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 player had an up and down season overall. Unfortunately my offseason large TPE update was not processed and I was missing over 60 TPE for the first 14 games of the year. After that was noticed and fixed I feel my performance went up overall. As a center I always want my wingers to do well and I feel like both my wingers had great years. I think my player could have helped more defensively overall and hope to bring more of a complete game next season. I was well into the minus before my update was fixed and then I finished in the plus so I need to work hard at building myself to be a better player this offseason. I think as a team we really played well and grew together as the year went on. We had troubles keeping the puck out of our own net and need to work on that next year. My own goals this year were met as I did get closer to my teammates.

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.

The expansion draft will be exciting for everyone on the site. It's great to have lots of people active on the forums and events like this are rare so I hope it is very memorable for everyone involved. For my perspective as a Dragon I know we have some great players we risk losing so from our franchise we will be looking to see who can step up and fill the hole. I think the expansion is going to lead to a lot of great memories. I think there will be some surprises and a few trades that happen. I think each team will be trying to draft active players. Even if they are a bit older maybe they will fall in love with the franchise and when they recreate they will only want to join this new team. The goal will be to have an active discord and a fun team to be on that grows together I bet so hopefully the new teams get some cool faces to rep their new cities.

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 will be paying close attention to the World Juniors this season as I am on Team UCORAL. They announced their roster 2 days ago and it seems really strong and I think we have a chance to win it all. We have two great goalies with Thor Odinson and Name Redacted both being capped and great goalies. On defense we have 6 players at 425 TPE and above with 2 others close behind. Also on forward we have 9 players at the cap or above and the next 3 are in the mid 300's. For TPE we have a great lineup. Our coaching team with TheSparkyDee and CaptainCrazy are really passionate about the game. I think having 3 great nations to draw players from like Russia, Latvia and Czechia makes it really easy to make a strong team. But we have a great mix here of different types of players and I think this tournament is quick and frantic and we are here to win it all.

7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.) The two finals teams have decided to team up for a fundraising opportunity to benefit both cities. What noble cause will the teams decide to benefit? What sort of fundraiser will the teams hold together? How will the two teams mesh before the finals start?

The teams have decided to hold a benefit rock concert where all proceeds will be donated to the Children's Hospitals in their respective cities. As hockey players they have been around the game since they were young and have all known some kids who have ended up in the hospital. Without the great care these places provide a lot of kids would never make it. Hockey players and hospitals go hand in hand and the SHL would join in by matching a portion of the proceeds raised. The rock concert would feature players from each team joining together to form a mega rock group and performing a 2 hour concert outdoors to a crowd of at least 100,000. There would be dancing, fireworks and barely any clothes. People would be living in the moment and for a while all their cares would be gone as they dance the night away to pretty colors and sounds. There is lots of money to be made in selling t-shirts here.

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.

A; I think Buffalo has a better defensive core overall and it will be hard to get past them. Cassius Darrow is as godo as it gets and I think when he is out there it will be tough to do much of anything. Old boy Selich is as steady as it gets and you know you can count on Alexander when it's all on the line.

B; I think home ice will be a deciding factor in this series. I could see it going 7 games and if that's the case we are going to see a packed crowd. Unless there is a pandemic in which case with no crowd it could hurt the home team. So we will just have to see how healthy the world is at that time.

C;No I don't think the player ratings in bravery, aggression and fighting will make as much of a difference as the coaches choices will be in using their players. You might be great at hitting but if your coach tells you to prance around like a pony out then that's what you will do. If you are a tiny scoring machine and your coach tells you to go hit anything that moves....you gotta eat.

D; Eko van Otter is just so cool to me it really stands out. There is some funny names and some cool hockey sounding names but Eko van Otter just has this snap to it. I think it would be great to hear an announcer calling it out in a big game. Eko is also short and sweet and I am a sucker for names with an O in them.