1. Trivia (3 TPE)
verification word: yessir

6. Grab Bag (4 TPE)
a) I buy into this strategy 100%. Your best players are the ones that play the most even in balanced attacks for a reason, so if you can by any means get them on the ice more without extreme fatigue, then its worth it. Make your bottom players fight tooth and nail to take ice time away from the best of the best. (62 words)

b) Passing. You need to spread the Hamilton defence as much as possible, and shooting won't do it. Unless you can fire off low rebound shots to generate high danger scoring opportunities, you need to cycle the puck and get your snipers in the right positions. No offence without strong passing and positioning. (52 words)

c) Stay away from hyper defensive players and roles, and run your 2-way game. You will get scored on slightly more, but you need a strong counter attack to build momentum and keep the opponents at bay and their confidence low. If I'm Hamilton, I'm putting out the counterattacking forwards and the up and down wingers to keep the offence going while having a team defence that you can't take for granted. (71 words)

d) No easy saves. Stop firing low % perimeter shots and bad shots at the chest and keep their save counts low. Stop them from getting dialed in, stop them from staying confident. If you only take shots that you think have a solid chance of going in, or great rebound shots to generate offence, you can keep the sv% down and less shots will disengage them and lower confidence. (69 words)

13. Parody (3 TPE)
The solution to parity is not here yet, because we haven't employed a solution yet. Thinking parity will go away on its own is foolish and leads to HAM winning yet another challenge cup. The FHM knowledge gap remains and despite new regression HAM is still a powerhouse, and this does nothing to stop the SMJHL's lack of parity with NL that is going nowhere. I believe that AI coaches would be a great solution and would make GMing more realistic and allow for more focus to be put on the team's LR and asset management, as well as assisting the team with updates/regression or anything they need help with. AI coaches would definitely bring parity, but how they would be implemented would be pivotal to first impressions, or anything like that. Only problem is minutes could be an issue, but I'm sure a solution could be found otherwise alternative solutions would be necessary. (155 words)

18. zzSnoop Lionzz (3 TPE)
Nothing changes, goalie teeps don't matter . But actually, the offensive defenceman meta would be unleashed. 5 man attacks would be the only way to score consistently, so all teams with offensive defenders would instantly excel. Middling forward TPE would matter less and only superstar levels of TPE would matter, and it would be pretty much all tactics and brute force to score. Cycling the puck would be a necessity, and as long as your defensive positioning and defensive read stats were decent you could easily defend. Parity would be achieved as HAM's builds begin to crumble as the offensive D man meta begins, but as soon as the rebuilding teams build their offensive defencemen up from the beginning, they would dominate for a while until other teams can draft offensive D and turn them into stars. Forwards would be the same, only needing offensive stats like passing and getting open to score. (152 words)

12. Milestones (3 TPE)

Total TPE: 16/16