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6. How was the season for you player? What you expect from next one?

The season wasn't quite what I hoped it would be, nor did it end in the result that it seemed we might end up with given the results of the first couple dozen or so games. And that's frustrating, since I come into every season hoping for the best possible result- maybe that's just setting myself up for failure, but expecting failure is a dull and obnoxious way to live life.
That's not to say it was a bad season, on the personal level- it really wasn't anywhere close to being a Bad Season, it just didn't live up to expectations.
This next season should be better- we have a lot of players hitting milestone TPE marks, improving on their skills and builds and team chemistry. If we can figure out the issues we had last season and improve the frankly pretty mediocre home-away splits, I think we have a real chance at at least making it into playoffs this coming season, even if that does still feel like a bit of a pipe dream given how my last two seasons have gone and what that experience has been like. But, realistically, improvement is pretty strictly linear here, and I am well aware of that.



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Honestly, the Chicago Syndicate's results came in way below what I expected. Now, of course, maybe my high expectations for them were based in social bias because they're a good buddy's team, but they also had a rather good season in S77 and so I was surprised that they didn't live up to that same point in S78. S78 was actually their worst season in quite a while, and I'm not sure why- it would be easy to blame goaltending, but that's obviously not the issue. Despite all this, I do think they'll bounce back in the coming season, though, and we'll have a few good bouts in our quests for greatness.

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[6 written tpe + trivia = 8 tpe total]