Task 1: Artemi Berezin always looks forward to heading home and being treated like a hero, and having his agent be the legendary Russian defender Roman Morenov, really make sit an even bigger deal back in Russia.
Berezin is having a year that Morenov could only dream about playing defence, and that has helped his status in Russia go through the roof. They spend most of the day ‘day’ drunk because, well, this is Russia, and if you aren’t drinking then you’re not really Russian are you?
Then the had a fun game of pick up with some of Russia’s Politian’s and celebrities including the President himself.
Berezin was given a key to his home town city, to which Morenov brought his own he had been given years earlier to rub it in.
To top it all off Berezin was given a nice and shiny, not very new, Lauda, to which he already owns 3, but what a collection of junkers now!

Task 5:
1. It seems like a lop sided match on paper with the power house Platoon facing off against the “rebuilding” Dragons, but it is anything but that. The Platoon come in heavy with offensive fire power, and that will be very hard for any team to stop, but the defending big hitting Dragons team are one team who can.
2. It’s easy to point to the huge trades that the Platoon have done and say that that is the obvious answer, but you should remember that the Dragons were rebuilding not to long ago, and yet always seem to be a team that can pull off a great season, so even though I will lean to the Platoon having the advantage, the Dragons management always seem to have a trick up their sleeve.
3. From Calgary the MVP would have to be Driftwood, I mean, 15 points in 15 games and 53 hits?! That’s not even human. The unsung hero has to be given to Kata Vilde, even though you can’t find any stats that really stand on their own, getting them this far is an achievement. From the Platoon the MVP has to be Bojo, who has back stopped them to win after win, and the unsung hero is Wong, not only can he put the puck in the back of the net, he also is a beast in the faceoff circle.
5. Mild Surprise, and that is only because of the pillars of this team in the front office. If anybody here thinks that the Dragons were going to be years before they would have been competitive again you’d be crazy. This team has been a rock solid team for years, and you can thank the people at the top for that.
7. No Surprise, because again, look what the front office did this season, major trades, that brought in huge pieces, then they went on a historic winning streak, won the conference and presidents trophy, and now have booked their ticket back in a Challenge Cup Finals again, and even with regression coming, you still have a few more years of a top tier team.
8. Every year is the same thing, the last two teams always have had the best goalies carry them, and even though Vilde has shown fantastic skill, I still give the nod to Biscuit and his powerhouse team the Platoon. He could almost get craved up like swiss cheese, and this team would still put up enough offence to bring a cup home.

Task 12: Every team faces adversity some time during the regular season, but it’s hard to say that either the Calgary Dragons or West Kendall Platoon really did.
Calgary placed 3rd in a tight Western Conference that they were only out of first by 7 points, while over in the East, the Platoon ran away with the Conference title and Presidents Trophy to go along with it.
Even though I might catch some flack for saying that the Platoon, I believe, faced more adversity, and it was because of the big trades that happened.
Even though both new players were brought in for one purpose, and during the regular season fulfilled that purpose, I believe that the expectations were threw the roof because of the players brought in, this team had to win and that was just it, if they lost it looked terrible on the team and the future of this team, that is why I believe they faced more adversity.

Task 13: PMed