Buster


If I had to change one moment in SHL history, I think I would change a recent moment that had a massive impact on the league. After Hamilton exploited the sim and New Orleans countered them in the finals, we changed the sim engine from Simon T to FHM. I personally would keep the old Simon T sim engine instead of switching. This would cause teams to get even more creative in a relatively simple system to try and get an upper hand. Would we honestly have seen any massive changes that could have become new metas? Likely not. I think we would've seen teams go scoring only. I would have liked a couple more seasons to see the counters though. Maybe a team only updates defensive stats and goes into a shell? Maybe passing only becomes the counter meta. In this situation, we still would have changed sim engines within the next couple seasons but who knows what could have been.



To me, the draft class that had the greatest impact on the SHL wasn't one listed in the question. Without a doubt in my mind, the most important draft class is the S20 draft class. This class was the original Reddit class. In an attempt to get a massive season for the upcoming anniversary, the SHL made a massive recruiting push on Reddit, going after a ton of different subreddits to drive up interest. This worked out and it worked out big time. A ton of Hall of Famers were in that draft. Bojo was in that draft class who still fundamentally changes the way we use the SHL. This draft was the one who changed how GMs draft. They now plan for Reddit drafts in order to maximize their prospect pool. Drafts can have impacts but I just don't see how any draft can have a bigger impact player or personal wise than the S20 draft.



11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

As per usual, I am on the awards committee so I don't want to show my hand too much. Instead of giving the player who will have my vote in the end, I will highlight a couple players who showed up and showed out this playoffs. Hamilton had 2 leaders. Theo Morgan put up 11 goals and 26 points for the Hawks while Mitchell van der Heijden scored 16 assists and 25 points. I can't see how anyone could vote for a player who aren't one of these two. You could make an outside argument for the lieks of Wilson and Scarn but I think Morgan and MVDH were far and away the MVPs of the Hawks.



I'm going to go a little off the board here and not pick the team who I think will be the next team to break into the playoffs. Rather, I'm going to pick the team who I think will be the best future rebuild. The team who will rebuild the best and have a future powerhouse will be the Manhattan Rage. Manhattan decided to blow things up a couple weeks back with the future in mind. Thankfully they have a head start by having one of the best goalies in the league in Name Redacted but they have added some massive pieces in the draft. Robert E Speedwagon, Robert Black, Moose are some of the people they've added to their pool and will all be future superstars. This team has a very bright future and with general managers like JayWhy and CoA at the helm, it is very easy to see why you should have this opinion.



I think for the most part Slash, you've done a good job. The PT head job isn't an easy one and I think you've had a lot of unfair criticism thrown your way. I think honestly your biggest error so far is the focus on what I like to call “fun” PTs or anything that is an out there concept. I think those tasks are fun but I think they are fun to a point. I don't think we should have 5 tasks a season but all 5 of them are “fun” tasks like the pills task. I think a couple of them a season should be hockey focused, a couple fun and make a mixed bag.



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