I'm going to go through teams by memory:

Baltimore you would think is fairly easy, Bojo Biscuit is a good choice, as is Beaujeaux the goalie. However, this is a team with a rich history, and a lot of great players over the years. I'd say Alex Reay and Brandon Holmes become possibilities here. My end choice is Alex Light, though, for what I'd say are obvious reasons with his longevity and impact.

Buffalo being a younger team means it's going to be a bit more difficult to nail down a one and only best player. They're a great team with a lot of great players, but I would venture to say Alexis Metzler is the easiest pick.

Chicago is even younger, and while Luke Atmey was amazing, he didn't have that long of a life in Chicago. I would put it on somebody currently on the team, Daniel Smeb, who has really broken out in recent seasons.

Hamilton is fairly easy to me, but may not be to others. Some may go with someone like Rider Clitsome, or Griffin Simons. Maybe you're swayed by longevity and like David Winter. Maybe you like the high impact of a Brodie Witzel. To me, the answer is easily Joe McKeil however. He had the longevity and the scoring touch where he had the biggest impact in the league's shift to long careers where you can maintain a level of success.

Manhattan is pretty easy in that Roy Razin is the best player, Harry Hans was the best goal scorer. At the rate things are going though, Luke Thomason is guaranteed to become the franchise's all time best scorer and I see no reason he won't be the best player in franchise history at the end of his career.

New England could be a fun one, because do you go to someone like Carter O'Callahan who had a big impact early on in his career? Maybe the consideration should go to Mia Landvik who had a long career in a tough role. I'd ultimately give the nod to Jasper Clayton, in terms of overall impact on the team, but there are many options there.

Tampa Bay, which used to be Seattle, was ran for a while by the McZehrl family and by Merica. Dustin Rose was one of their best ever. I'd say at this point, Flacko Lagerfield was significant for them in terms of success which he was the primary driving force of. I'm a big supporter of Lagerfield being their best ever.

Toronto is another fun one. Do you go for someone like a Mike Honcho, who to me is one of the greatest goalies of all time still. Maybe you should consider someone like John Falkirk, but he wasn't really memorable to most. They've had a lot of great players, but the obvious choice is the correct one in Kristian Eriksson.

Calgary falls under a similar area as Toronto, except in this one I'll actually side away from the expectation of going Esa Anrikkanen, who has stiff competition between people like Kari Barkov, Mike Verminski, Ryan Jesster, Hunter Wong, Alex Mack and so on. The guaranteed best player in Calgary history is Randy Randleman. He won awards, he led the league, he was the standout guy. While Esa was consistently great, a hall of fame player, Randleman was consistently special and did something above and beyond many others.

Edmonton, well, I have a vested interest here. I'd love to say Jakub Aittokallio is the best player ever there, but let's just be honest here, I can't guarantee that. Theo Kane was one of the best pure snipers in SHL history. Jay McDonald and Evgeni Karpotsov were legitimately special. Kyle Keenan and Lucas Smith and Teemu Nurmi and Jackson Rogers-Tanaka. I could go on and on about this team and I haven't even hit on the Hercules Rockefeller, Tuck brothers or Tony Pepperoni. A lot of great talent has been here, and I just can't even make up my mind. So I'll settle on choosing myself, but it's really a toss up.

Los Angeles is a difficult one, because realistically they've had a lot more of an up and down, and the players they had who played long term didn't win there. I could go a meme route and say Fabian Fuhrberg, the inactive goalie who got hot and won them the Cup in S17, upsetting me greatly. I think I'll just pick Valterri Bottas. He was a great defenseman, and someone who actually comes to mind from LA that doesn't make me think of another team they then went to.

Minnesota is fairly easy. They had some great players over the years, that Zach Miller guy was pretty cool, Niclas Wastlund was a good defenseman. Brandon Sawyer is my personal favorite and someone I would pick all day, every day. However, this ultimately comes down to a much newer breed and falls between Lord Pretty Flacko or Alonzo Garbanzo, and I think you know the right answer is the bean man.

New Orleans is another that's a very new franchise, and so I'm going to say their best player ever is still playing there and his name is Nicholas Williams. Plain and simple for me.

San Francisco Pride ... umm, well. Can I abstain? This one is the toughest to me, because the franchise has been in so much flux. I will go with the person I think the fans would love the most -- Steven Moyer.

Texas is such an interesting one. They've had some great players pass through, but the best of them all can be tricky. Liam Kinsler was an amazing player in his day. I'd say ultimately it goes to Elias Armia, the guy was an absolute animal and put up over 80 points in a season at one point. He could go with the best of them.

Winnipeg this one is the ultimate debate. Is it Ron Mexico? Is it Jason Visser? Does it fall to John McBride, Lauris Prikulis? Is there anyone who could even come close to these people's level? The answer to the last question is no, at least to my eye. The battle is difficult, and ultimately it's going to be the same way as with Edmonton. They're all so great, I'm just going with my gut and making the more selfish choice, because I can't say any choice is right or wrong between these guys. Ron Mexico is the greatest player of all time, and is therefore the greatest Jet of all time.