SMJHL Milestones (1 TPE): https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3546276

Task 11 (299 words, 4 TPE):

Winning any of the league's many awards requires a lot to go right. To win the same award multiple times requires sustained excellence, and even then, many individuals who have won the same award fail to do it two seasons in a row. There is one achievement in particular that's incredibly rare to the point where it's happened once in the FHM era (and I believe only one time previous to that), which is back to back Challenge Cups. I was lucky enough to be the GM of the Seattle Argonauts when they went back to back, and I can say from experience that such a run requires an insane amount of luck and things going right. Managing to keep the core of a team together to build chemistry while also adding the necessary supporting cast to make successful runs is difficult. Managing your team's strategy and tactics to get the most out of your team is difficult. And those are largely where your control over the outcomes ends. We won close OT games and lost some blowouts. We got saved by our goalie and came away with wins we probably shouldn't. But the same lens can also be applied to the year before our first cup, where we lost in game 6 of the final, and the year following, where we lost in overtime of game 7 in the Western Conference finals. While we did make some significant trades after that finals loss, the core of the team was similar and we were a little bit of luck away. It's truly impossible to know how things will play out no matter how well built your team is, but the fact remains that repeats are exceedingly rare and it's easily my defining achievement in my time in the SHL.

Task 12 (168 words):

Hall of Fame selections are inherently difficult because it requires the balancing of a number of different perspectives, statistics, preferences and the ability to view each of these through varying contexts as they apply to each and every eligible player. Undoubtedly there are players who straddle the line between Hall of Famers and something just less than that. Whether it's players who were consistently elite but never won awards, players with short but exemplary careers, players with exceptional longevity, or players who have the stats and hardware but fail to break through when more compelling cases are presented for consideration. We are starting to see teams in real life implement concepts like a ring of honour to celebrate players who don't quite meet the standards of a jersey retirement. I think some sort of similar wall or ring of honour concept would serve the SHL well to honour record holders, award winners, and players of note who fall short of the ultimate goal of the Hall of Fame.