1. 3 TPE
This season was pretty different from earlier ones as we in Texas saw much more depth and defenseman scoring than during earlier seasons when few superstar forwards had carried the team. Leppänen also saw huge improvement in his production (even if we ignore the fact that we got 16 more games this season) my personal goal record went from 9 to 15 and I had 25 assists on top of that, more than I had points during any of 50 game seasons, so my point record went from 23 to 40 making it very hard to see this season as anything else than huge improvement, better than what I expected. Most of this ofcourse can be attributed to general growth of the team and hard work they have put into their players (me including ofcourse). For next season I hope to replicate this one, we once again will be better team but as personal production can vary a lot Im not holding my breath to top this season.

2. 2 TPE
After switching to FHM it didn't take too long to find new META builds which to me is very expected developement. So what we would need is not really a role in sense of real hockey term but something that utilizes well all other stats that are not being prioritized. So something that utilizes agression, agility and shot blocking to counter all the danglers and make teams pay for overextending their offense. So it could be a defenseman role who is too lazy to skate to the other end of the rink and just shut downs breakaways and then makes accurate passes to get puck to his team mates.

3. 3 TPE
Björn Leppänen has always been man of the wild so when Renegades were looking to take part on charity as they had lots of time after early exit from playoffs it was only natural for him to pose as frontman to organization that was looking to fight for natural salmon breeding and most importantly fishing rivers and rapids that were dangered by different kind of human interactions. Björn took role as someone who gave face to their social media and adds to spread awarness over the issue making sure people know how much harm pollution and damns do to local ecosystems, including those precious salmons. While main focus of the group was targetted to Björns homecountry Finland and lobbying their elected leaders through media and internet it definetly stuck close to home for Björn so he made sure to keep to taln about the topic across the pond too and trying to spread awarness among other players too. #sadfishnoises

5. 2 TPE
I think the most boring answer to this is the one of the great lake teams that didn't make it, no matter which one of them missed the finals, not Toronto though, so in this case we take a look at Buffalo who had great regular season, stomped over us and New England before taking cup winning Chicago to game seven. They have very well coached team with many great players and in general they seem to always be up there competing. Another team desercing a nod (who still were not on Buffalo level) is Manhattan which had some coaching issues resulting their regular season being worse than it should have been and they too gave Chicago a good fight.

6. 3 TPE
For this Im tempted to go and copy half of my post from last seasons CW amd rest from season before that, which in general tells you how predictable I think the IIHF will be with so much difference between teams. Last season we interestingly saw Canada and USA in same group, yet they still were able to be top 2 teams which I have no doubts they can once again replicate. In the end when it comes to playoffs being best of one almost anything can happen so while thosr 2 definetly are alight favorites to win the gold medal (or at least some medal) there definetly is many teams that could go all the way. Teams like Great Britain, Czechia and Japan should still be good too while I'm less optimistic about changes of Finland to male the playoffs than I was few seasons ago, lot of young guys so maybe early 60s we can compete but for now I once again expect us to struggle.

15. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max
Verification: arvaus

Total TPE: 16/16