Task #1: 3 TPE

Like the team, I started my second season pretty badly. I played three first games without points before I got one assist in the fourth game against MET. My first goal came in game 5 against St. Louis but we lost 1-4. On the first season I started in the 4th line but got promoted to the third line before regular season ended. On this season I played whole season in TOP6 role on the right wing. I started the season next to fellow Argonaut prospect Beranek and ended the regular season at the same line with Slovakian center Jst Maro. I played with him already on S55 a lot and again somehow I began to collect points alongside him and Rieley who played on the left wing. I had many multi-point games during the last two weeks and thanks to them I was able to set new career records in points and goals. My goal was to score at least 25 points and get PPG of 0.50. In the end, I had 27 points so that goal was achieved. In the last eight games I scored 5+6=11 points.

I also got some power-play minutes in the second unit in every match and scored 3+2 points on PP in 50 games. Because I am two-way forward, I was happy to get also some short-handed minutes and responsibility because I hadn't any special teams minutes on the first season. I didn't play most SH minutes in the team but helped a little bit to kill penalties still averaging 1:05 of SH time per game like you said. Before the season I also focused a lot to improve my physicality and it showed in the hits category. I am not happy that I got 12 penalties when I had only three on the season before. That is something what I need to improve next season. How to be physical without taking penalties? However, thanks to better physicality and improved checking game I had 26 takeaways when I had only 12 last season. Of course I played also more minutes but at the same time I had only three more giveaways than season before. Takeaway-giveaway differential improved from +0 to +11 which was a great thing. 26 takeaways was also team-high among forwards. Defender Bergman had 30 takeaways and won that category but because I mirror my game to Reilly Smith, I am very happy that I took some steps towards his two-way game during regular season. When it comes to blocked shots, I had five less than season before but at this season we played more with the puck and weren't so defensive in every game so the reason for less blocked shots is mainly changed game style as a team. I am still willing to sacrifice my body if we win games then.

I am also happy that I shot more than season before. Of course, I played again almost five minutes more per night than last season but still 72 shots on goal is solid amount of shots in my role. I am hoping to raise that to two shots per game as an average in the future. Again, in the last eight games I shot 22 times towards the goal which was almost three shots per game so I am heading in the right direction.

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Task #3: 2 TPE

Well, of course I can come up with a worse playoff format. In my "dream" playoff bracket 12 teams will be divided into three groups of four teams. Seeds 1-4 will play in the same group like seeds 5-8 and 9 to 12. Every team gets equal kind of opponents and everyone are happy, right? That is something where world is heading. Competition is now allowed. The most important value is that everyone haves fun and when games are tight, everyone enjoys them most. After group stage, winners go through to the final group. Three teams left will play once at home and away against others so there will be four matches per team in the final group and team with most points will win the championship!

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Task #4: 3 TPE

If the SHL needed to set up a playoff bubble, best city to host it would have been of course Calgary. Why? Even though there are no audience in the bubble, having a host team which have chances for success is important because then TV-ratings will stay as high as possible as long as possible. Also in the streets of host city you can then feel playoff hype. Dragons won the Western Conference and conceded only 85 goals in 50 games. Based on that stat you could have thought that Calgary will make it to the finals and the atmosphere in the bubble and streets of host city would have stayed pretty high all the way to the end of the playoffs. That would have been good PR for the SHL. In the bubble players would have had same kind of activities like in the NHL bubble. SHL organisation would have offered them movie theater, golf simulator and of course free and fast wifi to use in video games. 

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Task #6: 2 TPE

I was shocked to see that Calgary Dragons lost to Edmonton in six games in the playoffs. Calgary won the Western Conference with 80 points. However, I was most impressed that they only conceded 85 goals in 50 games and were the best team in that category. I trusted that with that kind of defensive structure you simply can't miss the finals but against Edmonton Dragons conceded 24 goals in six games which is four goals per match as an average. Something really weird happened to them after the regular season where they were great team. So, Calgary is my pick for a best team to not make finals this season. 

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Task #7: 3 TPE

My TOP3 prediction is Canada, USA and Finland. Canada is a country which loves ice-hockey and that's why it is easy to guess that it will be a strong team also on this year. They were on bronze last year and won the championship year before that on season 54. I am confident that they will continue their medal streak also on this year. United States won its round robin group last season before Japan but didn't won the medal in the end. Something happened to them in the playoffs after good group stage. I am sure that USA wants to have some kind of revenge after disappointing playoffs and this year they will go to the finals to win their first silver medal since S48. USA has three golds after that on seasons 50, 51 and 53 but I don't think that they are capable to that kind of achievement this season. The bronze medal goes to Finland. It has won two bronzes in a row in WJC and now it is adult's turn to bring home some glory. Finland's last bronze is from S44 so it is now time to win bronze again. That is also Finland's last medal from IIHF tournament which is shocking. When it comes to other teams or players, who cares? Only medals count and there three teams will win them in my opinion!

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Task #16: 3 TPE
Verification word: Borje

Total 16 TPE