So the obvious things will always be winning a cup for most people and it's definitely one of those for me too even if it feels like ages ago as a user that I won. I think the most surprising thing to me though, especially because I was directly a part of it, was the rise and fall of Ireland in IIHF and how dominant I was able to take them before falling off the face of the earth in IIHF. IIHF has long been one of those leagues with super teams that do well every single season and you may (especially in the sths era) have a random team come in to win a gold medal or something then be back out of it again, but the same 3 teams really dominated most of it. So to be able to build up Ireland to what they were and subsequently roll off that first gold medal is something I'll never forget. But what made it truly special was to roll off that gold medal again, and again, and again, and again; 5 times in a row somehow to do something no other team had been able to do (though Canada looks like they can probably match it now with the move to FHM and their dominance.

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