1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
This reality is just one of infinite realities existing alongside this one in parallel. Take us over to one of those realities in which everything is the same but these S53 playoffs have unfolded differently. What happened in that reality's playoffs and who's in the Challenge Cup over there?


Unfortunately the last playoffs happened in the darkest time line. In the conference semi final we faced off against a team that played with both illegal line ups and illegal player updates. This caused our team to lose momentum and have to carry the series to 7 games. This costed us so much fatigue that despite us being able to get a lead versus Edmonton early in most games, they would tie it up when we were tired and beat us in overtime. In the more brighter time line, Los Angeles would have rolled up New Orleans in four games and they would be rested for the match up versus Edmonton, beating them in 6 games instead. The finals we would have an epic 7 match battle versus the Wolfpack, who have beaten Hamilton in the brighter time line, with Vorian Atreides scoring the game winner in overtime! A much better result if you ask me.

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2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
With everyone getting a free redistribution this offseason, S54 is quite wide open at the moment. Before those redistributions take place, who would you anticipate being the top team(s) for next season?

It is hard to argue at the teams that currently were doing good, a Hamilton Steelhawks, a New England Wolfpack, a Edmonton Blizzard or of course the Los Angeles Panthers. The teams have proven to be able to reach the conference finals and be adept at finding good strategies. Unfortunately our 5 million sim attempts got us to win the cup 4.99 million times. But once the actual simmer sims our games, we seem to lose. So I have confidence that next season will be the 1% off the sims that will work in our favour and that Los Angeles will finally win a cup again. It’s been time for that. The Wolfpack also won’t see much change in their roster, maybe a goalie shake up as he will be the scapegoat for their failure against the Hamilton Steelhawks, but as long as Ola Wagstrom will be in the form of his life, they will continue to compete.

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Which player from the Steelhawks or the Blizzard would you bet on to win a regular season individual award in a future season? What player and what award? What makes you think they'll live up to their potential and take home the hardware?

Brady McIntyre will win a regular season award either now or in a future season. He was a huge defender in our series against him and I have no doubt that he will be considered as one of the prime defenseman of his generation, the guy is just everywhere on the ice and a vital reason why we couldn’t beat them in overtime. With McIntyre on their team, Edmonton will remain a defensive stronghold and therefor I won’t be surprised if he takes some potential defenseman of the year hardware with him in his career. But next time, please let us win Brady. We would like to win a cup. Thank you.

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4. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
With new tools at our disposal in FHM, we may eventually see some new awards enter the fold. Create a suggestion for a new SHL award. What kind of achievement is the award given for? Who's the award named after? Who would've won the award this season?


We should create a Creative Coaching award for the coach that finds the greatest flaw in the application that will all make us want sths back. This year this award would have gone to the New Orleans Specters coach for their inventive tactic of not using a 3rd slot center to get their top dogs more time in the game. Of course as the first winners of this reward this will also be named after them, as they are after all the first ones to post such abuse in the FHM era playoffs. While the management didn’t know about it, they also can not complain about it as they got off with almost no punishment. So to top it off, the cost for this award might be some gm pay forfeited and the loss of a 2nd round pick, but you would get a Shiny Creative Coaching award in your trophy cabinet, what else can you wish for?

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5. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Just like everything else in S53, IIHF is going to be an exciting mystery for us all! We've seen the introduction of a new format (all 14 teams in one group) and it's bound to be a very exciting tournament. What are your predictions for IIHF this season? What team or teams do you think have the best shot at taking home the gold? How do you think your team will fare?


I do not follow the IIHF closely but Team Great Brittain or Team United Kingdom or Team Brexit, I forgot how we are called won the last STHS IIHF tournament, so we will have to live up to that glory. While it will be hard for us to also win this year I feel our army of mostly defenseman slotting up at forward might be able to surprise everyone and go again for the gold. As we are used to winning gold and most of us are sporting medal winning usernames in the discord (I won twice with team UK with two different players) we got to do this for our country, to make sure there is life after Brexit. Or did that not happen yet? I do not follow the UK closely. But we will trying to win another medal, because bilbo makes us do that. And you do not want to dissapoint Bilbo, god knows what will happen then….

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7. Written/Graphic, 2 TPE (100 words min. for written option)
Even though the Panthers fell short this season, the LA influence has been felt around the league and execs in Hollywood are paying more attention to the SHL with the hometown team making waves. If your player could have a cameo in any tv show or movie, what show/movie would they choose? (for the purposes of this PT you may choose a show/movie that already exists just uhhh pretend they re-shoot it with your cameo or something idk).

A cameo? Why not make it a headliner show. Vorian Atreides will focus in a new miniseries of the Dune Sage, this time focussing on Vorian Atreides his early years and his fight in the Butlerian Jihad. While Vorian of course wouldn’t be able to play a young version off himself (even though they do not seem very different in looks) he has agreed to make a cameo in this show that revolves about the early parts in life. He is seen several times in the crowd when Serena Butler speaks to the humans to revolt against the self thinking machines, one time he is even seen in the same shot as the actor that plays the younger version of him.

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