This season for Axel Foley was, as the kids say, hella good. With an improved role on the team, he was able to score at a much higher pace, setting career highs in goals, assists, points, +/-, PPG/A, PPP, SOG (with a low SH% to boot), hits, and takeaways. The biggest surprise for me, in this whole list of points is that it came with just three more minutes of ice time per game, only one of those extra minutes being even strength compared to last year. This success isn't a product of playing up in the lineup, he's still behind Cuddles, Friedland, Bergstrom, and Van Djik in front of him which means he and Hutton weren't just gifted their extra ice time, they earned it by preforming well behind those aforementioned D to earn a spot. The biggest thing I can attribute this success to is Fuzz's and 7's prowess for testing with FHM, and their committment to making all individuals feel welcome on the team. That's a big reason why Hutton and Foley aren't going to be separated from each other, they want to play together, they were drafted together, and they want to win together. Carolina's management has accomodated that nicely when it would've been easy to elevate Hutton to the second pair with Friedland and have Foley play with PKR prior to acquiring Bergstrom at the daedline, but Carolina opted not to. They care for their players and it makes it easy to succeed there.

Next season I want to work on improving the physical aspects of the game. Agility, speed, stamina, Foley's speed is a concern and if he can improve those areas of a game he'll be a massive threat. That, along with some shooting accuracy would be a big help in both sides of the game for Foley.



My first thought on a team in Europe is... eh? Like, no reason to limit the SHL just to North America and from a sim perspective it won't really change anything, but in terms of realism playing in Europe with 16/17 teams in North America doesn't make sense to me. But again it also doesn't really impact anything other than people big on realism. On top of that it doesn't make sense to keep circling back on Portland rather than shifting to the metropolitan areas of the Eastern continents I honestly am unsure on if this is a bad idea or not. I think it only becomes an issue when teams in places like Alabama become a thing.

I wonder if it makes sense to turn the SMJHL into a "overseas" league. That would mean every team has to rebrand and relocate which isn't nice, but this could be an easier method of making every team on the same continent, and opens up places like Carolina and Vancouver to becoming SHL teams, but that's an idea that would require a lot of overhaul and a lot more active users to make it worth it.




Edmonton Blizzard tied for the best team in the league this season. They added Theo Morgan and Bo Kane to compliment a strong core featuring Pepperoni, McIntyre, Finn-Rhys, etc. Really, it's surprising they didn't make the finals. They came into yesterday with a 3-2 lead over NOLA and ended up losing off of a breakaway with 3 minutes left which is tough to swallow. They have a strong, albeit top heavy, D-core, three amazing forward lines, and a solid starter in Emiko Spector. It's crazy to me this current core hasn't won more than they have, and that they don't even have a cup this decade of SHL play (S50 onwards). They have a great team and they deserve to be in the finals, in my esteemed opinion.




I'm honestly just going to tell you what I've done because I have a great TikTok presence and I feel Foley would do the same. First off, he gets the app ironically and posts him doing the same dance to a Dua Lipa song three times with different teammates as a joke. Then he creates some comedy videos, maybe one that has Careless Whisper in the background and a girl saying "That sex was bananas", and Foley says "I'll show you bananas" and he comes back wearing a gorilla onesie making gorilla noises and saying "me like banana". After that he just hops on the regular trends, like tossing a banana in there and catching it as the camera transitions to him in the onesie again, pretending to be Willy Wonka, you know, the whole nine yards. Also lip syncing Crazy Frog, Foley is an alt TikTok king.



If you're looking at a fundraiser to help Buffalo, it should be a fundraiser for them to get good sports teams that aren't just in the SHL, or funding to help move people out of Buffalo. For New Orleans, it's a bit more serious as they were in the path/are in hurricane alley. I don't know the complexities of if NOLA was hit or not, but in a genuine idea they could come together to help fundraise for people who have lost homes due to the recent tropical storms, and to help in the rebuilding process for those areas. Knowing the people in the organizitions it wouldn't surprise me if something along these lines was brought to life similarly to how BLM support was encouraged on site in SHL discussion tabs and related areas. But also, I don't think these teams would get along, since half of both teams are shit disturbers and the other half are just genuine fellas trying to make an SHL living.




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First off, Hippo's ain't cool. Otters, or at least sea otters, are rapists and mutilate baby seals trying to fuck them, and dig their teeth into female otters nostrils so they can't escape the bone zone. That just isn't a good start. Second, Kirby isn't an animal, he's just a maniac. He's not cool in the same vein of Jeffrey Dahmer not being cool--they're both hot but they also are serial killers. That leaves Sloth, Monkey, and Fox. I like Sloth's, they move kinda slow and they're in Zootopia, but also they got big nasty claws. Fox's are associated with furry shit, so sorry @"Fuzz" but I can't support that. That leaves monkey's, and I've seen a lot of baby monkeys on Tik Tok and they're like humans, but not? it's crazy how nature do that, and I really like monkeys. I own a gorilla onesie




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12 from the big tasks, 1 TPE from 50 word task, and potentially 3 from Trivia should add up to the 16 available.