TASK 1
It was a solid first season in Montreal for Kaarlo Kekkonen. Now being looked at as one of the star players in the league (jokes) after having a ton of TPE, a consistently high point scorer and a recent champ, the pressure was on Kaarlo having recently left his long term home in Texas to play for the new expansion franchise in Montreal. Things have gone very well for him all things considered, with him still scoring at a point per game pace on his new team, and being able to help the team on a whole give strong performances. There were no real off the ice problems for the team and so I think all things considered it was a good year for both him and the team and one that he can use to try and build off with his new team as he unfortunately starts to feel the effects of regression during this offseason.



TASK 6
The IIHF tournament is always quite interesting just because there's so much variation and change each season, there's genuinely a lot of different directions the tournament is able to go in. One of the main constants is Canada always being a threat. That's not to say that they're nailed on winners, but given the player pool they have available to pick their squad from, they're always just about in the mix. They've got some huge names on their team in players like Theo Morgan, Matt Kholin and Gabriel Johnson, and to me they're a tough team to look past in any case just because they're always capable of causing problems. I would like to see someone like Finland doing well also, we've spent a long time not really living up to the standard we'd like to, so it'd be great to be able to come back into the medal round this season and try and get some hardware to take home with us.



TASK 7
As someone who has been around the league for way too long a time and definitely remembers the old sim and its foibles well, it would be interesting to have complete consistency across all sim engines. Currently, things are very hard to compare across eras of STHS alone, just because of the large variations within different versions of the sim meaning that there was little consistency over the years. I think it'd definitely have been a harder sell over the years getting people to buy in long term to the issues that we're seeing with FHM in terms of parity, wherein its pretty much always the same teams in contention with a couple outliers, and the status quo feeling very hard to disrupt, but I think that perhaps given more time with the sim engine its something that would have been corrected. I think for the overall health of the league its been good to have two different types of sim engine, its allowed the league to progress through the years and will hopefully mean that in future, there's even more room for growth and improvement.


TASK 17 - MILESTONES
Milestones (+3 TPE)

Total TPE: 12/16