1. 3 TPE
Verified

12. 3 TPE
+3 Milestones

13. 3 TPE
Well well well, I think I write about this exact topic for several seasons now. But it gives a good amount to write about, so let's do this. The Los Angeles Panthers of the Simulation Hockey League called SHL (haha just joking lol)...
So with lapping being a thing and being more successful than bapping this season, we got a new finalist in ages. Probably the most surprising finalist since I joined the league in S56. It really does seem that parity got fixed a little, but it still takes time. I'm still angry that bap didn't bap on to the finals, as my predictions were pretty much favoring them. But ok, that's another story. BAP ought to be the best team in the league by looking at the roster and players they have on, but they just can't make the finals. I think some other teams also showed flashes this season already, and you can see a decline of the once powerhouses. Well, Hamilton is a different story, as they again are in the finals, but I still believe they are doing some black magic to make it happen. Well, that being said, I hope Atlanta takes the stage soon and will make splashes coming playoffs soon.

14. 3 TPE
Rebuilds in the SHL take a really long time, you need patience to get them done. The team I want to concentrate on here never really has a rebuild to do, but a build up of a team. I am writing of the Atlanta Inferno, one of the expansion teams in S56 which do a pretty good job since they were chosen to join the league. They should be coming into a pretty good looking window soon, and have for some seasons now overperformed in the regular season. That is nothing to take away from them, as it seems the general managers are doing a pretty good job in game planning and strategy. Not too long ago they even made it to the semi finals, which was one of the most surprising things in the whole parity discussion, taking a glimpse to the dominating teams in the league. By now, they did some "tanking", but not really. They were always seen as a middle of the pack team and I think that's pretty impressive looking at the steep hill to climb for teams starting from scratch in the league. Soon their time will come.

15. 2 TPE
I have absolutely no idea how IIHF is going, but I'll try to give my expertise on things. No idea who is the top force at the moment, one would think USA, Canada, Sweden or maybe Japan. But I don't want to talk about them. Let's take a look at a smaller country and how they might fare in the tournament. I'm speaking of my one and only home country of schnitzel and beer, Austria. Austria is always looked as one of the worst country in the tournament, and a few season back it probably was deserved so. But took a few steps in the right direction and with a bit of luck are fighting for playoffs this season. They aren't too far behind of Russia, maybe even on the same level and also are close to their neighbour country Germany. It's not out of the world to see Austria in the playoffs this season, I'll be eager to see how things work out.

21. 2 TPE
I think it isn't really that hard to make the job of a PT director hard, as I imagine it's a pretty unthankful job. Every single user finds things they don't like, and a lot of users just like to complain about things. One thing that is coming back weekly are point tasks, and topics to write about. If someone doesn't like a topic, complain about it in several words rather than just write the 150 words on that topic. It's really not that hard to write about any given topic 150 words. What probably also makes a job unnecessarily difficult is if users hang in your dms all the time and beg you for grading the tasks and post them, so they can claim them. Is probably not the most motivational thing to a job either.