Written task: During the lockout, I spent more time reflecting on the state of the league since returning to the league than I ever have before. I've observed that the SHL almost never tries to actively improve the league season to season and instead has a goal of just getting by the season without any major hiccups. Good/interesting ideas to improve the site are often ignored and rarely/if ever truly discussed by the higher-ups on the site anymore, this has caused the league to be in stagnation mode for years now. The only time something ever really changes in this league is when something outright breaks which was the case this off-season. I can't say I didn't see it coming, once people started using STHS and treating like it wasn't just a fun, casual hockey sim by test simming every single possible combination, multiple times per day something like this was bound to happen. STHS just doesn't have the same kind of depth as a game like League Of Legends where trying to create cheese to win games is actually viable without causing the game to break. Anyone with half a brain knew this was the case, so to blame STHS for being a shitty game after 50 seasons of it working perfectly fine is laughable to me. Quite frankly, the amount of test sims everyone has been doing really takes the fun out of a once casual league to the point where I regret causing the post-S20 Reddit recruitment boom when I became recruitment head back in the S20s since that inadvertently led to the current league state.

Anyway, during my time off I decided to return home to Korea and party with my brothers. I then traveled to Calgary to see my good friend and mentor Steven Jalopski who is still unjustifiably locked behind prison bars. We talked about hiring Lovell Kunkel agencies to appeal his sentence and get him released. He then gave me some pointers on how to win the cup as a teams best defender which I plan to use next season. The end.