The most surprising part of this season is how long it took for New England to trade me. Word on the street is that Buffalo had made an offer for me before the season had even started, yet New England waited until the half way mark in the season, just a few days before the trade deadline to deal me away. What else is surprising? New England hit the over. Maybe that's why they held on to me for so long, they proved so many people that bet on them to lose more games wrong. That was surprising to me at least. I'm glad I didn't bet on them hitting the under. Next surprising thing is that I hit the parlay, I've now signed with Atlanta, although that shouldn't be surprising if you're paying any attention to this league. It's surprising that I haven't hit 150 words yet, so I have to keep going. Contractions count as two words instead of just one which does not make any sense, so let me just flush out the word count a little extra and that should be 150. Cool. (3 TPE)



I started writing this on my phone so my apologies for it not including the code of the question but in terms on HoF locks there are a few that come to mind. RM at the end of his career as well as Luffy, once they finally retire, assuming their career continues along a similar trajectory I can see both making the hall. Both of them have had a MVP season and Luffy had won 3 cups so far and RM two? Regardless of the number I can see both of them continuing to win and racking up the points of course. Lastly, I don’t think it will happen but I really really hope I pull it out from somewhere and manage to place myself in the Hall. I guess we will have to see. Aside from us three, because I have just noticed that this is not yet 150 words, I can see Scarn making it just because he has also been MVP, GA because he has already won 4 cups? And AWils because he is also really good at FHM. (3 TPE)


 
There are a few different ways for me to answer this. The best would be Toronto I guess? 30 seconds away from making it, they lost in game 7 in OT. The best might also be Chicago who failed to even make the playoffs despite winning the whole thing last season. Perhaps the best is Atlanta, just because I play there now. It is really tough to say. I think everyone expected Hamilton and Buf to make the finals. I got every team correct in my predictions (not counting the games) but every team itself was correct. This league is too predictable and that was one of the reasons I chose to leave Hamilton for ATL and that is one of the reasons why I cannot wait for expansion. (2 TPE)



IIHF in FHM is a joke full stop. There is no polite way to say this but there is no parity in it. One of three nations (Canada, the United States of America, or Great Britain) win gold with the remained almost always medaling. Canada has won two golds in a row now I believe, and before those two we were winning silver and bronze. In my career I have won gold 3 times and I fully expect that number to double by the time I choose to retire. In terms of who do I expect to do well in the round robin? As an alternate captain for team Canada I will almost obliged to back myself. Historically, in these tournaments I have performed below average, often having a shooting percentage of below 5%. Will that happen again? Almost certainly. I still will, however, have faith in my ability to turn it around, and if I do manage to do so? Well then that is an extra .5 TPE if I do. (3 TPE)






Milestones (2 TPE)





I like hotdog, and glutes, and gabe. No tags because I don't want to annoy them every time I edit. I wish we had won it in Buffalo this past season, very unfortunate. I also wish we had beaten Chicago last season, that was brutal. But I liked most if not all of my teammates across the years. (3 TPE)