Task 1: Milestones: https://www.simulationhockey.com/showthr...pid3598439 (+1 TPE)

Task 3: This question boils down to the temperaments of the specific defenders that get picked. However, my personal option would be to split up the teammates and put the ‘rivals’ on the ice together. My reasoning for this is that by mixing the two teams together you get a defense that is more than the sum of its parts. The GM can work with the players to figure out how best they can cover each other’s weaknesses, and it wouldn’t be as easy for East to counterplay them, since it wouldn’t just be one of the lines they’d played against all season when they played the Panthers or the Pride. I think the players would probably go for it too, since they could go back to their home teams with more knowledge not only about the opponent’s tactics but having learned a little more themselves from a new perspective. From personal experience, most players that are worth having on an all star team have more respect for skilled opponents than dislike or resentment, and would take the opportunity to improve without a moment’s hesitation. If they wouldn’t take that chance… frankly, they won't make it to the all star team again, methinks. (201 words, 4 TPE)

Task 6: James Howlett would get back to his rural Canadian roots and try to practice survivalism in his spare time. Camping, cooking over fires, hunting, the whole shebang. Unfortunately, All of these are not only time consuming but require travelling a sizeable distance outside of Calgary, which can be hard to maintain during the season. Combine that with the amount of permits and red tape he’d have to deal with, and that fell through pretty quickly. What stuck with him from this attempt though was an interest in woodcarving. What started as something simple and easy to do while in the wilderness turned into a fascination with techniques, tools, and styles for carving. Nothing gets his blood pumping more nowadays than revving up his chainsaw and going to town on a big log for a couple of hours, only to finish with a beautiful Wolverine carving. (Except hockey, of course. That’ll always take the top spot.) (155 words, 3 TPE)