1. Probably the worst thing to happen to Jonathon Hagan over the course of this past season was his incredibly slow start to the season. While the Outlaws had their share of success on the ice, it took Hagan over 2/3rds of the season to match his points total from his rookie year. To make matters worse, he played even better down the stretch, only to find his team unable to win a game while he was performing well. This seemingly continued in the playoffs, with the Outlaws only winning a single game where Hagan scored a point, and Hagan in face led the entire team in goals with 2, as the Outlaws were bounced from the playoffs in seven games. Things are looking up for this next season though, as he improves his game, and hopefully leaves a lot of off-ice crises in his rearview mirror. The bright side of the upcoming season is the powerful roster that Anaheim is boasting going into it.

6. My incredibly expert predictions for this season's IIHF tournament, being made smack-dab in the middle of the tournament, are that Norway and Sweden will fight for control of Group A, with Team USA sliding into the third spot. For Group B, Finland and Canada will battle it out to see who can beat up on poor Latvia more. Daniel LaForest of Norway will lead the tournament in both goals and points, Andreas Kvalheim and Akira Ren will, for some reason, fight in international play, which is an automatic ejection, and because they are crazy enough to fight at Worlds, will win their fights. By the end of the tournament, I see Team USA coming out on top, backed up by a solid netminding performance from Strom Chamberlain. In second place will be Sweden, coming up just short of their fellow Group A members, and in third place will be Canada, because USA will smack them around in the semifinals, and then Canada will exact revenge upon Japan for such a national embarassment.

12. a. Both of these teams are only here based upon an incredible amount of luck. Corey, in his position as something or another, has rigged the sim! I'm kidding, obviously. Buffalo has had a stacked team for literal years now, and Chicago has done well to build themselves a solid contender. At the end of the day, both teams deserve it, as they're the complete packages in terms of being able to win the Cup.
b. The continued dominance of Buffalo is more impressive to me. Don't get me wrong, Chicago having built their team up is a feat, but it's also been 15 seasons since expansion. If they hadn't made a deep run or two by now, I would be concerned. For Buffalo to be able to dominate in the league for this long is incredible.
c. The Syndicate's colors remind me of Boston, and I dislike Boston greatly. Anytime I've looked at their jerseys in the past, I get distinct Bruins vibes from them based off of the colors alone. That's not to say they're bad jerseys, because they aren't, but I just can't do the Bruins color scheme.
d. Aron Hernadivic is the best player currently on Buffalo. If you want to talk about pure offensive filth, then look no further. He scored 92 points over the course of the season. 41 goals and 51 assists. I mean that is just outrageous numbers for a 66 game season. A few more bounces and you could be talking about him breaking 100 points in 66 games, which would be incredible.

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