While statistically my season was alright, looking at the stats this season m goalie was probably a top 8 - 10 goalie in the SMJHL. In 25 games played I finished with a .911 SV%, 2.98 GAA, 1 SO and 13 wins. That is all fine and dandy, but it definitely fell short of my expectations. Although though I split time equally with fellow Battleborn goalie CK Supernaw, my player played worse of the two. No disrespect towards him, he's a great teammate and a helluva player but I was just hoping for more out of my own player. This offseason will be an important one, my player will have to buckle down, stay out of the casinos in Vegas, and train in all the right areas. Next season my player is going to come out make the most out of his split starts and hopefully help back stop the Battleborn to a 4 Star Cup.


Well I'm a fairly new user, this will only be my 2nd CW, so I'm definitely lacking in the history department and all those previous series. Although I am going to go with a finals from before I arrived and that's the S53 Ham over Edm. That final series had Hamilton win the Challenge Cup in a 6 game series where no team scored more then 3 goals in a game and Hamilton earned 2 shutouts over Edmonton. Although it's not the actual games in the series, or who was on the teams that made this series so memorable, it's the fact that this series came at start of the big switch to FHM. The beginning of an era is a real big deal and the Hamilton Steelhawks have been no slouch since the big switch over, making the finals in 3 out of the 4 years and winning it in that first year in S53 and just recently in S56.


Alright, hear me out on this one, the current 12 team format isn't ideal with the way it reseeds the conferences after each round. Although if we wanted to make it worse all we would have to do is follow the way professional American football does their playoffs. Single elimination. Seed the teams 1 - 8 according to conference, the 9th place teams don't make it, and then pair off the highest seed with the lowest seed in each conference. Now this idea doesn't even sound half bad except the single elimination part of it all. With how close most hockey games are and exciting a 7 game series is, a single game just wouldn't do it justice and I'm sure have a lot of people bitching.



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I would say Hamilton's and the SHL's regular season goal and point scoring leader left winger Theo Morgan deserves the finals MVP. He would take his historic regular season where he scored an absursed 43 goals in 50 games while adding another 39 assists for 82 points, and continue that next level playing in the playoffs where he would lead the Hamilton Steelhawks with 14 goals and 23 points in only 18 games. In that finals series alone he scored a point in every Hamilton win and finished with 5 goals and 1 assist in the 5 game series, including scoring a game winning goal in overtime during game 4.


For this years IIHF tournament, the bigger winner will be (and always will be) team Canada. Canadians invented the sport of hockey and they will forever be the favorites to win every tournament from the beginning of time until the world boils over. Although specifically in this year's tournament there is a legit reason the Canadian's will win it all and that reason is none other then goaltender Frans Eller. That dude is an absolute stud in net and can be the difference in any game. In only his 2 seasons in the big leagues for the New England Wolfpack he's played in a maximum starting amount 88 games and has performed exceptionally well on a rebuilding Wolfpack team, with a 2.97 GAA, .918 SV% and 4 shutouts. If you look even deeper into Eller you can see he already has a very impressive hardware closet, with a S53 WJC Gold Medal, S54 4 Star Cup, S54 IIHF Gold Medal, and the S55 Ryan Jesster trophy. With a guy like that in net the Canadians are and will be scary for a very long time.