+2 TPE - S71 Milestones - Marton Diehm




Obviously it’s Erik Bergmark, first of the S68 class (and my Ireland teammate) to make the All Star Game! Our class is absolutely stacked, with more than twenty of us going to be over 1000 TPE to start S72. In the next few seasons, a ton of us (I mean, probably not me, but a lot of my friends in the class) are going to be teaming up and squaring off in the spectacle of the ASG. And you know we’re gonna make it a spectacle. Put the S68 group on the ice together and watch the stream pop off as we show up to support and rag on each other.

But Erik is the first one of us to make it, likely Rookie of the Year winner, too. And the thing with sports is: You always want to be the one winning. That’s what we’re here for right? You want all the trophies piling up till you have to buy a bigger place to store them all. But we’re people first before we’re hockey players, and that means friends are more important than awards. So when your buddy does well, you go celebrate that like it deserves. Way to go Erik!




Obviously it was Edmonton who stacked the ballot box this year (fair play, Tex had the big push last season). And I ain’t mad at it, cuz they did have a good season, though the sweep of us in the first round felt a little bit unfair because we are not that bad, no way, no how. Still, bygones be bygones and all that. I don’t know much about Luca but stats are decent enough.
Want to give a shout out to Luke Laraque though. Mostly because I swapped for him early in the fantasy season and ended up taking first in my group. For a few days, I was net negative on the swap and feeling pretty salty. But he got his stuff together and ultimately put me over the top. That definitely makes him an All Star in my book.
But also: over in the SSL, I’ve been carrying the corpse of Luke Laraque around as a goalkeeper for the past three seasons. I understand blix didn’t want to come back to that league but he didn’t retire and that let me prop him up Weekend at Bernie’s style between the posts until we could find a young keeper to fill his shoes. We’ll be moving on from Laraque after this season, but he’s served me well in SSL and Fantasy, so all my thanks.