Considering how old Brady McIntyre is starting to get I am really happy with how he played this season. Through 50 games McIntyre had 30 points, 10 goals and 20 assists. That's really good for a player who does not have a whole lot left in the tank. I figured that he would have fallen off a little bit more. In the past 5 seasons he has had 36 points, 34 points, 35 points, 35 points and 34 points. If he is going through regression this hard and only dropping by 4 points as well as improving his plus minus drastically all the way up to being +32 then I am more than happy with that performance.

Unfortunately McIntyre likely will not be able to last much longer and I expect him to have to take on a more defensive role. This offseason he will be working mostly on his skating and his strength to help him with being able to make sure he can play better positionally in the defensive zone. (172 words)

I am extremely excited to see how the expansion draft will play out this off season. Looking at certain teams around the league, especially the top teams like Buffalo, New Orleans, Edmonton and Hamilton, I think there are a lot of players that will make the expansion teams very competitive early on. If you look at a player like Michael Scarn who would be a number one center anywhere (expect for Buffalo apparently) one of the teams is going to be ready to compete from the get go. For the Atlanta Inferno I think the draft is going to play out with them getting Michael Scarn and Duff101 from Manhattan. Based on that they're going to end up being able to build a team that is able to make the playoffs from year one. I doubt they'll be able to make it past the first round though. Regardless, they're going to have a super kickass first season because they have a plethora of great players available. (166 words)

As much as I love the idea of there being European teams in the SHL, I think we shouldn't do that right now. It doesn't really fit in with the league's lore. I would absolutely love it though if a separate league were added that is similar to KHL. That would help keep the lore intact and it would also add a new element where players who are too good for the juniors can beat up on IFAs until they're ready to make the jump to the SMJHL. The idea of adding a team in like Sweden that every team would have to travel to though just does not make sense to me. I like having an iota for realism in this league. (123 words)

I personally think that Edmonton was the best team to not make the playoffs this season. There's a reason we went to 7 games against the New Orleans Spectors. Yes they are a very good team as well, but we have several players over 1500 TPE including Tony Pepperoni, Brady McIntyre, Karl Scholz, Julio Tokolosh. I don't think we have a single player below 1000 TPE. You could see it in the writeups that were done about the series too that showed we were more likely to win the series. Whether it was coaching or just luck the Spectors did end up winning, but I think most people expected the Blizzard to win the series and rightfully so in my opinion. (121 words)

My prediction for the upcoming IIHF tournament is that the Czech Republic will win the gold medal over the United States this season. Honestly if you look at our lineup the top lines and pairs are just stacked. Michael Scarn has over 2000 TPE, Luke Thomason has about 1950 TPE, Knox Booth in net has about 1450 TPE, Barret McCarthy on the blue line has 1800 TPE. Then you look at our depth. Czerkawski with 1550 TPE, DeMaricus Smyth at 1350 TPE, Alex Winters at 1500 TPE, David Kastrba at 1450 TPE, Brady McIntyre at 1600 TPE, Andrej Doskocil at 1550 TPE. There are just so many options in both at both offense and defense. Our only weakness is going to be our 4th line but even that will be packed with defensive prospects who are going to kill it defensively and not allow a single shot on net while they're on the ice. Jakob Hamr, Ambacas Cuddles and Mikkel Asmus Sondergard are going to destroy the competition. (168 words)

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