1. I started this season with really high hopes for Rex Kirkby. I had just come off a season where I tied my best ever points in a season and New Orleans seemed like the perfect fit for me to push on and finally get my hands on the covetted Stevens Trophy. What happened instead was a fairly mediocre season that started promisingly and ultimately petered out well before the season was even close to being over. Kirkby struggled to get the puck past the netminder despite leading in shots on goal by defensemen for a large part of the season and when NOLA essentially gave up on being competitive and traded away the majority of their good forwards he was moved to the second pairing and his production more or less fell off a cliff. Finishing with a miserable 33 points on the season won't be enough to even challenge for a 3rd all star spot so I've decided to hit free agency and try my luck elsewhere next season.

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2. I think the best series in the finals of the Challenge Cup over the last ten seasons would hands down have to be last seasons series between the Buffalo Stampade and the New Orleans Specters. In terms of pure entertainment and drama it is surely hard to beat. For a start the series was between two free wheeling teams that scored a lot during the regular season except where Buffalo stepped it up a gear come finals time NOLA really struggled offensively and were reapeatedly bailed out by Aleister Cain. The series went to seven games which is usually a pretty good indicator for excitement and not only that the last game of the finals went to over time. During that overtime the Buffalo goal tender Elizabeth Doyle stopped a breakaway to deny New Orleans the game winning goal and then her team managed to move the puck down the ice and score to win the series and hoist the cup.

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7. With the switch over to franchise hockey manager the results of seasons and tournaments have become a bit more predictable. The better teams pretty much always win which can be a good or a bad thing depending on how you choose to look at it. Therefore I think its a pretty safe bet to assume that the three teams likely to be challenging for the international ice hockey federation gold medal wll be the United States of America, Canada and Great Britain. While the two North American teams are undoubtedly good they haven't been able to hold a candle to their pan Atlantic neighbours in terms of recent success and I don't see any reason for that to change. Led by their talismanic forward but also defenseman Rex Kirkby with help from big time stars Guy Zheng, Jimmy Slothface, Nick Brain and Luca Del Zecchio I think they will easily prove to be too much to handle for all the other teams in the tournament.

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13.

a. While you cannot take away from Buffalo's success and how good Tomen and WBF have been over the last ten or so seasons I think that the ball is firmly in Hamilton's court in this series. They have decent coaching as well but more importantly they have the vastly superior roster.

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b. I know Apricot well as he is my co GM over in Anchorage and if he is anything like there then he probably has not changed Hamiltons strats since the beginning of the season. Tomen on the other hand likes to tinker around a bit and I can see Buffalo trying to throw a few curve balls at Hamilton in order to steal the series.

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c. Easy question really. How could anyone realistically choose anything other than Lake Superior? For a start its called superior and it is the largest of any of the great lakes already putting it in pole position. On top of this it is the largest fresh water lake by surface area in the entire world as well as being the third largest by volume. Incredible.

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d. I mean this is a completely honest answer. Once COVID fucks off and I have a bit of spare cash im heading to BC to hang out with my boy @Ferda. Not only do I know that he will get a pint with me unlike certain rat fucks hes also a straight up great dude. On top of this ill get to see Vancouver and Whistler again for the first time in ten years and I have missed it dearly.

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16. verification word: boats

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