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Landon is geared up for quite the season. Just a couple weeks away from hitting max build and earning like crazy to try to afford to keep this lifestyle. It seems no matter where I turn Ronan Lavelle is just 1 step ahead of me, and so I’m hoping this season I can start to close that gap. I’m at the point now where there’s nothing build-wise I can really do to outpace the competition but its just a waiting game to see if Simon will ever love me. I’m glad I still have 5 more cracks at it. Looking at my build’s inspiration, Duncan Idaho, it is a bit of a relief to see that he only broke out into the dominant player we all remember in his fourth season. I’m already shooting at an elite rate, just need those shots to start going in.

 

Calgary is in an interesting spot at the moment, accomplishing all but one of our offseason goals so far. We got a star goaltender, we used our incredible prospect pool to replace aging depth talent. We earned and grew well. All that’s left is finding a cheap defenceman to fill in on the 2nd unit and we’re golden. It feels like NA as a whole looks weaker this season, with a lot of big retirements and some notable FAs heading to Europe. I don’t think the regular season will be much of an issue seeing the roster we have, but hopefully this will give us a shot at making that playoff push we know we’ve been capable of for some time now.

 

I know the ProAm doesn’t really mean much but I’ve been on a bit of a tear there. I can only hope that the World Cup follows suit, and then the VHL season. I know Jacob Carson got quite a few looks internationally, mostly because I hovered at 400 TPA for a while. It would be nice to put some good international performances in the next few seasons, solidify myself in best-on-best play. I wasn’t great last time around but I was a 6th forward on a pretty shallow forward roster, so coming in as a leader offensively should help me out a bit more.

 

It looks as though I’ll be playing with Leandro this season over Janser, which gives me a better opportunity to dominate by my own hand, but also means I can’t rely on Janser to drag me along. Leandro and I should compliment each other pretty well however, both being incredible possession machines. Leandro kept up with us pretty well paired with Grape, so it would be cool if we can outperform the Janser unit, or at least keep up, make it harder for teams to shut us down. Two units running like crazy will be essential to winning those tougher playoff matchups.

 

I also can’t stress enough how incredible it is to have Lindbergh backstopping us now. There was so much uncertainty before, and although Simon does what Simon wants, we at least know that Lindbergh won’t be getting any worse, and has the talents to be one of the lucky ones to be a top goaltender each season. And we have a bit of term to start scoping out new young talent, assuming Pedersen can’t step forward into a star goaltender.