I mean, I will be honest. I do not remember Montreal doing insanely well outside of a couple of seasons ago when we beat them in Buffalo to go on our cup winning run as we faced them 1st and 4-0'd them and the following season we faced them 1st round and they beat us and prolly went on a run. I did not really focus on it as I was focusing on the minor leagues, the better league!

So I feel like if I say "yeah, dummies pulled the plug!" or the opposite of "Nah, they now cooking and did the right thing here" I have no real way of backing it up cause I do not know what the team looked like. They were super nice to me in my regression years so I will say just purely because of that they are doing the right thing and will come back stronger than ever before!

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3 TPE


I think the biggest upset is San Fran's win over the Edmonton Blizzard who genuinely I thought would make the final against Buffalo. I guess predicting 1st vs 2nd is not a bold thing but I did not believe this engine even had it in it to do upsets as frequently. This season feels like 1 of those Out of the park tier coin flip RNG type things. It is well deserved but I did not see them even beating whoever they faced in the first round and it is not like Winnipeg had a clean 4-0 against them either.

I guess the engine missed doing things with New England albeit I did have them going very far, just not finals far. New England are well ran though so I guess that upset is not that huge. If Minny upset Edmonton then I think you're looking at an insanely bigger upset but San Fran are a worthy underdog story as well.


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So if I am honest, I look at my country of Team Switzerland and think this time around we could be the ones to upset and actually get a medal this time around. We have a very good defence that will hopefully show up well this tournament and whilst I will not do much as a forward again (Cause I never play D for them it seems) I am still hopeful that we can manage to shock a few teams to go on a medal run. Now obviously the goal is the gold medal cause it should be for every nation but overall silver or bronze is not exactly a bad thing to achieve either. Under a new head I do believe we can upset and shock people against some of the more consistent nations like Canada if we even face them this tournament and get the 1 medal a lot of the Swiss players are missing for all 4 trophies on 1 player.

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9 TPE so 8 is covered