If I could be inside the body of another player, it’d be a tough choice to not pick Elizabeth Doyle. However I will instead pick @neonlime and have the biggest carbs load of all time day of the game. First starting with a bowl of cheerios that has been sitting in whole fat milk for about 3 hours ensuring that they’re as soft as can be. Breakfast has been taken in through a straw, then it’ll be brunch, eating plain slices of toast that was overly toasted to the point of clearly being burnt but left in the fridge to cool off. So cold, burnt toast as a snack. Then as a pre-game warmup, I’d look to ask somebody to tie myself up in bondage esque knots to remove all flexibility from Harrington’s body. Then as a pre game meal, there can only be one choice: mac and cheese with ketchup. In fact there’s more ketchup than mac and cheese. After that, I wouldn’t do anything and let Lime back into his body.



I’ve voted for the option to have 8 teams in out of the 14 teams and to a degree, still stand by that idea. On one hand, being on teams that haven’t made the playoffs in other sim leagues, I can fully appreciate the feelings of missing out, seeing others continue to play and have their shot. As it is right now, for everybody making it, it does take away the first round from appreciating being where they are to being taken for granted. In a format where the 8 teams make it, being left of the playoffs will only make the eventual appearance in the postseason that much more satisfying and noteworthy.



With how the standings are at the moment, it’s a little bit of both a surprise and isn’t that Norway and Finland are dominating as much as they are. Both teams have solid pieces in place from great top end players, solid depth and members in management who have had success on winning teams in the SHL. Yet on Finland’s side, this is a bit of an unexpected step so far as they have underachieved in the past and arguably could be seen as over performing for the time being. Norway on the other hand is showing their 2nd straight season of being a dominant team so there’s some historical reference being built with every win that they get.



a. Easy bias here to say that both Chicago and Buffalo deserve to be here. As much it must be frustrating to be on the other side and view either of these organizations simply pick up additional assets at minimal costs, the teams that manage to slowly weigh the value in their favor consistently in positive manner are the ones who typically come out more often than not. Some anomalies exist out side of this in regards to sim knowledge/luck but it at least puts you in the position to have that chance.
b. I would go with Buffalo. Some of it is due to the low speed of improvement/falling with how the previous salary cap system worked, FHM's relatively predictable nature but as mentioned, the collection of assets and value for your organization, making the most of picks, trades etc are symptoms of a extremely well run organization. And I hate it.


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