1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Reflection on your season - how did your player fare on the ice this season? Did you meet or surpass your individual player goals or did you come up short? Whether you excelled or disappointed - what can you attribute that to? What will you try to do better next season?

- A lot better than the last season that is for sure. As far as my personal goals, they weren’t very high to begin with honestly considering how I had played the last 2 seasons on the rebuilding Timber. This final season in the Juniors was just about making some progress and a statement to the growth of my player overall. I think I might have fallen a bit short of any award nominations for the defensive position, but at least seem to be in the category of second looks. With the ability to keep my A this season and represent the leadership once again for the team, I wanted to make some impact as a player and be a reliable force on the ice. I know the grade’s you receive aren’t always the best metric to measure ones success, but overall when looking at that and the advanced stats, I did perform well, which makes me happy overall.


2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
This offseason will be extra exciting, as it features the rare expansion draft! Write about how you think the expansion draft will play out, either for one or both of the expansion teams or from an SHL team's perspective.

- Having been apart of several expansions across multiple leagues, the formula for them always seems to go the same path.

Team 1 – Goes for a bit of a win/ compete now mentality with them drafting more SHL ready players to make the team at least competitive out of the gate while trying to rely on their base drafting to build behind it (generally doesn’t pan out long term). In some cases this team also has a bunch of hefty Free agent signings all at once (Tampering much?) which can also prop them up higher than expansion normally would

Team 2 – Goes full rebuild mode. Sell any and all assets they can from the expansion draft to bubble teams looking for a step up, or back to the cup contenders making them even better than before the draft (essentially killing the intention of expansion). This team struggles for 4+ seasons as the core tries to grow and earn TPE, and either goes all in with buying cause of impatience, or hits a wall with so much unsuccessful play, they have to re re build.


6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) The world's hottest app is TikTok - which SHL or SMJHL player would have the biggest following on TikTok? What do they post there?

- Easily the current captain of the Timber - Valentín Kalashnikov (aka suavemente). He would churn out some high quality – Laugh inducing content which would have other teams fans subscribing to him full time. I know in sports it can be seen as ‘against the rules’ to have a 2nd favourite team but after a week or two of his content? Yeah Maine would be a secret 2nd favourite of many fans. The majority of it would be working in some of the most current and even classic memes with the Maine Timber results applied to maximum effect, like the SHN always under estimating us with the Ghana coffin meme playing shortly after.


5. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
What are your predictions for the upcoming IIHF or WJC tournament? What team do you think will win/surprise people/be bad/etc.?

- Czechia will win it’s first gold medal ever? In a long time? Either or, book this happening within the next 3 seasons. The team has a super solid core that has the ability to make some real noise, and if you haven’t been paying attention lately, has been stealing almost any and all top prospects to add to the ever growing ranks of the team. There is a lot to like about this team on and off the ice. The Czechs are building a beautiful rotation of skill to allow them to replace any aging bodies almost immediately with IIHF ready talent that can contribute without any hesitation. As far as the WJC tournament goes, I’d say UCORCAL could surprise as well, but it depends if they actually remember that Mikkel Asmus Sondergard is eligible to play for them, if not then expect Team WORLD to make that noise as he joins them once again and leading them to the land of the glorious victors.

13. Written, up to 4 TPE Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.
c. Based on FHM player ratings, New Orleans has higher average ratings in bravery, aggression, and fighting? Will that toughness have any impact on this series?
- If they were allowed to keep all their agitator and enforcers in the line up like earlier in the season, 100% this would help them, but unfortunately, playing the system to try and win above league integrity was thwarted by the evil Head office once again in an attempt to create “Fairness” so now NOLA is left with some wasted TPE and dreams of “What if” in the land of punching faces and unfair advantages. C’est La Vie.
There are several animal names in this series - which of these animals is the coolest? sloth, hippo, otter, monkey, fox, kirby.
- Honestly, if I had to pick between a few of these amazing animals it would have to be the Otter, specifically the sea otter. They are by far the cutest non domesticated animal in the world. With their super fluffy fur and adorable babies, it's hard to not love the Otters. Next thing that's amazing about them is they keep a favourite rock in their little pouches that they keep to play with whenever they are bored.


16. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - Arya