Graphics Collection from CD's Ultra-Fine House of Style

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

That will not work here for me, unfortunately, EC, because of reasons I've just explained to some degree here. Talking about those kinds of things is an integral part of my creative process when it comes to my graphics and/or writing projects, for instance, if not in other aspects of my life, and vice versa. As long as that restriction remains in place as it now does here, I will not be able to produce any usable enough graphics for use here, most likely, by those who visit these forums, I think. I hate to say it, but it's most likely the honest-to-God truth for me at this time in my life, at least. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

That will not work here for me, unfortunately, EC, because of reasons I've just explained to some degree here. Talking about those kinds of things is an integral part of my creative process when it comes to my graphics and/or writing projects, for instance, if not in other aspects of my life, and vice versa. As long as that restriction remains in place as it now does here, I will not be able to produce any usable enough graphics for use here, most likely, by those who visit these forums, I think. I hate to say it, but it's most likely the honest-to-God truth for me at this time in my life, at least. CD out.

Sorry to hear that, CD...I am very disappointed... my advice would be to "Bend with the Wind" and get both worlds... a graphics forum thread... and a forum where you can discuss things related to your life and your novel.

You are not making a wise decision in my opinion.
You are your own worst enemy to be honest.

Your decision really hurts you and is not necessary.

[Eugene Church]

CD, I will continue to report the Freeman Brothers stats from my Islandian Pro Alliance and my South Island Leagues.

I will post their stats here... and try to relate them to graphics some way since this is the Mods and Graphics Forum.

If I am told not to do this, then I will send you Private Messages or post the players' stats in my Dynasty Reports.

I will make sure you will be able to keep track of the Freeman Brothers.

God bless you and your famity, CD.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Or at least right now, I don't see that as a sufficiently workable solution to this situation, anyway, EC. It may not be a wise decision on my part, as you say, and there is a lot of honest truth in what you are saying here, for sure. But I must still do what I feel is best for all concerned parties here. And to try and do so as a humble servant of the Most High God as best as I possibly can do so here, just the same. I could be wrong here, and quite possibly am, quite a good deal, of course, but this is still how I presently feel about this particular situation here, in truth. CD out.

[TC Dale]

CD, It is OK to post your graphics in this thread... should you not follow forum rules, then action will taken. Warnings are possible. If you want to stay on the Mods forum, then post mods content only.

Willing to start a Off Topic thread for you to post what you desire to say that is not on topic in the main forums.



I hope you stick around.



TC


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[Eugene Church]

CD, like TC Dale, I hope you will stay on this forum and just follow its rules.

Posting here in this thread has been good for you... it is good for you to interact with others like this... you are much better on the Forums now than you were several years ago.

You have improved greatly both in attitude and in your skill at making graphics... you are not very far away from being able to fill personal requests for jerseys and caps... I know you would like to do that in gratitude for the graphics that have been done for you... you are a good man, but a little bit stubborn sometimes... please stay on the forum.

Hope you continue to post your graphics.

If you want to help to improve my teams in the Islandian Pro Alliance, I will be glad to work with you on them.

[Eugene Church]

One final suggestion for you, CD.

Begin a Dynasty Forum thread... start a dynasty league based on your novel The Light in the Darkness (not sure I have the title right)... that way your novel would not be off-topic.... in my South Island League I give my life's story that is loosely connected to my fictional baseball world... so far, no one has complained about it... I mainly concentrate on the baseball league, not my life's story.

You could incorporate your novel and its theme in an OOTP dynasty report... but be sure to make the baseball league the major part of the dynasty report... your novel should only be a small part of it.

Please give it a try.

[jg2977]

CD, I'll be glad to put some of your players back in my IPA, if you want to give me some names. But I won't be micromanaging them. I'll give them reasonable ratings. Let me know. Also, I'll be starting a new fictional league when I get OOTP24, probably next month.

I hope you stay on the forum.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Folks,

It has certainly been a good while since my last post here on the forums. While I'd like to be able to talk about certain things at least a little bit more here, of course, I have recently been told I can't really touch on them. Or at least in my graphics-related threads, it seems, if not certain other places elsewhere on the forums as well.

I am trying to keep busy with various things, both OOTP-related and not, of course, but a lot is changing for me and mine of late, for instance. I won't go into detail about a number of them here, or at least not publicly, but I will say that a number of things are beginning to significantly change now or will most likely be changing like that for me and mine in my life and in the lives of several people close to me now.

One of the things I have begun working on is a text file of players for various teams in various leagues I'm about to try and create or recreate for at least one dynasty, whether current or future. I have begun making lists of players to put on those teams, but I do not yet have enough players decided on to start a new OOTP 22 dynasty with here, for sure.

In this text file, I have been making up lists with 50 historical players per relevant SRL franchise for at least one overall league, if not more than one. I am still lacking players for four Slaabovian franchises from my Slaabovian Republic League, unfortunately. There are twelve franchises associated with the Slaabovian Republic League, and eight have players selected for them so far that have been input into the relevant text file by now. However, I'm still needing 50 historical players for the Rocíoton Camels, the Tran City Bucks, the Willson Athletics, and the Sara City Rockets franchises for it.

IF anyone is potentially interested in submitting a list of up to fifty historical players for any of the four aforementioned teams here, here is what I'll be needing from you, I believe, so that I can include them properly in the relevant text file or files:

1. I will need you to select between 15 and 18 historical pitchers and around 32 position players for any team you might choose to submit a list of up to 50 players for here. You may choose any known historical player, whether or not they ever actually made it to the Major Leagues in any country, that might be able to be imported into any dynasty that is created for any pre-23 version of the game easily enough. Seeing as this particular idea of mine will be related at least to OOTP 22, if not too any other version of OOTP as well, any historical player that is in the relevant player databases is potentially eligible for selection here by you.

2. When and if you choose any players for the teams in question, please try and send me the relevant players' ID codes and names, with as early of a starting year as possible, so that I can have them start as early as possible in their careers for the relevant dynasty and league as possible. For example, if you choose any Japanese players that may have played in the appropriate historical Japanese leagues, try to find the earliest post-high school or post-college statistical year for them as you can, for obvious reasons.

3. I don't care if two or more of you choose the same base players on your respective player lists, because I will be renaming relevant players who are selected for my applicable Slaabovian leagues, at least, if not for leagues in other fictional countries of mine that may also be present in this game, almost certainly, if not definitely.

4. Please send me your lists privately, if possible. And if you have any other reasonable questions about this idea of mine for another dynasty here, please do let me know, either in this thread or privately. I certainly will keep you posted here as the need and desire and all might then arise, as best as I can and all, I'm sure. And if I get all the necessary players' codes for the relevant teams in that file done soon, I might just start another related dynasty thread soon, of course, as time permits and all.

5. Teams are first-come, first-serve, at least when it comes to those four teams, as well. IF you want to claim a particular team, you must be first to submit your list of proposed historical players for said team, or you will risk being bumped to another team here of the mentioned teams, supposing they aren't yet claimed by the time you submit your lists here to me.

6. IF other relevant teams in certain other leagues of mine for this dynasty become available for the claiming, I will then list them in this thread, as time actually permits and all, for sure. Besides MLB and the Slaabovian leagues, at least, I will likely have teams and leagues in at least four countries, whether real or fictional. So if you do miss out with teams in the Slaabovian leagues, at least, there may still be certain available teams you can perhaps help me stock in certain other leagues and/or countries here, for that matter. Just so you know this well enough, everyone.

Thank you for your time and attention here, then, folks. TC_Dale, please check your PM's for at least one PM from me, if you don't mind too much. I really would like to know what you think about the content of said message or messages privately, if I can. CD out.

P.S. IF more than four other people send me such lists, I will use their lists for teams in other available fictional leagues needing such players to start with, as possible and appropriate and all, most definitely. However, the first four volunteers here will get their lists used first for relevant teams in this dynasty. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

Glad to see you are posting again, CD.

I don't see anything at all in this post that would offend anyone.

You are just seeking players for your dynasty league.

Just keep your posts mainly and primarily about your dynasty and its graphics needs and there should be no problem from TC Dale... I don't think going off the main topic occasionally will be any problem.

TC Dale is a very nice person and a very nice guy.
He does an outstanding job as moderator here on the OOTP Forums.
We all just need to stay within the boundaries and rules that have been set up.

[Eugene Church]

CD, Here is the latest graphics and stats for Gordon and Arthyr Freeman from the South Island League.

Gordon is now the first-string first baseman for the Braxton Bruins... he may also get some pitching in the second half of the season.

[Eugene Church]

Arthyr plays for the Billings Rams... he is not playing much this year... he has played as a first stringer in his previous seasons, but he lost it because of poor hitting in the first half of the season.

Here are his home and away photos showing his unis.

[Eugene Church]

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Thank you for the new update regarding the Freemans in your rec league, EC. Still hoping others around here also decide to suggest lists of historical players to base certain teams' players on soon for the relevant dynasty or dynasties' leagues, though. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make much, if any, real progress as will ultimately be needed here with this particular idea of late, it seems, for various reasons.

EC, I really do hope your IPA situation gets resolved soon for everyone's benefit, and especially yours, in a sufficiently positive way here, for sure. I've followed it for quite some time now, of course, you know.

I also can't wait to see if 20_range will do more for Stratford's Playwrights, especially seeing as I normally only use the classic skin when I play OOTP, not the dark skin like many do around here. So light borders don't always show up well on that skin, I think, for me whenever I use various logos in my games. Colored borders often work and look much better for me in my games, as a result of that normally being the case for me here.

As far as personal matters, I'm still stuck on a certain number of projects, both writing-related and graphics-related in nature, at least. Certain other important matters have to be settled sufficiently well before too much more time passes for me and certain others in my family, as well, most definitely. And Dad is quite unlikely to ever live with us again easily enough, the way he is now, unless God heals his current Alzheimer's-related situation first, and certain other things happen for us all in the near future.

Mother is okay for the moment, more or less, given our current circumstances, being a bit younger than Dad, but she certainly has her own health issues as well, of course. She'll definitely need at least one operation in the near future, if not more than one, it seems. Although I don't know just yet when such an operation or operations will need to be done, to be sure. Please pray for her and me and the rest of my family as you like and can, EC. I really hope she can live at least another few years before she leaves this world behind, obviously, just as I do for Dad, who's roughly three years older than she is now, in truth.

It's tough watching your parents age, for sure, and knowing that they may not actually have a good deal more time left that you can spend with them in your life, especially as you get older yourself. It's been hard to not be able to see Dad every day now, but neither Mom nor I have the necessary medical knowledge and the experience and the ability to be able to take care of him as needed 24/7. So it's best for all concerned parties here that he is somewhere that he can definitely get the care that he actually needs when he needs it and all, you know.

I hope this update about certain matters isn't going to get me into any real trouble here, in certain ways, of course. I hope TC_Dale won't mind such commentary too much here at least every once in a while, too, for sure.

I'll try to get back to creating at least a few more OOTP-related graphics-type items here for the forums soon, if and when I can be sufficiently inspired and all to create such items easily enough and all. But that probably won't happen for at least a little while yet, I think, unfortunately, folks. Just so you all know this here well enough. CD out.

P.S. Any and all prayers for me and my family's good health and for all other sufficiently-related matters to me and/or mine here will certainly be quite appreciated by me, at least, if not others as well, I'm quite sure, of course, folks. EC and jg2977, at least, please feel free to PM me at any time, if and when you like and can, okay? Thank you. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

CD, I think you will be fine on the Mods Forum as long as you mostly discuss logos, jerseys, caps and graphics.

Concentrate mainly on graphics for OOTP as you will be OK.

TC Dale is in your corner... he's a really nice guy... he wants you to be able to post.

I don't think he will get picky should you mention your family and your novel on occasionally... all of us on the OOTP Forums stray at times to off-topic subjects... many of the OOTP Community share their life problems on occasion.

Post a thread for 20_range... ask him to put dark borders on the logos for you... he is reall a nice person... I think he will change the Playwrights logo for you... if not, I think I can do it for you.

Sorry for the trials and tribulations in your family's life... our Friend will get you through it... my prayers are with you and your family.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I don't think I need to create a new thread, seeing as I've already created one related to the Playwrights, EC. I'm still expecting him to want to do some work on them, at least in terms of using the team name for a place in Ontario, after all. And, of course, I don't ever want to flood the Graphics forums, at least, with certain personal requests any more than I absolutely have to again, like I no doubt unintentionally did around them before to get a lot of people upset with me, you know.

I have been trying to collect a lot of AI art lately, at least for purposes of potential inspiration when it comes to various projects of mine, seeing as I can't really draw well, and my current stream of consciousness when it comes to such AI art, mainly, is along the lines of Power Rangers and/or Super Sentai, for instance. Unfortunately, AI art hasn't really gotten the knack of doing hands properly when it creates imagery from text prompts, you see, for example. So it's been rather difficult at times to get imagery created that is sufficiently usable for inspiration and all, to be sure.

When you try to get pictures of baseball players in uniforms and caps and all done properly, for instance, AI-generated art often messes up text on them, as well, unfortunately. Even when you try to give it suitably specific prompts within a certain number of characters, it often adds or omits letters, or it makes things look rather weird, like caps, for instance, so that that they don't necessarily look just like they should at times, for sure.

I don't think it matters much what AI art generator many people may use, in many cases, at least. But there is a lot of improvement still needed in certain areas of art rendition abilities before AI-generated art can look sufficiently like real art to make it virtually impossible for nearly everyone, if not everyone, to know what images are real and which are fake in the future for this world. Someday that day will come, no doubt, where that will be the case, but not today, and at this time, I probably shouldn't venture further along this line of discussion here. Simply because it might otherwise lead into discussions of certain kinds of subjects that are currently not well-received here on the forums, I think, by various people around here.

However, if anyone possibly wants to discuss any and/or all potential ramifications of AI-generated content more with me, they are free to PM me and I might then be willing to discuss them later with them, at least at some length or to some degree, of course. Or not, as the case might be, obviously enough, at times.

AI is a tool that still needs a lot of work to function properly in many situations, and to be used properly, for sure, in any case. It still can't compare sufficiently well in many respects to what humans can do and have done in this world of ours, and I think that may very well be a good thing here. That's simply because it shows that we are still much more able to do many more things naturally than what our own creations have yet been able to do, if not everything, because we can think and imagine, among other things. As for them, they can't still live and experience things sufficiently well just like we humans all have and can and will, in this world of ours, seeing as they're nonbiological and inanimate objects, and can still only create based on what we have programmed them to be able to do, for sure.

As I said, I'll try to get some more graphics done and posted here as soon as possible, but it may still be a while yet, for various reasons, folks. Don't expect them to be posted here for at least another week or so, most likely, unless I'm sufficiently inspired and all, before then. And that probably won't be before 20_range finishes working on Stratford here for me, if others don't contribute graphics for them as well here, of course, at least. Just so you all know this here well enough, in any case, to be sure. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I've been playing a good deal of FHM 7 of late, and am currently running the St. Louis Eagles of the NHL in 1940. However, we haven't won a Stanley Cup for eleven seasons and counting now, since before the original Ottawa Senators moved to St. Louis and became the Eagles, unfortunately.

The last several years, at least, for the most part, have not been good ones for the franchise in question since the last year in Ottawa. However, this last season was much better than the season or two before this last one, it seems to me. I don't think we'll be getting to the playoffs again within the next season or two, somehow, unless teams like Detroit or the Rangers or the Americans, for instance, in our current division fall back in it enough. The Bruins just won the Cup for the first time in 1939-40 for the relevant dynasty, while our only two Cup wins to date both happened while we were still in Ottawa as the Senators.

Currently, the teams in that dynasty's NHL are as follows, as of the end of the most recently completed NHL season:

American Division:

Boston Bruins
Chicago Black Hawks
Detroit Red Wings (ex-Cougars and ex-Falcons)
New York Americans (ex-Bulldogs and ex-Tigers)
New York Rangers
St. Louis Eagles (ex-Senators)

Canadian Division:

Halifax Schooners (ex-Pirates and ex-Quakers)
Kingston Limers (ex-Maroons)
Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Wanderers
Thunder Bay Giants (Expansion team joining NHL as of last season)
Toronto Maple Leafs (ex-Arenas and ex-St. Patricks)

Thunder Bay did very well in their first season, finishing second in the Canadian Division, and beat their first-round opponent (Toronto?) in the postseason, before falling to the Canadiens, I believe. Boston's getting better, but Detroit and the Rangers have won several Cups between them both recently.

The only teams of the twelve above teams who haven't won at least one Cup in their existing histories are the Black Hawks and the Giants. Chicago may win one in the near future, if they can get past Detroit and the Rangers easily enough in it, I think. However, with the Rangers having Dominik Hasek, for instance, I don't know how soon that might happen for them.

As for the Eagles, unless we get enough help built up around Tony Esposito and others on the team, we may not win for a while longer yet, barring unexpected slippage by the other teams in our division in the near future, or corresponding success on our parts in that same timespan. We're mostly a young team, and most of our players haven't really done well lately. We have had some good teams in our history, but lately, we've been basically scrambling for any wins we can get, since before the move from Ottawa.

We're still trying to rebuild after losing several major players to retirement in the last few years, and my manager hasn't really been able to get ratings points the last few years for himself to increase his career managerial ratings points due to our current streak of poor-quality seasons. Many significant injuries to our players over the years for our franchise's history haven't really helped us at all either, especially late in the season or during postseason play, of course.

I'm not sure who's likely to be available in the next amateur draft for us, but we should be picking within the top three picks, at least. Unfortunately, trading is not possible for us or anyone else in the game at present, apparently, so that's one possible way of perhaps improving our team not available to us at the present time. Free agency isn't possible at the present time, either, it seems, for some reason. Believe me, if I could, I'd try trading as many of our lower-quality players as I could, within reason, and I'd also probably be hitting the free agent market hard too, if enough good players were available for possible signings by my team in the game.

I'm thinking of bringing the Americans back to Hamilton and bringing back the Tigers nickname, when the 1941-42 NHL season is over. IF I do so, where would you folks perhaps suggest I put another team in the US, to replace the Americans in the American Division? I'm thinking either Wisconsin, Ohio, or Minnesota, if not Maryland or Virginia or New York or Kentucky instead, folks. Probably too soon to go west or south of Missouri, though, at this point in time, I think.

I will probably have to wait on playing much more of that dynasty until I get some help with updating the Schooners, the Wanderers, the Limers, or the Eagles, at least, I think. I really do hope someone around these forums can update each of those teams, at least, very soon. That's so that they each might then have certain team-related looks that are much more suitable for roughly the 1940-1965 timeframe in that relevant dynasty of mine here, for sure. Also, there are some other important matters I want or need to attend to, whether I can do so on the computer or in real life, in the near future, most likely, which might then limit the amount of time that I can spend advancing that dynasty's history at least a little in the next few days or weeks, if not the next few months, instead. Just so you know, folks. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

So far, the list of NHL Stanley Cup-winning franchises, at least contested solely between NHL teams to date, if I am not too mistaken here, is as follows, by total number of Stanley Cups won:

Toronto Arenas/St. Patricks/Maple Leafs 7 Cups (1 Arenas, 3 St. Patricks, 3 Maple Leafs)
Montreal Wanderers 4 Cups
Detroit Cougars/Falcons/Red Wings 3 Cups (All as Red Wings)
New York Rangers 2 Cups
Ottawa Senators/St. Louis Eagles 2 Cups (Both as Ottawa Senators)
Boston Bruins 1 Cup
Montreal Canadiens 1 Cup
Montreal Maroons/Kingston Limers 1 Cup (Only as Maroons)
Pittsburgh Pirates/Philadelphia Quakers/Halifax Schooners 1 Cup (Only as Schooners)
Quebec Bulldogs/Hamilton Tigers/New York Americans 1 Cup (Only as Americans)

Only the Chicago Black Hawks and the Thunder Bay Giants have not yet won a Stanley Cup in their respective histories. Thunder Bay drafted really well, it seems, and got rather fortunate in its first season in the NHL, it seems. I don't know how long it will take them to be a major factor in the NHL for a long enough time yet, of course. But I still think Chicago, if they get the right people in place, could contend for, if not win, a Cup by the 1950's, at the latest, if not sooner, somehow.

In the meantime, I'll no doubt have to try and build the current St. Louis Eagles back up again in order to win as many Cups as possible before the Blues join the NHL in about 25 years. The Eagles will probably need to move to somewhere else by 1966, and I'm thinking Omaha or back to Ottawa, for instance, might be a possibility around that time for me here. What do you think, folks? Please feel free to advise and all, as you like and can. Thank you. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

For everyone's information, here are the winners of the Stanley Cup through the end of the 1947-48 NHL season. Several teams have moved or renamed themselves in the first 32 years of this relevant FHM 7 dynasty, and I have not allowed certain NHL franchises to fold, but they still exist in this dynasty to this time, at least for now.

After I list who's won each season, I'll detail the necessary relevant franchises as appropriate and required here, in terms of their relocations and/or renamings, as best as I can and all, of course. Some teams are definitely in need of new looks, seeing as the current year is 1948, and the 1950's are coming up fast, as well, for sure, though.

1917-18: Toronto Arenas
1918-19: Montreal Canadiens
1919-20: Montreal Wanderers
1920-21: Montreal Wanderers
1921-22: Montreal Wanderers
1922-23: Montreal Wanderers
1923-24: Toronto St. Patricks
1924-25: Toronto St. Patricks
1925-26: Toronto St. Patricks
1926-27: Ottawa Senators
1927-28: Toronto Maple Leafs
1928-29: Ottawa Senators
1929-30: New York Americans
1930-31: Toronto Maple Leafs
1931-32: Toronto Maple Leafs
1932-33: Montreal Maroons
1933-34: New York Rangers
1934-35: New York Rangers
1935-36: Detroit Red Wings
1936-37: Detroit Red Wings
1937-38: Detroit Red Wings
1938-39: Halifax Schooners
1939-40: Boston Bruins
1940-41: New York Rangers
1941-42: Detroit Red Wings
1942-43: New York Rangers
1943-44: Montreal Wanderers
1944-45: New York Rangers
1945-46: New York Rangers
1946-47: New York Rangers
1947-48: St. Louis Eagles

Of existing teams who have won the Stanley Cup to date, here are their renamings and/or renamings, if applicable:

The Detroit Red Wings started their team history as the Cougars in 1926-27. then became the Falcons in 1930-31, and the Red Wings in 1932-33.

The Halifax Schooners started their team history as the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925-26, then became the Philadelphia Quakers in 1930-31, and the Halifax Schooners in 1936-37.

The Hamilton Tigers started their team history as the Quebec Bulldogs in 1919-20, then became the Hamilton Tigers in 1920-21, the New York Americans in 1925-26, the Brooklyn Americans in 1941-42, and then the Hamilton Tigers again in 1942-43.

The Kingston Limers started their team history as the Montreal Maroons in 1924-25, then became the Kingston Limers in 1938-39.

The St. Louis Eagles started their team history as the Ottawa Senators in 1917-18, then became the St. Louis Eagles in 1934-35.

The Toronto Maple Leafs started their team history as the Arenas in 1917-18, then became the St. Patricks in 1919-20, and the Maple Leafs in 1927-28.

Existing teams still in their original city with their original team name:

Boston Bruins: First season 1924-25
Montreal Canadiens: First season 1917-18
Montreal Wanderers: First season 1917-18
New York Rangers: First season 1926-27

Existing teams not yet with Stanley Cup wins in their team histories:

Chicago Blackhawks: First season 1926-27
Duluth Bulldogs: First season 1945-46
Harrisburg Keystones: First season 1942-43
Thunder Bay Giants: First season 1939-40

I'm having trouble keeping the game from putting the Montreal Canadiens anywhere but the Montreal Forum after one season to another, without having to change it yearly, for some yet-unknown reason or reasons here, and that's been happening for at least the past several years, unfortunately. I've been having to go in and edit where the Canadiens are playing every season now, practically, it seems, at the start of every NHL season, if I can catch it in time. I shouldn't have to do that here, I think, of course, folks. So what may be causing that to happen here, somehow? Just wondering, that's all.

Will write more later, but not sure just when. I have a pending request out on the FHM forums related to several teams, but nobody's responded to it just yet, unfortunately. Hopefully, someone will help me with it well enough, of course, before it's too out-of-date time-wise, for sure. At least in regards to the relevant FHM 7 dynasty's current timeframe for me here, that is. Thank you for your time and attention here, then, everyone. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

The Red Wings won another Cup in 1948-49, while the Eagles won another in 1949-50. I'm hoping my current Eagles can win at least one more Cup before we start having to look for places that the Eagles might need to move to so that the Blues can start themselves out in St. Louis in 1967-68. Am willing to entertain reasonable enough suggestions as to where I could move them to by the necessary time, by the way, folks.

However, we will now be moving forward without a version of my paternal grandfather playing at all for us from now on, as of the end of the NHL 1950 season, it seems. I am hoping that we can repeat as Stanley Cup champions in 1950-51, of course, but it's almost certainly going to be very difficult, if not impossible, I think, to repeat our 59-4-7 record in the most recent regular season, plus eight wins out of ten games in the postseason, with a Cup Finals win against the Schooners in six games.

Tony Esposito, although he probably missed the first week or so of the regular season, plus probably part, if not all, of the preseason, really dominated things in the net for us, while we scored more than three times as many goals as our goaltenders gave up during the regular season. We outscored our opponents during the regular season 327 to 108, it seems to me. Even with at least one of our key players missing substantial time during the season, most likely, we still largely dominated with a very strong offense, and basically ran away with things in the regular season, with at least one or two unbeaten streaks of ten or more games during it. I believe our longest unbeaten streak during the regular season was something like 24 games, with at least one tie mixed in along the way of that streak.

Tony Esposito is at 390 wins so far in his 16-season career, with 59 wins, it seems, this past season. He is 34 now, and I expect that if he can stay healthy, and we can win enough, he could very well get at least 500 wins for himself by the end of his career. He is still a four-star player at present, and his backup hasn't really played yet, if at all. He's stayed quite healthy for us in his career, generally, so I think he could very well end up somewhere north of 500 or 550 wins by the time he's done, if that still largely remains the case and the Eagles do well enough until he finally finishes his career here, somehow.

As for NHL career records at the present time, Guy Lafleur of the Halifax Schooners currently has more than 1300 points, with nearly 600 goals and more than 750 assists in his career. He will be 35 this next season, and possibly shows no sign of slowing down at present, I think, even as a three-star player. I think it highly likely he'll finish his career with more than 700 goals and at least 900 assists by the time he's done playing.

For those who want to know how Wayne Gretzky did here in the relevant save, he started out at 26, it seems, and played until he was 40. Even so, he still won 9 Harts, 2 Conn Smythes, 7 Maurice Richards Awards, 10 Art Ross Awards, 3 Plus-Minus Awards, and 4 Cups with the Montreal Wanderers, in a career spanning from 1917-18 to 1930-31, in any case.

As for Mark Messier, he played his whole career for Detroit from 1928-29 to 1948-49. His awards are 8 Harts, 1 Smythe, 4 Selkes, 2 Richards, 3 Rosses, 1 Plus-Minus, and 5 Cups. Like Gretzky, who had his number 99 retired by the Wanderers, Messier's 7 was retired by Detroit, for your information. I think he was a major reason why the Red Wings won so many Cups in his career, in truth, or at least for most of them, anyway.

Will write much more sometime later, as time permits and all, Lord willing and all, I'm quite sure. I still don't know what I'm likely going to have to do to keep the game from automatically changing the Canadiens' home arena every year on July 1st, until I put it back as it should be from where the game is putting them now. Every season, for a while now, once the calendar changes over in July, I've likely had to put them back in the Montreal Forum from where the game puts them in the Limers' arena, for some yet-unknown reason or reasons, unfortunately. Any ideas on just how I might actually be able to keep them from doing that from now on in the future, perhaps, folks? It's getting to be rather annoying having to put the Canadiens back in the Forum every season, in truth. CD out.