While I intend for Alexis Metzler to stick around for a very long time (at least until I'm hitting 20% regression a season), I can't say I've made many decisions about what the next player will be. Back when I was still actually writing a lot of in context media for Metzler (and I still plan to...), I figured it would be a nephew (Dylan Metzler? James Metzler?) or niece (Olivia Metzler? Hell, why not Ava Metzler?) who was disgusted with how Alexis made himself miserable no matter how good he actually was, and wanted to do better.

I haven't abandoned that idea yet- there's nothing stopping me from going back to writing more in-context media other than simply not getting around to it (and not needing to due to other sources of income). But I do at least know what the sim-side play will be like- a Zach Parise style power forward (and Left Wing too, of course). Parise remains my favourite NHL player, and power forwards are a lot of fun when they're firing on all cylinders, so it makes sense that I'd go for something like that.

Other than that, there's not much that would need changing. Team USA has been very good to me, so the relative would naturally be from North Dakota once more. I would hope to be able to represent Detroit again (and may even time my retirement for when I know they could pick me 1st overall), but in the SHL, I would go wherever I was drafted and give that team a fair chance to be good before thinking about moving to a team of my own preference.