Hi SHL,

It's been a while. After a season in the SMJHL and honestly really enjoying it without really keeping tabs on the league, I can say with confidence that I've returned.

In previous iterations of my players here, I might've said some things. If I said said them, then I did that on my podcast, The Buzzkill. What exactly I said or how I said it, there or otherwise, is not the point of this.

The point is that I don't wanna talk anymore. I'd rather write. I talk for long enough conducting Zoom lectures now that school has started. I also dont care about the difference in money; I just miss the long-form expression of a forum. The move to Discord has been, admittedly and through slightly clenched teeth, a net good for my own experience in SHL. But that discourse community is not for me. Forums are.

With that, feel free to ask anything. I'm going to edit this post with several thoughts, including:

The S56 SHL and SMJHL drafts for my teams
A recap of ANA's season and my reactions if applicable
A quick recap of my player history, for new people who are like "who the fuck is this guy"
Backyard Baseball plug
Pie or cake? I dont fuckin know
Disc golf stuff, surely

That's about it for now. Thanks for your time and please ask things.

Part I - A Brief History of SHL Players Created by Me
Since it really has been a long time since I've found the site - not as long as the super old veterans, but long enough such that nobody knows any of my players - I thought that it'd be prudent to, in the first big article since I've returned, go through a history of my players. All of them were noteworthy in some way, in the sense that they all did something particularly special on the ice and then off the ice. I'm sure people who were around at the same time as me at least recognize the names. But in any case, this is more just an intro so that the new guys can see what kind of players I've built and what I hope to do in the future with FHM.

1. [S24] Buster "Buzz" Killington - RW :impact: :admirals:
Buzz Killington was my first simulation hockey player. I joined the site right before the S23 SMJHL Draft, thanks to Pizzarony and Winston/Zaitsev/whatever you go by now, buddy. Neither of them gave me too much advice on how to build a player; they kinda just left it at "try to plug in 155 points to your strengths, make your weakness X, etc". But when I logged on I saw that there weren't many power forwards, and that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a "buzzkill" to offensive production for the other team. Land a big hit, grab the puck, take it the other way and score to really take the wind out of the fans' sails. And I was actually pretty successful at it!

I can't pull up my SMJHL stats, but I don't recall them really being stellar. We had a really fun group in Montreal as well. The guys who were drafted in my class (which was really, really small) were, in order of appearance:
Jack Burton (@GifterofBikes)
Earnest Ciarelli (@Storm)
Me
Jacob Ulestig (don't remember him tbh)
Zack Park (also don't remember him)
Teddy Bear (quickly became a meme, inactive but somehow clutched it out in the playoffs)
Also someone who came a little late to the party was Klaus Wagner, which most of you know as @Pandar!! It was kinda funny, and I always bring it up w/him, because he didn't quite understand the forum at first or know what to do. I'm sure someone else would have gotten to it, but I helped him out and taught him how to update and where to look for info, and sure enough he became a huge part of the community for years to come after that. OBVIOUSLY it was all me because the butterfly effect is real. </s>

Killington was drafted 8th overall in the S24 SHL Draft by the New England Wolfpack. They had just won a Cup in S23, and they needed to refill on prospects. They drafted me 8th and Storm 9th, pretty sure because Storm was the co-GM of NEW at the time. Things didn't go well for me there and, long story short, I was traded to the new expansion team, the Portland Admirals, before I stepped on the ice for New England. In three seasons of play with Portland, Killington scored 61 goals, 73 assists, 468 hits, and 39 powerplay points. He won the Jeff Dar, Sarmad Khan, and Jay Macdonald Awards in S27.

At the conclusion of S27, it had come to the HO's attention that I was tampering with a player. Overall, it was a gross misunderstanding on my part. I really hated that it happened. I basically PMed Checkmate on here asking what he was doing, since he was largely inactive - but I was super naive and didn't think to word the questions differently or take it elsewhere. It was my fault, although in the context of exactly who I was talking to and what Portland could offer, I felt like it was pretty benign. It wasn't like I was actively trying to scout him away from Buffalo. But, it is what it is. Killington was suspended for S28 and we had to forfeit the picks. Now this isn't the last time this happened with the franchise (lol), but I just ended up retiring. I knew Killington would be fine even with a season out, that wasn't really the concern. My rise to prominence in the league was just so fucking fast that I didn't know what to do! I had all these strangers vilifying me as though we had been talking to each other for years, all because I got punished for something. It didn't feel good at all, and ultimately I realized that I didn't owe a simulation hockey player's career to any of them. So I took a break for a little bit. And that's the end of Killington's reign.

Apparently, Buster Killington still has the Carolina Kraken's franchise record for hits in an SMJHL season, with 153 in S24 - that's a surprise! Killington also had the franchise record for powerplay goals, with 11 in S27, that was beat in S52 by Leopold Lockhart. That's a pretty long-standing record in its own right!

2. Danny "Bananas" Foster - D
"Bananas" Foster was created with one goal in mind - to crush everyone who put me down and doubted me before, both literally and figuratively. The "Enforcer" archetype had recently been released, and I was just hoping to earn at the same rate I did with Killington and get into many, many fights. That's pretty much what I did!

I remember creating Foster at my job, down at Cabot Microelectronics. I forget who I was talking to at the time about coming back, but the separation post-Killington was certainly not clean. I was still on and around the GOMHL, where I eventually [or maybe already had] created "Negative" Ned Sommers. Sommers eventually went on to be inducted into the GOMHL Hall of Fame, for which I am very grateful. But Foster's goal was to not make the Hall, at least at first. It was to maim people.

At any rate, TML quickly scooped me up as I did not create in time for the draft. I'm pretty sure I was talking to mpclardy a little bit at the time, because his 2nd attempt at a player (Orlov) was drafted 2nd overall in the S29 SMJHL draft, and that's the same year I started. Before I could be too much of a goon, in my rookie year, the Scarecrows won a Four Star Cup. That was a great season. I had 2 goals, 18 assists, a rating of +15, and got a LOT of powerplay time in spite of my rookie status just because of our team composition. Foster turned it the fuck up in the playoffs and it was a great run.

There were small conversations approaching the SHL draft re: where I would end up. I wasn't talking to many teams, and at the time one of my good friends, Allen (who honestly I haven't talked to in a while, but he's the only friend I have purely from the SHL who I've met in real life. We went to brunch in Chicago with our wives, and it was incredible. What a cool dude.), was the GM of Texas, and he had shown interest in bringing Foster on. Sure enough, I was drafted 20th overall by the Renegades -- but, minutes later, it turned out I was going to Hamilton. Hallsy had bought me, and Allen showed me the trade. He'd be an idiot not to take it, especially since I was going to max out the enforcer build in a few seasons' time and it'd mostly be redistributing and making sure I'm not a COMPLETE goon by S34 or so. So to Hamilton I went.

I really hated Hamilton. Like, really fucking hated it. Hallsy knew right away that I was annoyed. Waters was co-GM, we had Gooney in there, and a couple others -- but I felt like THE old man in a sea of children. Especially with Slack or whatever we were using at the time just being where everything happened, and nothing happening on the forums, I just felt like a fish out of water. I updated just fine, didn't stir up an insurmountable load of shit in the LR, and did my time. I asked out from Hallsy pretty much all the time, but not until he found a deal that he won. Predictably, he got such a deal from Wasty, and I was off to LAP in S35.

From then on I was pretty much checked out. It had nothing to do with where I ended up; quite the opposite. I had already pretty much maxed out everything I wanted to with Foster, because the strengths/weaknesses were set up in such a way that I couldn't exceed 90 on any offensive skill. I also didn't want to get checking beyond what I set it at, and everything else seemed "okay". One season I remember Bottas AND Wasty DMing me (which rarely happened) and asked if I could redistribute some of my points into Discipline, because I was getting too many penalty minutes. I, through watery eyes from laughter, obliged.

Danny Foster finished with 1,431 penalty minutes in 600 games. He won seven Turd Fergusons. He has a career fight record of 16 wins, 11 losses, and 24 draws. Thank you and you're welcome.

3. Jerry "The Snake" Mander -
My most recent retiree, and third player in the SHL systems, was Jerry Mander. I created him with only myself in mind - and I mean that in the sense that I felt like I had nothing left to prove. Clearly I could build good players, whether they were power forwards or enforcers, and people in the league would see my name and want me on their team. History showed that I might leave early, but people could have quite easily surmised that if they were a group of cool people, I would get along famously. What happened was not the case.

When I created Mander, Dangles was one of the first guys I heard from. We had known each other since we first found the league, in the 20's. He basically asked "are you gonna hang around w/this one at least until 350?" to which I responded with a resounding "yes". I was very happy for him moving up in the sim hockey world, and sure enough, he used his franchise's first ever entry draft pick on me at #10. It was a really fun locker room, not that many people in it at first but over the seasons Dangles/BDo/me a little built a very fun place to be. It's still a fun place to this day!

Obviously in S45 we still had a lot of work to do. It was the franchise's first season, and we were just trying to stay afloat. We did pretty well but it wasn't until a few seasons later that we hit our stride and established a winning tradition in Anaheim. Things kind of took a downturn this year with the need to rebuild finally hitting the team halfway through the year, but I'm confident things are looking up with the 350 and 425 people we've got waiting in the wings, myself included.

Mander was drafted 13th overall in the S46 entry draft by the Minnesota Chiefs. The Chiefs drafted the three biggest Outlaws in the S46 class - myself, Mathias Seger, and Collin Gibbles. Looking back, it was super fortunate for the Chiefs that Gibs dropped to 29th. I couldn't believe it myself -- I sort of expected Gibbles to be 13th and then me to be 29th. In any case, it was cool to be on the same team as them as we continued to figure out how we worked best as a line in Anaheim. Our hard work paid off with a Four Star Cup in S47 with a truly dominant squad.

Things in Minny weren't great for me, though. Some dudes on the team just straight up ignored any input I had on anything. One guy in particular was a huge prick for weeks and weeks, until I eventually just got fed up. I didn't really put anyone on blast because I didn't want to set the entire locker room on fire, but I talked to Baelor and Shmurph quite a few times about the one person. Naturally, neither of them knew what to do; and that was fine. Baelor does his own thing quite often, and the guy in question was going to be a natural born top-10 SHL presence, no doubt; so their hands were tied. I felt like mine were, too. I wasn't going to get bullied by some asshole because he considered his exploits categorically better than mine, as though my opinions on builds and the sim were completely invalid. Apart from "productive" conversations, he'd always 1-up me or other people. It was a gross place to be, and fortunately Gibbs has turned it around since then. The Monarchs rebrand is sick.

As a result of all that, I made a "deal" and forfeited my Minnesota contract to play my entire SMJHL eligibility with the Outlaws and never go to the SHL. I rebuilt my player completely, spending most of my remaining bank account to redistribute points. I was no longer a power forward; I built a pretty balanced defenseman. Mander had 59 goals and 95 assists in his SMJHL career - those might be Outlaws records still. He also tallied 397 hits and 153 shot blocks (with 127 of those coming in the last two seasons). Overall, I have no regrets with what happened. I ended up on the happy side of things, which is rare for me in these scenarios. Ultimately ending on that note made it that much easier to try to return to Anaheim when I came back to the SHL.

Like I've said a bunch of times, this league hits different now. And I'm pumped.


Graders - this is where draft talk starts! If you feel like considering it for double pay, start counting from here.

Part II - Anaheim's S56 Entry Draft
Anaheim had four picks in the most recent edition of the SMJHL Entry Draft. Overall, SMJHL Entry Drafts can be kind of a crapshoot, although it did make me chuckle at the amount of scouting people were doing. On one hand, I really do see the point, because obviously there's going to be an increasing amount of parity with more teams and a higher proportion, therefore, of 350/425 TPE players who have actually built well on the teams that are well scouted. But on the other hand, it's the friggin juniors, people. The meta only "allows" for so much variation among strategy and lines when everyone is no more than a 13 in their strengths. I dunno, I think the kids just need to relax a little bit. Anyway, here are the picks:

1. Arsene Leclerc (1st overall)
Anaheim won the draft lottery, which was wicked fuckin cool. We decided to use that to our advantage by grabbing Spooked, a long-time veteran of the site, in similar fashion as we've used first overall or first round picks in the past. Leclerc is currently sitting at 224 TPE, which is a whole lot for a guy who hasn't touched the ice yet! It looks like, in general, his goal was to balance out a lot of the offensive skills early so he can find his true defensive niche as line chemistry and TPE count build up throughout this season. I'm excited to see what he does, mostly because he does have that big head start on the rest of his draft class (at least with respect to the other baby Outlaws), and he's been in the SHL universe for quite some time so has likely studied up on what the big names are doing (unlike yours truly, who's basically 50% asking B-Do for help and 50% hot gas).

2. Vincent Mietitore (15th overall)
The Outlaws made a series of trades to better posture themselves in the second round of this entry draft -- between trades made before the deadline and, presumably, other things. With the first of their two picks in the second round, this one from QCC, we picked a goalie! It's always good to grab one, at least when you're operating under the stratagem "somebody has to take over for Borro at some point, right?" Vincent has been pretty quiet in the LR so far, but I hope that'll change once he gets a few starts. He's already busted through the ever-important 200 TPE barrier and is earning right along. I don't know how goalies in FHM work - it seems unclear if anybody actually does - but watching his build and comparing it to his sim results will be a fun little side-project for me this year. Welcome to Anaheim, Vin!

3. Michael Scotch (19th overall)
We didn't have long to wait before we were up on the clock again. The Outlaws picked Michael Scotch with the 19th pick. Now, this guy's build ... I don't quite understand it just yet. And I haven't seen him around in the Discord enough to pick his brain. But he's listed as a defender and only has one defensive skill above 9 - which is Defensive Read. That's important for sure, but a 13 in Offensive Read and higher Getting Open / Puckhandling stat than Positioning or Shotblocking? I'm not sure how that's going to look on the ice. Now, granted, I am a complete FHM noob. This could be a useful way to round out a player without putting 2 points into literally every skill -- fill up the 'weaknesses' with your free 155, and then start to chip away at what you really want to build up throughout the season? I dunno. I'm not being judgmental, but I want to see him in the Discord to ask some questions! Haha.

4. Farley Hank (30th overall)
Next up is Farley Hank. He's been earning pretty well for a late pick in this draft, as he's already coming close to the 200 TPE mark.  He's definitely going for a blue-line shooting type, maxing out his shooting range for a defender and getting his shooting accuracy up as well. We'll definitely see the defensive and physical ratings come up with playing time and TPE, so I'm excited to see what happens here as well. So far I haven't heard from Hank. It says on his player page that he was recruited through some other sim leagues, so I'm assuming he's going to be one of those welfare cases (which I say in the most endearing tone possible). Either way, bringing more people to the LR is the best part of the juniors draft, so welcome to the team!

5. Viktor Petrenko (39th overall)
The Outlaws started the day with two picks in Round 5. Unfortunately, due to the size of the draft and who was available, the Outlaws decided to PASS with their second pick (welcome PASS x4 to the team wooo) of the round. But the first selection was a real one, and it's this guy, Viktor. It doesn't really seem like he's going to do much, since he never officially accepted his contract and his page hasn't even been moved to the Anaheim page. However, his build actually looked the most solid of the defenders we got from a defensive standpoint - he was trying to emulate Zdeno Chara and has Bruins in his username (+2 from me), so I could only imagine he was going to be absolutely fucking incredible. But besides that, yeah - an unfortunate break.

Overall I give the Outlaws a solid B on the draft. Spooked is a great pickup and I'm very thankful we won the lottery. The trades to get us to double up in the 2nd round was good too. I just don't see the later round picks working out. For all I know, this could be a phenomenon stretch across the entire SMJHL board, but I don't feel like picking all that apart, so, yeah. That's the Anaheim recap!

Part III - Los Angeles' S56 Entry Draft
The Los Angeles Panthers had six picks in this year's entry draft - and I was one of them! I'm pretty excited to be back on a team I know, although I was just pretty content to end up anywhere. Only a few teams had reached out to be prior to the draft (and LAP actually wasn't one of them) - Winnipeg, San Francisco, New England, and Tampa Bay. Of those teams, the only ones I thought would actually pick me up were San Francisco and Tampa Bay - just from the general vibe of the conversations and where each team is in their building phases. It would have been cool to be part of a gigantic rebuild like that with a new sim to learn, but Los Angeles has a lot of work to do in their own right with a lot of transitioning going on, so I feel I'll get a lot of experience just by being here and building.

1. Jonas Kahnwald (8th overall)
The first pick LA made was Jonas Kahnwald, the big German defenseman fresh off a Four Star Cup victory. He didn't have the most prolific year scoring-wise, but he was a nominee for the Rookie of the Year award, so that's fantastic for him. He posted a super-impressive first-year OGR of 58 and GR of 56. Festinator has also been doing a whole lot around the site and getting his bank account up. His build is fairly balanced, focusing more on the physical checking than the stickchecking, and keeping the physical stats just as high as the offensive ones. All in all it seems pretty carefully built and it'll be interesting to see how we both come up (likely on the same line at some point). He's been a cool guy in the LR so far and it seems to be working out, knock on simulation wood. My only concern is that he's 5'8 - and if you understand that it's fairly irrelevant, that's the joke. Keep readin'.

2. Vili Afalava (16th overall)
LA got this pick from Edmonton, who's probably too busy modifying the metagame and searching for exploits to draft people, so good on them. They selected Vili Afalava, who is Wasty's player. I recognized the first and last names (though not together) from the PHL, so I had a pretty good guess as to who it was. Afalava did not have the most successful rookie campaign, but then again, very few rookies (and very few players on Nevada) experienced success. Build-wise I'm interested in what Wasty decides to do. Afalava is also a defender, and he's sort of foregone the current popular choice of true balance by making both stamina and defensive read the infamous 14. So he's basically a high schooler playing with 6th graders when it comes to reading defenses, and he can skate circles around the competition; seems like a solid combo to me. Let's see how he does in his sophomore season (and check out Wasty's NCAA shit on YouTube too).

3. Grape Fruit (26th overall)
Grape Fruit is our next pick. Grape Fruit, as a name, is a solid 9/10. Yes, it's a super low effort joke, but it's a joke none the less. And I've literally never called someone Grape, like a person, so it's one of those jokes that only lands because we play most of this game via text. Fruit had a pretty good season with the Kraken, posting an OGR of 59 in S55 (solid!). He's currently in the 290 TPE range (didn't check his update page, probably a lot more in a week), and I dig the offensive focus. With 13 in passing, puckhandling, and offensive read, I think that Donair would be a great guy to play alongside him as I screen and can also read the offense. Let's see how that plays out!

4. John Donair (34th overall)
Don't really need to comment on myself. But I wasn't surprised to be picked this low. Like 2% salt, sure, but not surprised necessarily. I'm already at the cap headed to my second season and I can't wait to see what happens.

5. Ragnar-Alexandre Ragnarsson-Tremblay (50th overall)
Next was perhaps the pick I was, socially, most excited about. Ragnar is BACK, baby. After having many head office positions in the very early days, Ragnar took a long hiatus because, well, most people do after they're in that high stress a position for a long (or even short!) time. He's always been a cool dude and we've rarely had one-on-one conversations, but playing games and chilling in the LR with him and the rest of the older PHL dudes (and McZ) will be cool.
Oh, wait, this isn't Ragnar? Jesus fucking Christ. It's some dude named LarrytheMVP. LARRY!
Anyway, RART is a pretty sweet goalie. I couldn't find any stats on him, and I can't tell if that's because he didn't play in any games or if he joined late ...? This is the big reason why the new indexes are utter dogshit. Anyway, his name is cool as fuck, and you always need a goalie if you don't have one by this late a round. Fortunately for LA, they had picks back-to-back to effectively end the pool of relevant draft picks. So after this pick, they selected ...

6. Jonas Caspari (51st overall)
His name is JONAS! And he's carrying the wheel - for Quebec City - which is a big wheel to carry, god damn. He only played 23 games for the Citadelles (pronounced 'sitty dellies') and managed 8 points, had a pretty awesome shooting percentage of over 15, and had 23 shot blocks and 20 hits - so that's honestly a great shortened season. I wasn't kidding re: the wheel. It's super unfortunate that it doesn't seem like Caspari is going to keep going with building, at least aggressively. He's still under 200 TPE. That isn't bad for 51st overall by any means, but with that kind of success in such a short time I feel like most people would be motivated to keep earning! Anyway, I guess we'll hold out hope that jakey.peach earns some cash and keeps playing. His build is super interesting, too - min/max on offense worked at such a low TPE. I'm sure people were looking into that.

Overall, I give my new team an A- in the draft. You'd always like to maximize your throughput with those late-round picks, and I'm obviously a huge fucking steal at 34. The minus is from how effective these later picks are going to be, and my obvious bias is that I'm not super familiar with most of the other draftees. For all I know, these could have been unquestionably the best players available -- and with most of the other draft recaps, they're saying that LA did really well too! So yeah, I'm excited.

Graders - this is where the draft talk ends! Thanks for doubling my money for this section.

Part IV - Questions
Luketd - Ahh, the summer of R. I was really bummed a few months after retiring / sealing Mander's fate with Gibs when I checked back and realized what I had left. At the time I was using R a whole lot, for basics as well as the more advanced algorithm design. I covered a lot of that in my Bayesian Statistics course last semester. It was ... really fucking hard. Haha. And moving it to online halfway through didnt make it any easier (honestly it did make my Machine Learning class a little better, but that's for another time).

I started getting more into SAS at the end of the spring as I turned attention to my thesis and lecturing in the fall. I got my Base Programming certification for SAS right before school started, and I'll probably be 80/20 SAS/R this semester (the exception being survival analysis curves which are WAY easier to handle in R). If I'm around for a while, which I intend to be, I'll definitely bring back summer of R. I think it could be even cooler with the FHM stuff, and I like to teach, so it could be cool. Hell, by then maybe you could teach me! Haha. Hope all is well.

AgentSmith630 - Eh, the obvious difference is obvious. We finally have a new engine, and it seems most people approve of this random effects function versus STHS. I'm still very new at FHM and that's really what's been making the league fun again. I havent really interacted on the forum or gotten to know any new people yet, really, but the game is interesting enough as it is (and that really hasnt been the case for a while). I get that this hiatus is technically the longest of my sim league career, which is something that I'll undoubtedly pontificate on above going through my player history. But as far as the small changes to PTs and all that, I really like it. Why have a PT cap if people always fuck it up? Why have restrictions to 350 TPE if people are forced to stay in the juniors for more than 2 seasons? All of those changes make sense, and a lot of them are the product of literal years of discussion. That part is nice.

What's not super nice is the discourse community, but I've always taken issue with that. It's largely not my scene at all. The new crowd seems to root themselves on one side of a take and then put pressure on relentlessly. It's a little overwhelming from the outside looking in, and it doesnt necessarily motivate me (especially as someone with a past) to put myself out there with any sort of opinion. Factor in the inside jokes that are hopefully the reason people just post 1-3 word replies in scarily quick succession, and ... yeah. As some would say, that ain't it. At all.

Festinator - Hello! Nice to meet you. I noticed we will be on LAP together, that's cool. I dont even know where your player is in the Juniors -- I gotta get better at looking stuff up, because I actually care to know. As I'll say when I answer Sve7en, I find the new indexes absolutely fucking horrible. Anyway, I have a few fond memories but not that much. Thats more on me than on the SHL - and I have much fonder memories of the GOMHL and the PHL because those were sort of, well call them, limited interactions with a large group. I've been pretty "fragile" online for a while and it's mostly due to stuff going on at home and my extremely high anxiety. But now that I'm out of the woods with almost ALL of that, I'm ready to make the SHL something I can speak of fondly.

Some of my best SHL memories include winning the Four Star Cup with Mander in S47, accumulating seven Turd Fergusons with Danny "Bananas" Foster in the S30s, and ... ahh, I thought I'd readily have some third thing to make that clause nice. Oh well. Really just those two things. I never made it on a fun team (except for Anaheim) - I had fun with the Scarecrows with Foster (won my first of two Four Stars there), but never really felt like part of the group. I'm sure a lot of that is me. But it was just how discourse was shifting at the time. Forums used less and less, even though TML was old school and would still post, but a lot of Discord chat you dont really understand unless you're there all day.

But yeah, never had a full fun group that I stayed with for a long time. I was hoping Minny would be it with Mander and it went south before I even joined the team. My favorite season I've ever played is S27 - and the OG Portland squad with JP, Dan, and Scholzy would have fit the "full fun group" mold - but as I got into above, it didn't end well. Haha.

Zomp - Absolutely! It felt like a foregone conclusion to the point where I didn't even look at the SMJHL draft. I do have a few friends IRL who are currently on or GMing SMJHL teams, but I didn't tell them to seek me out in all honesty. At the beginning I wasn't too sure how long I was going to stick with it, and at first it wasn't much more than just having another thing in common with some dudes I play disc golf with. I think that organic re-entrance into the league, without anything to prove and with a new engine to learn and a lot of exciting aspects like that, makes me that much more motivated to keep playing. And I'm really glad that I could return to the team that Mander stayed on for his entire career.

I'm pretty sure Mander still has a lot of the records in Anaheim, and I was honored that he was inducted into the Outlaws Hall of Fame. The support that I got from the team when I decided to go back down after how Minnesota turned out to be was overwhelming. I had a few people healthily question by decision, and discussion ensued, and I decided to switch to a defender that the Outlaws could actually use while focusing their drafts on best available knowing they had a first or second line D-man for three straight seasons. I don't regret that decision at all. I'm glad Anaheim paid me the respect of bringing me back. I'm excited to see what you'll do as co-GM! The Outlaws are certainly in a period of transition right now, but I'm already at the 350 cap and I'm motivated to keep going. You and B-Do got some work to do on the draft end. The Discord was in a transition as well, with not so many active players. Since I've been in the Outlaws discord literally since it started, when it was just me/Dangles/Bana/a few others, I can say with confidence that this is the second lowest activity I've seen over the course of a regular season (referring to S55). We only have up to go from here with you in management - I believe!

Sve7en
Thoughts on the transition from SimonT box scores to FHM live sims?
I honestly fucking hate it, dude. I simply can't be arsed to tune in, because I don't feel like revealing my full-ass name on YouTube or talking in a Twitch chat with a bunch of jokes I don't know. I find it absolutely insufferable. There are two cool aspects of the STHS indeces and box scores:

• Without STHS, one can still download a full CSV of rosters, stats, and schedules. CSV's require minimal formatting to transfer into R or SAS, usually (in my exp I only had to change a few variable names in SAS because of % and other things)
  
• The box scores would record every event of minor significance in several different kinds of detailed order. That makes any scraping tool or find/replace strategy you have for computing giveaways/takeaways and getting hit/losing the puck really easy, especially since it's all text and web based.
  

I never published any of that data I took myself, and I have it on my pretty much dead desktop, but it helped build good power forwards and I hope to continue to do that. For all I know, you can export the FHM data as well. I just don't have FHM and have devoted my time to other things lately.

How has it felt to reunite with some old faces in Los Angeles?
So far, so good. A lot of faces I didn't know would be in there, like JT and McZ. I really haven't tuned in to much of anything SHL-related, even as the draft approached. I wasn't super pumped for the draft although I still had mild excitement/nerves the day of. After being drafted a bunch of times, and anticipating something to be stupid or something to go wrong, I didn't want to get any of my hopes up. So, in that way, I thank you for drafting me to what very well could be your own team soon. I want to be part of a new era and could use a redemption story of sorts, as much as my ego rarely wins in situations like this.

Wasty and I have been buddies for years. He gave me a PHL team and that's really where I learned STHS (although unfortunately didn't even consider the 99 defense/scoring situation, lmao, I should've seen that, more on this above or later). He's doing cool YouTube things right now and I'm pumped for him.

Bottas and I are FB friends as well, and we don't talk as much but he's still wicked cool and was fun to play against in PHL. I have this similar Backyard Baseball counterpart when you consider rivalry, relative skills, personality, etc. named crazyei8hts. What is it with some guys and numbers, right? But yeah, Bottas is my SHL/PHL crazyei8hts. If you wanna see some SICK Backyard Baseball highlights, look him up on YouTube.

I understand Wasty gets flack for some old shit, but so do I. I mean, I typed in "Applied" to Updater Head, clearly as a joke, and Cal went straight for my fucking throat. I was surprised nobody made "rip Portland" jokes when I recreated. There are still, like, emotional scars that come up from [things that were my own doing, surely, but] stupid bullshit that happened in the past. So to still be able to separate, write, and build a good player in a new engine (are people reading all of these responses sensing a theme, yet? haha) is favorable for me.

Why all the food names?
See above - they're not all food! Turns out the one that most SHL people remember and my current player both have to do with food. No other active player I've had has a food-related name. I hope the education I give you re: my previous characters properly assigns me some clout. Hahahahahah naaaah that's okay. You better keep gittin gud at golf tho, and come to Silver Cup 2021.

Ruutu
G is the first letter of my first name - Geoff. I've had GCool as a name since the beginning, like on XBox live when I was 12. I've since evolved to Projekt GCool (largely due to my obsession to Linkin Park when I needed a new XBox Gold Account), but never past that. I guess I lurk on some forums as other random nouns, but yeah. Always GCool.

I'd play with the idea of a goalie at some point. But I'm not interested in being a center or OFD. I've always loved power forwards in the NHL and wanted to emulate some of those in the SHL, so I've always been drawn to that kind of player. I made a more traditional forward with Shaw in the GOMHL, and I definitely found it fun! But yeah, been there/done that, goalie will probably be next. However, I guess I haven't done any of these builds in FHM, so on one hand the possibilities could be just beginning.

ByrdeMan
Yo! Long time no talk, dude. Things have finally been good! As you've known me you've seen a lot of the weirder points of my life since finding SHL, and it's been a wild-ass ride for a lot of it. I miss that old MTL squad sometimes, brings back the fondest (earliest) memories of sim leagues.

Anyway, yeah. I've given that point in my sim league career a lot of careful thought and basically shut it out forever. What I type now definitely won't be the whole story of that ordeal, but I'll try to sum it up in some bullet points:

• The job was sort of handed to me by a distraught Dangles. He didn't really know what to do as he was moving up to HO at the time, I think?
  
• As a result, I sort of walked into it with Blast by my side all the sudden (and I honestly forget who the other head guy was at the time), we didn't know each other much at all but he seemed cool. He filled me in on how shit was working.
  
• I tried getting a headcount early to hire new guys for the upcoming season, but the only voices in the Discord were Slash (an ex-updater then) and Pingy (I'm pretty sure) posting memes and people reacting to them. Nobody was really filling me in on what was going on.
  
• Nobody was updating. I had ZombieWolf or others doing 8+ teams a week, always at the last minute, somehow audit after audit slipping through the cracks because half our auditors were missing AC's
  
• I panicked, as someone just thrown into the position. I lashed out at a bunch of people. I've pretty much blacked it from my memory. It was an extremely bad time. I also want it to be known, explicitly, that I'm VERY sorry for everyone who was caught in that crossfire. I, uh ... yeah. I really don't fucking know. I was awful.
  
• Ultimately, I regret the circumstances and how I handled that post. I understand if I'm never hired for an SHL job ever again, and honestly, I doubt I'll even apply for any of them except IIHF GM at some point.
  

The only perspective on updates I've gained is that I'm pretty much one of the best updaters of all time. Nobody, even cal or any of those people I yelled at, could call me on not doing my fucking job, because I was amazing at it. That's why I was given the head job when I said "sure maybe yeah". My updates are always, clean, too, so I'm not a fucking hypocrite, either. Everyone who fucked up and wasn't doing it by complete accident, suck my one ball.

Also, just to clarify, I was an updater for a few seasons in the early going, and I was also very good at it. I think you were even the Updater Head or in the SMJHL HO back then! So I knew the work it entailed. And I was always there one day out of the weekend, trying to clean up the mess or mitigate the damage. I apologized profusely to Blast at the end, and ultimately I think he accepted my apology and understood, although I wouldn't call us friends now.

As for the Turd Ferguson - ahh. I really think it should be renamed. No disrespect to Turd, I mean the trophy IS named after him for Christ's sake, but I have one perhaps different take that might change people's minds who are on the fence (and no, I'm not insinuating many people care at all):

Consider the Petrovs. Look at the PIMs and hits some of them are stacking up. There's undoubtedly going to be a Petrov that wins a few Turds. I know activity for some of them is pretty low, and they aren't checking in or whatever, but ... it could happen. Why the fuck, in the history of Awards, would you flat-out skip a generation of enforcer such that a Petrov wins a Turd and NOT a Bananas Foster? WHAT? Please, HO. Please!!

ztevans
I gotta say, I was definitely happily surprised when I first saw the name. You and I are probably the ONLY ones (save maybe Wasty or even Gorlab during our playoff matchups that were never too close) who hold the Beranek name as high as it deserves. Roman Beranek, for those who don't know, was an epic PHL defenseman for the Charlotte Bootleggers. He was the first draft pick that I acquired in the PHL Entry Draft that actually turned into something. I overtook the Hartford Huskies in Season ... 3, I think? I ran them as Hartford for a year and then relocated the team to Charlotte. [Ztevans] took over shortly after, first as an assistant to me and seeing how it all went and then I just gave him the team. That was during a really weird transition period of my life, being in Carolina without my fiance and then reuniting only for shit to go south so quickly that I found a job back in Illinois. The only word for it, looking back, is "weird". Some shit I thought of, said, did, back then -- I can't even imagine myself thinking those things now. How odd how life can work.

I'm doubly excited because that means you're back on this site with me at the same time! We could actually peak around the same few seasons and have similar FA decisions! That's LITERALLY never happened in our years of knowing each other. If only I had named my player Tanner Moog -- unfortunately for him, there's no cool pun to be made, there. His name's weird enough. And he was more of a people's champ anyway, spending his entire eligibility with the New England Narwhals, the Bootleggers' affiliate.

Thanks for your question, and friendly reminder to NEVER make a podcast you'll regret making ever again - much to my own chagrin, but per your own perpetual request.

Summer of R :(

Dude note, during the summer I actually was learning R

PROFILE || UPDATE || RAGE.  




Luke Thomason || LW || Manhattan Rage || 2143 Max TPE
Born: 1/10/98
Height: 6'0
Weight 185 Lbs
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Regular season
SMJHL/SHL Stats
S42 | Van | GP: 50| G: 4| A: 8|P: 12|+/-: -10|MP: 457|
S43 | Van | GP: 50| G: 16| A: 19|P: 35|+/-: 3|MP: 951|
S44 | Van | GP: 50| G: 22| A: 31|P: 53|+/-: 9|MP: 1033|
S45 | SFP | GP: 50| G: 18| A: 19|P: 37|+/-: -5|MP: 1041|
S46 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 19| A: 24|P: 43|+/-: -3|MP: 1156|
S47 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 16| A: 28|P: 44|+/-: -15|MP: 1184|
S48 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 16| A: 24|P: 40|+/-: -13|MP: 1137|
S49 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 21| A: 28|P: 49| +/-: 13|MP: 1099
S50 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 21| A: 23|P: 44| +/-: 10|MP: 1157
S51 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 17| A: 22|P: 39| +/-: 5|MP: 1232
S52 | MAN | GP: 50| G: 24| A: 29|P: 54| +/-: 17|MP: 1193
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Playoffs
S42 Playoffs | Van| GP: 11 | G: 1| A: 2 |P:3|+/-: +3| MP: 101
S43 Playoffs | Van| GP: 10 | G: 4| A: 1 |P:5|+/-: -3| MP: 206
S44 Playoffs | Van| GP: 14 | G: 7| A:6  |P:13|+/-:-1 | MP:228
S46 Playoffs | MAN| GP: 12 | G: 3 | A:2  |P:5|+/-:-14 | MP:289
S47 Playoffs | MAN| GP: 5 | G: 3 | A:4  |P:7|+/-:2 | MP:119
S49 Playoffs | MAN| GP: 11| G: 6| A: 11|P:16|+/-: 5| MP:248
S50 Playoffs | MAN| GP: 6| G: 5| A: 5|P:10|+/-: 7| MP:137
S51 Playoffs | MAN| GP: 12| G: 7| A: 9|P:16|+/-: 4| MP:293
S52 Playoffs | MAN| GP: 19| G: 9| A: 13|P:22|+/-: 0| MP:438

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Transactions/Awards
S43 Named Assistant Captain for VAN Whalers
Drafted 3rd OA by San Fransisco Pride
S43 4 Star Cup Champion  
S44 Zach Miller Award for Most Dedicated
S44 nominee for the Damien Littleton award for most dedicated
S45 WJC Gold Medalist
S45 SHL Rookie All-Star Team
S46 Named Captain for Czechoslovakia
S45 Winner of the Damien Littleton award for most dedicated
S46 Nominee for Damien Littleton award for most dedicated
S49 Bronze Medal for Czechia
S52 Nominee for Anton Razov Trophy
S52 SHL 3rd Team


Arnost Holub || Vancouver Whalers GM/ Manhattan Rage Co-GM
S44 | W:27 | L:18 | OTL: 5 | P:59 | 3rd in League 
S45 | W:29 | L:17 | OTL: 4 | P:62 | 4th in League 
S46 | W:23 | L:21 | OTL: 6 | P:52 | 8th in League 
S47 | W:30 | L:17 | OTL: 3 | P:63 | 3rd in League 
S48 | W:28 | L:16 | OTL: 6 | P:62 | 4th in League 
Total | W:137 | L: 89 | OTL: 24 

Manhattan Rage  
S49 | W:33 | L:15 | OTL: 2 | P:68 | 3rd in League  
S50 | W:26 | L:20 | OTL: 4 | P:56 | 8th in League  
S51 | W:26 | L:18 | OTL: 6 | P:56 | 5th in League 
S52 | W:28 | L:21 | OTL: 1 | P:57 | 6th in League 
Totals | W:113 | L:74 | OTL: 13 
S49 Lance Uppercut Award
S51 Lance Uppercut Award Nomination
S52 Lance Uppercut Award Nomination

Playoffs
Vancouver Whalers
S44 | W: 7 | L: 7 | CF Round Exit
S45 | W: 6 | L: 6 | CF Round Exit
S46 | W: 1 | L: 4 | 1st Round Exit
S47 | W: 6 | L: 4 | CF Round Exit
S48 | W: 12 | L: 7 | 4 Star Cup Champions
Total| W: 32 | L: 28 | 4 Star Cup Champions

Manhattan Rage
S49 | W: 6 | L: 5 | CF Round Exit
S50 | W: 2 | L: 4 | Wildcard Exit
S51 | W: 5 | L: 7 | CF Exit
S52 | W: 12 | L: 7 | Challenge Cup Champions
Total | W: 25 | L:23 | 1 Challenge Cup

How does it feel to be back after a hiatus as long as yours? Do you like what has changed?

Thanks to @sulovilen, @the5urreal, and @sve7en for the sigs!

Johnny Wagner-Svenson || RW || Carolina Kraken || Tampa Bay Barracuda

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Transactions

S68 - Drafted 2nd Overall by the Carolina Kraken

S69 - Drafted 2nd Overall by the Tampa Bay Barracuda

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Awards

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Achievements

S71 SMJHL All Star

S72 SHL Rookie Team All-SHL

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SMJHL Season Stats

S68: 66GP | 6G | 27A | 33P | +11 | 18 PIM | 5.3 SH% | 101 Hits | 33 SB | 66 GR

S69: 66GP | 14G | 26A | 40P | +5 | 18 PIM | 9.0 SH% | 140 Hits | 39 SB | 77 GR

S70: 66GP | 32G | 41A | 73P | +5 | 30 PIM | 17.0 SH% | 202 Hits | 26 SB | 84 GR

S71: 66GP | 47G | 49A | 96P | +14 | 54 PIM | 17.7 SH% | 149 Hits | 22 SB | 77 GR

SMJHL Career: 264 GP | 99G | 143A | 242P | +35 | 120 PIM | 12.3 SH% | 592 Hits | 120 SB | 76 GR

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SHL Season Stats

S72: 66GP | 36G | 30A | 66P | -30 | 36 PIM | 13.1 SH% | 72 Hits | 21 SB | 73 GR

S73: 66GP | 32G | 34A | 66P | -39 | 30 PIM | 11.1 SH% | 94 Hits | 30 SB | 72 GR

S74: 66GP | 60G | 42A | 102P | +10 | 44 PIM | 17.4 SH% | 113 Hits | 37 SB | 77 GR

S75: 66GP | 45G | 57A | 102P | +4 | 36 PIM | 15.6 SH% | 130 Hits | 57 SB | 78 GR

Rikard Bjerg - RETIRED - Hall of Fame || RD || Maine Timber || San Francisco Pride

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Transactions

S54 - Drafted 2nd Overall by the Maine Timber

S55 - Drafted 1st Overall by the San Francisco Pride

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Awards

S54: Voted Maine Timber Best Rookie[/font][/size]

S55: Zach Miller (Most Dedicated) Nomination

S56: Zach Miller (Most Dedicated) Winner

S56: Best Defensive Defenseman Nomination

S57: Zach Miller (Most Dedicated) Winner

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S63: Bojo Biscuit Award (Best Defensive Defenseman) Winner

S64: Bojo Biscuit Award (Best Defensive Defenseman) Nominee 

S64: Scott Stevens Award (Best Defenseman) Nominee [/font][/size][/color]

S65: Bojo Biscuit Award (Best Defensive Defenseman) Winner

S65: Scott Stevens Award (Best Defenseman) Nominee

S66: Bojo Biscuit Award (Best Defensive Defenseman) Nominee

S66: Scott Stevens Award (Best Defenseman) Nominee

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Achievements

S53: Silver Medal with Sweden WJC Team

First SMJHL Goal: S54 Preseason Game vs Carolina Kraken - Breakaway Goal

S56: Assistant Captain of the Maine Timber

S57: Assistant Captain of the Maine Timber

S57: Silver Medal with Sweden WJC Team

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SMJHL Season Stats

S54: 48 GP | 3G | 8A | 11P | -15 | 23PIM | 74 Hits | 68 SB | 64 DGR

S55: 50 GP | 5G | 9A | 14P | +2 | 12PIM | 65 Hits | 66 SB | 69 DGR

S56: 50 GP | 5G | 15A | 20P | -5 | 21PIM | 96 Hits | 111 SB | 73 DGR

S57: 66 GP | 8G | 18A | 26P | +9 | 54 PIM | 135 Hits | 118 SB | 64 DGR

SMJHL Career: 214 GP | 21G | 50A | 71P | -9 | 110 PIM | 370 Hits | 363 SB | 67.5 DGR

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SHL Season Stats

S58: 66GP | 2G | 14A | 16P | -33 | 34 PIM | 129 Hits | 143 SB | 62 DGR

S59: 66GP | 7G | 14A | 21P | -27 | 22 PIM | 164 Hits | 186 SB | 66 DGR

S60: 66GP | 7G | 12A | 19P | -21 | 18 PIM | 128 Hits | 178 SB | 63 DGR

S61: 66GP | 6G | 23A | 29P | +4 | 17 PIM | 139 Hits | 123 SB | 65 DGR

S62: 66GP | 6G | 11A | 17P | -20 | 25 PIM | 149 Hits | 143 SB | 64 DGR

S63: 66GP | 7G | 31A | 38P | +13 | 27 PIM | 166 Hits | 172 SB | 69 DGR

S64: 66GP | 11G | 30A | 41P | +8 | 23 PIM | 142 Hits | 144 SB | 68 DGR

S65: 66GP | 12G | 44A | 56P | +30 | 24PIM | 146 Hits | 177 SB | 72 DGR

S66: 66GP | 13G | 39A | 52P | +18 | 49PIM | 108 Hits | 92 SB | 77 DGR

S67: 66GP | 6G | 23A | 29P | +25 | 28PIM | 59 Hits | 138 SB | 74 DGR

SHL Career: 660GP | 77G | 241A | 318P | -3 | 267 PIM | 1330 Hits | 1496 SB | 68 DGR

Agent Smith || Former GM || San Francisco Pride

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Achievements

S59: Lance Uppercut Award (Best GM) Nominee
S63: Lance Uppercut Award (Best GM) Nominee

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 Season Stats

S56: 4 W | 42 L | 4 OTL | 12 Pts | 71 GF | 243 GA

S57: 12 W | 53 L | 1 OTL | 25 Pts | 113 GF | 254 GA

S58: 20 W | 40 L | 6 OTL | 46 Pts | 158 GF | 263 GA

S59: 26 W | 35 L | 5 OTL | 57 Pts | 158 GF | 223 GA

S60: 20 W | 41 L | 5 OTL | 45 Pts | 146 GF | 255 GA

S61: 28 W | 31 L | 7 OTL | 63 Pts | 197 GF | 196 GA

S62: 30 W | 32 L | 4 OTL | 64 Pts | 202 GF | 223 GA

S63: 40 W | 21 L | 5 OTL | 85 Pts | 252 GF | 186 GA

S64: 38 W | 23 L | 5 OTL | 81 Pts | 221 GF | 193 GA

Career Totals: 218 W | 318 L | 42 OTL | 478 Pts | 1518 GF | 2036 GA

Fondest memories in previous seasons?

Sig by @Ragnar

Were you excited to come back to Anaheim?

Ethan Price || RW || New England Wolfpack|| S53-S63|| Retired ||  Peak: 1779 TPE
Name: Ethan Price
Age: 29
Birthplace: Massachusetts, United States
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 195 lbs
Number: 46
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Transactions:
Drafted 13th overall by the Anaheim Outlaws in the S52 SMJHL Draft
Drafted 22nd overall by the New England Wolfpack in the S53 SHL Draft
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Awards & Trophies:
S52 Four Star Cup
S54 WJC Gold Medal (United States)
S57 Aidan Richan Trophy (Most Improved Player)
S63 IIHF Gold Medal (United States)

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Career Statistics:
SMJHL Regular Season:
S52 | 50 GP | 7 G | 5 A | 12 P | -6 | 2 PPP | 20 PIM | 35 H
S53 | 50 GP | 22 G | 26 A | 48 P | +1 | 8 PPP | 51 PIM | 31 H
S54 | 50 GP | 22 G | 16 A | 38 P | -3 | 15 PPP | 26 PIM | 29 H
S55 | 50 GP | 21 G | 20 A | 41 P | +2 | 8 PPP | 26 PIM | 36 H
Career | 200 GP | 72 G | 67 A | 139 P | -5 | 33 PPP | 123 PIM | 131 H
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SHL Regular Season:
S56| 50 GP | 8 G | 13 A | 21 P | -6 | 12 PPP | 9 PIM | 22 H
S57| 66 GP | 32 G | 34 A | 66 P | +4 | 15 PPP | 12 PIM | 29 H
S58| 66 GP | 24 G | 21 A | 45 P | -16 | 14 PPP | 26 PIM | 26 H
S59| 66 GP | 28 G | 22 A | 50 P | -24 | 9 PPP | 22 PIM | 94 H
S60| 66 GP | 26 G | 33 A | 59 P | -16 | 15 PPP | 26 PIM | 66 H
S61| 66 GP | 30 G | 45 A | 75 P | +21 | 21 PPP | 23 PIM | 65 H
S62| 66 GP | 41 G | 31 A | 72 P | +13 | 22 PPP | 25 PIM | 71 H
S63| 66 GP | 24 G | 27 A | 51 P | -22 | 13 PPP | 46 PIM | 49 H
Career | 512 GP | 213 G | 226 A | 439 P | -46 | 121 PPP | 253 PIM | 422 H

Bump, thanks to all so far. Gonna start filling this in today or tomorrow morning.

Thoughts on the transition from SimonT box scores to FHM live sims?

How has it felt to reunite with some old faces in Los Angeles?

Why all the food names?

Jimmy Wagner || Seattle Argonauts || Carolina Kraken || RW || S53 || 1002 cTPE || 2295 pTPE (7th all time)
6'1 || 190 lbs || Perg, Austria || Swedish passport
S52 SMJHL Draft - 6th Overall - Carolina Kraken
S53 SHL Draft   - 5th Overall - Los Angeles Panthers
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SHL Season Stats
Szn |Team | GP |  G |  A |  P | +/- | Sht | PM | TOI
S56 | LAP | 50 |  6 | 16 | 22 | -10 | 108 | 24 |1023 // A /
S57 | LAP | 66 | 16 | 25 | 41 | -13 | 167 | 24 |1508 // A /
S58 | LAP | 66 | 15 | 31 | 46 |  -3 | 173 | 12 |1485 // A /
S59 | LAP | 66 | 22 | 26 | 48 | -19 | 208 | 12 |1576 // A /
S60 | LAP | 66 | 25 | 31 | 56 |  13 | 214 | 10 |1380 // A /
S61 | LAP | 66 | 19 | 35 | 54 | -10 | 251 | 16 |1436 // C /
S62 | LAP | 66 | 38 | 48 | 86 |  12 | 330 | 14 |1481 // C / MVP Nominee, Breakout Nominee, 2nd Team All-SHL
S63 | LAP | 66 | 20 | 40 | 64 |   5 | 292 | 22 |1442 // C /
S64 | LAP | 66 | 32 | 38 | 70 |  40 | 256 | 16 |1387 // C /
S65 | LAP | 66 | 18 | 27 | 45 |  25 | 209 | 10 |1310 // C /
S66 | LAP | 66 | 31 | 28 | 59 |  24 | 183 | 38 |1198 // C /
S67 | SEA | 66 | 21 | 39 | 60 |  32 | 194 | 24 |1120 //   /
S68 | SEA | 66 | 30 | 37 | 67 |  46 | 146 | 22 |1176 //   /
S69 | SEA | 66 | 21 | 38 | 59 |  42 | 147 | 28 |1188 //   /
S70 | SEA | 66 | 14 | 23 | 37 |  13 | 134 | 32 |1154 //   /
S71 | LAP | 66 | 21 | 55 | 55 | -17 | 142 | 22 |1267 //   /
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Challenge Cup Playoff Stats
Szn |Team | GP |  G |  A |  P | +/- | Sht | PM | TOI
S56 | LAP |  5 |  1 |  2 |  3 |  -6 |  11 |  0 | 111 // A /
S57 | LAP |  6 |  1 |  1 |  2 |   1 |  21 |  0 | 137 // A /
S58 | LAP |  6 |  2 |  2 |  4 |   2 |  11 |  4 | 142 // A /
S59 | LAP |  6 |  1 |  4 |  5 |  -2 |  21 |  2 | 150 // A /
S60 | LAP |  6 |  1 |  1 |  2 |  -3 |   8 |  0 | 123 // A /
S61 | LAP |  5 |  1 |  3 |  4 |  -4 |  15 |  0 | 113 // C /
S62 | LAP | 17 |  8 | 12 | 20 |  13 |  63 |  2 | 390 // C /
S63 | LAP | 22 |  6 | 13 | 19 |   3 |  74 |  0 | 502 // C /
S64 | LAP | 12 |  6 |  6 | 12 |   6 |  59 |  2 | 274 // C /
S65 | LAP | 20 |  3 | 15 | 18 |  19 |  50 |  0 | 413 // C / ⟅ⅬⅩⅤ⟆ CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPION ⟅ⅬⅩⅤ⟆
S66 | LAP |  9 |  2 |  2 |  4 |   1 |  17 |  2 | 173 // C /
S67 | SEA | 23 |  5 | 15 | 20 |  20 |  53 |  6 | 409 //   / ⟅ⅬⅩⅤII⟆ CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPION ⟅ⅬⅩⅤII⟆
S68 | SEA | 21 |  6 | 13 | 19 |  16 |  48 | 10 | 418 //   / ⟅ⅬⅩⅤIII⟆ CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPION ⟅ⅬⅩⅤIII⟆
S69 | SEA | 16 |  1 |  7 |  8 |  20 |  28 |  4 | 310 //   /
S70 | SEA | 13 |  3 |  1 |  4 |  16 |  33 |  4 | 221 //   /
S71 | LAP | 12 |  3 |  4 |  7 |   3 |  29 |  4 | 235 //   /
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SMJHL Season Stats
Szn |Team | GP |  G |  A |  P | +/- | Sht | PM | TOI
S52 | CAR | 50 |  6 |  8 | 14 |  +5 |  63 |  6 | 569 //   /
S53 | CAR | 50 | 10 | 20 | 30 |  -2 | 125 |  8 | 916 // C /
S54 | CAR | 50 | 24 | 29 | 53 |  20 | 171 | 12 | 943 // C / MVP, Scoring Leader, 1st Team All-SMJHL
S55 | CAR | 50 | 17 | 26 | 43 |  30 | 145 | 10 | 876 // C /
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Four Star Cup Playoff Stats
Szn |Team | GP |  G |  A |  P | +/- | Sht | PM | TOI
S52 | CAR | 11 |  0 |  1 |  1 |  -1 |   8 |  2 | 118 //   /
S53 | CAR |  4 |  1 |  1 |  2 |  -3 |   7 |  0 |  75 // C /
S54 | CAR | 20 |  5 |  9 | 14 |   3 |  60 |  4 | 419 // C / FOUR STAR CUP CHAMPIONS
S55 | CAR | 11 |  5 |  5 | 10 |   4 |  28 |  4 | 203 // C /
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WJC Stats
Szn |Team | GP |  G |  A |  P | +/- | Sht | PM | TOI
S51 |PRWR | 19 |  4 |  8 | 12 |  -6 |  45 |  4 | 357 // M / Andani Award Nominee
S52 |DACH | 15 |  1 |  1 |  2 |  -2 |   8 |  2 | 100 // M /
S53 |DACH | 13 |  4 |  3 |  7 |  -2 |  21 |  0 | 186 //   /
S54 |DACH | 13 |  1 |  1 |  2 |  -3 |  16 |  0 | 219 //   /
S55 |DACH | 13 |  5 |  4 |  9 |   3 |  28 |  4 | 221 //   /
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IIHF Stats
Szn |Team | GP |  G |  A |  P | +/- | Sht | PM | TOI
S54 | AUT | 13 |  0 |  1 |  1 |   2 |   3 |  4 | 121 //   /
S55 | AUT | 13 |  1 |  1 |  2 |   0 |   7 |  2 | 124 //   /
S56 | AUT | 12 |  1 |  3 |  4 |   2 |  13 |  4 | 218 //   /
S57 | AUT | 12 |  3 |  2 |  5 |  -8 |  30 |  2 | 220 //   /
S58 | International hiatus
S59 | International hiatus
S60 | SWE | 14 |  8 |  6 | 14 |   5 |  43 |  6 | 221 //   / IIHF BRONZE
S61 | SWE | 13 |  5 | 10 | 15 |   1 |  55 |  0 | 228 //   /
S62 | SWE | 13 |  0 |  3 |  3 | -11 |  33 |  2 | 192 // C /
S63 | SWE | 13 | 12 |  8 | 20 |   7 |  56 |  0 | 229 // A / TOP FORWARD AWARD
S64 | SWE | 15 |  7 |  6 | 13 |  11 |  39 |  0 | 239 //   / IIHF SILVER
S65 | SWE | 12 |  2 |  4 |  6 |  -3 |  21 |  6 | 183 //   /
S66 | SWE | 15 |  5 |  4 |  9 |   2 |  33 |  2 | 182 //   /
S67 | SWE | 15 |  3 | 10 | 13 |  11 |  22 |  0 | 200 //   /
S68 | SWE | 15 |  7 |  3 | 10 |   7 |  21 |  6 | 198 //   / ⟅1st⟆ IIHF GOLD ⟅1st⟆
S69 | SWE | 15 |  5 |  2 |  7 |   4 |  19 |  6 | 198 //   / IIHF SILVER
S70 | SWE | 13 |  1 |  1 |  2 |   2 |  16 |  6 | 163 //   / IIHF SILVER
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Accolades
S51 - WJC   - Alex Andani Award Nominee (Top Rookie)
S52 - CAR   - Jordan Nugent Hall Award for the Most Dedicated Player
S52 - CAR   - Alonzo Garbonzo Award for the Top Rookie
S53 - CAR   - Named Captain
S53 - SMJHL - Eastern Conference All Star
S53 - CAR   - Kain Webb Award for Team Leadership
S53 - CAR   - Cristoph Klose Award for the Top Forward
S53 - CAR   - Michael Fitted Award for Team Values
S54 - SMJHL - Eastern Conference All Star
S54 - CAR   - Kain Webb Award for Team Leadership
S54 - CAR   - Cristoph Klose Award for the Top Forward
S54 - CAR   - Kurtis Hunter Award for the Team's MVP
S54 - SMJHL - 1st Team All-League
S54 - SMJHL - Jared Hanson Award (Scoring Champ)
S54 - SMJHL - Ideen Fallah Trophy (Committee MVP)
S54 - SMJHL - Zach Miller Trophy Finalist (Most Dedicated)
S54 - SMJHL - Elias Armia Award (Commisioner's Award of Excellence)
S54 - SMJHL - ★★★★ FOUR STAR CUP CHAMPION ★★★★
S55 - SMJHL - Eastern Conference All Star
S55 - CAR   - Jordan Nugent Hall Award for the Most Dedicated Player
S55 - SMJHL - Zach Miller Trophy Finalist (Most Dedicated)
S56 - LAP   - Named Alternate Captain
S58 - SHL   - Damien Littleton Winner (Most Dedicated)
S60 - SWE   - Bronze Medal
S61 - LAP   - Named Captain
S62 - LAP   - Phillip Winter Award (Team MVP)
S62 - SHL   - 2nd Team All-SHL
S62 - SHL   - Aidan Richan Award Finalist (Most Improved Player)
S62 - SHL   - Ron Mexico Award Finalist (MVP)
S62 - SWE   - Named Captain
S63 - LAP   - Western Conference Champions
S62 - IIHF  - Top Forward Award
S64 - SWE   - Silver Medal
S65 - LAP   - Western Conference Champions
S65 - LAP   - ⟅ⅬⅩⅤ⟆ CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPION ⟅ⅬⅩⅤ⟆
S67 - SEA   - Western Conference Champions
S67 - SEA   - ⟅ⅬⅩⅤII⟆ CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPION ⟅ⅬⅩⅤII⟆
S68 - SEA   - Western Conference Champions
S68 - SEA   - ⟅ⅬⅩⅤIII⟆ CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPION ⟅ⅬⅩⅤIII⟆
S68 - SWE   - ⟅1st⟆ IIHF GOLD MEDAL ⟅1st⟆
S69 - SWE   - Silver Medal
S70 - SWE   - Silver Medal
Chris Conner || Carolina Kraken || General Manager
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S54 | CAR | Coach | 32-13-5 | 69 pts | 3rd in reg season, ★★★★ FOUR STAR CUP CHAMPION ★★★★
S55 | CAR | CoGM  | 37-12-1 | 75 pts | 2nd in reg season
S56 | CAR | GM    | 31-17-2 | 64 pts | 2nd in reg season
S57 | CAR | GM    | 26-32-8 | 60 pts |
S58 | CAR | GM    | 26-39-1 | 53 pts |
S59 | CAR | GM    | 32-30-4 | 68 pts |
S60 | CAR | GM    | 36-26-4 | 76 pts | Division title
S61 | CAR | GM    | 42-20-4 | 88 pts | Division title
S62 | CAR | GM    | 41-20-5 | 87 pts | Division title
S63 | CAR | GM    | 39-26-1 | 79 pts |
S64 | CAR | GM    | 22-36-8 | 52 pts |
S65 | CAR | GM    | 29-32-5 | 63 pts |
S66 | CAR | GM    | 20-40-6 | 46 pts |
S67 | CAR | GM    | 24-36-6 | 54 pts |
S68 | CAR | GM    | 43-22-1 | 87 pts | 2nd in reg season, postseason under protest
S69 | CAR | GM    | 37-26-3 | 77 pts |
S70 | CAR | GM    | 30-31-5 | 65 pts |
S71 | CAR | GM    | 34-28-4 | 72 pts |
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S56 | LAP | Offseason Interim GM
S68 | CAR | GM of the Year Nominee

1. What does G stand for in GCool? Is there a story behind it?

2. Is there any type of player in these simulation leagues that you have not created but would like to?

Free agent
Updates

Hey bump I wrote a lot. If I'm being too obnoxious, let me know, and at least ask me a question while you're here.

Gonna fill in my own stuff in a few days.

Heya Gcool, long time no talk! How are things? Not really sure what to ask since you nailed a lot of things in the OP.
However, what are your thoughts on what happened when you became updater head? I remember at the time you wanted a complete shakeup but once you entered and saw how much work actually went into updates you seemingly changed your mind on a lot of things, even going to war for your updaters at one point? Did becoming a head updater change your perspective on how updates were ran?

Also, You winning the Turd Ferguson 7 times is unprecedented. If the league approached you asking to rename the trophy in your honour would you let that happen or would you let the Turd live on?

Thanks again! Glad to see you back man!

Big props to OrbitingDeath for the sig

On a scale from "Life was better when you weren't here ... not just SHL, life" to "It meant more to me than getting engaged", how cool is it to see a Beranek in the SHL?

Zach Evans || Forward || Winnipeg Jets
Name: Zach Evans
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 195 lbs
Number: 18
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SHL Career Statistics:
S32 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 9, A: 5, P: 14, +/-: -1, PIMS: 12, H: 59
S33 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 8, A: 15, P: 23, +/-: 3, PIMS: 49, H: 106
S34 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 14, A: 14, P: 28, +/-: 7, PIMS: 46, H: 96
S35 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 22, A: 26, P: 48, +/-: -4, PIMS: 23, H: 113
S36 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 28, A: 30, P: 58, +/-: 23, PIMS: 51, H: 140
S37 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 24, A: 27, P: 51, +/-: 2, PIMS: 36, H: 220
S38 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 27. A: 38, P: 65, +/-: 12, PIMS: 45, H: 158
S39 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 15, A: 32, P: 47, +/-: 11, PIMS: 43, H: 85
S40 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 22, A: 31, P: 53, +/-: 11, PIMS: 15, H: 49
S41 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 27, A: 35, P: 62, +/-: 26, PIMS: 34, H: 82
S42 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 16, A: 29, P: 45, +/-: -3, PIMS: 15, H: 6
S43 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 16, A: 29, P: 45, +/-: 11, PIMS: 27, H: 15
S44 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 14, A: 31, P: 45, +/-: 3, PIMS: 17, H: 17
S45 (WPG): GP: 50, G: 15, A: 34, P: 49, +/-: 4, PIMS: 2, H: 27
CAREER: GP: 700, G: 257, A: 376, P: 633, +/-: 105, PIMS: 415, H: 1,173
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SHL Playoff Statistics:
S34 (WPG): GP: 5, G: 2, A: 1, P: 3, +/-: 0, PIMS: 4, H: 7
S36 (WPG): GP: 6, G: 0, A: 3, P: 3, +/-: -1, PIMS: 0, H: 16
S37 (WPG): GP: 18, G: 11, A: 14, P: 25, +/-: 19, PIMS: 12, H: 81
S38 (WPG): GP: 13, G: 6, A: 9, P: 15, +/-: 5, PIMS: 4, H: 32
S39 (WPG): GP: 13, G: 5, A: 6, P: 11, +/-: -2, PIMS: 6, H: 31
S40 (WPG): GP: 14, G: 5, A: 4, P: 9, +/-: 1, PIMS: 13, H: 7
S41 (WPG): GP: 13, G: 8, A: 6, P: 14, +/-: 3, PIMS: 9, H: 26
S43 (WPG): GP: 17, G: 4, A: 9, P: 13, +/-: 11, PIMS: 2, H: 4
S44 (WPG): GP: 18, G: 4, A: 15, P: 19, +/-: 7, PIMS: 0, H: 3
S45 (WPG): GP: 4, G: 1, A: 2, P: 3, +/-: -1, PIMS: 0, H: 2
CAREER: GP: 121, G: 46, A: 69, P: 115, +/-: 41, PIMS: 50, H: 209
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SMJHL Career Statistics:
S30 (DET): GP: 50, G: 16, A: 12, P: 28, +/-: 8, PIMS: 10, H: 44
S31 (DET): GP: 50, G: 15, A: 23, P: 38, +/-: -2, PIMS: 35, H: 84
CAREER: GP: 100, G: 31, A: 35, P: 66, +/-: 6, PIMS: 45, H: 128
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SMJHL Playoff Statistics:
S30 (DET): GP: 5, G: 0, A: 1, P: 1, +/-: -1, PIMS: 2, H: 0
S31 (DET): GP: 13, G: 5, A: 7, P: 12, +/-: 3, PIMS: 0, H: 9
CAREER: GP: 18, G: 5, A: 8, P: 13, +/-: 2, PIMS: 2, H: 9
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IIHF Statistics (Russia):
S30: GP: 11, G: 1, A: 0, P: 1, +/-: -1, PIMS: 0, H: 7
S32: GP: 13, G: 1, A: 1, P: 2, +/-: -4, PIMS: 4, H: 17
S33: GP: 11, G: 3, A: 6, P: 9, +/-: 5, PIMS: 4, H: 12
S34: GP: 11, G: 6, A: 2, P: 8, +/-: 2, PIMS: 2, H: 10
S35: GP: 13, G: 5, A: 4, P: 9, +/-: 4, PIMS: 18, H: 22
S36: GP: 11, G: 4, A: 3, P: 7, +/-: -3, PIMS: 2, H: 5
S37: GP: 10, G: 1, A: 1, P: 2, +/-: 0, PIMS: 0, H: 8
S38: GP: 13, G: 3, A: 10, P: 13, +/-: 8, PIMS: 4, H: 5
S39: GP: 10, G: 6, A: 6, P: 12, +/-: 1, PIMS: 2, H: 11
S40: GP: 10, G: 1, A: 2, P: 3, +/-: -6, PIMS: 2, H: 8
S41: GP: 11, G: 4, A: 5, P: 9, +/-: 0, PIMS: 2, H: 7
S42: GP: 10, G: 5, A: 9, P: 14, +/-: 5, PIMS: 0, H: 1
S43: GP: 13, G: 4, A: 7, P: 11, +/-: 6, PIMS: 0, H: 0
S44: GP: 10, G: 4, A: 8, P: 12, +/-: 1, PIMS: 0, H: 0
S45: GP: 10, G: 6, A: 1, P: 7, +/-: -13, PIMS: 0, H: 2
CAREER: GP: 167 G: 54, A: 65, P: 119, +/-: 5, PIMS: 40, H: 105
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Transactions and Awards:
Drafted 25th overall by Detroit, S30 SMJHL Entry Draft
S30 Vyacheslav Onoprienko Trophy Winner
Drafted 5th overall by Winnipeg, S31 SHL Entry Draft
S32 Oriens Trophy Winner (Co-GM, Detroit)
S32 IIHF Bronze Medalist
S36 SHL Second-Team All-Star
S37 Challenge Cup Champion
S38 Sergei Karpotsov Trophy Winner
S38 SHL First-Team All-Star
S38 Sarmad Khan Trophy Winner
S38 Jeff Dar Trophy Winner
S38 Damian Littleton Trophy Winner
S38 IIHF Gold Medalist
S43 IIHF Silver Medalist
S44 Challenge Cup Champion
Inducted into SHL Hall of Fame, S47
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Two things are infinite.

Nikolai Evans || Defenseman || HAM/TBB/TEX
Name: Nikolai Evans
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 210 lbs
Number: 19
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SHL Career Statistics:
S47 (HAM): GP: 50, G: 1, A: 10, P: 11, +/-: -4, SB: 39, H: 32
S48 (HAM): GP: 50, G: 5, A: 9, P: 14, +/1: 6, SB: 57, H: 37
S49 (TBB): GP: 50, G: 9, A: 14, P: 23, +/-: -22, SB: 78, H: 51
S50 (TBB): GP: 50, G: 7, A: 20, P: 27, +/-: 4, SB: 64, H: 39
CAREER: GP: 200, G: 22, A: 53, P: 75, +/-: -16, SB: 238, H: 159
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SHL Playoff Statistics:
S48 (HAM): GP: 5, G: 1, A: 0, P: 1, +/-: -1, SB: 6, H: 3
S49 (TBB): GP: 12, G: 0, A: 5, P: 5, +/-: 0, SB: 20, H: 8
S50 (TBB): GP: 19, G: 5, A: 7, P: 12, +/-: 1, SB: 29, H: 6
CAREER: GP: 36, G: 6, A: 12, P: 18, +/-: 0, SB: 55, H: 17
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SMJHL Career Statistics:
S45 (MTL): GP: 50, G: 7, A: 13, P: 20, +/-: -1, SB: 60, H: 25
S46 (MTL/HFX): GP: 50, G: 7, A: 20, P: 27, +/-: -1, SB: 47, H: 68
CAREER: GP: 100, G: 14, A: 33, P: 47, +/-: -2, SB: 107, H: 93
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SMJHL Playoff Statistics:
S45 (MTL): GP: 6, G: 2, A: 3, P: 5, +/-: -1, SB: 7, H: 4
S46 (HFX): GP: 13, G: 3, A: 2, P: 5, +/-: -4, SB: 18, H: 14
CAREER: GP: 19, G: 5, A: 5, P: 10, +/-: -5, SB: 25, H: 18
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IIHF Statistics (Russia):
S45: GP: 10, G: 0, A: 1, P: 1, +/-: -5, SB: 12, H: 2
S46: GP: 12, G: 0, A: 1, P: 1, +/-: -2, SB: 11, H: 2
S47: GP: 12, G: 2, A: 7, P: 9, +/-: 2, SB: 17, H: 12
S48: GP: 12, G: 2, A: 4, P: 6, +/-: -6, SB: 22, H: 0
S49: GP: 15, G: 6, A: 6, P: 12, +/-: -6, SB: 25, H: 7
CAREER: GP: 61, G: 10, A: 19, P: 29, +/-: -17, SB: 87, H: 23
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WJC Statistics:
S44 (World): GP: 15, G: 6, A: 7, P: 13, +/-: 8, SB: 18, H: 13
S45 (Russia): GP: 22, G: 2, A: 10, P: 12, +/-: -13, SB: 33, H: 14
S46 (Russia): GP: 28, G: 9, A: 15, P: 23, +/-: 0, SB: 26, H: 14
CAREER: GP: 55, G: 17, A: 32, P: 48, +/-: -5, SB: 77, H: 41
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Transactions and Awards:
Drafted 1st overall by Montreal, S45 SMJHL Entry Draft
Drafted 1st overall by Hamilton, S46 SHL Entry Draft
Traded to Halifax Raiders during S46 SMJHL season
Traded to Tampa Bay Barracuda prior to S49 SHL season
S48 Fantasy Global Champion
S50 Mathias Chouinard Trophy Winner
I'll finish updating this at some point
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The Russian Prince

Zdenko Beranek || Winger || Quebec City Citadelles
Name: Zdenko Beranek
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 175 lbs
Number: 27
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SMJHL Career Statistics:
S55 (QCC): GP: 50, G: 6, A: 15, P: 21, +/-: -22, PIMS: 6
S56 (QCC): GP: 50, G: 10, A: 27, P: 37, +/-: 9, PIMS: 20
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Transactions and Awards:
Drafted 1st overall by Quebec City, S55 SMJHL Entry Draft
Drafted 18th overall by Seattle, S56 SHL Entry Draft
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Le Petite Chèvre

As I used to say in a previous SHL life,

Updated!!

If you have a last-minute question, please submit it now. Otherwise, this is ready for grading (with a small piece on the draft in the middle there that I've marked off for graders between red lines).

Thanks so much for reading, hopefully I'll do another one of these at midseason or season's end.