Verification Word: Outlaw



Claiming 3 TPE


For my team, I would definitely try to get some fighting, rock, steel and fire type pokemon if I can find any in the league, because I expect most players in the league to become ice pokemon and I want to be very effective versus those. For the same reason, I would try to reduce the number of flying, ground, grass and dragon pokemon in my team, because all the ice mons would be very effectice against them.
I would try to find a mix of getting those strong pokemon and levelling them up to become champion, but I would also try to catch them all and complete the pokedex. The goal would definitely be to be the very best in the POKESHL. Therefore I would also definitely breed some pokemon to get even stronger ones. My favourite pokemon would be High Haschdi as I see him becoming the strongest and rarest pokemon out there!




I really like the current playoff format of everyone making it for the junior league. The playoffs take some time here compared to other leagues and it would be very long without games for some teams with another format. It also helps people get more invested in those games and gives the chance for some great upsets. I was very happy in my first season as waiver pick up for Maine to play some playoff hockey. We knew that we didn't have a great chance to make a deep run, but I really enjoyed that games! It would have been very disappointing for me to not have any playoff games in the junior league. I can understand not every team making the playoffs in the SHL though.


I think that the IIHF this year will be very competitive and there are lots of teams that can win a medal there. In Group A I think the United States, Germany, Norway and Sweden all have a chance to make the playoffs and go all the way to the finals. In Group B the strongest teams in my opinion should be Canada, Finland and Czechia. Especially Group A seems very stacked at the top and I think the winner of that group will also have a good chance to win the IIHF. On the other hand, teams like Latvia, Ireland, Switzerland or Russia are not looking that strong this year and it will be very hard for them to make the playoffs.
As a German, I will definitely be rooting for them and with not even nominating High Haschdi, they sure have a stacked roster that should be able to go toe to toe with every nation.


a. Unfortunately I don't know the teams that good yet, but at least Buffalo really seems to deserve to be there with winning the regular season and only losing 10 games! Chicago only ended in the fourth place, so other teams might also deserve the second spot, but they earned it in the playoffs and in the end, we got a great series between the two teams, where Chicago showed that they can definitely compete with Buffalo.

b. Both of those are pretty impressive in my opinion. It's very hard to get that far in this competitive league with so many great teams, so it needs some great management, team building and also a bit of sim luck to make it to the finals. Chicago and Buffalo are doing an awesome job there and I think they will also be competing for the cup in the next few seasons, where Texas will hopefully win the cup though!