Written Option 2: Your team is taking part of this seasons SHL Global Series and they start their season with 2 games in Japan because HO has heard there is untapped market potential there. How does your player feel about the trip? Is it pointless travel to play in front of neutral crowd and missing on actual home opener? Or are they just exited to see the world and thrilled about the opportunity to win over the local fans? Does all this make the game feel more like showmatch than actual regular season game?

It has to be a strange feeling, starting the season with 2 random games in Japan, before coming back over to north America to finish off the season. Despite this is happened this season, for the Buffalo Stampede this also meant the final part of the pre-season taking place in Japan. Despite Chicken not really being too excited to need to travel over there for the start of the season initially, in the end Chicken did find out being in Japan made the off time between the training and matches felt a bit like a vacation, maybe the Buffalo staff were not too happy with it, as it did mean Chicken’s needed a bit longer than the previous seasons to get back to full fitness, in the end he was ready for the first games in Japan. The biggest problem were the games afterwards, with Chicken experiencing quite a bit of jetlag upon coming back to North America. You would assume you get used to this after playing 6 seasons in the USA.

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