Leopold Lockhart had a decent season with the Anchorage Armada. He ended the regular season with thirty-seven points and fifty-eight shots blocked. Twenty-one of his thirty-seven points were earned on the power play. That was the highest power play points total in the league by a pretty fair sized margin. The next closest was sixteen. I wish he'd been able to make a little bit more happen offensively during five on five...I'm too used to having a forward. Keep having to remind myself that he's a defenseman and should be doing defensive things. I definitely would have been happier with a positive plus/minus, but that's a relatively bullshit stat as far as determining individual performance, so it's whatever. Making it past the second round of playoffs was a treat, but of course I wish we'd made it on to finals and won the cup. Especially since this is probably going to be my last season with the team. But overall, not a bad effort this season.





Lockhart's biggest competition in terms of cracking the San Francisco Pride's SHL roster is Dom Montgomery. They're both defensemen from the same draft class, both drafted high in the first round, both captains of their SHL teams. They both had respectable seasons this season. There's really no bad choice here in terms of choosing one to call up verses the other, but there's probably only room for one of them on the roster right now. I'm pretty sure that Lockhart will get the call up simply because I have more TPE ready to unbank. If he does get called up, I'm just hoping that Lockhart will be able to keep up in the SHL, hold his own defensively and maybe produce a little bit offensively. He's had a little trouble producing during five on five play and I can't imagine that he'd be playing on any special teams his rookie season, so his points production may not translate as well from juniors without the power play to boost his points.




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1. Between Buffalo's (WannabeFinn, Tomen) and New Orleans (JKortesi81, TheDangaZone) which set of GM's have the tactical/managerial advantage in this series and why?

I played for WBF for many seasons in Finland with Linna and we won a bunch of medals, but I think I'm gonna have to go with Joe and TDZ here, simply because they were my Dragons teammates and therefore learned from Esa who is in my opinion one of the best GMs on the site.

2. Between Cedric Robinson and Aleister Cain which goalie would you say had the more impressive run towards this championship series, and why?

Since I can't access the playoff index, I was gonna say that we were gonna have to go based off of regular season stats here, but fuck that. I'm gonna give it to Cedric Robinson simply because he's a rookie and he held his own. He had two less wins, but he also had 9 fewer losses because he managed to help the team win in OT 5 more times than Cain.

5. You have been asked by the league to choose a destination for next seasons all star game and its between New Orleans and Buffalo, which city did you decide should get this important league event and why?

New Orleans should for sure win the bid for next season's all star game. Why? Because what the fuck is even in Buffalo? Sure, Bourbon Street is actually pretty disgusting, but it's also fun as fuck. Much more likely to draw a crowd of out-of-towners because it's a better vacation destination. Besides, New Orleans is gonna be hype as fuck about their team since they did the Golden Knights thing and made it to the finals their first season out.

6. Who are the 3 most dangerous players on the ice in this series and why?

Viktor Marius, Oliver Konig, and Roman Agustus are the three players in the finals who were highest on the league leaderboard for scoring in the regular season. Marius was actually 5th in the league with 59 points, Konig was 15th with 52, and Agustus was 22nd with 49 points. Marius also has an impressive 221 hits, making him the most dangerous overall. There were way more Buffalo players on the leaderboard for scoring during the regular season.