Quote: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?

My minimum goal this season was 50 points, and I had 49. I am mildly disappointed, but I did get 28 goals which was Top 10 in the league so I guess that's something. Nick did have his usual high quality respected defensive game and quiet contributions on-ice, usually being responsible for shutting down the other team's dangerous top forwards such as Andres Kvalheim and Tony Pepperoni. I can attribute this mostly to having a decent focus on the defensive side of things and better positioning.

Next season all I can hope for is that the Winnipeg team around me improves enough to give great support on offense, and perhaps a few more tactical adjustments as we get used to the new way of doing things. That and we'll be getting two expansion teams that we'll hopefully get the better of when we face them. I have high hopes of getting Nick Brain to become a 50-55 point scorer next year.

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Quote: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.

This one's gonna be weird, because I'm hearing rumblings that Seattle is going to try to contend, instead of sacrificing Tig for a draft pick and starting out near the bottom of the barrel. That and they have the first pick in the expansion draft I'm guessing, so they can get Darrow who should be the top pick in the draft.

I think expansion could play out favouring tig in the very short term. Even though Eko van Otter is the better player of the two GMs, Seattle can probably march out Tig and Darrow as D-Pair 1 which is great. Tig might also be leveraging a ton of old Detroit connections over the course of the draft, and he has quite a few pieces to work with.

However, Atlanta has the important factor of basically being a playoff team no matter what because of the top-heavy structure of the East, while Seattle is competing likely with Winnipeg and LA for the 5th and 6th playoff spots in the East (assuming 12 playoff teams, 6 from each conference.) Atlanta would need to roll snake-eyes in the expansion draft to fall behind Baltimore, TBay, or Toronto (although the latter two are improving).

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Quote:4. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
Which SHL or SMJHL team was the best team to not make the finals this season and why?

Edmonton. They had a share of the President's Trophy and a team with 1000 TPE players everywhere except the backup goaltending, and even their backup Eddy Ask Jr. was above the median for that position. Edmonton got some monster years from players such as Bo Kane and Theo Morgan as well, plus a top-tier offensive season from powerplay quarterback Karlstrabe Scholz.

Unfortunately, a game New Orleans was ready for them and beat them in a tough series, with multiple close wins, showing the Specters increased mettle in big games recently. Tough on Edmonton, cause they had as good a chance of beating Buffalo as any other team in the league.

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Quote: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.?

I think in IIHF the favourites in terms of overall TPE are Canada, the United States, Great United Kingdom of Britain, and the Czech Republic. There are tertiary contenders like Japan and Sweden, but those 4 seems to be the favourites.

Obviously Canada and USA have the advantage of depth and a sim setup that allows them to actually use said depth to the fullest. Czechs have the advantage of stars like Luke Thomason and Michael Scarn and some old grizzled helpd with Brady Mac and Piotr Czerawski. To me though, the Brits have a series shot at it. Nick Brain, Jimmy Slothface, Oliver Cloutier leads the forward core, and theres such a surplus of talented defenders like Rex Kirkby, Guy Zheng, Dom Montgomery, Tony Ford, and Perry Morgan among others that the Brits have to convert them to forward to fit them all in. Lucky Luca Del Vecchio can steal games when hes in the mood, and goldenglutes gives the team the tactical nous it needs to claw to the top. We've medaled in the first two IIHF events, and I'm confident we can medal in the 3rd.

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Quote: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?

Michael Fitted of the Tampa Bay Barracuda and it's not even close. His media empire is controversial, but occasionally entertaining, and I think his dudebro antics would have great appeal to the current generation that would be into these TikTok videos or whatever. Plus as a bonus we'd probably see Barracuda hidden footage involving stuff like Tom Fiddler getting sodomized in the locker room, or whatever the hell Beans Hockey Network says happens there.

A close second (although he's slowing down with age) would be the self-professed King of the Dar Award: Cameron Carter of Chicago. The guy's got a mouth, hes unafraid to use it, and I think he would be a good fit for a vine-style platform based around short-ish trash talk or whatever the Chinese peddle with this stupid app.

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