I’ve written and talked about this far too many times, but if anyone knows me, they know exactly what it is. The biggest surprise that I’ve experienced during my time in the site was the unexpected S44 Colorado Raptors run to the 4 Star Cup Finals after being significant sellers at the trade deadline, where the team I GM’d (Colorado) ran into the team that I played for after trading myself at the deadline (St. Louis). The team with essentially no players with substantial SMJHL experience and having a significant amount of inactive free agents with the exception of now-legendary starting goaltender Scottey Crawfling. That team, in all honesty, had absolutely no business getting passed the Montreal Militia in the first round, much less getting passed President’s Trophy winners Detroit in the conference finals, but they persevered and on the back of stellar goaltending and some timely goals, managed to make a 4 Star Cup finals appearance that lives on in Raptors lore. 

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