Completed 18/16 for insurance on the trivia points.


After my first season with the Jets, I was still doing my 3peat Four Star Cup tour from my time with the Scarecrows.  I went back to Boston to bar crawl in Southie, which was tough since my experience in the IIHF has instilled some adversarial feelings towards the Irish.  I think I made my point by refusing all Irish Car Bombs and not drinking a single drop of Guinness.

My old buddy Spooner McGee was there with his beer league team and they treated me like royalty.  They had a bunch of goalie blockers turned into shot skis and we had our own little parade in their neighborhood.  The event was sponsored by Jackie's Packie off Route 34, we all got t-shirts (for $19.99, get them yourself at Jackie's Packie off Route 34, Marky Mark's cousin shopped their once) and regular priced 30 racks of PBR.

For whatever reason, the people in Southie didn't like that I was touring for success in St. Louis but I had a good time anyway.


For the Calgary Dragons, I select Todd Angilly.  In another life, I can see him being the go-to guy in Boston if perhaps they had an old and storied bear themed franchise.  I think that he could represent the Dragons really well solely based off the fact that I can imagine him performing in a bib covered in chicken parm stains.  I don't mean that in a bad way, he is just such a showman and an every-man that he would make it work so well in a place that has an unhealthy obsession with chicken parm.

For West Kendall, on the other hand, I wanted to select Florida Man.  I've heard so much about him, and I figured it made sense to select a true Floridian hero to represent West Kendall.  However, I haven't been able to get in touch with him or his agent / manager.  As a fallback, I went with a man who represents Florida so much, it's his friggin name.  That's right, I've got Flo Rida booked to sing the anthem at West Kendall home games.


I was very surprised at New Orleans not making the finals, but more so that they didn't even make it to the conference finals.  I guess in retrospect it's not too unheard of since they basically split the season series against the Texas Renegades at 3-2-1.  I think it really came down to luck, because New Orleans out performed Texas on aggregate, but Texas scored the clutch goals where it counted.  Shots for the series were 241 to 204 in favor of New Orleans, and goals were 24 to 21 the same way, but all four wins by Texas came by a single point.  They came through clutch twice in OT and twice within the final 2 minutes of the games.

If you ran this series over again, there's a good chance it would come out the other way based on the stats, but that doesn't win you championships.  With a finals appearance last season, and the league leading scorer this season, it's sad to see New Orleans make an early exit, but that's not the kind of thing that will stop Joe K from getting it done next seaon.


If we follow all the way back the chain, I think West Kendall can get Mikhail Lokitonov from the Toronto North Stars.  This would come from Buffalo who beat Toronto to make it to the conference finals and snagged Lokitonov for themselves.  It would be tough to leave Dermot Lavelle on the table, but when West Kendall beat Buffalo they could snag Lokitonov.  West Kendall would then build the most terrifying top line in the league by slotting Lokitonov in as the top line center.

By taking Sophia Bennett's points per game with the Platoon and applying that to the 21 games played with the Panthers, I project that Bennett could have had 59-60 points on the season, instead of 52.  That would be enough to edge out Jason Visser for 5th best in the league for the regular season and maybe tie now-teammate Dani Forsberg.  So, with Lokitonov centering the top line, we'd have the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th best point scorers in the regular season all on one line, with the 4th best scorer on the 2nd line.

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After stomping out the dreams of everyone in Chicago with a resounding sweep, West Kendall faced a much different story against the S46 champion Buffalo Stampede.  Against Chicago, they dominated the ice with an overall 60CF%, winning all four games and scoring 13 to 5.  Against Buffalo, they actually had 47CF% and only outscored their opponents 13 to 11.

Naturally, the rock star third pair of Ethan Ross and Nat Emerson ran the show each with +2 and around 68CF% during the sweep.  However, when we fast forward to the seven game stand against Buffalo, we see Ross and Emerson at -4 each and 48CF%.  For the pair that made history with their goal differential in the regular season, this is a dramatic drop off of performance.

Fortunately for West Kendall, when they faced this major adversity, their second pair of Sven Brokstad and Karsten Kadinger also flipped the script.  In Chicago, this pair had a -1 and an average 61.5CF% but elevated their game in Buffalo to lead the team with +5 and average 50.5CF%.

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