Quote:1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Reflection on your season - how did your player fare on the ice this season? Did you meet or surpass your individual player goals or did you come up short? Whether you excelled or disappointed - what can you attribute that to? What will you try to do better next season?

This season was easily my best season so far in my SHL career. This was my 5th season playing in the SHL for Texas, and admittedly it was the first season where hockey was fun again. The guys in the locker room have always been great, but our performance on the ice has left a lot to be desired. This season, the team actually competed for a playoff spot down to the very last day. Me personally, I set career highs in goals and points. It felt good to feel like I was actually contributed to the team's win total. While I have to give myself some credit for continuing to better my game week by week, I owe a lot of the credit to my performance this year to our assistant GM/coach Puoli. He worked magic over the past offseason to help restructure my game to better help the team and improve my personal stats. Here's hoping that next season I can continue to take the next step forward in my career and help the team make their way back into the playoffs.

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Quote:2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Well, dang. Your team didn't make the finals this season - my condolences to you. Are you and your teammates planning on watching the finals even though you're not in it? If so, what are your watch parties like? If not, are you still following the finals or trying to ignore it completely? What are you and your teammates doing together (if anything) instead of following along? (if you're on Hamilton or New Orleans, or either of the 2 SMJHL teams that soon will be playing in the finals - congrats and sorry :p this one isn't for you!)

When Calgary passed us up on the final day of the season to steal a playoff spot from us, I'll admit it was a hard pill to swallow. Pretty much everything that could go wrong in the final day of sims went wrong, and it took a lot of playoff interest out of me this season. I couldn't bring myself to watch any of the playoff games. All I did for the first round was sit on the sideline and listen to my teammates give the good news after each Calgary loss. I didn't watch any of the games in the conference championship round, though in hindsight I wish I had. With both series going the distance and nearly two reverse sweeps, that would have been a crazy scene to witness. I do not plan to watch any of the finals, despite knowing what I missed out on in the conference championship. I know others on the team will be keeping on eye on it, but I'll just get the lowdown from them. (Spoiler - knowing how the finals turned out, now I had also wish I watched it just to see Hamilton get dumped on.)

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Quote:3. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
It has been publicized a decent amount on this site but Hamilton prospect Andrei Kostitsyn's brother Sergei appears to be missing. Does anybody know where Sergei? What have you done/what can you do to help Andrei track down his brother?

Oh god I can't believe this has made it into the CW prompts. I have not spent a second of my time looking for Sergei, and whenever I see a new request to help find him I immediately ignore it. I don't know who Andrei is, but knowing that he is a Hamilton prospect makes me not want to know him at all. His brother Sergei is probably living it up in Russia still, not sure why Andrei is so bent out of shape about where his brother went. Those crazy Russians know how to survive, so I'm sure Sergei is fine. Just give it time and he'll show up. I won't be helping with the search though.

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Quote:4. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
S54 IIHF Predictions - with one FHM IIHF season under our belt, we've got a bit more of a sense of how the tournament might play out in the new sim engine. What are your predictions for the S54 IIHF or WJC tournament - how do you think your team will fare this season? Who do you think are the biggest contenders to take home the hardware and why?

I don't think it'll matter that we have a season of FHM IIHF under our belts. I think we all know that the IIHF will be dominated once again by the likes of Canada and USA. Both of those teams are just so stacked up and down the roster, it's impossible to picture either of them failing to make a splash in the tournament. The only hope of one of them not taking home the gold is if they run into another hot team and someone comes away with an upset in the medal round. Keep an eye on Germany to be the team to pull off that upset. Last season we saw Germany making waves in the round robin, only faltering on the last couple games before heading into the medal round. They went on to be upset in the first round of the elimination rounds, but I think they could have made a strong case for medal contention. The core of Germany still remains at its peak, so I think they still have the potential to throw a wrench into Canada/USA's plans of taking home gold.

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Quote:14. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min)
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

I'm going to go off the cuff a bit here and not pick a player. This series MVP for NOLA has easily got to be the coaching staff, led by Joe and Nick. The way they absolutely dismantled Hamilton was a sight to see, and I'm glad I was around to witness it. To so completely out-coach your opponent, an opponent who for the entire season was tagged as a favorite to win the cup with "unbeatable" tactics, means you had to have some great talent up your sleeves to beat them. Honestly, congrats to new orleans. You've made the entire league happy by taking down Hamilton.

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Quote:16. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is now completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

Verification word: sneeze

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3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 16 TPE