#& ik the fourth one seems to be missing the word ‘at’ but that’s not bc of my cropping it just didn’t have any word there

[aardvaark]

romance nate & sophie style

[macklives]

hey so this is gonna be a long-ish one. ive decided its been far too long since i did a session, and we did so many i can often forget what happened. i started in july and im pretty sure its been more than half a year now since this whole blog happened. and in that time, we’ve gone through 88 sessions and i want to know if i remember the relevant plot points and what we got up to in the last few sessions. a refresh/reminder if you would.

so i hereby commence my own little recap of act 5 because yeah no, its too much to do a recap of everything and i have andrew for that after every few acts. but i wanna refresh my mind on act 5 for now. so here we go.

1. alternia.. fucked up place. but its a place the trolls live on so what are we gonna do about it? overthrow the government? seems about right, lets do that with the next troll that gets introduced and if its not kanaya idk what andrew is doing by not having introduced the best troll yet. why the long wait? it was the second introduced? i honestly expected it to go in order when i first read act 5, because first we had karkat talk to jade which was the first new piece dialogue in the comic besides the main kids, but then we had kanaya with rose, which was followed by tavros, then terezi (iirc). so id assume we were following that order but nope karkat got fully introduced, then this random fucking juggalo called gamzee made its way into the comic. imagine my surprise.

2. theres been terminology throughout act 5, that i do not fucking know and will not remember and probably never will. like tf is a perigee again? i made a doc somewhere ill probably find it.

3. karkat’s introduction... short but very sweet. and by sweet i mean we got to know the depths of the angry edge lord. and by depths i mean karkat got angry at gamzee for typing in a way that he didnt like so he yapped like a chihuahua. nah, but seriously, i do like karkat tho, hes growing on me but only bc hes a bitch baby and his whole personality makes me want to mock him so thats the reason im not that annoyed and think hes funny, and the most harmless troll. even more so than tavros. and thats saying something. 7.5/10 bc im generous.

4. then gamzee... the high juggalo troll who has the worst typing quirk imo, i cannot for the life of me read it. but hes chill, i actually really like gamzee. hes funny and the least problematic as of right now. 8.5/10.

5. terezi’s introduction next i think. she likes playing as a lawyer with her stuffed dragons, ie by roleplay, shes blind, can see through licking, and she likes eating chalk, maybe its even nutritious. shes good. 9/10. 

6. uhh in the process of these intros, there are teams being made? karkat joins gamzee and terezi in, i THINK, the red team?? bc terezi likes red?? could be wrong, i dont remember the teams except that its red/blue to represent sollux’s duality in those colors. terezi then tries recruiting AC but AC is like lol sorry i have to ask this friend of mine who has authority over me for some goddamn reason and terezi goes yuck tf i hate that guy................... yeah thats all we have on the teams. pretty sure sollux had smth to do with karkat about the making of the leaders, and they did the “i hate me” and the “no i hate me more than u hate u” or whatever the fuck that was. they got embarrassed afterwards and deleted their messages. im pretty sure they have no messages because everything ends up being mutually deleted so their logs are actually empty. ngl, kinda enjoyed their convos, made me appreciate their characters. i hope we get more because its good content. i also dont know what order this whole thing is in, who contacted who first? couldnt tell you. ill remember later on. and since im basing this off from memory alone, gotta deal with what i remember. uhhhh so yeah. we havent met all characters yet so the teams have not been officially decided but we got the bases, which is that.

7. god i found it, and the only thing im looking at right now is the terminology list i made and what the fuck?? what the fuck?? you miss a few weeks and suddenly the word nubslurping comes up and you forget what the fuck youre reading.

8. im PRETTY SURE aradia is seen after that whole team fiasco?? or its sollux... maybe. wait. its sollux, right. i just knew someone gets introduced mid way through is all. actually, someone gets introduced after every 20 pages. i have no idea. but ik aradia and sollux go hand in hand.

9. oh shit. OH SHIT! RIGHT! I REMEMBER! so this occurs in the latest session i did, and not the beginning of act 5, but AG and aradia team up, right?? and sollux fucking gets manipulated by them and ??? idk??? they make him find the game, reprogram it and then make him believe its going to end the world (which in hindsight is true, but anyways) so he refuses to play it which was AG’s plan all along so she steps up and becomes leader in his place. but aradia says sollux will still play the game no matter what, but she never went through with the plan for AG but it was apart of a prophecy? that sollux wouldnt be the leader at all? that he’d still play? but it had to go according to plan so it could succeed??? we just dont know why yet. anyways, point being, she still cares for sollux since she did it for him rather than for AG. and thats what i recall. god tf i forgot about that whole drama until writing down “sollux and aradia go hand in hand” which gave me violent flashbacks to the memory.

10. oh and id give aradia 9/10 and sollux 7/10. i do like sollux but if i put him higher than karkat, id get crucified. so im keeping them around the same.

11. man i really like sollux and aradia tho, i may have put him at 7, but i really like their dynamic and i really hope they make up and aradia explains herself about AG. because from one side it looks shitty. and while sollux is rude and never makes up his mind, he apologized to aradia after going off, and that was the only time ive seen him be sincere, so im pretty sure he cares for her to some extent. and i think its somewhat mutual? considering the whole “did it for him” thing. man, i see potential because i actually like both their characters. theyre well written. may not have the best personalities, but i appreciate well written characters and homestuck has the best ones ive seen in a while.

12. oh shit, hell yeah, the more i write, the more im connecting the dots and remembering. however, the more i write, the more i want to just make an analogy post but thats not for now. jesus christ its not all about analogies, mack, this is a recap. but.. how does andrew do it? to not go off track??? hard. telling ya.

13. anyways, didnt we break the fourth wall at some point and have the demon gods or whatever the fuck speak to us in third person for the first time in the comic, after having only gone into second person narrative, right after we were introduced to sollux and his “virus”? the uh, the phrase “the demon was already here” was said, or something along those lines. first line in homestuck to give me the creeps ngl and i appreciate it bc it gives me motivation to know what the fuck its about. its cool bc you have no idea where its going and it sure doesnt have anything to do with the current plot, since the trolls’ session/game doesnt have fucking demons so im curious as to what the fuck that was about. and if i really have to make a theory, i feel it has something to do with aradia’s voices in her head which also connect to the gods rose heard when she started disregarding rules and told dave to look at derse without listening to music bc it was as if he was purposely blocking away their calls. like holy shit, that gave me the shivers. while i do want to know more about wtf happens after act 4, trolls are taking priority right now. just like we did with the intermission. no discussing the kids unless necessary. treat this as its own separate comic. and THEN we can connect.

14. ANYWAYS, tavros’ intro???? that comes afterwards?? with the fiduspawn that made me gag a little on the inside? yep. remember that. fuck that lol. -1/10 but tavros himself is MAYBE a 6/10? i wish we explored his character more in his intro bc right now he just looks like a character made only to be a victim rather than have any depth and i feel thats robbing someone of their full potential. give me more personality andrew, rather than a quivering boy who falls prey to bitches. im expecting more throughout the comic honestly and i hope he gets growth so hes not looked as a “victim” but rather his own character. he is still sweet, and i like him because i want to protect him, but id rather have more info, you know what i mean?

15. oh hell. kanaya had a chainsaw at some point. that made me happy. and didnt she cut off tavros’ legs?? and he got robot ones? and some creepy dude was looking and we called him saggy tits bc hes sagittarius? right? neat. that did happen. pretty sure saggy tits is ACs friend that tells her what to do. the more u know. OH and they all have colored blood similar to their text colors lol. that i remember... so tavros has brown, terezi has blueish green, um. karkat has grey the loser. and apparently it forms a rainbow which is nice. rainbow is good.

16. i dont remember anything else actually

17. wait no i do. AG appeared. shes a petty bully. idk what to say about her. we didnt get that much, except that she hates tavros but is okay with aradia. she also looks like a bottle opener. actually, i think she teamed with aradia to gain leadership rather than to “be friends”. and while that is similar to how karkat did it, meaning the gain, the motivation and how they earned it is entirely different. kinda seeing a trend tho. the leaders of the red/blue teams are both characters who wanted the role, but never had it to begin with. only to win their way into the position. but rather than ask non-stop like karkat did, AG manipulated others so she could be successful. not too sure if she also used aradia for that, or is actually motivated to become friends since they were “past enemies” and she needed a rebound. pretty sure its somewhat both. while AG did mostly use aradia to speak with sollux, what she doesnt know is that aradia is a bad bitch who never even thought about AG and only followed through with the plan bc she had a plan of her own. i guess we’ll look into that later. i lowkey want to know their history.

18. OH AC!!! she appeared for a second as well. love her. shes amazing. 9.5/10. and you may ask yourself, why am i saying “i love this character” but none of them are 10/10?? weellllll its because, and i cant stress this enough, 10/10 belongs to kanaya, i dont make the rules. im waiting for her introduction, shes my favorite and its obvious. sorry.

19. oh huh seems i forgot about the term “lusus”. which.. is.. their parents but not really, its these fucking weird ass creatures that the trolls fought in a cave or something as a child. i dont fucking know. terezi hatched hers and it died? gamzee’s also died but his goat sea dad was never really there to begin with so while it is sad, its more sad that gamzee never saw him? um.. karkat killed his own by exploding his computer bc sollux said dont run the virus and karkat said u cant tell me what to do and did it anyways. so thats on him. but apparently theyre supposed to die, to become prototyped during the game, right? yeah. i remember now.

20. thats.. about it? idk anything else, nothing is coming back to me apart from the shit above. huh.... im surprised how quickly things do come back to you the moment you rant about the plot tho.... handy trick.

cool. neat. fun. this took me too long. but im glad i remember a little bit.

[neo-shitty]

toffee!

no dont apologise! i didnt check until just then so np :)

mmm yeah it is a bit trippy. hehe ITS TRUE THO. yeah sadly i think ur right, and tag blocking is probably a good idea. sometimes smut written well or not in excess is okay but goddamn when its abt 01 line and thats the whole fic... *silently blocks tags*

hehe i do that all the time lol this conversation is carrying on threads from a month ago :) mmm yeah ur probably right sadly, same. HA HE DIDNT HAVE A CHOICE and now i have someone to talk to abt them, so thats good! I KNOW felix was actually the one who got me into skz with his iconique gods menu line so i guess i have a soft spot for him. i always tell myself my bias is chan but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ guess im more whipped than id like to admit. mmm yeah that does make sense dw i hope they do that as well. YES king seungmin hIMSELF. GODDAMNIT DONT GET ME STARTED ON MINHO IN GODS MENU I DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE WAS PART OF THE GROUP UNTIL I STARTED GETTING MORE INTO THEM. BITCH (affectionate) THE LINE DISTRIBUTION HAS BEEN UTTER DOG SHIT but *deep breath* its better now so were moving on adn hoping it stays that way. sis same but i may or may not have gone thru a rlly depressed phase and actively sought out the elimination episodes so i could actually force some tears out of my emotionless shell of a heart but what cna you do? lmaoo i feel that irl, binnie deserves more vocal lines. yesss channies accent is rlly prominent then, i think also the way he structures his phrasing? is more english speaking than korean? but yeah i totally get what ur saying. AJKSAL lmao

okay then! im excited for whenever it gets done! (maybe tag me?) ahh the cold shrivelled heart of a dark au writer beats again at the thought of torturing another poor characters very soul (/j) :(( yeah that would suck not being able to see them. ohhh ur on the other hemisphere to me! were just going into spring rn. mmm smth to look forward to! YES you put it into words. they rlly are pretty independent from the company (remember how jyp rejected that other dudes songs after like 3 seconds and then how he was apparently nervous to show the song hed written to chan cos chan was so good at writing hits ahhh sweet revenge) mmmYES we rlly need a mute and remove notifications button for our brains dont we?

YES CORRECT i totally agree. some people jsut dont give it a try, adn assume its bad cos its korean smh racist assholes. yes! im coming up to my 6 month anniv actually! sis sAME, i feel like theyre being tugged into appealing to the western american market and theyre not staying as true to their artistic flair as a group, especially with only writing english songs atm. *sigh* ah well, at least theyre bringing recognition to the kpop world. AHUH dead on, theyre going to be discarded pretty soon and then where will bp be? theyll prob go solo paths which is rlly sad but what can you do when the company is run by a prideful asshole? yg is not going to last much longer in the big four if they keep this up.

hehe you get it. oooh very cool! whos ur ult? (sorry if youve said this before) mmmm yeah good decision, i feel liek thats probably a wise decision. this is my first album release as a kpop stan (not counting mixtape oh) so i think ill get it for sentiments sake. yeah! im excited for the new music! mingi was the one who got me into them, but atm my bias is seonghwa followed by san, wooyoung and ateez but jonghos high notes man *swoon* he, yeah atm ive got jake, jay, nikki, jungwon and sunoo down so just trying to get the rest :) heh, yeah kard i rlly only got into cos of bm, ive seen him like interacting with a lot of idols and he seemed nice so i decided to check out the group. ikr gunshot man *another swoon*

no noe! i didnt know what it was until i got it lol. thx toffee ill try and take that to mind :) yeah lol im on a waiting list thats not going to be free until late september so hopefully i can hold on until then. hope ur okay, that sounds like it sucks, hope you can find someone. maybe ill just take you along on my phone and the therapist can get a two for one patient deal lmaooo. mmm, sorry no i havent mentioned it before, i dont rlly talk abt it much. uhhh basically hypermobility? if you google it, it doesnt seem bad, jsut joint flexibility but ive got the severe end of the stick, leaning towards ehlers danlos syndrome so thats fun. basically it just makes it hard for me to exercise, run, jump, stand or just walk for long periods of time and gives me a lot of joint and muscle pain so... thats fun! but obviously so many other people have it worse than me, so i try not to complain. normally in young people it will improve as they get older, but my doctor said bc its severe in me, its unlikely to get much better. but again, i dont have the worst lot in the bunch, so its all g.

oh its good that its not the bad type of rain, a light sprinkling can be relaxing sometimes. aww thx darl, the concern is appreciated but it went pretty well and i managed not to cough too much on stage or kill myself trying to run around to the other side of the stage in the pouring rain so thats good! oooh tea buddies! my dogs a labradoodle, but shes a bit more of a feral poodle lol not much labrador in her at all, unless its her relentless urge to hunt down every bird that has ever walked this earth smh :((( hopefully they can come back on soon, does uni have dances?

ahhh a mood if i ever heard one. hopefully things will get better for you soon, ik anxiety sucks ass. ooh thats always good! when its sunny here, its always melt ur thongs to the pavement hot so the nicely cool sunny days are a lovely change. hehe impatience is not so good for you, but good for us that get to see ur beautiful theme early. ahh no worries, itll come eventually hopefully. and if not, then just things that make you not anxious are good. it doesnt have to be black or white, sometimes gray is good. mmmmm sames i have midterms this week to catch up on and then two weeks of end of terms so thats fun! i hope u can overcome that a little, heres some channie to be ur motivation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8LWyNjzOww. hah! i hear that all the time, he seems to be everywhere. did you see that tiktok of hans slowed back door rap, i stg it sounded EXACTLY like namjoon, it kinda scared me. also teh beginning of another day, sounds so much like joon i swear.

that reminds me! idk ur biases! i feel like this should be smth i should know so please! feel free to elaborate!

ahh im glad, i was worried it is. mmm same, so no hard feelings if either of us misses a day or smth. ill start worrying if weeks/months have gone by, but if its just a little while thats more than fine. ill just picture you studiously completing notes and i wont worry lol

<3 w.a. 🐺

at some point i really think i'm going to start blocking accounts because blocking tags won't be enough. i saw ask tags the other day and it just made me want to bleach my eyeballs.

i could talk about god's menu felix for hours man. the teaser for god's menu that featured his part on the bridge made me look forward to the mv release. you: biases chan, also you: lixiesbabyhands. yes you are more whipped than you think. i can't believe orange haired minho was given NOTHING during that era but they kind of made up for it in the b-sides. i also hope it stays that way. the distribution for this era was pretty fair.

"torturing another poor character's soul" in all honesty, i used to live for this. 2017 me leading up to early 2020 wrote nothing but angst. i have another aussie friend on twt and tbh i'm still really (O.o) about the seasons! jyp should be terrified skz could easily take over that company. heck if skz grow old and start their own company, they'd probably do a great job at running it. PLEASE. i have issues on muting/notifications both mentally and in real life. sometimes, i just wish to disappear.

some people in my country are just disgusting tbh. not only racist but homophobic too. they label kpop as 'gay' and it DISGUSTS me. it's a problematic behavior/mindset people in my country need to fucking get rid of. anyway, HELP ME 6 MONTHS??? and i've been in this shit for like a decade eye. tbh, i’m not fond of kpop groups trying to appeal to the western audience :// it feels like they’re losing their identity in a way. yes recognition but at what cost? yg has my favorite groups but that’s one shitty company when it comes to promoting.

okay my ult! it’s haechan from nct but i consider chan an ult too. like a close second above my whopping list of kpop boys. oh yes! you should get the album just for like a keepsake? remembrance? how did mingi appeal to you? omg did you start getting interested in ateez back when he was still on hiatus? NOT YOU BIASING THE SAME PEOPLE I DID WHEN I FIRST STARTED STANNING. the infamous ateez thot-line. jongho is easily one of the best fourth gen vocalists out here, no one can change my mind :( good luck with memorizing the rest of enhypen! just in time for the comeback too. i hope i’ll get into kard soon but i’m pretty content (and a tad bit overwhelmed) with the amount of groups i stan right now.

please hold on though, feel free to vent here if you like. thanks for the offer tho HAHA but like i’ll try to get checked here too when the cases die down a bit. i’m sorry to hear about your condition though :( please don’t ever overwork yourself to the point that your joints/muscles would ache. it’s completely valid to complain about it tho. i get that you have others in mind but keeping that mindset really doesn’t do you (like you internally) any better? so if you need to, vent your frustrations out and don’t keep it in.

oh my god, about your performance last sunday. was the stage out in the open? glad you didn’t cough too much and did well on your concert. i’m proud of you! i can never understand dogs and poor birds T_T uni doesn’t have dances unfortunately. i think there’s just one party at the end like a graduation ball. what year are you in anyway? if it’s something that you’re fine with sharing. if not, it’s cool.

good luck with your exams! and thanks for the link! AHA what a cutie. i think he does this motivation thing once in a while during his lives and it’s just comforting. yeah joon and han my irl just freaked when we made that discovery. ult crumbs for her. oh god not me forgetting about every biases when you asked. you can ask for my biases in a few groups just list down the one’s you’re interested in knowing. 

i missed yesterday because i was grinding and finishing what if we stay + school work. finally did it today. i’m sure i’ll reply in like a day or two, definitely not a month unless i state otherwise. if i ever decide to abandon this blog, i’ll let you know.

[mitchbeck]

CANTLON'S CORNER: WOLF PACK OFF-SEASON REPORT VOLUME 2

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - The name of the game this week in hockey is, "Transaction-Time!"  On Tuesday, the New York Rangers made a big move in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes. The Blueshirts acquired a right-handed shooting defenseman, Adam Fox, and signed him to a contract on Thursday. The highly-regarded two-way playing Fox couldn’t come to a deal with the Hurricanes, so Fox, who was drafted originally in the third round (66th overall) in 2016 by Calgary was traded in the Doug Hamilton deal. The junior defenseman said he would return for his senior year at Harvard. Then he would be able to go the free agent route since he would be 22 and unsigned next spring. This allowed him under the current CBA to become an unrestricted free agent and seek a deal with any of the other 31 NHL teams.  Carolina opted to make a move now, gaining a second-round pick in this year’s draft from the Rangers and a third rounder in 2020. The third-round pick will be converted to a second-round pick if Fox plays 30 NHL games next season. Fox’s early hockey resume is quite extensive. He had 116 points in 97 games with the Crimson and led the NCAA in points scored. He was a Hobey Baker finalist and played on two US WJC teams, winning gold in 2017 and bronze in 2018. He was a First team All American all three season at Harvard, this season he captured ECAC Player of the Year and Ivy League Player of the Year. He was named the 2019 Walter Brown Award winner as the best American college player in New England and was named Harvard’s John Tudor team MVP for the season. This makes the already defensive slot (presently 18 defensemen as of today) an even more crowded field. Among the blueliners, the Rangers have four making upwards of $4 million plus, which means trades and contract burials are coming. This answers the question on two Group 6 defenseman, John Gilmour and Rob O’Gara, who will more than likely not be resigned come July 1st. Fox, with his newly minted Rangers credentials, will play for Team USA at the upcoming World Hockey Championships in Slovakia. Part of that is because Rangers GM Jeff Gorton is on the US squad’s Advisory panel, and the team's GM is current Rangers assistant GM, and Hartford GM Trumbull native, Chris Drury. The Fox deal was announced last Thursday, and Friday morning the team officially announced that they signed last year’s number one selection, (9th overall) the 6’4 right-winger, Vitali Kravtsov, to a three-year entry-level deal. The 18-year-old, left-handed shooting right-winger played for Traktor Chelyabinsk (Russia-KHL0 and had a very strong WJC in Vancouver/Victoria, BC. Both Kravtsov and Fox will make $925K-NHL/$70K-AHL on their ELC deals. Kravtsov has a European assignment clause in his deal. It might be classified as an anti-Hartford clause. It likely has a pre-determined time frame for him to play in Hartford. If it's exceeded then he could invoke the clause and be assigned to Europe to continue his development. The Rangers announced the signing of Kravtsov in the morning and in the afternoon they made it known they had signed Russian goalie Igor Shestyorkin, 23, a fourth-round (118th overall) pick in 2014. He gets a two-year ELC contract at $925K-NHL/$70K-AHL and he too has the same clause as Kravtsov. Shestyorkin’s (translated American version is Shesterkin) numbers are jaw-dropping, but a word of hockey caution. Russian hockey in the KHL is played differently than the NHL or the AHL. The international ice surface 200 x 100 skews the numbers a bit. That’s not to diminish his obvious talent, but like Alexander Georgiev, he will require an adjustment to the ice surface that is 10 feet shorter. The stats he has are gold-plated. This season, he posted a 24-3-1 record, a KHL record 1.11 GAA, a .953 save percentage with 10 shutouts for SKA St. Petersburg. In his KHL career, his record was 88-16-7 with a 1.68 GAA and 27 shutouts in total and career .935 save percentage. Shestyorkin was a two-time KHL All-Star and captured one KHL Gagarin Cup in 2016-17. There is a chance the trio could start next season in Hartford to make the pro adjustment for possibly a month or two, but the new coaching staff in Connecticut's capital has not been named and it won't until the Rangers announce their new President either at the middle or end of this month. The trio will be at the Rangers post-draft Prospects Camp starting on June 24 at Chelsea Piers in Stamford while the Rangers regular practice facility in Tarrytown, NY is undergoing renovations. No signing is expected for defenseman Yegor Rykov who played for HK Sochi (Russia-KHL) this year and was acquired from the Devils at the trade deadline in the Michal Grabner deal. One other prospect of note is on another goalie, Olof Lindbom (no relation to former Wolf Pack Johan Lindbom) who was drafted in the second-round (39th overall) last year. He will play next season for both Mora IK (Sweden-SHL) and Mora IK J-20 team in the Super Elite junior-level league. Lindbom, now age 18, would be eligible to play for the Sweden WJC team. He played with Djurgarden IF (SHL) and J-20 teams this season but missed most of the year with an injury. He was available for the just completed league championship final which they lost.  AHL CALDER CUP PLAYOFFS Call ups still affect AHL teams even in the playoffs. The Charlotte Checkers whose start their Atlantic Division Final series with Hershey on Friday lost AHL Baz Bastien winner  Alex Nedejlkovic because Carolina’s Petr Mrazek was injured in Game 2 of their series with the Islanders so Nedejlkovic was recalled, Now the Hurricanes now have a commanding three games to none lead in the series. Ex-Pack Dustin Tokarski who will start Game 1 has been his back up and was loaned to Charlotte with the Hurricanes loaning back Josh Wesley on February. Tokarski is likely heading to Sweden next year according to Swedish Hockey News.se,  He is being pursued by four teams in the Swedish Hockey League in Rogle BK, Oskarshamn, Leksands IF and Orebro HK, they are in the hunt. Charlotte recalled goalie Jeremy Helvig Florida (ECHL) to be Tokarski’s backup while they are battling in ECHL Southern Division Finals with Orlando up two games to one. Jake Bean, AHL First Team All-Star defenseman was also recalled with the injury to Hurricanes rearguard Jake Muzzin than seems to be a longer-term injury than Mrazek’s. Hershey recalled goalie Parker Milner (Avon Old Farms) from South Carolina (ECHL). Toronto with a three-goal second captured Game 1 of North Division Final with Cleveland. Jeremey Bracco’s four assists, Trevor Moore two goals and an assist, ex-Pack Chris Mueller’s goal and an assist and defenseman Rasmus Sandin paced the Marlies' efforts. Simsbury’s Tommy Cross had a goal and assist for the Monsters. Toronto reassigned ex-Sound Tiger goalie Eamon MacAdam to Newfoundland (ECHL) currently in the ECHL North Division Finals against Manchester. The Central Division Final between Iowa and Chicago is a good matchup saw the Wolves capture game one as Cody Glass scored the game-winner late in the first overtime for a 3-2 win. AHL regular season MVP Daniel Carr posted two assists to lead the Wolves offense. Iowa’s Gerald Mayhew’s scored his sixth goal of the postseason to pace the Wild offense. Out West in the Pacific Division Final San Diego will take on Bakersfield starting Friday and the Gulls got a nice reinforcing shot for the postseason with #1 Anaheim draft pick Maxime Comtois arrival from Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL) who were eliminated in the semifinals by the Halifax Mooseheads in a seven games as they won Game 7 in overtime 2-1. PLAYER & COACHING MOVEMENTS Mathieu Olivier, son of ex-New Haven Knight Simon Olivier, was signed to a two-year, two-way contract by Nashville after a strong season on Milwaukee. The contract is a free agent one-year AHL deal. As we first reported, defenseman Julius Bergman, who played just eight games for the Wolf Pack and who was acquired from Belleville in a trade, will return to Sweden to play with HC Frolunda in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) next year. Ex-New Haven Nighthawk and Ranger, George McPhee, relinquishes his Vegas Golden Knights GM title and has promoted Kelly McCrimmon, the brother of the late Whaler Brad McCrimmon, from assistant GM. McPhee will retain his President title and be overseeing all of the hockey operations all the changes are effective September 1st. In the German DEL Championship finals Adler Mannheim knocked off EHC Munich is six games. On the victorious side, the Eagles featured ex-Sound Tiger Mark Katic, Ben Smith (Avon/Westminster Prep), ex-Wolf Pack’s Luke Adam and Chad Kolarik. Adam is heading to Dusseldorfer EG next year and Kolarik is heading to Austria and EC Salzburg (Austria-EBEL). EHC Munich featured former CT Whale John Mitchell who after three years with the team announced his retirement from pro hockey at the conclusion of the playoffs. Ex-Wolf Pack, Evgeni Grachev, leaves Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (Russia-KHL) to Avangard Omsk (Russia-KHL) next season. Ex-Pack Malte Stromwall leaves KooKoo (Finland-FEL) for HK Sochi (Russia-KHL). Ex-Wolf Pack and Sound Tiger Andrew Rowe leaves Mora IK (Sweden-SEL) for SC Rapperswil-Jona (Switzerland-LNA). The Swedish LeMat Trophy final is over with HC Frolunda Indians winning the title with 4-2 series-clinching win Thursday at home over Djurgarden IF. HC Frolunda won all their playoff games at homes. The team features captain Joel Lundqvist, the twin brother of Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist, and ex-Sound Tiger Rhett Rakhshani. Ex-Pack Carl Klingberg re-signs with EV Zug (Switzerland-LNA) for next year. Ex-Sound Tiger and Canadian Olympic goalie, Kevin Poulin, is likely to be leaving Eisbaren Berlin (Germany-DEL) for Cologne (Germany-DEL). Ex-Sound Tiger Sebastian Collberg heads from Timra IK (Sweden-SHL) to EC Graz (Austria-EBEL) for 2019-20. Ex-Wolf Pack/CT Whale Andrew Yogan goes from HC Innsbruck (Austria-EBEL) to Alba Valon (Hungary-EBEL). Ex-Sound Tiger Tyler McNeeley departs from SC Bietighein-Bissen (Germany DEL-2) for Tolzer Lowen (Germany DEL-2). Jared Mudryk, the last member of the first Danbury Trashers team (UHL) team that is still playing active, played with ECDC Memmingen (Germany Division-3). He has announced his retirement. That leaves Jean-Michel Daoust from the second Trashers team as the only one left playing. He split this season with three teams, Thetford Mines and St. Jerome (LNAH) and a new six-team senior league that popped up this season, Vaudreuil (OASHL). Not until November when the Canadian senior hockey season begins will we know if Daoust will be the last Trasher to play or will share the honor with Mudryk. In the Czech Elite League (CEL) Final HC Ocelari Trinec captured just their second ever CEL title beating HC Liberec four games to two winning Game 6 by the score of 4-2. HC Kladno, led by 47-year-old Jaromir Jagr, won the relegation round and will be promoted to the CEL from Division 2 level. In the IIHF Division Group-A tourney underway in Kazakhstan, a few familiar names abound on some of the six teams. South Korea has an assistant coach former Ranger Sergei Nemchinov, while the head man was the Olympic team head coach, Jim Paek, Belarus has former New Haven Nighthawk Andrei Kovalev as an assistant coach and Lithuanian head coach is former Ranger player and Islanders assistant coach and NHL player, Daniel Lacroix. The World Championship that starts in Slovakia saw Canada name former CT Whale Jonathan Marchessault to the team along with Sean Couturier, the son of former New Haven Nighthawk, Sylvain Couturier. Team Sweden added William Nylander, the son of ex-Whaler/Ranger Michael Nylander. Some more AHL’ers head to Europe. Jakub Jerebek San Antonio leaves for Vityaz Podolsk (Russia-KHL) and Axel Holmstrom officially leaves Grand Rapids for HV71 (Sweden-SHL). Goalie Eddie Lack of Binghamton is according Swedish Hockey News close to signing a deal with Leksands IF (Swede-SHL) and former Ranger Josh Jooris is expected to leave Toronto (AHL) for HC Lausanne (Switzerland-LNA). That makes 10 players so far to leave for Europe and there will be more to come. UCONN get another college commit in Russian Yan Kuznetsov who played for Sioux City (USHL) for this coming fall. Stefan Miklakos is leaving Avon Old Farms (CTPREP) to play juniors for the Lone Star Brahmas (NAHL) and will be at Army (AHA) in 20-21. Zach Tonelli, the youngest son of Islander great John Tonelli, and who plays at Taft Prep in Watertown, announced a commit to Brown University (ECACHL) for 20-21. Colby Audette, from the Lewiston/Auburn (ME) Nordiques (NA3HL) commits to the brand new Albertus Magnus College (NESCAC) program that starts in New Haven in the fall. He is no relation to the former NHL player Donald or his son Daniel who plays in Laval. Emmett Powell, from Milton Academy (MAPREP) commits to Wesleyan University (NESCAC) located in Middletown. Brady Berard, the son of former UCONN assistant coach (AHA years) David Berard (Holy Cross AHA head coach) announced his commit to Providence College (HE) in 2022-23 at the age of 15. He is expected to attend Mt. St. Charles (RIPUB) next year. Another quartet of college players signed pro deals. Peter Krieger from the University of Minnesota-Duluth (NCHC) heads to Vasterviks IK (Sweden-Allsvenskan) and teammate Parker MacKay also goes from the two-time defending national champion University Minnesota-Duluth (NCHC). He signs with Texas (AHL), Mario Ferraro leaves UMASS-Amherst (HE) signs with San Jose (NHL/AHL) and Sasha Larocque Ohio State (Big 10) signs with Colorado (AHL). That makes 169 Division I players who signed pro deals and a total of 193 collegians at all levels to sign pro deals in the US and Europe. Andrew Gaus (Taft Prep) has completed his Yale degree but will be a graduate transfer and play next year with Colorado College Tigers (NCHC) joining him as a fellow grad transfer will be goalie Ryan Ruck of Northeastern (HE). Cam MacDonald of the Selects Academy at South Kent Prep is heading to Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) in the fall. Read the full article