I definitely feel like there were quite a few big surprises this season. To list a few there was Toronto's emergence into the top-3 teams in the great lakes. It's now the super division we all knew it could be. Another big surprise was BAP making big jumps up the standings and into a playoff spot. A lot of people expected Texas to improve but I don't know how many expected them to have the best record in the league. My final and I think most significant surprise was how close some of the more "predictable" series were in the playoffs. Each round (except the finals) was full of intrigue when a lot of people felt like all the series were foregone conclusions. SFP taking Toronto to 7 in the wild-card round was huge. Edmonton was one goal away from beating Hamilton in the conference semi-finals. Texas came back from 3-0 down to force a game 7 against Hamilton, and Toronto was one goal away from the finals as well. In the end, things were pretty much how we expected them but no one expected the journey we took.

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I'm choosing B because too many men on the ice is a penalty so if I can just ignore it then I can put 15 guys out on the ice for all I care. Think about it, you get a couple strong guys to hold down all the opponents including the other teams goalie and you just keep scoring goals. It would actually end up being pretty boring being able to beat up on the other team so badly. Assuming this means you have to put out 5 skaters, I think I'm still going with that option. You can haul down your opponents, piss them off and maybe even get into fights to get your opponent 1 man for 5 minutes while you don't take a penalty.

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Gotta toot my own horn and say I'm definitely making the hall when my career is all said in done. One of a few players to be over a point per game at this stage of their career, 6-time all-star and MVP winner. I think I make a pretty good case. Players I see joining me are Luke Thomason who's had outstanding career consistency and is one of the best players I've played against. Rex Kirkby who's been a staple defenseman in the league for my entire career. Tor Tuck. I think there's a good argument to be made he deserved my MVP in S49 because he put up 61 points in a 50 game season as a defenseman. Tuck's probably the 2nd or 3rd best defenseman of all-time. Andreas Kvalheim from Texas is almost definitely getting in with his Dar wins. I'm sure there's some other great players out there but that's what I have off the top of my head.

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Best team in the league would be the closest one to beating Hamilton, right? Well if that's the case then the argument has to be made that the Blizzard were the best team not to make the finals in S58. Blizzard lost by 1 goal in game 7 against the Steelhawks which is becoming all to familiar (we lost to Hamilton in game 7 of the S56 playoffs as well). Our 12.5m cap hit really hurt us this season but we were able to make the most of it and ice a really good team. Would 12.5m more worth of players on the team had helped us take out Hamilton? I sure think so. We'll never really know.

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Love all the Blizzard new and old! You all know that though cause you guys are the best and in LR all the time. Love it!

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