Julio had a great season for point scoring, ending with 62 points, second highest in his career. Julio really wanted to win some personal accolades in his career. After winning a challenge cup in his rookie year (despite getting minutes cut and pulled halfway through the playoff run), Julio has needed some outside awards to balance out his resume. Team success and challenge cups are priority number one, but making it to the hall of fame, would be prettttyyyyyyy pretty cool, and Julio’s career numbers are going to need be upped if he hopes to be there one day. With 10 seasons in, Julio has the most TPE that he will likely ever have, sustaining his point production will be an uphill battle. This season was a personal success for Julio, although the team missed the challenge cup by 1 game, losing to the ultimate winners. I attribute my success to 10 seasons of grinding for TPE, and Keygan and Tommy for setting me up for success.


Season 51’s Hamilton Steelhawks over the Edmonton Blizzard stands out in my mind as the most memorable for multiple reasons. That series was the last Challenge Cup to be simulated on the Simon T Hockey Simulator, and represented the end of the most dominant era of the site, that had spanned literally half of a simulated century, ending only because some game-breaking exploits had been found (and even worse: acted upon). The play by play was the last challenge cup play by play on the site and it was heavily monitored as the entire SHL players association was rooting against Hamilton for breaking the game. Didn’t matter, bad guys won. The series also kicked off the Hamilton dynasty, and the change to FHM in the coming seasons snuffed a few franchises that had been in the middle for a long time, as the skill and TPE mattering started to catch up with teams that had coasted on the entropy of STHS


This is pretty dumb, and I had no idea that it did this until I read this, as I’ve been really busy for the last real life season. As a capitals fan in real life, I’m used to hearing “If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best” everytime (except for once!) that the Capitals lined up against the Penguins in the second round. With how everything has worked, out with deserving teams making it to the final four, along with some interesting close series and upsets, I think everything worked out pretty well. My “Chaos Seeding” would factor in the skater with the fewest points + penalties in minutes. Each team’s lowest score of an active skater would be ranked against the other qualifying teams’ players. In this seeding, top heavy teams are punished, and depth scoring is rewarded, as long as those grinders are still slashing shins. Tie breakers are determined by team’s empty-net goals-for.


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A- Despite my experience with the class of season 47 wiz kids of Theo Morgan, Aaron Wilson, Dale Miller, and Jax Duggan, the edge is going to go to Buffalo. Their ability to gather (and deal) skaters is unparalleled. Monkey D Luffy, Poopity Scoop, Matt Kholin, Hippo Passamus, Alex Selich, Alex Roach, are stars on any team, and the roster stands as one of the best in the league.

B- Hamilton does heavy line matching. Buffalo will stand a better chance if they switch their lines from game to game. Everyone knows that Hamilton does the heaviest simming in the league, so if Buffalo can switch the perceived “lines” then Hamilton will not be able to make mid game adjustments. In real life if team A’s first line plays the most minutes, but calls itself the second line, then nothing really changes. In FHM, if Team B tries to pair line 3 against team A’s line 1, but line 1 is just line 2 but labeled line 1, then Buffalo will have the matchup advantage.

C- My biases direct me towards Lake Erie. I spent some time in my childhood on the Hudson River and Erie Canal, so presumably the lake will be even better than the canal. In my mind, Superior is in the bottom tier because it is cold and removed, but still clean. Michigan has all of the drainings from Chicago and Milwaukee. Huron is super nonfactor. Ontario has some cool islands in it that my friends used to stay in, so thats a plus, as well as big toronto access. I’ve never really considered the Canadian sides of the rivers until this PT, so thank you for the learning experience, hotdog.

D- On my list of people to get beers with, Tomen, WannaBeFinn, and Drunken Teddy all rank. While I don’t know any of them particularly well on the site, i would like to do with them what I would like to do with every friend, acquaintance, family member, and presidential candidate, which is get a beer with them at a local dive bar. A quick buzz, some people watching, bar snacks, and some stories is all i want. Beers and tangents flowing freely.


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