1) Overall I would say San Francisco winning 20 games was a huge surprise for me. I thought they would flounder and stink and not be so great. I think I saw a few test runs where they had less than 10 wins. To see them come out and get 20 wins was a real treat and you’ve gotta be proud of what they’ve accomplished this season. The FO at San Francisco with @AgentSmith630 and @Thatguy91 are really doing some incredible things over there. They have the number one prospect in the SHL in Gregory Goode so expect more things out of San Francisco. On a more individual note I would say Lyle Odelein III having a stellar season at the blue line on a 10 win New Orleans team was really shocking. I mean he won’t win The Ron Mexico or anything but at the same time it’s so difficult to look over the fact that New Orleans had arguably the best defenseman in the league this year and he absolutely killed guys out there. Putting up 34 points from the Blue Line, with only 3 New Orleans forwards topping him this season. 305 blocked shots with an 80 Defensive Game Rating. Monster year.

2) I take being immune form penalties any day of the week. It doesn’t matter if you have 6 players on the ice. If I’m the coach of a team that is immune from penalties I’m putting my power forward on the ice to just charge the goalie constantly. Hit the goalie so much that they can’t get up and then you just seemingly always have an empty net. If they fight back THEY get a penalty. Plus on the rare times you’ve gotta go on defense you can just slash guys with the stick. We’d never lose.

3) Cassius Darrow played by @hhh81. Cassius Darrow has had an absolutely legendary career and he’s an all time defenseman that is still one of the best blue liners in the league 13 years after being drafted. Cassius Darrow is one of just 10 players left from his class and he’s still one of the elite players in the SHL and it’s a treat to be able to see him out there. I think Cassius Darrow would be Hall of Famer right now if he retired today but if he has another couple solid years he’s going to be one of the 99.9% voted for 1st ballot Hall of Famers that we will love and cherish forever. Congrats Darrow!

4) So as a prospect still in the J, last year will be my last time to compete for a Four Star cup. It’s a lot of work and I’m really hoping we can pull it off next season but it’s going to be really hard. I can’t get any better but I know that I can inspire my teammates to get better. We’ve got 8 rookies who are going to be 350 TPE players next season and another 4 or so that will be just becoming 425. In the J there is little you can really do after that 3rd season to make the team better but helping the young bloods be inspired is always a very useful thing to do. This past season I documented every single regular season game for the Zerks and I think that did a lot for the team morale. I likely will be doing that again. I can’t help but feel that Newfoundland is the elite team that everyone should be looking out for to win the cup next year.

5) The Newfoundland Berserkers. We owned Quebec City the whole season, we beat Kelowna on a regular basis too. We literally were beating the best two teams in the SMJHL all year long but of course we had to run into the one team all year that had our number, Anchorage. Anchorage was a team whom we routinely lost 0-1 or 1-2 too the whole year. We’d out shoot them 30-10 and lose 1-3. We’d shoot evenly with them and lose 0-1. We had some one off games. Like game 2 in the playoffs against them where we beat them 8-0. But for the most part every game against them was frustrating and if we’d beaten Anchorage I’m confident we would’ve beaten Kelowna and Quebec City as well.