Answering for Prompt 2:

Honestly, this gives me a great opportunity to talk about Vaseline Podcalzone's absolutely zany rookie season with the Newfoundland Berserkers. Pod spent most of the season watching as the absolute legends in the same sweater as him dominated the play and led the Berserkers to glory. I mean, you had the absolute legends that were Ryuuji Minamino and Steve Harrington co-captaining this team. That's literally as reassuring as it gets, and you also had Mats Marner breaking out as one of the most lethal third year players. This team outslugs everyone else en route to a regular season championship and a second round bye. They quickly sweep the expansion Quebec City Citadelles in four games to throw the gauntlet against the Carolina Kraken, who they faced off against in the conference finals last season as well. The series goes to 7 games, you help with like one assist or something like that, basically doing nothing to help. Then get to the Four Star Cup final, fight twice in the series, and once again have your teammates carry you to a championship over Maine.

Basically for Pod, it was just sit back and watch his team carry him to a chip.