1. I for sure am going to Tampa. Why would anyone want to go to CGY over the beached of Tampa. I might spend more time on the beaches hanging with the girls than actually watching the games. After being eliminated twice in two days I also might need to go on a bender for a few days or two so lets get that out of the way for the first two games and then watch the games as the series switches over to the west. Tampa also has some great clubs I can go to and try and out drink all of the bros there with my good buddy @”Ferda” as we take over this city more than that actual team there. If the commish is paying who cares how much we drink. Screw being an ambassador for the league. People want to watch people having fun and damnit that is what I am going to do.

2. I am rooting for the Dragons. Can never cheer for the TBB after they traded the pick that ultimately ended up being where I was selected. Obviously their management does not understand the value of the pick they gave up so they probably don’t value the players on their team either. Calgary skipped over me but at least they didn’t trade away a chance at having me on their roster. Also TBB allowed me to score my first SHL point on them in the post season so they likely are not that good anyways. LETS GO DRAGONS baby I am all in.

3. Okay lets get rid of this wild card bullshit what are we doing taking 10 teams in the playoffs, like really. This is almost as bad as the damn NHL having an odd number of teams. Either do it right or don’t do it at all. If you want to have the wild card, fine but do it baseball style where it’s a one game playoff between 4 and 5 in the conference. The same can be said for the J. Shorten the playoffs a bit and get to the real fun IIHF sooner, like who cares about the SHL playoffs when half the teams are not even competitive. This is basically a shootyhoops league where you know that only a few teams have a shot and the rest are hot garbage. Also why have a best of 7 series? Lets make it best of 15 for fun and to take out some of the randomness in the final round. Like seriously what are we doing…

8. the best player in the SHL to never make it to an SHL final is probably Gabe Johnson. This due tried really hard to be an okay player but still finds time to suck up and down the ice. Ya he had an okay playoff run this season but what good came of it? He couldn’t get over the hump. Maybe if he was playing with the legend Samuel Michaud on the blue line in the last few games things could have ended differently for him but the coaches though he would only be a hindrance to Sam in his old age. As leagues throughout the world make moves to younger and faster players, who knows if Mr. Johnson will ever be able to make an impact in the Challenge Cup finals. It might not be that far of a stretch to say he was a bust when taken at #2 in the draft. Hamilton could have and should have done better with that pick in hindsight.

12. B. Oh this has got to go to my boy Blue. Let us be honest with this one, Blue is on his typical on year this season so it will be a challenge for anyone to out perform him this season and I don’t think that Vilde is going to be able to do it. I hope Blue does not perform well because I don’t like TB but being honest he is really good.

C. Calgary will win all games 1-0 and end the series in 4 games. TBB will fail to record a shot in all games and Ben will record over 40 saves in each game and take home the MVP in the lowest scoring challenge cup final of all time. It will be a close one but not many goals will be scored

15. sent to @PT Director