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?
There are a few stats I use to mark how well Hamr does in any given season, and this season was another fairly successful one. I was second in blocked shots again this season, and this time not just because Tampa was surrounding an unholy amount of shots. In fact, only two players from Tampa were in the top 25 in blocked shots, which means Hamr was doing something worthwhile to be as prolific at it as he was. The other stat I tend to look at for success was less exciting this year in hits. While I did still come in the top 10 in hits finishing 7th overall, I failed to crack 200 total hits which was a disappointment. I also took a bit of a downgrade in terms of both giveaways and takeaways this season than last which was a bit disheartening. Next season I’d like to keep possession more regularly and take it from others more.

3. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Over the offseason your player is getting involved in some charitable causes. What is your player/team doing around the community/for charity this offseason?
Giving back to the community is a very important thing to do when you’re in the position of being an even semi-public figure, something that is true of most professional athletes. One of Hamr’s biggest concerns is people in his community not getting the protein they need to get mad gains, or, more realistically simply survive. Many people rely on food banks to survive, and that need has been increasing as people have been losing their jobs due to the COVID pandemic. Unfortunately, the best ways to help food banks are usually misunderstood with things such as canned food drives, which too many use as just a way clean out expired goods from their pantries and feel better about themselves. The best way to actually help is by giving money directly to the banks since they can buy way more food than a consumer can with the same amount of money due to their ability to buy wholesale in bulk. So, Jakob is organizing a charity boxing tournament where he fights 10 opponents back to back, with all proceeds going to the local Tampa Bay food bank.

4. Written, 1 or 2 TPE
HAIKUS - write 2 SHL themed haikus for 1 TPE or 4 SHL themed haikus for 2 TPE.

Best way to help team?
Demoralize opponent
With a lot of hits

International
Tournament time, exciting
Czechia is best

Barracuda chomp
Tampa Bay is rebuilding
Will be scary soon

Oh no forward here
Need to help out my goalie
Jump and block the shot

5. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
Which SHL or SMJHL team was the best team to not make the finals this season and why?
I mean I don’t know that there’s a big debate here, the top three teams in the league were all in the Eastern conference: Hamilton, Chicago, and Buffalo. The finals were between Hamilton and Chicago (something I still do not understand but that’s the system we have), which leaves the next best team as Buffalo. Only 3 teams cracked 100 points this season, and the same 3 cracked 50 wins. Buffalo had 5 more wins than the next closest team, who ended up winning the west, Edmonton. They may have scored fewer goals than Edmonton, but their defence was far batter, allowing only 148 goals all season. They finished with a goal difference of 106, which, like most of their statistics, puts them well ahead of any other team not in the finals in third place.

6. 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?
So first of all, Czechia is bestia so you know Czech is taking home the gold medal. Michael Scarn is a god among men with his 2037 TPE leading us from the centre, I expect to see him repeat his performance from last season and league the IIHF in points this year. Backing him up is Luke Thomason, a player who would be a great first liner on most teams coming in at 1778 TPE, but he and Scarn being able to rotate helps out both of their games. Third string centre we have a legend in Demarcus Smyth, but sadly he’s getting a little long in the tooth to be on the ice more than from the 3rd line. Nikiforov is a low TPE kid right now, but he’s a young player and will be a force in the future for Czechia. At wingers, our best is easily Hernadivic. Coming in at 1767 TPE, he’ll be a great partner for Scarn on the first line. Our next three wingers are all relatively comparable, meaning there isn’t a great deal of difference between our first- and second-line forwards at all. Hopefully when we and our opposition rotate, we’ll be able to show our second line is stronger. On defence, we don’t have too many clear-cut stars, but we have a wealth of depth who can back up our great slew of forwards.

15. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.
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