Well, since I've left the Championship Week writing til the last minute (or day), I'm writing this around 2 hours before the expansion draft is supposed to happen. Maybe I should've waited until after the expansion draft happened because then I could have just copied the actual results instead of having to sit here bullshitting about it. Oh well. For one, I think Darrow is 99% going to the Argos first overall, then from there on it's kind of a crapshoot. This expansion draft isn't particularly strong to be honest, and aside from Darrow, there aren't any players who are must grabs from any of the teams. So, to sum it up, I think Darrow goes to the Argonauts first, and after that who really knows. The only other certain picks (to me) are Tig to the Argos and Eko Van Otter to the Inferno. Maybe Sawchuk to the Inferno too but who knows.

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I believe there should actually be an entirely new league, just to support European expansion. Now, I've floated this idea around before, but let's see how it does on the public stage -- I think we should have an intermediate league between the Simulation Major Junior Hockey League and the Simulation Hockey League, and a European league seems like a good place to have it. With the need for higher TPE in order to make an impact in the SHL in the FHM era, to me it makes perfect sense to give middling players another place to play until they've reached higher TPE numbers, and Europe just seems like a nice spicy place to expand to.

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This one's easy. Not to be a homer or anything but I believe this iteration of the Hamilton Steelhawks was the strongest they have ever been, and yet they fell shorter than they have ever fallen in the Franchise Hockey Manager Simulation Engine Era. They gave up a load of first round picks and prospects to acquire two 2000 TPE players, and they end up falling to the beans? That's kind of rough, for a team that's always made do with the players they have, this was a big risk to make a splash and acquire these superstars, and clearly it should have paid off but it just didn't. What a sad story for the Hamilton Steelhawks very sad indeed. The saddest!

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Well, another easy one! @hotdog is knocking it out of the park for these Championship Week prompts, making everyone's lives easier and handing out TPE as if it was candy. You love to see it. The clear favourites for the International Ice Hockey Federation tournament are the United States and Canada. Both of these teams have insane forward lines that don't have a player under 1.2k TPE (at least for Canada, I haven't checked for the USA but I assume their forwards are even better, maybe I'm wrong though don't sue me). They aren't slouches on defense either, and overall these teams are purely built to win. It would be a disappointment to both teams if they don't place in the top 2. Even though Canada has a sub-par goalie in terms of TPE, we all know TPE for goalies doesn't really matter because Franchise Hockey Manager is all just a simulation with equations.

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This one's a bit harder for me. It's obvious to me that everyone should be hoarding all of their money and putting it in gold and burying it in their backyards in the case of a nuclear or possibly non-nuclear apocalypse, so it would make no sense for people to give their money to any sort of fundraising drive or other attempts to wrestle away your hard earned pennies. However, if I had to pick some worthy causes to put money into, it's gotta go to the Emergency Support Fund for Victims of Aggressive Forechecking. Aggressive Forecheckers have ruined our game, ruined our league, and the victims need to be appropriately compensated for the trauma that they have experienced at the hands of these scummy players. They go out there, thinking they can just forecheck to their hearts' content without a care in the world that they're hurting everyone else, and it's honestly quite sad to see. I believe we should all support justice for victims of aggressive forechecking.

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