And Smiley finishes the season with a double pop from pressure training, OD and handling both to 9, for a total of 18 pops on the season with a level 4 trainer. Obviously there's a major asterisk in that 5 of those weeks were 1v1 or JS forwards, which give a lot of total pops, more than, say, single-position pressure training, but still, 18 pops is pretty darn good. Next season he and maybe the new draftee if I keep him will be doing a few weeks of JS so Smiley can be decent offensively in D.IV, enough to take some pressure off Faina and McNeill, but other than that I'm hoping to do a lot of pressure training. Expect the total number of pops to likely be way down if I can follow through on that resolution.
(naturally I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some bots don't auto-draft one or both of the players I'm looking at)
One downside is Smiley is projected to have a salary of $8371 next season, so there will likely be some roster changes coming.