9. Balancing It Out 3 TPE (160 words)
There is no doubt the top talent is in the West mainly because of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Let's go position by position to give us a better picture. Between the pipes, it's pretty even but I'd give the advantage to team West. Brzeczyszczykiewicz, Time and Montagne pretty much all have the same accolade and experience but this will be the first appearance for Toronto netminder Denebor Milasch. Who knows how he reacts, definitely an x factor for team East. On defense, East only had 3 candidates against 5 for West. And the final votes being a popularity contest, I don't like these odds for the Eastern Conference to have a better d-core. After a quick review, it just happens there was 5 representatives  but they were mixed with forwards, my bad. On offense, I actually think the better talent is on the East side. It's clearly the everyone has to have a representative that hurts the West team.


12.  If It Was Up To Me 3 TPE (161 words)
I would be a really poor choice to be on the HoF committee. I'm not really into comparing stats between players or their number of awards. I'm more about name recognition and narratives. Like I don't think there should be a 1st year eligible Hall of Fame almost every class, I don't think these should be extremely rare and going to legends of the game like Visser or Garbanzo. I'm just using the most recent class and no disrespect to Angus McFife XVIII. Should he be a Hall of Famer? 100% 1st year? No way in my opinion. It feels crazy to me that it was Samuel Michaud last chance to get in and he didn't, I would have these two having around the same impact. Samuel was a key part of that Hamilton dynasty, was a top choice for fantasy hockey a long time and is a name I'm sure everyone remembers that was part of the league back then.


13. I Have Your Back 2 TPE (111 words)
Bias aside I honestly believe Jesus Murphy should be nominated for the Bojo Biscuit Award that goes to the best defensive defenseman of the year. He was the only player on this Seattle Argonauts squad that finished with a positive +/- and by a long shot. Too often we see this award goes to a number 3-4 d-man on an elite team having a lot of block shots. It's supposed to reward the defensive side of the game and yet this trophy goes a lot to d-men having a 40+ points season. That's why the 4 goals and 21 assists worries me a bit for Murphy having a shot at winning it.