OT: HFStars - Introduce Yourself!

[LT]

I think we can make a new thread for this with updates from our regulars. It's been several years since most of us have posted one of these, so we can start fresh.

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Name: LT
Age: 22
Gender: M
Job: Graduate student
How and when you became a Stars fan: Mom's been a fan since before I was born, so I grew up watching Stars' hockey and have loved it for pretty much my entire life.
Current Favorite Stars Player: Not really sure, maybe Radulov.
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Sergei Zubov
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: Steven Stamkos
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Mike Bossy
College Attended/Attending: Texas A&M University (Undergrad.), University of Miami (Grad.)
Favorite Band(s): Mostly synth-pop and dance/techno music
Favorite Movie(s): Inception, The Imitation Game, Interstellar
Favorite Food: Fettucini Alfredo with Shrimp
Favorite TV Show(s): Mr. Robot, Game of Thrones, Westworld
Favorite City: Dallas, Denver, or Seattle
Hobbies: Hockey, running, soccer, reading
Interesting Fact About Yourself: I'm studying to be a climate scientist.

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[Kcb12345]

Name: Kyle
Age: 20
Gender: M
Job: Photography company and College
How and when you became a Stars fan: Mom's been a fan since before I was born, so I grew up watching Stars' hockey and have loved it for pretty much my entire life. (Same for me)
Current Favorite Stars Player: Alexander Radulov
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Mike Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: Connor McDavid, Roman Josi, Ivan Provorov, Seth Jones
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Mario Lemieux
Favorite Movie(s): Saving Private Ryan, Ready Player One, Mission Impossible 4, 5, 6. Too many others to list I see and like a lot of movies lol
Favorite Food: Steak + fries + Hawaiian sweet rolls
Favorite TV Show(s): Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Walking Dead
College major: Computer Science
Favorite City: Dallas, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles
Interesting Fact About Yourself: Saw a movie with Patrick Eaves once (he was sitting right behind me lol) and didn't say a word to him despite me and my gf both having a Stars shirt on. He was with his family so. Also used to see him walking around the neighborhood every week. Also sat in the Stanley Cup as a baby because Pat Verbeek was our neighbor and invited us to his party with the Cup. Also am friends with Sergei Zubov's daughter. Got his autograph at a parent-teacher conference in elementary school lol. I met a lot of players when I was younger and I wish I appreciated and understood the game back then as much as I do now.

 

[Satan]

How and when you became a Stars fan: My dad is a big time Red Wings fan and introduced me to hockey when I was 4/5, I didn't want to cheer with my dad and picked a team based on logo. Ended up being Dallas and I've been with them ever since.
Current Favorite Stars Player: Roman Polak
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Mike Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: Patrik Laine
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Alex Ovechkin
Favorite Band(s): Death Cab for Cutie, Brockhampton,
Favorite Movie(s): Movies are way too long
Favorite Food: Prime rib
Favorite TV Show(s): Seinfeld
Favorite City: Tokyo
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[AK87]

Name: AK
Age: 31
Gender: M
Job: Pipe, valves and fittings sales.
How and when you became a Stars fan: The playoff series where Brendan Morrow hoped over to the other teams bench after being slashed in the foot and started punching the player. (I think it was the ducks maybe when they won the cup??)
Current Favorite Stars Player: Who else Jamie Benn
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Brendan Morrow
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: McJesus
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Doug Gilmour
College Attended/Attending: N/A
Favorite Band(s): Rage Against the Machine, Metallica
Favorite Movie(s): Casino
Favorite Food: Anything my wife cooks
Favorite TV Show(s): SOA, Dexter. Started watching Iron Fist on Netflix and its pretty good so far.
Favorite City: Ottawa
Hobbies: 2 kids, golfing fishing when I get time
Interesting Fact About Yourself: Scratch Golfer

 

[chirrrs]

Name: Chris
Age: 33
Gender: M
Job: HVAC Mechanical Design
How and when you became a Stars fan: Once we got a team! I was in 3rd grade, and was really into all sports as a kid, so a new team was thrilling. I remember being so excited because my uncle worked at Dave and Buster's and got Shane Churla to sign a card for me! The Cup win was glorious. I watched it happen when I was 14, on a TV in my room (that I bought that month just for playoffs) with the volume as low as possible to not get yelled at about being up so late but still high enough to enjoy!
Current Favorite Stars Player: Alexander Radulov
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Mike Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: William Nylander
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: At the moment, it's Mike Bossy.
College Attended/Attending: University of California, Davis (Materials Science/Condensed Matter Physics/Mathematics)
Favorite Band(s): The Beatles, Nirvana, Randy Travis, many others.
Favorite Movie(s): Cool Hand Luke, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, lots of Westerns and Classics
Favorite Food: Mexican/Salvadorian
Favorite TV Show(s): I find myself rewatching a lot of Star Trek: TNG, but not much TV really.
Favorite City: Dallas. I left, traveled the country, lived in California for a decade, and came back. It's Dallas.
Hobbies: I have a 1978 F150 that I hope will take up a lot of my free time over the next year!
Interesting Fact About Yourself: I have an insane obsession with roadtrips. Currently, I'm trying to visit all 50 States with my wife by 2020. Currently at 21 - started about 2 years ago, and got the big ones out of the way.​

 

[Smelling Salt]

Name: Chris
Age: 43
Gender: M
Job: Web Development
How and when you became a Stars fan: 1983 I believe. My minor hockey team that year used the North Star colours, and it was an instant love affair
Current Favorite Stars Player: Jamie Benn
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Mike Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: Evgeni Malkin
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Mario Lemieux
College Attended/Attending: None
Favorite Band(s): Quite a few, but I lean towards 80s rock and pop in general
Favorite Movie(s): Raiders of the Lost Ark, Platoon, Back to the Future
Favorite Food: Potato chips AINEC
Favorite TV Show(s): X-Files, The Wire, Ray Donovan, Breaking Bad, Star Trek TNG
Favorite City: Toronto
Hobbies: Wings and beer
Interesting Fact About Yourself: Nothing, ask anyone

 

[Klumppa]

Name: Henkka
Age: I turn 28 in 9h and 4min
Job: Practical nurse (mental health)
How and when you became a stars fan: Lived in dallas as a kid in the 90s. My dad started taking me to the stars games
Current favorite stars player: Faksa
All time favorite stars player:
Lehtinen
Current favorite non-stars player: Rasmus Rissanen
Intresting fact about yourself:
Jere Lehtinen tried to teach me how to play doom
Favorite city: Rovaniemi
2nd Favorite city: Dallas

 

[LT]

Happy early birthday!

 

[Klumppa]

Thanks!

 

[FirstRowUpperDeck]

Name: Jeff
Age: 63
Gender: M
Job: Golf Course Architect
How and when you became a Stars fan: Remember seeing the news they were coming down from MN. Was a Hawks fan growing up, but knew I wanted to see some live hockey. Bought Season Tickets second year, after attending a dozen games year 1.
Current Favorite Stars Player: SegBennulov. Or is it Bennsegulov?
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: None
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Bobby Hull
College Attended/Attending: University of Illinois
Favorite Band(s): Beatles
Favorite Movie(s) The Graduate, silly comedies like "Airplane"
Favorite Food: You don't get a bod like mine by playing favorites...….
Favorite TV Show(s): Comedies
Favorite City: Dallas, Chicago, Denver
Hobbies: Hockey (viewing) golf (playing), model railroading, writing.
Interesting Fact About Yourself: Still have all my hair, and no gray!
Stars Jerseys Owned (all time) No Name ( 4 styles) Neal (black) Dillon (V green)

 

[Satan]

Name: Jeff
Age: 63
Gender: M
Job: Golf Course Architect
How and when you became a Stars fan: Remember seeing the news they were coming down from MN. Was a Hawks fan growing up, but knew I wanted to see some live hockey. Bought Season Tickets second year, after attending a dozen games year 1.
Current Favorite Stars Player: SegBennulov. Or is it Bennsegulov?
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: None
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Bobby Hull
College Attended/Attending: University of Illinois
Favorite Band(s): Beatles
Favorite Movie(s) The Graduate, silly comedies like "Airplane"
Favorite Food: You don't get a bod like mine by playing favorites...….
Favorite TV Show(s): Comedies
Favorite City: Dallas, Chicago, Denver
Hobbies: Hockey (viewing) golf (playing), model railroading, writing.
Interesting Fact About Yourself: Still have all my hair, and no gray!
Stars Jerseys Owned (all time) No Name ( 4 styles) Neal (black) Dillon (V green)

Golf course architect............... give me a job plz

 

[StarsWizard]

Name: Alistair
Age: 28
Gender: M
Job: Train Driver (I’m English - I think in the USA it’s a railroad engineer?)
How and when you became a Stars fan: Had an NHL game for PlayStation when I was about 8 in 1998. Always loved playing as the Stars (probably coz they were good!). Rediscovered hockey in about 2013 and decided I should stick to my roots and follow the Stars again.
Current Favorite Stars Player: John Klingberg
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Mike Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: Johnny Gaudreau
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: I don’t really have one, not been following hockey long enough. In the future it’ll be Alexander Ovechkin.
College Attended/Attending: None
Favorite Band(s): Bastille, Green Day
Favorite Movie(s): Hot Fuzz, Paul, Shaun of the Dead, Run Fatboy Run. Basically anything with Simon Pegg.
Favorite Food: Pizza.
Favorite TV Show(s): Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Tunnel, Match of the Day.
Favorite City: London, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Calgary (I’ve never been to Dallas!)
Hobbies: Running, watching sport
Interesting Fact About Yourself: I killed somebody last week (with the train, not intentionally).

 

[Smelling Salt]

Interesting Fact About Yourself: I killed somebody last week (with the train, not intentionally).

Damn...

 

[FirstRowUpperDeck]

Sadly, most locomotive engineers I know have had that experience, and though nothing you could have done, it may haunt you forever, or at least a while. And I have seen news reports where the reporter badgers the engineer about why they "didn't do anything?" when it takes a mile to stop a train...….

I live right near where that TRE train hit a truck a few weeks back. The truck never wins, although I did see one in Chicago years ago where they tried to beat the train and the front corner happened to catch right at the engine fire wall and drag the car a bit, without hurting the occupants. Luckiest SOB's alive!

 

[Satan]

Favorite city Calgary? We got 20-40cm of snow yesterday depending on where you are in this sprawl

 

[LT]

Favorite city Calgary? We got 20-40cm of snow yesterday depending on where you are in this sprawl

I thought you lived in the east near Newfoundland or something. One of those weird half-hour timezones.

 

[Satan]

I thought you lived in the east near Newfoundland or something. One of those weird half-hour timezones.

I did, moved out west to make money since Newfoundland does an awful job of keeping young people in the province.

 

[Satan]

That’s an entire rant in itself. I’m sure @Abilify gets what I’m saying. He’s a fellow maritimer

 

[LT]

Ah, got it. How's that been?

 

[StarsWizard]

Favorite city Calgary? We got 20-40cm of snow yesterday depending on where you are in this sprawl

Yeah I saw the snow looked pretty bad. I’ve got two friends who are meant to be flying back to England from there tomorrow. I’ve visited twice and think it’s a pretty wonderful city. Far better than New York which is the only other North American city I’ve been to for any length of time so far.

 

[Satan]

Ah, got it. How's that been?

It was 110% a great career choice. I work under a super skilled engineer who trusts me to get shit done. She says it's rare for a junior like me to get as much exposure as I have in my first year there. Every day is definitely interesting.

Taking 2 weeks off starting on Friday to relax though. I haven't really had a break since May.

Yeah I saw the snow looked pretty bad. I’ve got two friends who are meant to be flying back to England from there tomorrow. I’ve visited twice and think it’s a pretty wonderful city. Far better than New York which is the only other North American city I’ve been to for any length of time so far.

Funnily enough, a colleague and I were discussing on Monday how much we love NYC. I can't claim to have lived there but I really enjoyed the transit system and Manhattan's grid is beautiful.

 

[LT]

Well congrats! Sounds like a great position to be in, and I'd imagine you've earned the rest. Hope you enjoy it.

 

[Magic Mittens]

Name: Zayne
Age: 37
Gender: M
Job: Electrician
How and when you became a Stars fan: In 1997 I use to wear #11 on my hockey team, but then our team traded for a player who was also #11, so I gave him #11 and I took #9. Anyways a couple weeks later I went to a Flames game and Dallas was in town, and I saw #9 Modano flying all over the ice and followed him/Dallas after that
Current Favorite Stars Player: Benn
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player:
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Mark Messier or Wayne Gretzky
College Attended/Attending: Mount Royal and SAIT
Favorite Band(s): all time Metallica, but currently way too many
Favorite Movie(s): I have 3 daughters, so I mostly watch kid movies lol
Favorite Food: Prime Rib or Sushi
Favorite TV Show(s): Stranger things, Punisher, GOT and Life in pieces
Favorite City: Victoria, BC
Hobbies: Hockey, and whatever activites my kids are doing
Interesting Fact About Yourself: Been face to face with a Bear and another time with a Shark. Played hockey with tons of former and Current NHLers ( Most recent is Lowry and he's a beauty. Never brought up that im a Stars fan though )

 

[suprafastcelica]

Name: Mike
Age: 35
Gender: M
Job: Palfinger Crane Logistics
How and when you became a Stars fan: Got into hockey from NHL94 on the super nintendo. Growing up in Michigan, everyone was a Red Wings fan. I liked them at first, but after they won the Cup in 97 i moved on to Dallas. Just stuck with it through thick and thin. Unlike all these fans of Pittsburgh and Chicago who only show up when they are winning.
Current Favorite Stars Player: Jamie Benn!! What can't he do??
All-Time Favorite Stars Player: Mike Modano
Current Favorite Non-Stars Player: Alex Ovechkin
All-Time Favorite Non-Stars Player: Mario Lemieux
Favorite Band(s): Classic Rock mid 60's to mid 70's
Favorite Movie(s): Rush, Slapshot
Favorite Food: Tacos
Favorite TV Show(s): Chicago Fire, MED, PD
College major: N/A
Favorite City: I hate traffic.
Hobbies: Hockey games, Model car building. Racing.
Interesting Fact About Yourself: I beat a NASCAR drivers lap time on a racing simulator.
Stars Jerseys Owned: Home and away 97 style, home and away 2000 style, no names
custom new jersey with my name and number.

 

[AKL]

Hey guys, not sure if this is the best place for this post but I did a quick scan and couldn’t really find a better place.

I just graduated college in August with a degree in Business Administration-Marketing, and I’m looking to get out of Minnesota and into warmer weather (@Norm Green, I finally understand). My top choices are Texas, Tennessee and Arizona. My issue is that I have a few things working against me.

First, being out of state, it’s only natural that at least some of my applications that go out won’t be taken into consideration or nearly as seriously as an in-state application, whether it’s because the company doesn’t want to or can’t help with relocation, or because the company doesn’t think I’M serious about relocating.

Second, I don’t have any prior work experience. I’ve been doing an internship since April and I have gotten some decent experience in that position, but internship experience isn’t equal to real experience.

And with that said, I also don’t know anyone in any of those states that I can call on for networking.

So my question is, given all the above, do any of you have any kind of tips for finding a job in the Houston or DFW areas? I’d be looking for a position in the marketing field (not sales though). Any big recruiting firms or companies known for hiring recent grads with little to no experience that I wouldn’t be able to easily find in a Google search? I’ve scoured through sites like Indeed and Glassdoor, at this point I’d really like something ASAP and I’m just looking for any kind of insider knowledge that you guys from the area might have.

I appreciate your time reading this guys. Thank you.