'll ever see, some f***ing Home Depot named "Tino," for f***'s sake. Gah, it was f***ing excruciating. And about four times they brought up shit that had come out via social media, and these guys "sincerely apologized for their behavior," even though they didn't really do jack shit to apologize for. It was like watching sentient stacks of pudding collapsing in upon themselves like evaporating farts. F*** me. It would have been more enjoyable to just set myself on fire and burn to death.

Obviously, I don't actually have more important things to care about than the Philadelphia Flyers, but f*** them and f*** hockey.

 

[Striiker]

Team International Football Team – Germany

My Counterstrike playing has resulted in me hating the country of Brazil. They're the most irritating, toxic, loud, and obnoxious people you'll come across in that game. Even worse than the Russians. Brazillian CS fans are also famous for sending death threats to pro players who beat Brazillian teams or casters/media who dare critique them.

You know what Brazilians love? Soccer.
You know what crushes their little souls? Getting beat 7-1 in the 2014 World Cup semi-finals.

If you watch a CS tournament, even today, and the score ends up 7-1, the chat will immediately be filled with "BRA71L

". Even if no Brazilian team is playing.

So thank you Team Germany, for giving us this gift of trolling.

@pit

 

[Beef Invictus]

Category Idea: 14th Forward/8th Dman

A player who you despise so much you'd like to draft them and bury them on your roster so deep they never play for you, and obviously not for anyone else either.

 

[ajgoal]

Category Idea: 14th Forward/8th Dman

A player who you despise so much you'd like to draft them and bury them on your roster so deep they never play for you, and obviously not for anyone else either.

That's like "spike hockey person" lite.

 

[pit]

I haven't had too much time to think on these so maybe I'm prioritizing the wrong thing, but here we go. Too many franchises out there rule out things I like, so I went for a weapon from The Fifth Element.

Team Laser Gun: Zorg ZF-1 Pod Weapon

The ZF-1 is an ambidextrous multifunctional weapon incapable of being detected by X-Rays featuring a titanium recharger, 3000 round clip (given the weapon is energy based and so the clip has no moving parts, this is not strictly incorrect, though calling the shots "rounds" is) with a burst of 3 to 300. It also features a variety of other fire modes as well, including a self-destruct button.

• Replay Button: The ZF-1 can be set to so that the first round fired acts as a beacon for guided bullets, causing all subsequent shots to home in on the original one's impact point.
• Rocket Launcher: The ZF-1 features a small yellow rocket which devastates any target it hits.
• Arrow Launcher: Zorg demonstrated that from the sides of the ZF-1 were two launchers with a total of 10 arrows, 5 in each launcher. The arrowheads were each either explosive or had poisonous gas heads.
• Net Launcher: For non-lethal takedowns, the ZF-1 is also known to have a net launcher to capture, rather than kill the target.
• Flamethrower: Zorg's personal favorite, the ZF-1 features a short ranged flamethrower.
• Ice Cube System: A new device the ZF-1 possesses is a weapon able to freeze people.

@mja , torture who you have to, the President, I don't care. Just bring me the stones. You have one hour.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I haven't had too much time to think on these so maybe I'm prioritizing the wrong thing, but here we go. Too many franchises out there rule out things I like, so I went for a weapon from The Fifth Element.

Team Laser Gun: Zorg ZF-1 Pod Weapon

The ZF-1 is an ambidextrous multifunctional weapon incapable of being detected by X-Rays featuring a titanium recharger, 3000 round clip (given the weapon is energy based and so the clip has no moving parts, this is not strictly incorrect, though calling the shots "rounds" is) with a burst of 3 to 300. It also features a variety of other fire modes as well, including a self-destruct button.

• Replay Button: The ZF-1 can be set to so that the first round fired acts as a beacon for guided bullets, causing all subsequent shots to home in on the original one's impact point.
• Rocket Launcher: The ZF-1 features a small yellow rocket which devastates any target it hits.
• Arrow Launcher: Zorg demonstrated that from the sides of the ZF-1 were two launchers with a total of 10 arrows, 5 in each launcher. The arrowheads were each either explosive or had poisonous gas heads.
• Net Launcher: For non-lethal takedowns, the ZF-1 is also known to have a net launcher to capture, rather than kill the target.
• Flamethrower: Zorg's personal favorite, the ZF-1 features a short ranged flamethrower.
• Ice Cube System: A new device the ZF-1 possesses is a weapon able to freeze people.

@mja , torture who you have to, the President, I don't care. Just bring me the stones. You have one hour.

I knew this category was going to rule. Atoadaso.

 

[mja]

For Team 80's Nude Scene, we just have two words for y'all: Phoebe Cates

The year is 1982 and young mja is more interested in Scooby Doo than in the female form, but some time later, likely in the early 90's, adolescent mja would have finally come across Kate from Gremlins being, as Cap likes to say, a total rocket.

Now, @Young Sandwich, I know what you're thinking, you already wisely took the iconic FTaRH scene, but please keep your pants on, because, to paraphrase Yoda, there is another 1982 film featuring um, lots, of Phoebe Cates. What's that? You don't own pants? Sigh.

Anyway, it's interesting that Cap should talk about paradise this morning, because that's exactly where I'm headed.

Paradise (82) is a Blue Lagoon ripoff in which Phoebe Cates, along with Chachi's sidekick from Charles in Charge, avoids capture from an Arab slave trader while discovering sex and getting naked as much as humanly possible. From what I recall, it's a terrible and even boring film, but I can pick out at least three separate scenes that would pass muster here. That said, I just have to pick the scene where Cates' character takes a long shower under a waterfall in a cave.

@Lord Defect, I can well wait to see what defectiveness is headed our way, but go ahead anyway, I suppose.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I am not surprised to learn that Blue Lagoon had a shameless ripoff. I thought that was the same actor at first.

 

[Lord Defect]

The hell with dipping our toe in the water, with this pick we’re dipping your whole head in.
Our team serial killer is none other than Victor, but more infamously known as The Kurgan.

@GKJ there can be only one.

 

[Striiker]

It occurs to me that I've set myself up to have an amazing Team Laser Weapon thanks to owning both Star Wars and Halo.

So many to pick from...

Fantastic category @Captain Dave Poulin

 

[Magua]

Hey, @Captain Dave Poulin , for the cover songs just to clarify.......we can duplicate a previously selected band/singer of the original song or the cover or either?

 

[Lord Defect]

Hey, @Captain Dave Poulin , for the cover songs just to clarify.......we can duplicate a previously selected band/singer of the original song or the cover or either?

Can the previously taken band be the one doing to cover or is it only ok if they are the source of the cover song?

 

[BernieParent]

For Team 80's Nude Scene, we just have two words for y'all: Phoebe Cates

The year is 1982 and young mja is more interested in Scooby Doo than in the female form, but some time later, likely in the early 90's, adolescent mja would have finally come across Kate from Gremlins being, as Cap likes to say, a total rocket.

Now, @Young Sandwich, I know what you're thinking, you already wisely took the iconic FTaRH scene, but please keep your pants on, because, to paraphrase Yoda, there is another 1982 film featuring um, lots, of Phoebe Cates. What's that? You don't own pants? Sigh.

Anyway, it's interesting that Cap should talk about paradise this morning, because that's exactly where I'm headed.

Paradise (82) is a Blue Lagoon ripoff in which Phoebe Cates, along with Chachi's sidekick from Charles in Charge, avoids capture from an Arab slave trader while discovering sex and getting naked as much as humanly possible. From what I recall, it's a terrible and even boring film, but I can pick out at least three separate scenes that would pass muster here. That said, I just have to pick the scene where Cates' character takes a long shower under a waterfall in a cave.

@Lord Defect, I can well wait to see what defectiveness is headed our way, but go ahead anyway, I suppose.

Once again -- and in perpetuity for this category -- my like does not indicate my endorsement of the post contents.

 

[ajgoal]

Once again -- and in perpetuity for this category -- my like does not indicate my endorsement of the post contents.

My goal is now to get Bernie to feel compelled to use the "love" reaction.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Hey, @Captain Dave Poulin , for the cover songs just to clarify.......we can duplicate a previously selected band/singer of the original song or the cover or either?

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... yes, I think so. It's not one of the crazy strict NO DUPLICATES categories.

Can the previously taken band be the one doing to cover or is it only ok if they are the source of the cover song?

Just random words barfed together at the same time. Nice going.