1. The citizens of Detroit are avid animal lovers and with the recent wildfires in British Columbia there are a lot of displaced falcons.  To that end the team is repurposing their fan appreciation night for a great cause.  The team will be giving the first 5000 fans in attendance their own falcon and a code to redeem the 'Idiot's Guide to Falconing'.  Each of the gifted falcons will be animals whose homes were burned down in the fires.  This of course in lieu of the commemorative hats the team was planning on giving out when the Maine Timber come to town.  They depicted a falcon felling a fur tree and with the aforementioned wildfire situation the public relations department decided that giving away clothing depicting the complete and utter destruction of a forest.  The giveaway will however still be happening the next time that the Maine Timber come into town to get their asses beat.

2. After this season Detroit will officially have no active players outside of the S72 class.  Keeping that in mind the roster holes are virtually everywhere.  We have one solid defenseman and two forwards.  That's not even enough to fill the ice.  The only strong position on the roster is in net.  Wayne Holloway played admirably last year and continues to develop.  I have no reservations about his continued success.  Zedward, Trevor, and The Murray will all be rock stars in the SMJHL but they just need help.  Detroit is in the position that just any warm body will make the team better.

3. With such a young team and no 425 eligible active players on the roster the Detroit Falcons will need to resort to pretty drastic tactics to win games.  Tapping into The Murray's past experience as a member of the world's best crime gang to sabotage opponents was the best decision the team could have made.  The team's win total jumped from almost none all the way up to a few when the decision was announced.  Right out the gate the tunnel from the visitor's locker room to the ice will now be tilted at a fifteen degree angle.  Hopefully implementing that change will cost at least one ankle this season.  From there The Murray has had heat lamps installed over the visitor's crease for periods one and three.  They will be off for the second period of course, but I hope that the opposing goalies know how to swim and packed their swim trunks.

7. With The Murray's tenure prior to the draft as a member of a Maine Timber team that made the finals and ultimately got swept in that series I will admit some bias in their favor when I make this prediction.  Don't let my biases distract from the numbers though.  The Timber were a strong team from puck drop on the first game of the season to the final whistle on game sixty six.  They finished atop the standings with 107 points.  Nevada was the only other team to finish with more than 100 points this past season so sure that isn't the most convincing argument for Maine.  Well I've got a few more for you because no matter how you look at it the Timber are at worst a top 2 team in a number of statistical categories.  Looking at stats related to the goals scored this past season they were also on top of the league with a plus 158 differential.  Nevada was again in second place, but over 40 back from Maine.  Interestingly enough both teams finished within 5 goals scored over the course of the season.  The true differentiator between Maine and anyone else is their stifling defense.  They allowed only 173 goals all season.  To put some of this into perspective Detroit allowed more than twice as many goals all season with over 350! The Timber will dominate these playoffs like they dominated the regular season and finish with a four-star cup.

14. In the offseason The Murray stays in Kelowna.  After escaping from the jungle he doesn't have much of a home to go to and with the career criminal situation his friends are difficult to track down.  Offseasons are spent staying in shape and exploring the great outdoors of British Columbia hiking and camping.


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