NSFL PT

Task 1: Man it wasn't particular easy to track down any significant transactions that either of these teams made (I mean come on, one of them was swapping the 64th and 69th picks in the draft for no apparent reason). The biggest thing I could find was the sign and trade in mid-October that brought Florence Clijsters over to the Platoon in exchange for them sending John Langabeer over to Hamilton. Florence was only able to play third line minutes for her new team, but the big thing was she was able to score at about the same rate as players on the line above her despite less time out on the ice. She came up big both in powerplay situations and in putting away game winning goals, and was even above 50% on faceoffs. I don't know that either team recently brought in any superstars because they didn't really need any more to get to this point, but adding someone like Florence to headline the third line can really make a difference as it did for the Platoon.

Task 3: The highlight of Gotze's season was that he was scoring points like never before, around double the rate of previous seasons. He set new SHL career highs with 17 goals, 16 assists, and 33 total points. I feel like a lot of that has to do with sharing ice time with other big hitters like Rafe Ulfrich, Mia Landvik, and new addition Tigole Bitties, who have somewhat relieved the checking duties from Gotze and allowed him to spend more time contributing in other areas of the game. To be fair, he was also pretty lucky in terms of shooting percentage (highest on the team), and had a lot of those points on powerplays when the Wolfpack had an unfair advantage on their opposition (again most on the team). We shall see if he's able to continue his progression in this area while also picking back up on his checking statistics to become a true power forward once again.

Task 4: Answer sent

Task 6: I'll be the first to say that I have no idea what I'm doing, but after the Dragons were eliminated so thoroughly I feel like they'd be a good candidate for a shakeup. The scoring just wasn't there for them during the playoffs so we're gonna recreate their top 3 forwards lines. We want one of Izzy, Joe, and Roman on each line, because they're all dominant scorers but also just amazingly well-rounded players and actually the top 3 faceoff men on the team despite the fact that 2 of them aren't centers. Each of these guys should be supported by a pure passer, so we'll split up Mikko, Hunter Jones, and Alex Mack between the 3 lines as well. Finally we add another reasonable scoring threat to each line; Brennan kinda messes up my strategy but the other two options of Esa and Shooter are strong players. This gives us a first line of Izzy at C and Esa and Mikko on the wings, a second line of Joe at C and Hunter and Shooter on the wings, and a third line of Roman at C and Alex and Brennan on the wings. This allows the Dragons to give closer to equal time to each line, drop the weird fourth line setup, and trust that they'll have a star and some solid supporting players among their forwards at all times.