I wasn't as happy with my season as I would have liked. Putting up 50 points in 50 games is still very good, do not get me wrong but I had 19 more points in the previous season and I was going in with a similar build. I think a lot of my struggles may have come from playing with new teammates. In the previous season I had veterans on both sides of me and this season I took two rookies on my wing. It was going to take them time to get used to the league and it was going to take all 3 of us time to get some chemistry. I definitely do not blame them as they both had great seasons and at the end of the day my production comes down to me and I didn't score as many goals as I usually do. I'm getting older, so there's no reason to suspect I'll have a better season next year. I'm hoping that as we continue to gain chemistry as a team I'll regain some of my old scoring touch and hopefully will return to form in S57!

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This is absolutely biased, but the most memorable for me will be the S49 final between Edmonton and New England. That was the first championship I won while a general manager and my second as a player. I remember the offseason before that season I was at Darien Lake with some friends. Keygan and I were talking deals while I sat in line for the rides. We made a bunch of trades that offseason and felt really good about our team. We didn't do as well in the regular season because we gave some rookies some ice time over inactive players who had better builds. We barely squeaked into the playoffs but we didn't want to ruin one of our rookies first seasons benching them in the regular season. We had an agreement that come playoff time, no one's ice time was guaranteed and we threw some of our better inactive players into higher roles in the lineup. Once we did that our team became much stronger. We beat rivals like Calgary and New Orleans along the way and it ended with a matchup between the Blizzard's former co-gm Ace and our newly formed GM team. We managed to sweep the finals and take home the cup!
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The worst possible playoff format is going to need to give us a few things: 1. lowest quality games 2. Unfairness to lower-seeded teams and 3. little in the way of story lines.

first, we give a bye to the 3rd place team in each division. This is to reward teams for not trying to create super teams. Second we're going to take the first place team from the divison with the most total points and put them against the 2nd place team in the division with the least amount of total points. For the remaining matchups we will hire a monkey to spin a wheel and figure out who will play who (all matchups will be cross-conference, no inner conference play). After the culmination of that round, the monkey will select matchups until there is only one remaining team from the top-8. That top-8 winning team will then need to go through "the gauntlet". They will play against each of the 3rd place division finishers in a single elimination game. If the winner from the top-8 wins all 4 games, they are challenge cup champions, if they lose a game, they are kicked from the playoffs. If the top-8 team is kicked from the playoffs. Any team that they previously beat in the gauntlet will be re-introduced into the playoffs. the 9v10 will play a best of 5 series and the 11v12 will play a best of 9 series to see who goes to the challenge cup championship. The winners of each series will faceoff in a best of 7 series with the caveat it must be won by two games (like tennis). This eliminates any potential elimination game where both teams could win.

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I think if we're doing a bubble, we should do it in Hamilton. I know that might seem a little odd at first, but I think my explanation will make sense. First, when you're in the bubble, you can't do anything. The players were stuck in their rooms all-day and maybe got a few hours here and there to do their own thing. It sounds like an absolutely miserable experience. The last thing you want when you're miserable is to have people around you happy. The last thing you're going to find in Hamilton is happy people. If the bubble is in a nice place like LA or New York the players are going to be looking out their windows and being reminded of all the things they could be doing if not stuck inside this bubble. If everyone was in their hotel room looking outside and Hamilton they'll just be thankful that the room has good air filtering and there's a lower chance of being stabbed in the hotel room than outside of it.

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c. I'm going to go for Lake Superior because it's right in the name. It was more a process of elimination for me. I've always been taught not to step foot in lake ontario so that's out, Lake Erie is right next to Lake Ontario, I don't want any lakes named after a state (michigan), idk what huron means and once again Superior means best and it's the biggest one. [69 words, +1]

d. I'd probably go hang out with Tomen, it would probably mean making a trip out to Germany which would be cool. He also just seems like a nice smart guy who's always awake so he'll probably be able to pick me up when my flight gets in. When I was on Buffalo many moons ago Tomen was my favourite guy there! [61 words, +1]

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