Task 1:
Here we are in overtime of game five of the playoff match up between the Edmonton Blizzard and the Texas Renegades. The Blizzard are leading the series three games to one so the Renegades need to win this game to keep their season alive. It's been a back and forth game and here we are 5 minutes into the first overtime period. There is a face-off in the Renegade's zone as Karpotsov is in to take the draw against Boyka. Karpotsov wins the draw back to Windsor. Windsor fakes the one timer and tries to slide the puck over to the right circle where Koroviev is waiting with what looks to be a wide open net. Ignant Ogorodnikov dives and makes a desperate lunge to stop the pass. He somehow gets his stick on it and it slides over to Boyka. Ogorodnikov is back up and gets the pass from Boyka. He dumps the puck into the Blizzard zone as the Renegades go for a change.
Windsor retrieves the puck and tries to clear it out of the zone. Liam Kinsler coming off the bench is right there however and he picks up the puck. He slides it across the neutral zone to sterling Knight. Knight skates into the Blizzard zone and lines up a big slapper from just inside the blueline. Aittokallio looks surprised at the shot and he tries to snatch it out of the air with his glove. Too late however as the shot rifles past him into the back of the net. Gooooaaaaallllllll by Sterling Knight, his first of the playoffs, just in time to save the Renegades season. And this series will go to a game six.
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Yuri Boyka was at the top of the Texas Renegades scoring sheet all season. He had an exceptional season for the black and silver, scoring 21 goals and adding 30 assists for 51 points in 50 games, a tad over a point per game average. He also took a whopping 223 shots or just over 4 per game. Boyka's real strength was in the 5 on 5 however as he managed only 11 power play points over the course of the season, or around 20%. He was by far the biggest point producer the Renegades had having 13 points more than the next Renegade Sterling Knight. Without the great season by Boyka it's doubtful that Texas would have even made the playoffs.
So how did Boyka fare in the playoffs? Well Texas didn't advance but managed to take the Blizzard to 6 games. The failure to advance was hardly Boyka's fault however. He managed to put up 4 goals and 6 assists for 10 points in the 6 game series, increasing his point per game average. He also took 33 shots, also increasing his shots per game to 5.5 from just over four. He also fared better on the power play with 5 power play points or half of his total scoring. So Texas can definitely not blame Yuri Boyka for their playoff failure as their regular season point leader stepped up his game even more in the playoffs.
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The pivotal game in the Texas Edmonton series would have to have been the first game of the series. A different outcome would probably have at least let the series get to 7 games instead of 6. In the first game Edmonton beat Texas 4-3 in an overtime victory. A win here would have been crucial for Texas going in as a huge underdog in the series. After squeaking into the playoffs it was assumed Texas would just roll over versus the defending champs. Losing the first game was a huge blow and in the end allowed Edmonton to go up in the series 3 games to 1. Had Texas managed to win the game at worst they go 2 and 2 and have an actual shot at upsetting Edmonton in a game 7. Going down 3 games to 1 seemed an insurmountable task for Texas even though they managed to pull out game 5 in overtime it seemed they had nothing left in another win or go home game. The two overtime games in the series certainly left the Renegades drained both physically and emotionally and in the end they were unable to overcome this. Had the first overtime game gone their way they could probably have ridden that emotion all the way to a first round upset of the defending champs.
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Was I dreaming? I woke up and saw it there on the table. The cup, every SHL player's goal. Somehow the Texas Renegades had managed to win the cup and it was Vliddy's day with it. Knowing the debauchery he had planned for later that evening Vliddy decided he had better do something good with the cup first. So off to the children's hospital in Dallas Vliddy went. He got out his $50,000 black and silver robe with Nature Boy in diamonds on the back and a feathered boa around the collar and stepped into the limousine to try and brighten the day of some sick kids. Vliddy got off the elevator and bellowed out a loud WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Of course every kid in Dallas knew what that meant and the excitement on the faces of the kids made Vliddy's day even more so than it did for the kids.
After leaving the hospital and getting back in the limo it was time to head to Rick James' China Club to party with Rick James bitch. Vliddy took the cup in with him and spied James sitting at his private booth in the back with hookers all around him. Vliddy set the cup in the middle of the table and bellowed at James hope you got some coke to go with all the hookers. James just grinned, smacked the hooker off his lap and went to his office. He came back with a huge bag of coke. He poured it in the cup and filled it completely up. The next several hours were a blur of booze, broads and dope as Rick James and the Nature Boy did some serious damage to the pile in the cup. All of a sudden there was a deafening noise. Vliddy looked around and saw his alarm clock was going off. Damn. It was only a dream after all.
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TASKONE:
We're halfway through the first overtime period now as we're still looking for a winner here in Toronto! These fans have given it all the had since two nights ago, and they aren't going to quiet down now! Faceoff to the right of Andersson. Flacko wins the draw for the Chiefs against Barbashev and knocks the puck to Palat. Palat with it now. He'll skate it up ice as Flacko is getting into it behind the play with Barbashev. Palat gets to the blue line, sees only blue and dumps the puck in.
Harter collects the loose puck behind the net and fires it up towards center to Barbashev. To Scherbluk. He skates it into the Chiefs zone. Scherbluk shoots AND IT'S TIPPED BY FALK! But that one goes wide of the net.
Scherbluk recovers behind Andersson and tries to shoot again but his shot goes across the face of goal. Barbashev picks it up on the half wall. His shot goes just wide and bounces off the back wall and it rolls IN FRONT OF THE NET! HE SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES! SCHERBLUK! SCHERBLUK! HE PICKED UP THE PUCK AS IT BOUNCED TO HIM IN FRONT OF THE NET, ANDERSSON WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, AND THE CHIEFS ARE OUT! BREAK OUT THE BROOMS, THE TORONTO NORTH STARS HAVE COMPLETED THE SWEEP ON HOME ICE! THE TORONTO NORTH STARS ARE MOVING ON TO FACE THE WINNER OF HAMILTON VERSUS WEST KENDALL!
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Good evening ladies and gentleman! We're coming to you live from the SHL Finals in Hamilton tonight as we take a look at the stats of one of the standout players from the regular season, Dean Colt of the Hamilton Steelhawks!
Colt led the league in assists throughout the course of the regular season with 43, in no doubt aided by his impressive performance in the faceoff circle with a 58.78% success rate on the draw in 1,720 attempts. He also had some extremely impressive physical play when it came to playing without the puck, with 181 hits in the regular season.
Breaking those numbers down, Colt put up assists throughout the regular season at a rate of .86 assists per game, took 34.4 faceoffs per game (again winning almost 60% of those draws) and collided with his opponents for 3.62 hits per game.
So how has he fared in the postseason? Again to do a proper comparison here we'll have to break down his numbers by game, but first let's take a moment to look at his totals. In 12 games Colt has 10 assists - no longer top of the league, but still an impressive tally for sure. He's taken 436 faceoffs in those games, only winning 55.50% of those draws, and he's hit his opponents a whopping 67 times.
Breaking those statistics down once more, Colt has .83 assists per game in the postseason (essentially on pace with his regular season), has taken 36.33 faceoffs per game (slightly more than his regular season workload), and finished 5.5833 hits per game (a huge increase on his regular season totals)
So what does this mean for Colt's postseason? He's shown that the regular season was no fluke and it's looking like he's going to keep this pace up throughout the SHL Finals. Good news for Steelhawks fans - not so good news for Dragons fans.
TASKTHREE:
And the puck has dropped here in overtime between the Hamilton Steelhawks and the Toronto North Stars! What better way to end a game seven than some overtime action?
Simons wins the draw and drops the puck back to Zarins. He gives it back to Simons who skates it back up into the North Stars zone. He looks to set up an offensive opportunity but can't, so he just dumps it in and goes off for a line change. Tanner looks to clear it out but LaFlamme picks it up. He tries to make a move but fumbles the puck, and Colt picks it up in the corner. He moves it to Cant. Cant tries to pass it to center, but his effort misses everyone and that's an icing.
Rowe wins the draw against Colt now. He gives the puck to Stinson at the point. Stinson looks, and gives it back to Rowe again. Rowe WITH THE SHOT, KYLRAD TIPS. . .HE SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST!!!!!! KYLRAD SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORES!!!!! WHAT A GOAL BY THE NORTH STARS AND THEY'RE GOING ON TO THE CHALLENGE CUP FINALS TO FACE THE CALGARY DRAGONS! THE NORTH STARS ARE MOVING ON! THE NORTH STARS ARE MOVING ON! HISTORY HAS BEEN. . .
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
Kylrad shoots up in his bed, drenched in sweat. That same dream again. He'd been having it every night since that game. Since that fateful moment. He could still hear in his head the announcer's call. "KYLRAD TIPPED IT WIDE! A PERFECT CHANCE FOR THE NORTH STARS, AND HE BLEW IT!" His teammates didn't blame him, but he did. He had the chance to win the game, to win the series, to send the North Stars to the finals - the chance to possibly win the franchise's first ever Challenge Cup.
And he blew it.
TASK FOUR:
This was it. The moment every player dreams of - Clayton's day with the Challenge Cup. What should he do? There were so many options. He could watch a My Little Pony marathon, he could. . .actually you know what that one sounded pretty good. But there was nobody for him to watch it with. Bure was back in Russia, Talo was in Finland, and for some unknown reason Ciarelli was wandering lost in a forest in Greenland.
So what could he do? It was then that Clayton remembered - it was the day of Brony Con! So he hopped on a plane and took the Challenge Cup with him to the well known convention for My Little Pony lovers of all ages. The cup was a hit! Everyone wanted to take pictures with the Challenge Cup winner dressed in his favorite Rainbow Dash costume as he toured the convention center. Naturally his first stop while there was to take a photo with Ashleigh Ball, voice of Rainbow Dash. The two lifted the cup over their heads for the photo, and Clayton couldn't wait to get home to frame it and hang it on his wall - after all, the only thing better than winning the Challenge Cup was getting to meet the real live Rainbow Dash.
Unfortunately, as Clayton flew home, he felt like something was missing. But it wasn't until he was sitting at home watching the newest episode of My Little Pony that he realized - he had no idea where he'd left the Challenge Cup.
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1. And after that stoppage in play, we’ll see these two of the top centers in the SHL at the dot for this face-off in the Steelhawks’ zone. We’re about 40 seconds into this overtime period, and the fans are on their feet chanting “DE-FENSE, DE-FENSE.”
Colt wins the face-off versus Szlerchek and passes to Ziepens who tries to get the puck out of the defensive zone. He dishes to Pellegrino, who gives it back as Ziepens enters the neutral zone. He’s got the defense on its heels, and enters the Platoon zone without difficulty. Maximova stops retreating though, and steps into Ziepens who crumples to the ice. Maximova scoops the puck up and makes the outlet pass to Lloren in the neutral zone. Lloren passes the puck to a streaking Ales Smirnov, and the rest of the Platoon is entering the ‘Hawks zone en masse. Smirnov drops it back to Maximova, who quickly gives it to Szlerchek. ONE-TIMER! That shot misses the net entirely, and we’ve just crossed the minute mark into the overtime frame. That shot was so hard, it bounced off the end boards, and is almost back to the blue-line. Maximova comes up to the top of the circle, fires a slap shot through traffic. Tanner can’t see it, it’s over his shoulder… and IN! PLATOON WINS! PLATOON WINS! Maximova is the hero of the night, after tying the game up in the third period, she gets the defensive stop and the overtime goal to win it.
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2. Zalleras Szlerchek was the West Kendall Platoon’s most reliable weapon in the regular season campaign. He fell just shy of repeating his point per game performance of S28, scoring 49 points in 50 games this season. He scored 22 goals (.44 gpg), 27 assists (.54 apg), delivered 80 hits (1.6 hpg), took 205 shots (4.1 spg), and won 55.15% of his face-offs.
In the playoffs, he actually exceeded the point per game mark by notching 8 points in 6 games (1.33 ppg). He tallied 2 goals (.33 gpg), 6 assists (1 apg), 15 hits (2.5 hpg), 17 shots (2.83 spg), and won 51.98% of face-offs.
From this examination, we see that Szlerchek improved his assists and hit production, but his goals tailed off significantly. This correlates well to the fact that he was only taking about 75% as many shots during the postseason as the regular season. We can only wonder if Szlerchek had been a little more selfish in the playoffs – if he’d taken more shots, he might have notched a couple more goals and the Platoon might’ve taken home some more crucial wins. Furthermore, the fact that he was losing 4% more face-offs wasn’t helping matters either. While his numbers were still fantastic through the post-season, he’ll spend the offseason wondering if he could have given more.
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3. Game 6 of the first round of the SHL Challenge Cup Playoffs was arguably the most pivotal game of the postseason for the West Kendall Platoon. West Kendall had been plagued by several problems throughout the postseason, including penalties, poor play from net-minder Colin Schmidt while seeing unbelievable play from opposing goalie Jakob Tanner. West Kendall managed to overcome one of those problems, allowing only one power play (though Hamilton did in fact score on it), but saw no changes from the netminders. With Tanner stopping 39 of 42 shots, Hamilton would get the OT win to move on to face Toronto. But what if the Platoon had won?
West Kendall would have then faced a game 7, in Hamilton, and still would have faced quite the challenge in advancing. However, a game 6 loss just might have rattled Tanner enough to bring him from the god-like performance he was putting on to merely being superhuman. In that scenario, West Kendall’s high octane offense would’ve likely had sufficient firepower to squeak by and into the Eastern Conference Finals. If that were to happen, WKP would have faced their rivals, the Toronto North Stars. During the regular season, West Kendall had a 3-1-0 record against the North Stars, but only a +1 goal differential. Still, it seems reasonable to posit that had the Platoon won Game 6, they could have won through to the conference finals, the Cup finals, and might have even hoisted the cup itself.
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4. Upon winning the Challenge Cup for the first time in his career, Klaus Wagner pondered what to do on his day with the cup. He decided that the best thing to do would be to bring the Cup to Germany. He started by bringing the cup to his hometown of Munich, as he wanted to show the fans back home that the football club wasn’t the only game worth watching. He came into town on the train – in Germany, it’s the only way to travel (assuming you don’t favor the Audobahn) – and stepped off to a crowd chanting his name. This was quite unexpected to Wagner, who had grown up in relative obscurity given that he wasn’t a footballer. Wagner hoisted the cup over his head, and the crowd burst into uproarious cheering.
Wagner carried the down the main street, to the arena where he’d played hockey as a youth. There, he met with the kids in the youth program he’d played in, and encouraged them that if they continued to work hard and train hard, they too could one day be a professional hockey player, and bring honor and glory to their family, team and nation. Wagner took pictures with the kids and the cup, and signed them all. Wagner spent the rest of the day with his family, and returned the cup at the end of the day.
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It's halfway through the third period of game 3 in the first round of this year's playoff match up between Edmonton and Texas. Kane has been quiet in the first two games as Edmonton split their opening games at home as he came into game 3 with 0 points in the series. He's come out blazing in Texas however as he's scored 2 goals in the first 4 minutes of this game and now the Blizzard are trying to fend off a Texas comeback as they hold a 3-2 lead. Texas have the momentum as they try to hold on to the home court advantage as Boyka finds a chance to score his second in quick succession but Aittokallio stands tall and shuts the play down. Boyka gets another attempt as they continue pressing for the equalizer. His shot goes wide but Texas retains possession and Carl Mountain gets the puck back at the blue line. His blistering shot goes wide as well as it took a deflection in front. The puck goes back the other way as Edmonton's first line come onto the ice on a nice change. Sarantez streaks in off the wing and snaps a shot off. It rings around to Windsor who waits... skates in... and makes sure to get his shot on target! Ogorodnikov gets a pad on it but Kane's right there to jump on the rebound! Goal! That's a hat trick for the league's regular season leader in points!
TASK TWO: (worth 3 TPE)
Griffin Simons was the Steelhawks' leader in points as Hamilton's top line of Simons-Colt-Clitsome tore up the league this season with 50+ points each, taking 3 spots in the top 6. That whole line has continued that level of play in the playoffs and consequently we have Hamilton making the Challenge Cup Finals yet again despite many pundits betting against them. Simons-Colt-Clitsome are 1-2-3 in playoff scoring with 20-18-16 points respectively. Colt has played the enforcer role on this line as Simons has avoided spending any time in the box, while Clitsome has 1 minor penalty thus far. Simons and Clitsome have combined for 9 hits through 12 games while Colt has amassed an impressive tally of 67 hits. The 30 goal scorer Clitsome has 9 goals through 12 games tied with Simons for the lead and have caused massive headaches for the opposing GMs as they try to find a way to slow this top line of Hamilton down. Hamilton on the other hand have taken the opportunity to ride their top line hard all the way possibly to yet another Cup as the Simons-Colt-Clitsome line average close to 30 minutes a game (tops for any forward in the league). Can Calgary find a way to shut this line down because that's their only hope to stop the Hamilton train that's smacked down WKP and the Stars.
TASK THREE: (worth 3 TPE)
With both the Western and Eastern conference finals series going 7 games there is plenty of pivotal moments to choose from but Game 7 of the Eastern conference finals between Hamilton and Toronto was a nail-biting affair to watch. Toronto, like their western conference counterparts the Blizzard climbed back from a 3-1 deficit to force game 7. Toronto has been dubbed by fans and players to be the cursed team of the SHL as they've iced competitive team after competitive team but have yet to win a cup or find any post season success. Their first round upset of the top seeded Minnesota Chiefs in 4 games raised many an eyebrow as people wondered quietly if this would be the season that Toronto finally break their post-season curse like the San Jose Sharks of the NHL. Toronto go down early in period 1 of Game 7 2-0 but storm back with 3 unanswered goals in the third to take the lead before Griffin Simons manages to equalize. The game goes to overtime and 2 minutes in Dane Rowe makes a bad pass that gets called for icing and Toronto get in trouble in their own zone. This eventually leads to the game winner by Griffin Simons who's led Hamilton all year. If that pass by Rowe was on target perhaps we'd be talking about a historical moment in Toronto history but instead Toronto will continue to try to find a way to break this curse.
TASK FOUR: (worth 3 TPE)
Theo Kane can't believe it as he's won his second Challenge Cup in back to back years as Edmonton have completed a title defence for the third time in franchise history! He's capped off a historic regular season where he tied the league record for points with the ultimate prize. His day with the Cup is spent in Edmonton, his home of 9 years since being drafted in the S21 SHL Draft. The Blizzard alternate captain spends most of the day with his family, friends and teammates at his luxurious home. After the physical and mental grind of the full 50 game season and the additional high intensity playoff games required to win it all two years in a row Kane is relishing his opportunity to relax in a comfortable environment. Nothing too crazy is planned for the day as Brett Broadway's crazy ass party is happening on the weekend. With his contract expiring and free agency looming in a couple months, Kane at this moment wonders if there could be any reason he would want to leave Edmonton. He decides that he'll worry about that later and just enjoy this moment with all the people that made it happen.
Task 2: Jaime Hill had rather solid regular season with the Calgary Dragons, in 50 games he managed to score 25 goals and 21 assists, but his +/- rating was absolutely insane, +31, so he did not only play well offensively, but was also really solid in his own end too. Hill´s goal total was the best in Calgary and that 25 goals also gave him number 7 spot in the whole league!
He played in the first line with Anrikkanen and Johnson, so it´s quite safe to say that they were one of the most dangerous trios in the whole league.
Playoffs has not been so great for Jaime on a personal level, but I´m sure he don´t mind too much, since his team is in the finals. So far in 11 games he has 3+1, +/- rating is -1. Somewhat weaker start to the playoffs has resulted in him being moved to 2nd line with Pedersen and Mack. Interesting to see how well that trio manages to play together, perhaps that move is all it takes for Hill to find his scoring touch from the regular season. If Hill manages to get back in form, Calgary is really close to winning the cup this year. (205)
Task 3:
Hamilton Steelhawks vs West Kendall Platoon, game 3
Before this game was played, WKP was leading the series 2-0, so if they would win the game 3, I think it would be really hard for Hamilton to come from 3-0 to 3-3 and then go through to the next round. I´m sure some teams have managed to do that in the past, but 3-0 down in the playoffs and then winning 4 games in row? Very unlikely thing to happen in my opinion.
As some of you know, WKP lost the game 3 against Hamilton in the overtime 4-3, making the series 2-1, but as mentioned before, 3-0 for WKP at this point, would Hamilton be in the finals now? WKP had a lot of chances in the game, they out shot Hamilton 19-4 in the first two periods, but still the game was 1-1 at that point. In the third period Hamilton had 14 shots and WKP 13, game tied at 3-3 and the game goes to the overtime where anything is possible and Hamilton took the game home in the OT as we know.
That win was the key moment in that series, Hamilton secured extremely important win and perhaps that win was all it took for them to catch fire, Hamilton won the next three games and WKP´s playoff run was over. (225)
Task 4:
I would more than likely travel back to Finland and visit the town I was born in first. I would spend few hours there just talking to people, signing stuff and taking pictures. I could spend more time there of course, but the town is quite small, so few hours is enough.
From there I would travel to city called Tampere which is only 40 or so minutes from the little town I was born in. There I would do the same thing, take pictures, sign stuff and just talk with people. It´s quite rare that you get to see the cup in Finland, even more rare that you get to see it in the area where I was born in, so getting to see people having a good time is easily worth it.
After that I would move towards a cottage that I rented and take the cup to sauna with me. Then I would jump into a lake and swim with the cup. Not sure how much the cup actually weights, but if it´s not too heavy, I reckon I could swim with it.
Basically my day would start with the fans and end with just me having little fun and relaxing with the cup before I hand it over to next player! (214)
Written: Pick any goal scored in the S29 playoffs so far and write the play by play for it. (150 words)
It's been an exciting game of hockey tonight in the city of Toronto, the chiefs have forced an overtime in game 4 of this first round series. The Chiefs are down 0-3 and need to win this game or else their cup run is already over.
The score is 2-2 and we're 10 minutes into the first overtime.
Simon Palat will dump the puck into the Toronto zone to reset play. Harter retreivces the puck and sets up a new attack for the North Stars passing it to Barbashev, who passes it into the neutral zone to Scherbulk. Who crosses the blue line and is looking for an oppertunity. He takes a shot which Adam Falk deflects, but it misses the net. Scherbulk will skate for the puck and retrieves it. He tries to shoot it, but misses the net, on the other side there's Barbashev who picks up the puck and will try to shoot again, but misses this time no falk to try and deflect it. The free puck will be picked up by Scherbulk again. It's almost like these guys are playing tennis.
Scherbulk gets ready for a shot, he skates towards Anderssons right, he shoots. AND SCOOOOOOORES. The puck flies over the glove and gets roofed. Darian Scherbulk scores the overtime winner and shoots the Toronto North Stars into the conference finals. (226 words)
Written: Choose a standout player in the regular season, and write 200 words on how they’ve measured up so far in the playoffs. Must include at least three stats.
When I look at players who stood out this season and our in the playoffs I would have to say Theo Kane stood out the most. The guy had an amazing season. He ended first in the scoring category with 31 goals and a shared 5th in the assists categorie with 36 assists to his name.
He also rocked a plus/minus of 32. Strong defensively and always around to help get his team the advantage.
Now lets take a look at his stats in this years playoff. The Edmonton Blizzard played 13 games in this years playoff before being knocked out. Did Theo Kane keep to his regular season form, being a leader in goals and a point per game player?
With 5 goals and 6 assists which gives him a total of 11 points he just falls 2 points short of being a point per game man. He still puts down some great stats. 5 goals was the second most on the team and a plus/minus of 4 indicates he was playing well defensively. Something to point out is the drop in shooting percetage Kane had. With a 13.42% during the regular season he was a 27th best in the league, but in the playoffs he only managed to score on about 9% of his shots. (9.09%).
So to wrap it all up. Kane put down a fenominal regular season. His playoff was a little less, but he still played great. A small decline in his shot to goal precentage, might have been a game changer, but that's ofcourse always the case. (265 words)
Written: Choose what you think is a pivotal moment in any of the series’ so far, and flip it on it’s head. What happens if one team loses a game seven instead of wins? What happens if one goal isn’t scored, or is? How does the playoffs change, and how does the series change? (200 words.)
After sweeping the Minnesota Chiefs in the first round the North Stars found themselfs playing against the Hamilton Steelhawks a team who have been very strong in the recent years. It was a great series which ended with a game 7, overtime win for the Steelhawks. Could it have gone differnt? Let's have a look.
The cup curse has been haunting Toronto and each year they seem to be getting closer and closer. They have a strong team, but something just keeps getting in the way.
The game started in the hands of the Steelhawks they managed to get 2 goals in the first period and outshot the North Stars. No goals in the second period meant Toronto had to go full comeback if they wanted to win the divisional final and head on to the Challenger Cup final.
They answered with two early goals in the third. A powerplay goal by Johnson 2:25 minutes in followed by a goal from Adam Falk one minute later at 3:32 meant the game was tied and anything could happen.
11:41 minutes into the game and Chester Cunningham scored and so the North Stars with about 8 more minutes on the clock where in the Finals, but a minute later it went wrong when Griffin Simons shot his 10 goal of the playoffs into the goal. This goal meant overtime and a quick OT goal for the Steelhawks.
Two goals to look at in this game. If Simons hadn't scored that goal, Toronto could have gone into the finals and cure their curse and have a shot at the cup, but the goal by Simons would mean the end of the Stars. They didn't even get a shot on net during the overtime, the Steelhawks got them where they wanted and finished it.
Maybe next time Toronto. (307 words)
Written: Your player has won the Challenge Cup! Write 200 words about what he or she does on his or her Cup day. (This applies even to players whose teams didn’t make the playoffs)
The New England Wolfpack have won the Challenge Cup all thanks to their amazing players and staff. It is Raven Silverwing's cup day and he has decided to bring the cup somewhere special to him and the team.
The super wooley sheepfarm. Home of the wooliest and softest sheep and goats of the world. The very same wool that is used in all of the NEW official Jerseys aswell as in their merchandise, including scarfs, mittens and underwear.
Raven starts his day on the farm off by helping around. Making sure the sheep have enough food and water aviable aswell as helping the farmers with any work they need done. Once all the work is done, Raven walks out into the field, carrying the cup and walks to the nearest pack of sheep. He lays down and soon sheep surround him and form a warm soft blanket. ' Winning the cup has been fantastic and a great feeling', he says. 'but let me tell you something, laying here inbetween all these sheep. Has to be the best feeling ever'.
After several hours Raven stands up, his skin looking softer than ever and he walks back to the farm. Time to go home, he looks back at the sheep one more time and leaves. (212 words)
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