1. Zugzwang (although having checked, I can't confirm that the TBB question is actually correct unless the portal information is wrong)


3. I've always felt that it is simply better to have your eggs (or goals) spread among a team rather than San Francisco's model of feeding Logan Webb and letting him rack the points up, purely and simply because if you funnel all your offense through one person if that person goes cold suddenly, you're left flailing and scrambling for a better option. A system where you can simply plug and play means you're never going to be completely screwed by injuries or the tips and whatnot.

Now, did this work out? Apparently not, but I still think this is the right approach rather than pointing at a star player and demanding they play at a goal-per-game pace in the toughest games of the season. Besides, it's not as bad as it looks - Oskar Scholz finished tied for third in playoff goals with 11, only Alexi Piastri, Shawn Pawn (both on 12) and Webb above him.



10. In and of itself, you can reasonably argue that regular season success is irrelevant if it doesn't convert into postseason success, but I think the season we in Seattle have had has gone some way to countering that argument. We've been a bottom feeder for a few years and through prioritising younger talent from the S74 and S75 drafts have put together a good foundation to build on, but I went into this year expecting a small jump - maybe sneaking into the playoffs as an 8th seed, or at least being in the scrap, rather than the legitimately surprising periods of domination we had. Obviously, none of it translated into playoff wins, but to an extent I feel expecting it to would have been unreasonable. We got hot, our next is certainly going to be to keep that heat and build on it so that level of play is the norm, having success there was just as important because it proved we had the talent to do it.