5. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
We're adding 2 teams to the SMJHL this season. Do you think we should keep the current SMJHL playoff format of everyone makes it? Or is it time to just take the best 8 or 12 teams and let em duke it out? Defend your stance.

For most of the time I have been following SMJHL it has had playoffs where everyone is making it to the post season so it doesn't feel odd for me and with it being junior league where you want to have people more engaged to the site and sim to get them hooked I think everyone making it into playoffs is right move (though Im not sure if it can be done with 14 teams) as it still gives everyone one last chance to make it further into postseason with bit luck or some good management, like in SHL you don't need freebies but I see no harm with them in Juniors if it means their offseason wont be as long.

6. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
What's your prediction for this season's IIHF tournament? Which teams do you expect to do well (or not well)? Which players?

Outside of the sim Finnish national team has always been the team I root for, like definitely my favorite hockey team even when you include any NHL or Liiga teams, so making Finnish player here was no brainer but it hasn't been very good ride for us in IIHF ever since I joined but as Finland has won multiple medals in WJC recently every season I hope we will do better, last season we were close and this time I'm ready to predict that we will make into top 4 of our group, will we be able to go further than that can't say but that is my first prediction.

Overall I expect Canada to have bounce back year while USA will still be my favorite to win the gold medal. That said I expect a challenge to their dominance from teams like Sweden, Norway or last seasons champions Japan. When it comes to players someone from USA or Canada will get lucky and dominate the scoring race but it is really impossible to say who.

7. Written, 3 TPE Players who played in both eras: What would have happened if we just had one sim engine? Posture how your career would have gone if we stayed in STHS (sans exploits). Or what if you had created in FHM the whole time? Would things have gone better or worse?(150 words min.)

Well first of all I think that most noticeable thing for my player with staying on SimonT would have been his arch type of enforcer combined with TPE levels that would have soft capped seasons ago. I likely wouldn't have seen much point production but I feel like at the end of the day when closing in on higher and higher TPE levels I would eventually changed my arch type (specially if I would become GM) to help the team more so who knows what could have been. But on the other hand the arch type was something that pushed me to exceed the expectations as being enforcer likely played big role on my draft spot (though likely it wasn't only thing). So if I would have started with FHM who knows, maybe I would have been 1st round pick who fizzled out just after hitting thousand TPE because I didn't have need to prove anyone wrong.

8. Graphic, 3 TPE
I'm pretty sure y'all were doing the ring prompt in like 5 minutes on a website... so we'll do something harder. Sorry. Depict the championship parade of either team in the finals. Fans should be wearing the appropriate color clothes and the logo of the winning team should be depicted at least twice in the image.



15. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE

Verification: heleppo

17. Milestones, 3 TPE

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Total: 17/16