17. Milestones: 3 TPE

DEFENSE
Goals -> 11 or more (15)
Assists -> 25 or more (47)
Points -> 41 or more (62)
+/- -> +19 or higher (37)
Penalty Minutes -> 18 or fewer (18)
Shots on goal -> 167 or more (257)
Takeaways -> 22 or more (29)
Shots Blocked -> 68 or more (68)
Powerplay Points -> 4 or more (22)

16. Date Luke: 2 TPE

It was sure nice of Luke to let me keep my ill gotten gains from my heist of the SHL. His condition was a bit weird though. Especially when we consider that over 200 people completed this heist simultaneously. Luke is not gonna have to pay for a meal on his own accord for almost a calendar year, so that's a good play on his part, props. Since I want to keep as much as my money as possible I take Luke to Wendy's and we each get a 4 for 4. I figure it's still a date so it satisfies his demands, and I'm banking on someone just standing him up or something so my date won't end up being the worst. Forgotten in mediocrity: my life's motto!

129 wc

1. Crazy Season: 3 TPE

It was a season for the Christmas card one way or another for Anchorage's Gregory Goode. The defenseman had to deal with his identity being stolen among several other peculiarities. Let's just say that for this hockey player, hockey was often on the back burner while dealing with several other more pressing issues. Not to say it was an entirely bad season, however. In fact it was quite the opposite as Gregory Goode lit up the SMJHL for one last season. In his swan song Goode erupted for 62 points, tied for 7th in the league. Not bad for a defenseman! Unfortunately the storyboook season wasn't meant to be as the Armada lost in the finals to Nefoundland, but as he gets ready for the next big step in his career, to San Francisco, Goode can't help but smile as he looks back on his juniors career, identity theft and all.

151 wc

2. PokeSHL: 3 TPE

PokeSHL, sounds great in theory, right? Well let me tell you how wrong you truly are. Meet the ice type. Several nifty Pokemon are the ice type such as Lapras, Articuno, Kyurem, and my favorite ice type Froslass. That's where the fun ends, let's go over some not so fun ice type facts. 1) Ice type is the rarest type in Pokemon, rarer than literal dragons or ghosts. But not only that but ice types are known far and wide for their awful defensive typing. Of the 18 Pokemon types, ice only resists itself. That's awful. That means 17 other types of moves hit it for either super effective or normal damage. Normal types also take normal or super effective damage from 17 types, but at least their 18th is an immunity to ghost, not just a resistance. Ice is super effective on 4 types, which is pretty sick, but defense wins championships or something.

Where was I going with this? Oh, yes. Since we're all ICE hockey players, I'd imagine everyone would be at least part ice type, which as I just covered would probably suck. So to answer your question I think I'd be in it like I was with Pokemon Go, just be in it to catch them all and fill my Pokedex, everything else I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.

226 wc

3. Freaky Friday: 3 TPE

If I woke up one day in someone from Buffalo or Chicago's body I'd go out and play the best damn game of hockey possible. You see my reasoning is simple: I'd imagine it's like the movie where it's a one for one swap, meaning of course that when I see myself in their body they will no doubt see themselves in my body. As a player in the SMJHL finals, my body too would be in a super important game, so I guess it's like a downsideless prisoner's dilemma. I play my brains out to help their team secure the win and they do the same, thinking that I would do that thing what which I just said I would do. I suppose I could be betrayed however, and the new me would mess me up or something, but I'd like to think we're all adults here and that wouldn't happen. I suppose worst case scenario I could just hope the Anchorage Newfoundland game is before the Chicago-Buffalo game. I could see how SHLer in Goode's body holds up their end, and if they try their best I will return the favor in kind, but if they don't then I can throw the game then.

206 wc

5. SMJHL Playoffs: 2 TPE

We gotta change the SMJHL playoff system. I don't know too much about FHM so I'm not gonna pretend like I know the exact answer, but I was just in 4 straight finals in Junys and none of those times was it the best team against the 2nd best. Now, sometimes upsets happen yes, but it was because of a fundamental flaw built into the reseeding system, where often 1v2 was a semi-finals matchup, often incredibly exciting, and then the 4 star cup finals are just a steamrolling of one team by the higher seed. I think we gotta change it to a system that does not include reseeding. My ideal would still be to have all teams make the playoffs, just to keep juniors attentive and interacting with the site, but if it is a case of one or the other, there's no way in hell I'm choosing everyone making the playoffs over ditching reseeding.

156 wc

16/16 TPE