Task 1
Let’s put this short – my player is in SHL for 9 seasons. In that time and space, he ended up having a 300+ hit season, several 100+ SB seasons, and this season I hit 30 points for the first time. I think Andrej decided that being called “old“ and “regressing“ is extremely insulting to him, so he just went off and I am mildly surprised at just how flexible this single DFD actually is. Obviously, 31 points won’t blow too many people’s pants away, but for a player that had scored 15-ish for half of his career, yeah that’s fucking bonkers. Would have been even better with some extra team success, after all Manhattan’s time in the top flight of the league is getting shorter and we need to use it better than we have, and another 2nd round exit is not exactly it, chief. But from the individual standpoint yeah there is absolutely nothing else that would make this season any better, really.

Task 2
Personal bias would obviously say MAN over SFP, simply because that’s the cup I won, plus it’s one of the few series where you didn’t get the BUF/HAM/EDM/NOLA all over again trying to beat each other’s ass. But, I absolutely cannot take it away from the S50 series between Calgary and Tampa Bay. As much as it is probably a quite traumatazing experience for some of the guys on that Tampa team, getting reverse swept in the finals is one in a thousand and I while I think we see a few reverse sweeps here and there, the fact that Calgary somehow, someway managed to get it done in the finals is just making that such an insanely memorable series to me. Coupled with the absolute explosion of a rebuild that Tampa started with very soon afterwards, this single series might have been a reason for the 0-50 Tampa season we got a little bit later, adding up to the absolute stupidity and historical value of this final.

Task 3
I feel like making one that is worse is fairly simple. Bottom 4 teams get a bye, forced division winners 1st round, shit like this shouldn’t be hard to come around with. But dumber? I doubt that there are a lot of options for making something that is actively dumber than this while attempting to not be horrible. You would have to figure out how to butcher something like the double elimination bracket to a point where winning the series would somehow be worse for you than losing them, but I lack the knowledge for that to be really done I feel.

Task 6
SHL teams would probably include the trio of Chicago/Manhattan/Edmonton. Since we would like to ideally only pick one of them, I would probably go with Chicago, even if by a pretty small margin honestly. As for why, I assume regular season factors into that a fair bit. For SMJHL, that’s likely going to be someone from the conference finals losers, Anchorage or Carolina, but obviously I think that the answer here is once again going to be the Kraken, losing in 7 to the #1 seed and the eventual champions twice in 2 seasons. Again, being the 2nd best team, ahead of Anchorage to beat them for the best non-finals team, and the other contender top 4 teams like Nevada that lost to Anchorage, or Anaheim being upset in the first round, I think don’t really make a compelling enough case for themselves either.

Task 16
explosion