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This season I found myself on the third line playing wing with Mats Soderberg and Ryuuji Minamino. It is a lot of fun to play with a former goal scoring leader and an up and coming stud like Mats. And while Ryuuji and I have both lost a step in the last few seasons, Mats keeps us moving playing with pace and their general commitment to playing the game the right way. We had a decent amount of success this year playing a strong 200 foot game. When you are on the back half of your career and you are playing a depth role, it is important to be reliable and minimize mistakes. We didn’t generate a significant amount of offense but that’s OK. We get pucks in deep and keep our opponents frustrated having to play in their own zone all night long. It’s probably one of my favorite lines I’ve been a part of in Chicago.


An Aurora is one of the most incredible and misunderstood occurrences in the entire universe. People all around the world can’t quite understand how the air and coloring is so frequently turned into this beautiful sight to behold. And while you might think that because of its beauty that an Aurora isn’t the most ferocious opponent, you would be wrong. In fact, what makes an Aurora so strong and powerful is that it is all encompassing and impossible to capture. And while the Forge is a strong, fiery and powerful force to be reckoned with, it is no match for the bear of colorful light and wind that blows all around it. The Aurora will simply snuff out the hottest fires of the Forge with a swift gust and the speed of air all around. The power of fire is no match for the air that is there to extinguish it. The Aurora are a valiant competitor and the stronger of the two.



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The playoffs over the course of the last few seasons have been a pretty good mix of newer blood and stronger older, established franchises making their push to lift the Challenge Cup. And while most would have thought that both Winnipeg and Philadelphia were the top two teams in their respective conferences coming into the year, that doesn’t mean that their trip to the finals made this year’s playoffs a bummer. In fact, Philadelphia winning the cup has been a bit of fun. It’s a new logo at the top of the page for the first time since I rejoined the site. Seeing a team that I’ve never known to be a Challenge Cup contender make it all the way to the top of the league is pretty cool to me.




I recently had an opportunity to visit one of my oldest friends that I haven’t seen in more than 3 years since the pandemic began. We both moved away from home for work related endeavors in 2019. And while my buddy went southwest to Tennessee, I went to the mid-atlantic to live in Virginia. And while we both were settled in our new locations for a number of months before the pandemic shut down most travel, we didn’t make a visit to see one another a priority. Well, after both of us have subsequently moved AGAIN, we finally made it work. My buddy has settled now into a new place in Florida and I had the opportunity to take a few days off of work to travel down from Boston to play a few rounds of golf and enjoy the sunshine with him and his brother. A big win in what has been a long winter here up north!