1. (3 TPE)

I am mentioning "Victor Helstrom" like the instructions say.

Verification: Grease

2. (3 TPE)

for my what if thing for the shl (otherwise known as the simulation hockey league) championship week prompt about what if something different happened in a past shl (otherwise known as the simulation hockey league) event i choose what if gary grease, y first shl (otherwise known as the simulation hockey league) player who got drafted at the end of the first round by the winnipeg jets. what if he was drafted by minnesota a spot earlier instead, minnesota was one of the few other teams who showed interest and ended up drafting a bust insead of gary grease, then i probaby never would have won a cup or even became a gm, who knows how winnipeg would fare - a lot of people applying for the job had plans to blow up the team and rebuild, which would mean that winnipeg would have never won the multiple presidents trophies and a league championship in the following years.

3. (3 TPE)

The answer if probably S31 but I know more about S43 cause I was already a well established league member at this point and got to watch the beginning and ends of most S43 careers. at the time s43 was the largest draft in shl history, and produced insane amounts of great users and content from the posters to the site. king was posting huge media and podcasts every other day, luke was there with his data crap all the time and so on. now with most of their guys retired some members taht joined with this draft are huge in teh shl today, with jobs as co-comissioner, and many current and former head office people and gms both in the shl and smjhl. like i said a lot of their plaeyrs also became stars and dominated the league for years which was huge. unfortunately somewhow san fran botched their draft with 3 top 6 picks and ended up losing all 3 of them in subsequent years lol

13. (3 TPE)

this is absolutely an issue it is boring as fuck that the same teams are constantly in the finals. It takes a year and a half for a player from the draft to get good, much after they become UFA and can leave their team. This leaves at least half (lowballing it) of all teams in the shl in a perpetual rebuild. They draft high, some guys stay and believe in the turn around and some leave after sticking around for a season or two after they graduate from smjhl and try to join a contender somewhere else. I think this is pretty dogshit because if it takes nearly two years for a player to impact the team from the draft but they become a ufa in some cases before ever playing a game for their draft team how are you supposed to eventually become a top team. The system is broken and needs to change, either the length until UFA or the length of careers

21. (2 TPE)

the pts now have been pretty good i think, i like that they are due an hour later cause i always leave it to the last minute so thats good. the content has been good too i dont mind writing stuff about these prompts also i apologize for the graders i put zero effort in these and just have been vomiting words riddled with spelling and grammar issues and stretching out sentences for the maximum amount of words and it must be awful to read through them and grade so sorry about that but im of course still gonna do it cause i can't be bothered to try on these each week

15. (2 TPE)

russia will win iihf (otherwise known as the international ice hockey federation, iihf for short) because russia is number one and the best country at hockey in the simulaiton hockey league universe. this is becasue russian players are the best shooters, the best passers, the best skaters, the best hitters, the best checkers, the best shot blockers, the best positioners, the best shot blockers, and much much more. because of these skills they will make easy work of the rest of the compeition in this years international ice hockey federation tournament, if they somehow lose however its because they weren't even trying their hardest to make the otehr teams have a chance

total: 16 TPE