1. CW Trivia 3 TPE
Victor Helstrom, tarte

3. Draft Busts 3 TPE
Alright, time to travel way back in the past to the s40 SHL entry draft. My player was drafted the season earlier among with 5 other prospects who all turned out to become 1000+ TPE players. You could say that it was a great foundation for Toronto and they would surely become a dynasty. But the 4th pick that was used to select Luuk Kraaijkamp changed a lot of things. Incite is a great user, don't get me wrong. But his player busting hard created multiple negative things. First of all good friend of his enigmatic had her player also drafted to the North Stars in that same draft. Incite losing interest and going inactive caused her to ask for a trade. Having trouble to have a decent team also saw s38 #2 pick Bobby Watson leave. GM step down and like 5 seasons later Toronto was going for a full rebuild. I truly believe if incite stayed active as popular and well like he was the team would have ended up with a much better outcome.

6. Grab Bag 4 TPE
a. That's a tough one as STHS relied more on luck but FHM pretty much only rely on a GM skills. So as a player I would have to go with STHS as I feel I have more of an impact. I feel like as an 600 TPE player I could win a cup with Hamilton playing on their 1st line.
b. 100% we would have I have no doubt about it. Baltimore is currently the team I would put as the fifth best and they are a good step below the top 4. It's sad to say but it is the reality we are in the current sim engine. Tampa Bay on paper alone should easily be in that conversation but the FHM knowledge plays too much of a factor.
c. Slash I love your frustration and hate towards Hamilton but like the city itself is fine. The NHL could easily have a team there and be successful. But I gotta say 2 Ontario teams in a 20 teams league is a bit overkilled. A good move in my opinion would be for that franchise to be relocated to Vancouver and have the junior team moved to a smaller city.
d. I'm assuming you mean the past 2 seasons. My pick would be Karl Krashwagen. I feel he's probably the most well rounded forward in the league and it's a shame he couldn't taste the finals. You can hardly go wrong here as there's like 14 teams in the past 8+ seasons who happened to be in that same scenario.

13. Parody 3 TPE
I do remember that task and wrote something about it. I said back then Tampa Bay and San Francisco should contend soon, Hamilton and Chicago have older rosters and should be out of the picture soon and that the new update and salary scale would allow more parity . Well here we are today and I would lie if I said I still believe all of that. I feel like you would give the Winnipeg roster to the Hamilton management team and they would make it a playoffs team only because of their superior FHM knowledge. Now HO is changing the regression system and quite frankly while it's a good change, I don't see it as impactful as they seem to believe. The real problem and we all know it is the sim engine. Limit people on how they can tweak settings and tactics would be a good start. It's laughable the time and energy put into minor things instead of attacking the real problem.

14. Blow it up 3 TPE
I had 2 teams in mind for that task, the New England Wolfpacks and the Toronto North Stars. But Luke taking over New England made my choice a lot easier. I expect a lot of changes for Toronto. That will now be 3 GMs in 3 seasons, the roster is pretty old and they just can't compete with Hamilton and Buffalo. A first round exit is all they can expect for the future if they keep things like they are. They need to tear it down while they still have players with good value but they might have waited 1-2 seasons too long as quite a few players are expected to test free agency. They had 3 of the first 6 picks of the s59 draft, that would be a good core to build around but one of them is already inactive. Same good ole story for that franchise, 2-3 things going wrong and they end up back to square one: rebuild.