Prompt 11 286 words 4 TPE
This was far and away the peak of Mary Hollywood's SHL career so far. One can only imagine that Mary is pleased with how she performed. However, it's a bittersweet feeling as she looks back on how the season went. If you were to look at her season through an optimistic lens, which no one could fault you for doing, you'd see a tremendous career high in production across the board. You'd also have no choice but to take note of the fact that Mary was named captain of the Regina Elk after incumbent Troy McClure IIII's midseason call up to the big time. Indeed, Mary was the final captain in Regina Elk history, as the franchise will be taking its talents to Thunder Bay (wherever the hell that is) and changing its name to the Walleye (whatever the hell that is). That aspect provides one of the sadder points of Mary's season. Her final season in the J is also the final season of the Elk, a franchise which gave her her very first taste of Fake Sim Hockey Stuff. It's been a tremendous experience playing for Da Regina Elk Hockey Club, and while the colors and the structure of the team aren't going anywhere, and nobody here is actually in Regina, there's something sad about it nonetheless. I hope that Thunder Bay wears Elk throwback unis sometime. Additionally, Mary spent most of the season leading the league in goals. That production was extremely fun and dope as fuck, and she ended up with a heaping helping of them to end the year. However, much like Regina in the playoffs, she choked the lead away like a real moron and everyone forgot who she was.

Prompt 13 203 words 4 TPE
The question of who is the main rival of Team USA is not as cut and dry as you may or may not have been led to believe. I don't know. Who knows what you've heard. Anyway. There are really two answers. The first is obvious: those scoundrels up in Canada. Canada would have you believe that they are the greatest hockey nation to ever do that hockey, or whatever it is they said on that SNL skit that got beat into the ground some years ago. God I hate that joke. Anyway. The fact of the matter is, Canadians believe they are the coolest and goodest at hockey, but when's the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, hmm? They even had a chance with this so-called GOAT McDavid this year, and then the Oilers fumbled the bag by losing to a team from Florida. Come on now. USA clears. Another secret second rival for Team USA is one that I like to ironically push, which is that my biggest Team USA SHL rival is Team USA White. This is because of that one WJC where I was co-GM of Team USA Blue, which is clearly the coolest Team USA.