2. Looking Towards the Future
As we near the end of S71, the SMJHL draft will be happening soon. Going into next season, what are your team's biggest needs and areas of strength? Do any holes need to be filled with call-ups? Do you have a position that is incredibly stacked? Give us all an overview of your team, from top to bottom.

Quite honestly the Kraken are looking great as an entire roster with an absolutely stacked rookie class of Defensive players(Lazer Gato, Westley Kirkpatrick, Sith Happens) and a few veteran Forwards(Timo Lambert, Alexej Kastrba) I don’t think there really is a true need on the roster at the moment. However, those Forwards are getting older and likely get called up sooner than later, so if the team did want to make some moves selling out right now for draft picks in this coming class to replace soon to be call ups could be the right call. If we can pair some stellar rookie Forwards to age alongside what might be the best young defensive core in the Juniors, then Carolina could be looking at a 2-3 year window where we can compete for the cup every season. That being said, my personal motto is slow but steady wins the race, and I don’t think selling out the future is the right move. Ideally we continue to stick with our picks and keep adding 2-3 members to the roster every season, that still puts us in a good spot competitively without ensuring a tank season in the near future after we lose our S72 defensive core. Regardless I have full faith in Frenchie and Seven and their vision!

7. Winner Winner Chicken
At the end of the day, what we all really strive for is the Four Star Cup. It takes everyone's best efforts, an unrelenting determination to win and hard work to be able to hoist the glorious trophy. Out of the 12 teams in playoffs, who do you think will win the 4 Star Cup? Are you going for the clear favorites, or the underdogs? Give reasons to justify your prediction.

Carolina is most certainly the underdog when it comes to the playoffs this season. Slotting in at 6th in the standing we’ve got our work cut out for us if we want to raise the cup! I’d say the odds on favorites to win it all are either Maine or Nevada who both sport well balanced rosters and the regular season wins to back the claim. Nevada seems especially tough with star forwards Alekss Ivanova and Bender Junior having both tallied over 50 goals during regular season play. But let me tell you why the Kraken just might be this year's Cinderella story. Yes by the standing we were only able to rack up 34 wins, but we did that with a roster loaded with true rookies who have only developed more and more over the course of the season. Future all pro Westly Kirkpatrick slots in at Right Defense and an impressive 287 TPE, not to mention a shameless plug for my own player Lazer Gato here sitting at 292 TPE.  The defensive duo combined with rookie goalie Sith Happens(258 TPE) is sure to give opposing offenses a true underdog fight this offseason. Will it be enough to win it all? Well if the Kraken sweep of Detroit in the first round isn’t a sign of things to come you might just need to get your vision checked!


15. Charity Drive
Professional hockey players are among the luckiest members of a community, but not everyone is given the same opportunities. As such, many players are expected to give back to the community by volunteering their time and energy off the ice with various charitable organizations. Write about a charity or event that your player helped out with.

Oh man this is a no brainer slam dunk for my player! Lazer Gato, being a Cat with Lazer eyes of course, has decided to give back to the animal community! He’ll be spending plenty of time this offseason volunteering at the humane society making kitten biscuits to help feed starving animals. Really though I’d urge everyone to donate to your city's humane society if you can spare a few SHL sim bucks. Gato will be hosting adopt a kitten events every Saturday this offseason, even kitten you adopt enters you into a raffle where you can win a number of Carolina Kraken memorabilia and hockey equipment signed by the Lazer Cat himself and other members of the Kraken roster. If that isn’t enough to convince you perhaps you might just be interested in spending some quality time with a cat with none of the long term commitment. Gato will also be opening a Cat Cafe to help foster cats and find them new homes! Drop on in for a nice coffee and give a cat a nice scratch behind the ears while you’re there. 100% of all the cafe profits will go back into helping pets find their forever home. Who knows you might just find the right cat for you!

16. Goals
Although your career may still be in its early stages, it's still a great time to think about the future. What are some goals you have for your career, or some personal goals for the site? Are you striving for a HOF induction? Getting a site job?

Lazer Gato’s isn’t the type of player to have his eyes on the long game. After all being a cat means his attention span is incredibly short(note to opposing teams please do not bring a laser pointer to Kraken games it’s incredibly rude and distracting). So just looking one season forward his goals are right there in the title of this prompt, he wants to score at least more than 5 Goals and ideally have a better shooting percentage than 3.23%!! In all seriousness I’m looking to be as much of a team player as possible so the statlines are irrelevant to me as long as what Gato is doing helps the team in some form, even if that means riding the bench and cheering the team on! To put it another way, with 38 of my 43 points coming from assists, those 5 goals were absolutely not worth the potential glory of 150 missed shots this season.  As Lazer Gato always says, you miss 100% of the shots that you miss. So in short my goal is to be a team player, continue to earn TPE, and hopefully not go inactive! If I’m fortunate enough to win some awards or a championship along the way that’s just a little extra on top.