I love these posts because I love saying nice things about people and seeing people say nice things about each other. Anyway, here's my bit. I have been here for a year and a few months now, and my life has changed a whole lot in that time, and it has meant a lot to me to have this little pretend hockey world to get away to. It would take me so long to name everybody that I have enjoyed talking to over the past year and a half, but I will do this in a few groups.

My main Cuda crew (and those formerly of said crew who are on other teams now) - I love this team and I love the locker room and I do believe the reason I've stuck with this as long as I have is because I have felt so welcome there. We have had a pretty broad age range in there over the seven(? I think?) seasons I've been in there but it's always felt like a big hockey family to me. I know other teams would have traded me when I dipped out for a couple months after some big life stuff happened, but they have stuck with me and I am so glad they have.

I also still lurk in the Knights locker room - I don't talk in there as much as I used to because it's hard to keep up with all my different discord servers and the craziness in my life, but I still started my SHL journey there and I will always be a Knoot at heart. :)

My Animal Crossing buds (always nice to get a good price on turnips without having to sell my left arm or my firstborn child to visit somebody's island) - this has been really cool because I've gotten to talk to a lot of people I've never shared a locker room with on the site.

Team Sweden - gets super active around IIHF time, but always a bunch of cool people who I also wouldn't get to talk to usually since we're mostly on different SHL teams.

I also want to say thank you to anybody who has stood up to some of the sexist nonsense that's happened on here in the past year. Being a woman in hockey in real life is hard enough, and it's extra exhausting and annoying when it invades my recreational time as well, and it means a lot to know there are people who have your back. <3