Prompt 1:
I think as a GM there's always more tension and anticipation as you put in so much time and effort into building the team and getting them testing and simming as well as they can be. A close game that I can recall is a game 7 playoff game against the Kelowna Knights the season they won the cup. It was the quarterfinals and the Whalers miraculously had a 3-2 series lead heading into Game 6 which they lost. This forced a game 7 where I believe the Whalers were up by 2 goals before the Knights came storming back in the 3rd period to win the game in OT. Although the Whalers weren't expected to have pushed the Knights that far, it was still tense regardless as co-GM at the time. This actually mirrored another tense game were the Toronto North Stars pushed the Buffalo Stampede to a Game 7 OT in the semi-finals before getting knocked out. Similarly, it's having the lead which makes the heartbreak more intense, but this time I was just a middling player on the team.