It might just be me who sees this, but I am wondering how many of you might have had the Toronto freakin' North Stars improving by a humungous twenty four (That's 24 for you types that prefer a number) points this season. Who the hell peed in their Cheerios? Bobby Lane does what Bobby Lane does having a pretty similar season over the past couple of seasons overall, but Ruslan Zaporozhets outright exploded, scoring an additional twenty goals this season! Last season, the North Stars only had two people with over fifty points during the year, but this season they had FIVE accomplish getting over that milestone, with three others knocking on the door to end the season. That's quite an offensive turnaround for Toronto, and apparently their new strategy got them many more wins.



I feel like this is a definite no brainer to choose for a home team, although why any organization would ever allow a change during the middle of a playoffs would be a pretty desperate move to be made. But for the purpose of this article, I would choose to be immune to penalties, and offsides, and icing. Think of the set plays you can have, regardless if the other team can have six players on the ice. Utilize your fastest skaters, cause misdirection and spring your forwards down the ice, who no longer have to worry about when they need to cross the blue line, or missing the connection for an icing. Slew foot? SURE! Check from behind to injury a player! NO PROBLEM! Immunity, baby!   


The biggest thing that I feel I can help my team going forward is being far more attentive and routine in getting my TPE submissions in. While I'm fairly diligent despite my real life excuses, I feel I leave just enough TPE on the table to miss out on being a top level player. Example: I was a day late and dollar short on making it into the Mock Draft, and that is completely my fault as I said I would get to it, and I allowed myself to get distracted enough that it was too late to submit and participate. With our team having missed the playoffs this past season, and the defense having a real challenge, I am committed to turning that around, or else I believe I will find myself at risk of needing to find a new home.


The Manhatten Rage get the honor of being the best team to be on the outside and looking in this past season. With a Goal Differential of Plus-19 this season, the Rage were led by Ola Wagstrom with Twenty Four Goals and Forty Four Assists. In addition, the Rage ended up having four players who scored a total of Fifty Points or more this past season, and even had three additional players score Forty of more Points this season, including Defenseman Oliver Cleary. They played well with their goalie tandem of Name Redacted and Peter Larson. 


https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3007659




@kenvald has been such a tremendous help to me all along the way. I can certainly thank others like @Zomp and @Ace as well, all people I would love to meet up with and buy a beer at some point, but Kenvald has gone above and beyond to help me navigate how I want to build my player in a manner I would want him to be on the ice. While that certainly has caused growing pains in these first two seasons in the SHL, it has not gone unnoticed.