So cool to listen to a true legend of the game talk about his career.
@clever-username
2 жыл бұрын
I maintain a similar fantasy when I'm by myself on the rink or shooting in the driveway. I'm captain of the Ducks and we've been a dynasty for 300 years, our lives extended indefinitely by incredible cyborg augmentations. The 2nd line is headed by Paul Kariya's twin sons, North and South. We score 28 million goals per game.
@capdown6828
2 жыл бұрын
A funny comment for a funny video. 🏒
@eddiereekie2403
2 жыл бұрын
This is one of the greatest videos in KZitem history! This also is what separates you from other channels because who else would make a video like this about their past nerdiness?
@patch8376
2 жыл бұрын
This. Loved the original. Glad to see this already got over 20k views. Some might have had imaginary friends as kids. I had imaginary hockey leagues, teams, and a star named Jake Crosby before I'd ever heard of Sidney.
@craigusselman546
2 жыл бұрын
When I was in my 20s I created a hockey team like this in my spare time so I can relate.
@Neon002121
2 жыл бұрын
Love hearing about this. Poor Hartford! 3 straight SCF losses. No wonder they went to Carolina.
@donnascanlon3667
2 жыл бұрын
And we are happy to have them! ;)
@sameold5050
2 жыл бұрын
Hartford making the playoffs three years straight would've been incredible never mind the cup final three years straight.
@Railblade
2 жыл бұрын
This may be the most affirming video I've watched in my 10 years on KZitem. I used to play a Paralympic sport called Goalball when I was in high school, and organized a couple major regional tournaments for the sport before I dropped out of college. Goalball is the only competitive sport created for athletes who are blind / visually impaired. It combines an offense like dodgeball/bowling with a defense of soccer/hockey. However, because teams are only 3-6 players, and it's primarily only played by blind / visually impaired athletes, the "regular season" is just a 3-4 regional tournaments from January until the end of May, with a National Championship Tournament in June. So in 2016, bored in my college dorm and alone for a three-day weekend, I would up creating a "National Goalball League", that just so happened to have 30 teams in the NHL markets (team names were just the cities, so there was New York and Brooklyn). I never went as far as creating all the players on all the teams, but I did wind up thoroughly constructing how the league would operate, and used RNG to determine all the scores. This allowed for dynasties and parity while also ensuring my market biases were a non-factor. And then I'd keep stats in Excel about it - although in the early seasons I didn't, so when I started around the 60th season, I kept a lot of the records to the Championship series (wins and appearances, matchups, etc). I'd do all the Round Robin & Playoffs on my phone, and then do stats on Excel. Up to season 318 right now, though I never did the Playoffs for 318. Definitely gets harder as you get older with more responsibilities eating at your time. But I'm glad you made this video Shannon. This makes me want to explain my non-sense in a video some day. In 25 minutes though? That'd be a challenge of its own lol
@JoshuaWSiegel
2 жыл бұрын
I did a similar thing, but in NHL 17. Created a 9-team women’s league. Played a 40-game season, manually keeping track of stats/standings. Played every single matchup of the season and the playoffs. I even did off-season transactions and started a second season, but never finished it. There was a team that started out very strong, but then collapsed, a couple others that after a good start, went on a long slump and looked out of it, only to make a run at a playoff spot by the end. The final playoff spot was even decided on the very last game of the season. It was very fun.
@JonnL
Жыл бұрын
This is such a cool concept! Difference to me with this and a be a GM mode is that you can always look back to before, how you wrote things, seeing any bias you might not have noticed you had before, all that fun stuff. Thinking about doing a 2000 and beyond version of this so I hope you don't mind me stealing your idea :)
@azfactor7875
2 жыл бұрын
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for Yvonne. And the thought of you creating this league back then is incredibly charming and brings a big smile to my face. Thanks for sharing.
@gungho8180
2 жыл бұрын
This was a fun "just for fun" video. You invented fantasy/D&D hockey! (patreon goal for an official rulebook?) I used to do something similar but not as involved with darts, an old nhl teams poster, a mead notebook...and a really pissed off father when the poster finally came down. Thanks for sharing! Brought back good, forgotten memories.
@daved1535
2 жыл бұрын
During the 1989-90 season I remember I had a notebook where I wrote the result of every NHL game that season. I did it because I always wanted to see how each team did against other teams. Now we have internet so I can look back at results from any team versus any team from any season
@kjellanderson
2 жыл бұрын
This is really awesome to see. I’m actually a part of a small community online that is devoted to alternate sports history with people making their own leagues and stories about all sorts of different sports and levels. So to see that this is something that you also did when you were younger is really cool to see.
@Railblade
2 жыл бұрын
There's a community for this sort of thing? That'd be pretty rad not gonna lie.
@chucknorris477
2 жыл бұрын
So great to hear. I did something very similar with football. Started when I was around 6 and kept it up until I was almost 30 😂 I still have an entire record book I compiled
@Adam202
2 жыл бұрын
The Hockey Guy Origin Story is a video I wouldn't mind watching...
@ColonizerChan
2 жыл бұрын
honestly i've been tempted to get jerseys of characters i've used in the be a pro mode in games. especially ones i've used for multiple seasons. and almost a decade of playing as them
@martybraga4832
2 жыл бұрын
This video explains a lot about your obsession with hockey!! Keep up the amazing work sir.
@kerrytastinger3821
2 жыл бұрын
Hold the phone!! The Flying V isn't just a Mighty Ducks thing?? I love this video! I recognize that joy you're exuding, as I've made up my own league (and worlds) as well. I've always had so much fun inside my own head. Sending vibes for a quick and thorough healing to Yvonne!
@cronoros
2 жыл бұрын
Even in fantasy leagues the Leafs don't win 🤔
@Adam202
2 жыл бұрын
We just need Shannon to confirm all of the first round exits....
@bigjohn08865
2 жыл бұрын
Lol cue all the "Shannon hates the Leafs" comments.
@cronoros
2 жыл бұрын
Hope the surgery went OK and recovery is going well. If you brought it back you could be a team owner or commissioner. ... Was Bettman the commissioner in the fantasy league league too?
@deanm375
2 жыл бұрын
This video explains SO MUCH.... LOL... Most boys have childhood obsessions, thank you for sharing yours. My passion was D&D. Started in 1978 and have been playing ever since. Didn't embrace hockey fully until 1995. (Grew up in Southern California where coverage sucked).
@NormalDrop561
2 жыл бұрын
My childhood obsession was Monster Trucks. I’m surprised my mom was able to keep a roof over our head with all the Monster Truck toys I bought. Also I did the same thing Shannon did and hosted the championship event lol. I didn’t write everything down in a book though.
@Phickic
2 жыл бұрын
This is the content I live for. Absolutely the most entertaining thing I'm gonna watch all day.
@thatsmrtguy4935
2 жыл бұрын
I remember I tried to do this when I was a kid. I absolutely sucked at it. I tried probably 15 different times and never got past a week into the first season. Eventually, when I was 15, I started one on the computer using a GM site which had a spectator mode so I had no control over any of it. I ended up getting like 800 years into it before I stopped. (I obviously went a little quicker) I have no idea how you managed to spend 20 years doing this just on pen and paper and needing to choose exactly what happened. It's impressive
@JackoTV
2 жыл бұрын
Great stuff, can relate a ton to this😅 when normal kids at the kindergarden made drawings of dogs or whatever, I was sketching on diffrent kind of lineups constalletions for the Red Wings. Found a few old notebooks at my attic from that time, so strange to go through today😂. I also remember when I tried to sleep as a kid, counting sheeps wasnt for me, I was just rambling lineups and hockey jersey numbers until my brain finally just got tired enough to sleep. I was totally obsessed as a kid and it kind of just stuck with me to this day. How I picked my random fav team at that age as a 5-6 year old kid from Sweden was basically that my fav color was red at the time, that aswell as the first hockey deck i got had both Sergei Fedorov and Nick Lidström rookie cards, and the rest was history for me and never looked back😅 thank you for this video helped me remember some nostalgia of my own. Keep up the good work🙌
@sferaru
2 жыл бұрын
Shannon you are my hero this is my life as a kid as well I did it for baseball hockey and football.
@gutter_snipe
2 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite video you have ever done. Zero snark or irony in that statement, this turned around an otherwise bad day.
@alexandredaigle8479
2 жыл бұрын
I love love love when you talk about this man, so many people do this kind of thing and never bring it up ever, including me
@RealNewsMMA
2 жыл бұрын
5:41 this is the moment I realize I could listen to ya talk over some b roll footage. Maybe an audio book, similar to what Steve Dangle did, would be something you’d benefit from looking into. I made a team once on the EA game, consisting of the players from around town that I grew up with, stats adjusted and all. Fun times!
@Jon_FM
2 жыл бұрын
Shannon, I used to do this myself in the nineties when I moved to the UK I was bored so I created a 24 team Canadian version of the Premier League. I then used two six sided die to decided the scores of games and get my various winners so I totally get the idea.
@rileyschuler8029
2 жыл бұрын
I did a similar thing with college football. One weekend I wrote out all the championship games from 1970 to present. I would use that sheet for a couple years to simulate a 30 for 30 documentary in my head about a random year.
@bjp1920
2 жыл бұрын
A Calgary 7 peat. And I thought Tampa 3 peating was annoying.
@edeanp
2 жыл бұрын
1989, it was Wayne Gretzky Hockey and Bethesda’s Hockey League Simulator that started my passion for hockey in Texas. In 94, my dreams came true.
@logangrubb3799
7 ай бұрын
Would love to hear more about your league. Can't imagine the player names child Shannon came up with
@peternorrland-779
2 жыл бұрын
We need a Shannon Skanes career video 👌🏻🤩
@aaronhelbok3126
2 жыл бұрын
When I was young I would simulate season after season in NHL I had a whole notebook full of created players and stats.
@MartinFWhite
2 жыл бұрын
Love this! I didn't do it with hockey, but MLB, strat-o-matic, APBA...absolutely.
@ryguy0821
2 жыл бұрын
I have a program i created to simulate winners of games (randomly), I've gone nearly 30 years into it and, it has evolved into a 60 team two tier league with promotion and relegation. Started it near the beginning of the pandemic and I'm not sure that I'll ever stop doing a season of it every now and them.
@Railblade
2 жыл бұрын
Aw man does it automatically populate standings too? Tbh I've wanted something like that for YEARS lol
@Toxic_Male_Minimalist
2 жыл бұрын
It’s funny because in 1994 the Blues got swept in the first round by Dallas. But in my head, they won it all too! Let’s go Blues! 1994 Shannon League Cup Champions
@Kaijuus
2 жыл бұрын
Wow. Just Wow. 👍 Thank you for such a great and fun video! 🙏 Definitely HOF Career!
@colliesis
2 жыл бұрын
…That was adorable, and relatable too, Shannon! Please upload some of this if you find the old books because going by what you described, I would be fascinated by what you’ve written!
@LSA30
2 жыл бұрын
This is the nerdy stuff that I subscribed for. More, please!!!
@jfrancis6191
2 жыл бұрын
This is honestly so sweet. Not everyone can be in the NHL but we can all dream 🤘
@Chumbama
2 жыл бұрын
This was so much fun to watch. Did your 40-team league include a team in Stockholm? Do you have a Blues jersey with your name on it? Shannon's NHL : 12 consecutive Stanley Cups for Canadian teams Real NHL : No Stanley Cups for Canadian teams in 29 years
@PastelAssassin283
2 жыл бұрын
This reminds of my dad. When he was a kid, him and his friends used to do this same thing, only with bubble hockey league. They would go as far as buying extra players and painting different uniforms and whatnot.
@kylejoly577
2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me when I used to play all six sides of a game of Risk... and sometimes cheat for the grey pieces. Don't ask me why
@dannyboy_36
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video Shannon!! I got my own league i started in 2018(3 seasons in) and TBL won the cup 3 Times in a row, kinda predicted the back to back that they did haha. U got me inspired to start it again
@SkyQuest2K8
5 ай бұрын
Very cool! I thought I was obsessed with hockey when I was young and devoured every word of every Hockey News! I enjoyed making my own players in NHL '94 to '97 on the Sega Genesis. What fun that was!
@mikejednorog3383
2 жыл бұрын
Your the best Shanon … I made sure to eat h this to the end cause I love to see where your “roots” are. Always been the hockey guy. Or hockey boy at that point
@johnte96
2 жыл бұрын
When I was younger I kind of had my own league with hockey cards. I hade different divisions with relegation and promotion. A team had five random players with one goalie. If a player had a higher serial number then the other teams goalie, they scored. Winners moved on and losers end up in a relegation playoffs. The winner of the top division was the champions of the season.
@MaverickWall238
2 жыл бұрын
Young Shannon would be so proud. This video just shows that you stuck with what you loved all the way.
@caedenmills9419
2 жыл бұрын
I've done very similar things for AFL (I'm Australian), never thought there were others that did this kinda thing as a kid. Excel spreadsheets instead of paper is basically the only difference 😅
@owenmacrowski
2 жыл бұрын
nice! I was looking forward to another mention of this league. I love the idea.
@yealogan3122
2 жыл бұрын
I remember you talking about this in 2017 or 2018 and I always wanted to see it! This is like waking up and seeing your favourite show getting renewed for a new season!
@XSharkdarkX
2 жыл бұрын
Most. Incredible. Video. Of. The. Channel !!! I had a smile during your whole story it was so fun, thanks for speaking about these memories
@Otown
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely loved this video Shannon, amazing listening to the greatest player of all time talk abt his career
@dethjesta2015
2 жыл бұрын
Love this video. I'm from the UK and when I was in school a friend and I created a football (soccer) league based on the streets around where we lived - we created players, detailed each game, team sheets, scorers etc. Think we ran it until we were in our early teens.
@Illusionator
2 жыл бұрын
Love this such a great combination of nostalgia and recognition. Just lovely. Best wishes to Yvonne for a speedy recovery.
@saatvikam
2 жыл бұрын
I think I said this in the last vid you did about this but this is just the most wholesome, nerdy, charming Canadian thing ever. I wish you could go back in time and tell that kid where he is and what he's doing now. (Explaining KZitem to him might be tough but it'd be so worth it!)
@beckerac
2 жыл бұрын
So nice of young Shannon to give St. Louis a cup 25 years before it happened in real life.
@dmac26official
2 жыл бұрын
I did something similar when I was younger, as well. And then I took all the stats and attempted to write a book when I was in my late teens. Fun times.
@MrRamonski13
2 жыл бұрын
Took me back to when I was a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s! Absolutely loved this video Shannon!!!!!
@idontgivetkachuk
2 жыл бұрын
7 Straight Cups! What a great league! ;) 🔥. Seems like you had a great imagination for sure!
@richardgarrett2792
2 жыл бұрын
Fun indeed. Thanks for this. I am curious as to how you structured your league and decided outcomes. I suspect I won't be the only one.
@jimmyywutang832
2 жыл бұрын
Do you have enough info left to try a career video for yourself? Would be a fun offseason/April Fool’s video
@moritzguderian8381
2 жыл бұрын
this is amazing, the more we learn about you the more we realize how cool you are.
@jrfourr
2 жыл бұрын
You should write a book about this. This is great stuff
@Finetales
2 жыл бұрын
My dad did something similar when he was out of college. He programmed a full simulation of his league in GW BASIC on his microcomputer (I think it was an Apple II?), which would print out seasons on a dot matrix printer. In his case every team and player was fictional, though of course many of the players used the names of his friends and the team locations were places significant to him. He still has the program, and it still works!
@SandyC225
2 жыл бұрын
Now it all starts to make sense...thanks for sharing.
@warrenbanks5201
2 жыл бұрын
I love this video. I did similar stuff through the late 80's / early 90's with hockey simulators. This brought back a lot of memories.
@hammerby
2 жыл бұрын
This is just amazing! And I can totally see how you thought and planned, I have done similar things in my youth. Not with the dedication as you did, but no one can do anything with the same dedication as you. Awesome video, awesome story! Thank you for sharing! Would also like to see a career video for Bizarro THG from this league, with all your stats!
@hockey582004
2 жыл бұрын
This is great, I remember doing something similar as a kid/young adult. Excellent video Shannon, and best wishes to you and your family!
@LHOH197
2 жыл бұрын
I used to set up my own playoff brackets when I was younger and it was pretty cool to do and I figured out how the brackets were set up from the original nhl hockey game from the Sega genesis I used to have the nordiques the north stars jets whalers win the cup and I'd even write down each game of the final series and like you I lost them over time I'd love to find some of those again
@leg0ipodtouch
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly all this video has done is make me wanna get a jersey w/ my own name on the back, but it's fascinating to hear the ideas you came up with! It's fantastic to hear the creativity involved :3
@kooalaz
2 жыл бұрын
I used to do this with hockey cards, my own league with my own teams
@andrewsokol2717
2 жыл бұрын
LOL. I'm a bit like you in rooting for underdogs. I was a huge Maple Leafs fan growing up in the late 70s and into the early 90s. Borje Salming was my first favorite player, then later Eddie O, Gary Leeman and Russ Courtnall. There were a few bright moments, but few and far between. Then I moved to Edmonton from 1987 to 1995. Just as the Maple Leafs started getting stronger and the Oilers lost all their stars and started their downslide (around 1994), I switched hard into an Oilers fan. I've been in Los Angeles for 25 years, but still a diehard Oilers fan, and enjoying the playoffs! Keep up the great analysis... I recently stumbled onto your channel, and love it!
@tsholts5173
2 жыл бұрын
I remember doing this with NASCAR races (sure there's the games, just my own little fantasy thing like Shannon here). Drew the tracks on a little note pad, name who started/finished where, who wrecked or had other problems, and who won the championship. Fun times
@robertlarosejr.1535
2 жыл бұрын
No this is crazy to me. When I was younger I did the same thing except I made every state and Canadian territory a team and there was like 7 rounds of playoffs. The part with the players, trade deadline and draft really just brought back thoughts.
@nathanhoks8126
2 жыл бұрын
I love this video. I feel like we have all attempted something like this at some point, but to see it to this extent is super cool!
@chrisguardiano6143
2 жыл бұрын
So cool to hear the story of this. I did something similar with the Premier League when I was in elementary & middle school in the mid 2000's and had everything on Word docs. Like Shannon, I put myself in the league but as a coach with Chelsea. The 4 years I did this, Chelsea won the Premier League & FA Cup each year, Man United & Arsenal got relegated in year 2 (and never returned for the final 2 years), Portsmouth won the Champions League in year 1 & Wigan won the Champions League in year 3. However the biggest shock of the fantasy Premier League was Bury (out of business in real life RIP) getting promoted to the Premier League in year 3 after being in League 2 in year 1 & qualifying for the Champions League by finishing 3rd the following year. I stopped after 4 years because I got too busy in real life & retired as Chelsea coach.
@Rps2800
2 жыл бұрын
Bury getting promoted 😔
@paulmoore7635
2 жыл бұрын
I hope this channel is making you money. You’re a legend Shannon
@coryfrey6199
2 жыл бұрын
LMAO!!! Shannon that was great! I didn't know you started as a Flames fan
@C.M.Giordano
2 жыл бұрын
So I'm not the only one who did this...
@Nacnud92
2 жыл бұрын
Shannon, you are insane and I love it.
@rileyyy01
5 минут бұрын
Algorithm throwing this my way right after his latest update a week ago lol. Good stuff THG
@stevewhite1377
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing your past, great content 🤜🏻 speedy recovery to your wife
@andrewvallee5738
2 жыл бұрын
I used to do the exact same thing when I was a kid, glad to see i wasnt the only one
@craigsteadman8658
2 жыл бұрын
First time I ever played a hockey game was Hockey Manager 2005 for PC, I absolutely loved it, I always managed Chicago because they were terrible, haha! Loved this video good sir. ☺️
@flaviotheswede1492
2 жыл бұрын
This part of Shannon videos... i call it Happiness.
@RParmable
2 жыл бұрын
Great story. Thanks for sharing your experience, this may be helpful for teens to explore their creative side
@TheCanucksfan59
2 жыл бұрын
I did something like this as a kid, so glad I’m not alone!
@RIPJimmyA7X
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man this video was awesome, brings back memories of my own books and stories I made up as a kid. Also makes me realize I really want a jersey with my name on the back lol
@astewart9410
2 жыл бұрын
Shannon is brilliant. I love all of this.
@davidwordsworth5584
2 жыл бұрын
All Canadian kids must do something of this nature. I used my hockey cards with a rolling ring as a puck. I set up a schedule, played the games, kept scoring records. My league had Beliveau, Keon and Bucyk.
@potieee
2 жыл бұрын
Did something quite similar, but with the German league „DEL“, started 1993 at the age of four, my mom was thrilled to wrote all the stuff cause i wasn’t able to write at the beginning xD It’s funny to hear that i wasn’t the only one who did stuff like that.
@DarkDestroyer98
2 жыл бұрын
My friends and I did this but for like those old table top hockey games. We'd have entire seasons with playoffs and record all the stats in a binder.
@colliesis
2 жыл бұрын
I did this too (and still do!) with football. It’s a great just-for-fun activity when you’re bored :D
@TheTravellingCanuck27
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! I find this very fascinating! I kinda did the same thing as a kid just not on a NHL level.Very very interesting.
@ragnarlothbrok938
2 жыл бұрын
I did the same thing 🤣 except with basketball. I wrote out all the statistics, games, awards. I would play the games outside on my driveway with my basketball goal and record the scores. After I would do interviews with my stuffed animals 🤣🤣 something odd being an only child with older parents in a small town. Imagination was great without technology.
@Gorenj8
2 жыл бұрын
I did this in NHL20 back at the beginning on quarantine. I created 32 teams and 32 stars players and filled all the created teams with AHL players and did a fantasy draft and just let the teams grow and evolve from there.
@gowings9127
2 жыл бұрын
soooo funny. love the quick jersey changes. thanks.
@swedreamhack5308
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent vid. I used shoot balls/puck on my net in my backyard and my grandparents barn during spring/summers, simulating games and seasons for players and teams in my head. I wrote down stats for players and teams from past, future and imagination. I know exactly what you meant with that you couldn't give Hartford a cup, I had this rule I commented my own play and it was often one shot per team/player at a time and sometimes you missed the net as your favorite player... game 7 in the finals. Say what you want, atleast it was a great workout since I could go on for hours and hours.
@felixeur1276
2 жыл бұрын
I am kind of doing the same thing. I am doing a Be A Pro goalie, start as a 36 OVR in NHL 13 where I play 2 seasons in Juniors, get drafted in the later rounds. I basically dont dominate the league. End up 2 years in the AHL, then finally get called up, and end up as a 1B Starter for Philly. McDavid ends up in St-Louis and St-Louis is stacked for years with Tarasenko and McDavid
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