Task 1: 3 TPE

Verification word: Trivia

Task 5: 3 TPE

in the current Simulation Hockey League playoffs setup, teams start their playoffs run against another team in their division. In theory, this could be a good way to both fuel some rivalries and ensure that we dont get semi finals with just four good teams from one division like we had in the old great lakes days. However, in practice this leads to teams playing each other for 4-7 games in a row, after already faceing eachother an ungodly number of times during the regular season as well. So rather than adding an interesting layer, we get more of the same old stuff. Especially if it leads to teams playing the exact same round 1 matchup for multiple seasons in a row. I can tell you, having to face the Winnipeg Aurora for 3 or 4 seasons in a row during round one got real old real fast for us and did absolutely nothing to spark a rivalry or make it interesting in any other way.

Task 11: 2 TPE

My IIHF home country is Switzerland. At the time of creation of my first player (Cal Labovitch, S52) the Swiss federation didnt have a ton of active players, so I had a shot at making the team pretty fast (IIRC I played IIHF before I got to play a single SMJHL game). It was also a European country, and not a "traditional" hockey country (tho RL Swiss team is pretty dope too). By the time I recreated, I was rooted so deeply in the team that I didnt feel like leaving and finding a new federation, so I decided to stick around and make Julian Swiss too.