Quote:TASK ONE: We ask y’all a lot about who you THINK will win the finals for different reasons. Let’s change it up a bit. Who do you WANT to win the finals, and why? Must be at least 150 words.

Honestly I'm okay with either team in the Finals winning this year, I put a lot of priority on rooting against people and teams rather than rooting for but I have nothing against either the Los Angeles Panthers or the West Kendall Platoon. Both teams have a lot of good people who have long suffered without a championship and both teams seem to lose in the most brutal fashion in the playoffs. It'd be like if the Sharks and Capitals (until this season...) met in the Finals - actually now that the Caps have actually perhaps it's more like the teams ArGar used as the base of his PBP sim in NHL - the Sharks and the Blue Jackets. If I had to pick one I'd go with the Platoon but not for any good reason. Bojo was in my rookie class and we played together in Montreal and JR hangs out in Montreal discord and he and Arty and Bzerkap and other are good people. LA has good peeps too but I just know fewer of them. We need to get back to finals with teams I don't like in them so I can just flame people for Championship Week.

Quote:TASK TWO: Who is your choice for the unsung hero of the S40 playoffs up to this point? Must be at least 150 words and include at least two statistics in support.

I'm going to change it up and switch to the SMJHL (I'm assuming this is supposed to be S41 playoffs and not S40 ) and say Piotr Czerkawski. Coming into the Finals most people had 3 players earmarked for playoff MVP - Kata Vilde, Iam Essellemm, and Water Hobbs - but Czerkawski was actually tied with Essellemm in playoff points despite playing on a lower-scoring team (34 goals in 12 games compared to Kelowna's 37 in 8). He's also one of Montreal's top penalty killers (just 1 minute behind Cody Johansen) making him an all situations player unlike Essellemm (33 PP minutes to Essellemm's 39, 34 PK minutes to Essellemm's 0) and the best 5v5 skater in these playoffs with 11 even strength points. Essellemm is in third with 8, trailing Dayymo Ralchankinov's 10.

So basically Czerkawski is the best player on the best line in the playoffs and if the two goalies weren't playing out of their minds he would be firmly in the Playoff MVP discussion if Montreal were to win the series (which they aren't).

Quote:TASK FOUR: Unscramble the names of these four players who will be competing in the Challenge Cup Finals. Send the answers to me by forum PM. You will not get credit for posting the answers in this thread. [Grading: 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer]

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Quote:TASK SIX: During this season's Stanley Cup finals, we saw some pretty wild pre-game ceremonies and introductions to the games. What kind of performances do you think the two teams in the Challenge Cup/Four Star Cup finals might put on before their games? In at least 150 words, describe one of the finals pre-game ceremonies and what kind of craziness you think may have occurred.

This is a great question to have during a Finals that features West Kendall because I get to write 150 words about stupid shit that Florida Man does because that's exactly the type of person who lives in West Kendall and exactly the type of nonsense that West Kendall would be promoting and featuring during their pregame ceremonies and such.

So we'd lead off by borrowing a setting from one of my favorite Florida Man stories: it's a dark room with just the soft glow from a computer money for light. A man sits in front of the light, we see him from behind so we can't tell but he looks old for his age. We hear a phone ring over the PA system. "911, what's your emergency?" followed by incoherent mumbling and ranting. Skaters dressed as police offers enter the rink followed by a spotlight and approach Florida Man as he mumbles into his phone then ask why he called 911. After he tells them he needs them to check on his tax return he pulls down his pants, moons the officers, and flees - stopping only to sniff some bath salts on the way out. Since it's West Kendall the officers and/or the 911 dispatcher would probably have some sort of awful pun here to bring the cringe to a close.


[quote]TASK NINE: Trivia! Send the answers to me by forum PM. You will not get credit for posting the answers in this thread. [Grading: 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 for each correct answer.]
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