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?
This was Phineas’s best season by far in the SHL.  He proved to be a good force on the offense and came out to an early lead where for a short time in the first few games of the season he led all skaters in goals.  That quickly dropped off until he was relegated to not Theo Morgan status.  My goal every season is to improve upon my last season so I hit my goals.  I think this upcoming season is going to be big for me.  I am going to be working on my game from all corners and should come off as a skater who can retain the puck.  My overall goal is that when I am on the ice, my team retains possession of the puck and defense isn’t needed.  I am losing too many battles for the puck so I hope to get my defensive skills up during the offseason so I can go into next season with the wherewithal to knock people off a puck that I want.

2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Of the 10 most recent finals series, which do you think is the most memorable and why? Which will be remembered in history as the best/most important/most memorable series or victory? S46: BUF over NOLA, S47: WKP over CGY, S48: BUF over WPG, S49: EDM over NEW, S50: CGY over TBB, S51: HAM over EDM, S52: MAN over SFP, S53: HAM over EDM, S54: NOLA over HAM, S55: BUF over NOLA.’
I am biased and that is 100% ok but I would have to say that it will always be S51 HAM over EDM.  While it was nice that my team won the year after in our first cup in decades, the team that broke the old sim will always go down as the most memorable.  The crazy shenanigans.  The furious searches for a new sim engine that led to the eventual upgrading of the site and how we play this game.  I think it was the most memorable because it too ka league that was getting a little stagnant and was fun for the company into a something new that is exciting to be a part of again.  It was like an arms race that was the wake up call for the entire league that things needed to change.  I do not think that there will be a more important season in the next decade or two…. At least until MAN wins their next cup.

7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
What's your prediction for this season's IIHF tournament? Which teams do you expect to do well (or not well)? Which players?

My prediction for the finals this year is that as always Canada is going to give us a strong showing. USA just a few key players retire so it might be their swansong before they can use their huge pipeline to bring in top tiered players again. So I expect a strong run by the USA and hopefully a little puck luck goes their way for an eventual win over the canadian team. That being said, Japan is still looking strong and I do not really want to get taken out by their team again when we have so much riding on this tournament. Ola Wagstrom will lead his team and the IIHF in points because he hates MAN and always does well in international play. I would expect him to be the top points leader by the end of the entire thing. Although do not count out phineas and his clutchness.


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. Both of these teams have an impressive set of skaters - without factoring in any coaching or tactical strategies, which team do you think has the better roster of skaters on paper?
HAM definitely has the dream team when it came to netting free agency this year and getting the best in slot players from each team that was going into rebuilds.  It was almost unfair how much they were able to get from other teams both good and bad.  BUF is also on the decline.
b. Do you foresee the teams making any strategic adjustments during the course of the series? Should the teams be quick to switch tactics or stick with what they've been using?
I think there will be huge experimentation by BUF to try and counter strategies as the roster of HAM is just so much stronger.  If you cannot win with straight up strength, then you need to win with wits and guile.
c. These two teams hail from the Great Lakes Division. Which of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) do you think is the Greatest and why?
Lake Erie is the greatest because it has the spookiest name.  If you had to have the names fight each other I would bet on Erie because while Huron, Ontario, Michigan sound like names of battleships. And Superior is just superior.  Only Erie stands alone. Mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
d. If, once it is safe to do so, you had to go hang out in person with one of the users on Buffalo/Hamilton, who would you hang out with and what would you do? (if you pick gabe you get -1 tpe)
I would want to hang out with Trautner because he was the person who has updated most recently between the two teams that I barely know.  That being said, I have drafted Scarn on my fantasy team for the past few seasons and I want to know why he isn’t carrying me to #1.  We would mostly go out for a sandwich that I would make him buy for me.
 
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14. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min)
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.
Well Hamilton won the series just like I predicted but I was surprised that my pick the best player didn’t get chosen as the ultimate winner.  Or really no pick has been made but if I had to choose someone it would be that crazy kid gone pirate Monkey D Luffy. He was obviously all over the ice doing some craz stuff and probably deserved to be the MVP for his team. When he would win MVP even though he lost the series by the end. So I pick him as the overall MVP for being the only Luffy in the playoffs. Better luck next time other chumps.

16. Chill