It's been a strange season for me. The days have all blended together and my involvement in the squad hasn't been what I wanted it to be. Not because of management, but rather because of off-ice issues. I've had a few run-ins with the law, and my mind's just been clouded. Too many things going on at once and I began to overload. To many fingers in too many different pies they all started to taste the same. Hopefully some time in rehabilitation will help. I just need a break from all this extraneous shit and I can focus on what's important; the ice. In any case, the organization has been helpful in getting me back on track and I cannot thank them enough. Soon I will be able to repay them, but until then I just need to get my nose back to the grindstone. My time will come, I'm sure of it.


I'm going to assume that with the pokeification of the SHL that brings along with it the Legendary category, so I'm going to fill my team with Tanakachu, Stinsomon, Goodyx, Windsaur, and Muellermence, and Vikstoise. This indomitable squad was favored by legendary Blizzard City Gym-Leader and member of the Northern Elite Four, Cole Reinhart. Fabled for it's impenetrable defensive coverage, if I'm going to follow in such an illustrious trainer's footsteps I've gotta take make the same strides. They'll be hard to find, and even harder to capture, but the defensive capabilities are too good to pass up. No one really approaches battles with a control style anymore so I think that would give me the upperhand on my way to collecting the Northern League badges. Along the way I might pick up a Jukkyu for potent debuffing and a Yosh for good vibes on my journey. They're cute little things.




Personally, and I say this absolutely from a personal standpoint disregarding any sound logic or reason, but my personal stance is that "everyone makes it" is insanely cringe just on its face and ostensibly makes the season somewhat less enjoyable and making playoffs less rewarding. I realize it isn't practical, because people would get bored of the sight or whatever if they're on a dogshit team or if they just barely miss they'll feel bad about it and it'll potentially decrease the interest newbies have in the league itself. This is just my personal opinion though and it's totally devoid of objective reasoning. I realize, like I said, that it isn't really feasible, but I'd like it better if it were.


I expect Japan to do very well in this upcoming IIHF tournament. They've gone through a lot of growth not just over the last few seasons, but between this season and last and they played extremely well in their last outing. I expect them to build and improve on that result and pretty soundly wind this season's tournament. It'll be pretty interesting, however, to see if anyone around them has also gone through any marked improvement. Japan's a group of returning stars that's gotten much better, but it's also possible for some hidden gems to show up in the same way they themselves did and play bracket buster. As far as players go, I expect Ryuuji Minamino to pop off as he usually does. I'm not saying this from any point of logic, just that I actually don't know who the good players are and I assume he's good because I think he has been in the past. We'll see.


Hugo would almost certainly have been worse off in the STHS era versus now. Goalies kinda don't seem to matter much as far as their builds go but the opposite was true in the STHS era. At least insofar as you can get away with a lot less now in terms of activity to performance ratio than you could back then. I don't think any sub 1300tpe goalies were getting any accolades that I remember, you kind of had to stack tpe and get juiced stats at like the right ratios or whatever it was. JY always made it seem like some 400IQ type shit so I really am just talking out of my ass but I can tell you I could get much further with this amount of tpe now than I could then. I can say that for sure. As for my other players, well I think JRT would have been god-tier anyway. Maybe even moreso in FHM. The rest would have sucked in any version.









MVP should go to Elizabeth Doyle. I don't know if it did or not, you got me twisted if you think I'm lookin that shit up, but she kinda popped off in net. I respect it. Maybe I'm a little biased because we're both netminders, but that kinda average and save percentage is kinda wild especially looking at the field. She absolutely played better than every other goalie that suited up and it's not even close. Actually, it might be close, I don't actually know I didn't really look into that deep. In any case, big wins, big save percent, big goals against average, she's got my vote on all counts.



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