11. Written, 50 to 200+ words. One Season Closer to Retirement
One season behind all of us. How did your player perform compared to your expectations? What do you expect from next season? Are you being hit by regression so hard that anything close to this season's performance would be a win in your books? Or maybe you are reaching your peak, in either of the leagues and hope to compete for some awards?

This is Yuri Boyka III's second season in SMJHL and his expectations was to perform better than he did in his first season. His expectations were definitely realized as Yuri Boyka III did better in every single statistic. This was to be expected as Boyka came into the second season with a cap of 350 tpe. So it is only normal that he performed better on the ice. In Boyka's first season in SMJHL with Nevada Battleborn, he only amassed 46 points, but with more TPE coming into the second season, he was able to become a point per game player. He amassed 67 points and funnily enough did that with less time on the ice than he had during his first season. Boyka III also had a +/- of +38 and thus was a crucial asset to his team. He led the team in that category and thus was definitely a positive enforcement for them. In addition, he was also a better defensive player since he had more takeaways and less giveaways. Boyka III is no where near his peak and he will only get better. In fact, we expect him to do better next season as he will be playing at the SMJHL cap of 425 TPE. More tpe can only mean better performance. This year we don't expect any SMJHL individual awards but we are hoping we can achieve team success and individual success the upcoming season.

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7. This time for J: Who you got? Who wins the Four Star Cup? Why?

I wish Nevada Battleborn could have made it further this season but not all hopes come true. We started off as the best team in the league to only be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. This hurts a lot but no pain no gain. I am sure we will come back stronger and hungrier for the upcoming season. With that said the team that I am rooting for in the SMJHL finals is none other than the Ottawa Highlanders. The first reason why I am rooting for this team is because of the simple fact that they are from the same conference as Nevada. If anyone is going to win it, they better be from our conference. At the end of the day, we can brag that our conference is better than the oppositions. Second reason why am I going for Ottawa is because they have Hockey Player, who was drafted in the same draft class as me in s77 and we both ended up getting drafted to Winnipeg Aurora. He was selected 6th OA and I was selected 11 OA. Now to answer, who I think will realistically win the Four Star Cup between Ottawa and Vancouver? Now that is a tough one to answer but let's look at the stats. During the regular season, Ottawa ranked 5th and Vancouver ranked 6th so they were neck and neck. The 2 best player of the regular season from Ottawa are Pique Boo and Hockey Player who have 87 and 79 points respectively. This is far superior to Vasncouver's two best players Olafur Atlason and Niclas Wastlund who have 75 and 64 points respectively. Ottawa also boasts a better goal differential with +29 vs +7. Just by looking at regular season, Ottawa has the advantage. Now lets look at the playoff statistics. Ottawa won their games fairly easily and has 1 sweep in their games played. They also won against the season leaders pretty comfortably with a 4-2 series. Similarly, Vancouver also beat their opponents easily and amassed two sweeps. What is fascinating is that one of the sweep was against the former champions in Quebec Citadelle. Hockey Player and Pique Boo also fell in terms of production with only 12 points in the playoffs. In contrast, Niclas Wastlund stepped up huge for the whalers and amassed 19 points. Just based on momentum and the way Vancouver is playing as a whole, I realistically think that the Vancouver Whalers will be this year's Four Star Cup winner.

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