It is going to be more of the same for Lane. Another off-season that will be mostly spent back home in Minnesota. Spend some time with family, rest for a few weeks. There really isn’t an offseason in the SHL, though. So he’ll be right back to training. A bunch of time will be spent with an individual trainer and coach in Minneapolis. After a good rookie season, he can’t afford to slack off and have a poor showing in his sophomore season. A few weeks spent doing this, then right back to Toronto. He’ll spend most of the off-season training in Toronto. This will be his home for the foreseeable future, so he’ll need to develop routines there, rather than running home every off-season. He’ll either pick up an individual trainer there, or work with the Toronto staff. I don’t know what the rules are regarding training with team staff and in team facilities between seasons, but he’ll take full advantage of whatever he can.


This is tough, because I like things about both options. I like a neutral site because it is interesting to see different venues. If you’re someone that likes to go to these games, it’s cool to go to a different city each year. However, some teams may have fan bases that travel better than others. So every game might feel like a home game for one team, which isn’t great. The home and away game dynamic we have now is well established. It feels like changing it would be such a big change. I’ll say I’m for the change if it saves a lot of money, and we can show that it really does have some positive change to the environmental impact. If not, then against.


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I would say Manhattan has an advantage. JayWhy has much more experience with STHS, and Luke probably has some spreadsheets with stuff on it for them to use too. Grape’s sim results have been very inconsistent, so I have a hard time trusting in his strategy. I don’t really know enough about DaftRaincloud to know what he brings. Sorry if you read this, Daft.

I tend to favor a more even distribution of ice time. I like a team that has the forward depth, and confidence in their 3rd line to put them on the ice more. In theory, this would mean your top line would be a bit fresher. It kind of works like that in sths, but not really.

They are both quite good. I like the Rage concept a little bit better, but I prefer the design of the Pride logo. When I look at them on a jersey, my favorite combination is the Rage away jersey, but the Pride away jerseys are also really good. Overall, I like the Rage uniforms better, so I’ll favor them very slightly. The Pride home jerseys are a little too purple for my taste.

The Rage have a player in their roster section, William Goose. That name tickles my funny bone just right, for some reason. However, my favorite name is Nathan Explosion, on the Pride. It sounds kind of badass, but also kind of silly at the same time. I wish the last name included an exclamation mark at the end. I feel like it should be shouted. Like if Mr Torgue was saying it.

Easy Gritty meet-and-greet with Luke. First, you get Luke, one of our better members, and an all-around cool guy. You also get to meet, and I hope, have your picture taken with the best mascot in the NHL. I know these are kind of joke options, but this one would actually be cool.


I’m going with Peter Larson, goalie for the Rage. A huge part of the finals were the goalies on both teams. It seemed like it was going to come down to which one would slip up first. Both of them played great, and if the result was different, I might be arguing for Partridge. Larson was a beast though. 0.932 total in the playoffs, and was 0.944 or better in 4 of the 6 games in the finals. The game 4 shut out was huge. That game could have gone either way, but Larson won it for them. Just ignore the last game.