This was quite an eventful year indeed but I feel like I was able to ignore the distractions and focused on playing the best I could, which resulted in the second-best season of my career. So maybe it wasn't all that bad. Except I, along with many hamilton players, lost almost all my money after investing in the Gooney capital hedge fund. Gooney told us that stocks always go up and Blackberry was the next big thing. Blackberry was literally 100% of the Gooney capital portfolio. Never mind that gooney missed the GME bubble, blackberry shares took a nosedive immediately after we invested in it. After ghosting us for a few weeks, Gooney liquidated his position and ran away with our money. I am financially ruined now. :sadge: Future is not looking bright, my player is old and is declining fast. I opted out of my contract and asked Hamilton for a 10x3 deal, let's see what they'll say.


No one would argue that user retention is the most important thing for the j but competition definitely helps with that as well. It's been a long time since I played in juniors, but I feel like the regular season is not very interesting when every team makes the playoffs, so I would take the best 12 teams. I'm assuming there are 14 teams in the j, so that means only 2 teams miss the playoffs, which is probably a good compromise. One argument for all teams making it is that longer offseasons hurt retention which is probably true, but with how fhm is, bottom teams probably have no chance of advancing to the second round so it only extends their season by a couple of days.


As always, I expect Canada to do well. I mean, not as always, because I don't think we made it past the round robin last season kekw. But this is probably our absolute peak because we have a lot of season 46/47 players who are getting hit hard by the 15% regression and there aren't a lot of top tier prospects to replace them (I might be wrong tho, Idk). I feel like anything short of the gold medal would be a disappointment, I don't expect any of the Canada players to do well individually though lmao. Our roster seems so deep, so no one will get a lot of ice time, which is why I picked players from smaller nations for my iihf fantasy roster. Players like Michael Scarn, Martijn Westbroek, Elijah Jones will be relied on heavily by their teams and should have an impressive tournament. But as for which teams will medal, probably Canada, USA, GB again unless teams like Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, etc can upset them.


I think the finals mvp should be one of the Chicago forwards. Oh wait, they choked another playoff series lead again lmao, and what a way to do it. Anyway, the finals mvp should probably be either Elizabeth Doyle or Steve Harrington. It's difficult to make a deep playoff run without a hot goalie and Doyle was one of the best goalies in these playoffs, including the finals. Harrington scored a hat-trick in game 7 which alone is enough to make him one of the candidates for finals mvp, he was one of the best buffalo forwards overall in this series too. But If I had to vote I would probably vote for Doyle I think.


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