1. Reflection (3 TPE)
Looking back at the previous season it's one with ups and downs. Overall our team did worse than last season and it was a hard pill to swallow. Almost at the peak of my career my player did no produce as much as it did the season before. Which was frustrating, but there's not much to do besides grinding out that TPE and be a better player next year. At the final day of the regular season my player scored the shootout winner that made us qualify for the playoffs on a tiebreaker in favor of the Texas Renegades. That was pretty much the highlight of my season. The playoffs were nothing but heartbreak as well. We played some pretty good and close games against Los Angeles, but it wasn't nearly enough to beat them unfortunately. Next season will be better, some changes are coming and looking forward to the draft.

2. Well, dang... (3 TPE)
Neither of my teams made the finals. Calgary was knocked out in the first round and the Kelowna Knights were knocked out in the second round. After both losses I completely stopped following the playoffs and tried to enjoy the little longer off season. Last season when we played the finals with Kelowna against Detroit we were busy finding the best strategies all the way up to a few days before the draft. It did not leave us with a whole lot of time to scout. Right now we have a little more time to focus on that and just enjoy a few quiet days doing nothing. Upcoming draft is a Reddit draft in the juniors, so it's going to take a lot of effort from our front office to scout all the players that are eligible. It's going it be a hectic week as is with any other draft, reddit makes it just a little extra stressful.

3. (clean) (2 TPE)
I've known Sergei from way back in the day and he was a good man. When Andrei hit the league saying Sergei was missing, it made me feel sad. I've reshared Andrei's messages all over my social media in an effort to help search for him, but to this day he hasn't been found. I hope he's okay and well. Sergei deserves to be reunited with his brother Andrei and maybe even return to the league as a player if he can get back into shape. Sergei was a bit of a loner, so perhaps he just went back to tundra to live a solitary life.

4. IIHF (3 TPE)
I think the IIHF will again be dominated by the US and perhaps Canada. They have really strong rosters compared to most other nations competing in the competition. My own team, Austria, is a big outsider that has been working hard on rebuilding after losing several key players to retirement in the past few seasons. Our GM BK is working really hard to recruit under the unassigned rookies lately and we've been able to convert a few players to come play for the big schnitzel team. I think at this time that we will be lucky if we get passed the round robin and into the medal round. It would certainly be fun to reach the medal rounds again some day, having only played for bronze once and lost the game. Again I probably don't pay a whole lot of attention to IIHF because I have a reddit draft to prepare for.

14. The Procrastinator Special! (2 TPE)
The MVP of the series between Hamilton Steelhawks and New Orleans Spectors is JoeK. From the very first season since the expansion he's been gunning to reach the final and win the Challenge Cup with New Orleans. He has been able to build a solid team with active members and has been a force to be reckoned with ever since. Yes, there was some controversy last season in the playoffs, but they've paid the price. Now they reached the final stages of this league and took it home by beating the Hamilton Steelhawks. So in my eyes JoeK is the real MVP.

16. Trivia (3 TPE)
Verification word: Katth