Slip McScruff did in fact exceed my individual goals because I am relaxing those goals over time.  I never set offensive goals but I rattled off 13 assists to be near the middle of the team in terms of points.  I always look mainly at defensive performance where I did well.  I lead the team in Takeaways and Shot Blocks by a mile and generally didn't tank in terms of plus minus.  What's best is the chance to play in the post season again which was more of the same performance.

I can attribute this to the management of the Jets who have helped me age my player into a useful role.  The next season will be tougher for me as my blue line stud partner has been traded for a new life in Toronto.  I can hope that my next round of regression and claw back will fit into another useful role with the new roster pieces on the team.


For me, it's season 48 because it's the only time I have been in the finals and that championship week experience made me feel like a celebrity.  For the league as a whole, it may be notable because Winnipeg has won a challenge cup in ever decade but we have not been to the finals since that season.  If we miss the S50s, that will be notable as the most recent time the team has almost crossed the threshold.

Without being focused on my own team, I'd have to take the HAM wins in season 51 and season 53 for the controversy of it all.  I don't remember the exact timing of it all, but in the general trend of history, HAM gets blamed for killing the STHS era with an exploit on the passing and shooting stats.  Season 51 was one of the last STHS seasons and HAM dominated with only 2 playoff losses.  Then, in season 53, HAM had a rematch against EDM in the first FHM era playoffs and won in an almost as dominant fashion with no exploit.  EDM took an extra game resulting in 3 losses that time around.


The worst possible playoff structure is a Royal Rumble style event where a new team is introduced in every round.  The sensible way to make this work is to have the lowest seeds enter first and add the next lowest seed join in every time someone is eliminated.  Maybe even have two parallel tracks so a team plays half as many games and both teams in the finals are exhausted.

However, we are trying to go full sicko mode, so there is one track and the number one seed enters first.  Then they have to play each progressively lower seed, so it actually rewards the bottom seed team.  They are totally fresh by the time they play a tired team that has played in.


I will nominate the cities of Seattle and Atlanta.  You may expect a Canadian city because Canada has a better track record with COVID.  However, as the federation head for simulation USA, I declared that simulation USA is handling simulation COVID better than simulation Canada.

In simulation USA, we want to reward the efforts of the expansion teams by bringing the business of the bubble to their cities.  Not only is this an economic reward, but it solidifies the SHL fanbase in those areas.  Besides this being a good idea, I don't actually know anything about Atlanta to make the case, but I can speak to the city of simulation Seattle.

In simulation Seattle, the SHL will rent out the entirety of the city center which will piss off non fans but give the players plenty of space to spread out and be outside.  They will take turns... uh... going to the Space Needle and eating hotdogs with cream cheese.  I rest my case.


The USA is going to win because my management team is dedicated and I bring forward a talented roster for them to play with every season.  We're always contenders so I can go in hopeful every season.  It's a bit tricky to have Canada and the USA in the same group this time around.  We'll either knock out a decently qualified team by having two powerhouses together or there will be an upset when the USA knocks Canada out before the medal round.  There are no other possibilities there.

With some more churn in our D core, the USA will have Michael Fox playing out of position on the blue line.  Based on overall strengths, it seems to be working out that Slip McScruff and Michael Fox will play as a pair.  After being long time managements partners with Fuzz, I'm excited to see that play out and hope we click on the ice as well as we do in the office.

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