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+3 TPE: 3 total


Well I’m answering this after the cup finals have taken place, but I would have easily taken Seattle over Manhattan and did not expect this to be as close as it was. Seattle just had a far superior roster after adding Anton Mihailov, Luukas Lilja, Jimmy Wagner, and Jonas Kahnwald to the team over the previous offseason. I was skeptical they would make the finals as the West was really strong, but I had no notions that they would lose if they faced an Eastern team.


Lev Lebedev is the beginning and end to this answer. In the first three rounds, he was absolutely unstoppable and while he had a strong supporting cast in Tomas Lind and Robert E O Speedwagon, his performance is incredible and without him, Manhattan does not make the finals. Another player I will praise is Name Redacted’s stellar goaltending. He led the playoffs with a 0.921 Sv% and had the most saves of the playoffs by far.


I don’t think that extra hockey really makes a difference normally, however I know the finals schedules usually see one less off day if series go long so that could favor Seattle over Manhattan if it gets that far since the Argonauts do have a lot higher stamina than the Rage overall.


This is actually really surprising to see across the board. All of the final four teams had very high PDO ratings and it kind of seems that luck is playing a much larger factor in the playoffs as it once did. It certainly could be tactics, but I am not as certain that is the case. Obviously, Manhattan’s luck finally ran out and Seattle was able to win with 7 players with a PDO of 105 or higher.

+4 TPE: 7 total


This is a pretty depressing answer when it’s my own team once again, but obviously the President’s Trophy winning Winnipeg Aurora not making the finals has to be the answer.  After defeating their first and second round opponents handily, they struggled against the eventual champion Seattle Argonauts, losing in six games.  As the oldest player on the team I guess I can answer I think I deserved to get a cup to my name, but there’s still time and this team is still growing and if I have it right, we will be the highest TPE team next season so we should be favorites again.  But, for long time users without cups, I’d say Kaapo Kampainen and Noel Blanchet really deserve one as they both have never been on a team with one and I hope we can all win one together soon.  I believe that the team will take this experience and go into next season having learned from it and finally get to the cup finals after a very lengthy drought.

+3 TPE: 10 total


Ethan Duncan Milestones

+3 TPE: 13 total


Well it’s no surprise that my team is doing poorly.  We have multiple sub-1100 TPE players playing on the powerplay, which hasn’t happened during my entire career on USA.  In my opinion, the organization’s best days are behind them.  I’m excited to see the Scandinavian nations as all of them have been on the rise for some time and seem to all be turning into powerhouses.  The emergence of Russia surprises me, but I shouldn’t be.  This is the peak year for the Petrovs and with names like Pablo Salvatici, Puddles O’Duck, Vaseline Podcalzone, and Jay Cue all leading the way I should not be surprised that this team has turned into quite a force.  But, until they fall, I consider team Sweden as the team to beat.  They have an incredible lineup and I’m really not surprised they went unbeaten in the round robin.  As for my player?  I didn’t have a lot of expectations since I’m about halfway down the depth chart, but I wasn’t expecting to be dead last in points on the team.  Just the luck of the draw sometimes.

+3 TPE: 16 total