I think in this era of FHM Hockey, a strategist/lines coach/FHM guru role is important and almost indispensable. There are so many things that you need to deal with in terms of strategy at the FHM level that if you do not have somebody dedicated to that, your team could be tanked during their games. You need to deal with individual roles, line roles, shooting tendencies, playing tendencies, team roles and overall team strategy, to name some stuff. All of this directly impacts in game performance, and the compressed schedule doesn't help matters any. Over-reliance on one line will come back to bite you badly in FHM. @notorioustig and @golden_apricot are both great GMs/coaches/lines gurus that can tweak and massage the sim to provide the results that your team wants. It will be interesting to see these two guys deal with FHM and each other's tactics during this season.

A scout is also important for the future of the team, especially as it comes to picking players who remain active, and have a great chance of earning significant TPE. You want to make your draft picks count, especially those early ones that could pay big dividends, but you also want to be able to steal some gems in the later rounds with regards to picking underrated players. Digging deep and unearthing some gems could mean the difference between the Cup and falling short. @notorioustig and @nour clearly did their homework in the Reddit draft and picked with high accuracy, and focused their draft picks on the best players that they could get in the draft - deciding to load up in the early rounds in order to extract the most value.