I joined SHL 5.5 years ago, if I remember correctly I saw a link to this place in the official EA Sports NHL forum, just one thread in the middle of NHL video game-related threads and I happened to see it. Never heard about anything like SHL, so came to take a look. I think I registered right away but forgot about it. I can't remember for sure what happened, but a week or two later I perhaps saw the registration e-mail and came to create a player. That is roughly how it went, been in the league since.

I have been thinking about positive memories and special moments for this PT, a few came to mind.  In a way getting traded early on from Minnesota to LAP with my first player turned out to be a great one when looking back, for example, learned a lot about the league and how to build a player while in LA, @Wasty and @vbottas17 had a cool thing going on, LAP was a fun place to play and to spend time in.

Another positive moment is my first ever cup victory in SHL with Edmonton in S45, that was special, @karlssens and @Keygan built an awesome team, I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Good memories.

Jump to this day, I´m playing in New England, @Ace and @hotdog are running a tight ship, lots of great players who carry the team, meanwhile I´ll sometimes show up. Not in the playoffs though, played poorly in the playoffs, and seeing how Ace and Hotdog made couple trades, the best moment as of late came in the form of adding that NTC in my contract. Old man Kalju keeps on stealing a living!

More of a generally nice thing is the fact that this place introduced me to the simulation hockey world, from here I have also joined other leagues. That whole road has led to me improving my English skills and I have also found out that writing is quite fun.

In the end, 5.5 years is a long time, but I´m still on my second player. There have been good and bad moments, still managed to stay active, so perhaps there will be another five in the schedule for me