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Please pick ONE prompt to write about. Do not mix and match prompts. Identify the prompt you are using in your submission - Copying and pasting the prompt will deduct from your word count so if you do this make sure YOUR submission is 150+ words excluding the prompt.
CREATIVE PROMPT - What an honour! You've been selected to take part in the SHL skills competition! Your event? "The Breakaway Challenge".
Written Task: You've got one breakaway attempt on national television with no holds barred. You have to pull off the most fun, exciting, theatrical breakaway attempt in SHL history. Costumes? Sure. Wires from the ceiling that help you fly? Why not. Fireworks on your skates? Absolutely! This barely even has to be a hockey moment. As long as you put the puck on net and entertain the fans, you're doing your job. (150+ words)
Graphic Task: Show me your player's shoot out attempt! Include some special effects and excitement!
HOCKEY PROMPT- If you don't want to get wacky and wild this week, I've got a real hockey question for you!
Written Task: What are your thoughts on the using shootouts to end games in the NHL? Do you like it? Would you change it? If so how? Bring back the tie? Infinite 3-on-3 until someone scores? Do you find them exciting or do you groan when OT ends? I'd love to hear your thoughts! (150+ words)
Graphic Task: Show me your team on the bench cheering on a teammate during the shootout! Include some kind of superstition of ritual you do for luck!
You will receive 3 TPE for fulfilling all requirements.
All responses are due on Sunday, August 7th at 11:59 PST. NOTE: IF YOU SUBMIT/EDIT AFTER THE DEADLINE YOU WILL RECEIVE REDUCED/NO TPE.
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This task is for SHL players and send downs only, it is not for SMJHL rookies.
HOCKEY PROMPT
I love that shootouts end games in the NHL. It's one of the most fun parts of the game, because there will only be one true hero, the goalie or the skater. Nothing is more satisfying then stopping a puck on a breakaway to end the game, or in the shooters case, sliding the puck past the goalie on a nice deke to finish the game, it can go either way but it's always jam-packed with fun and excitement. Even just watching it as a player on the bench, your always cheering for your team, hoping the goalie makes a huge save or the player has a fantastic snipe to end it, no matter what the audience, you always know that someone has your back. It really makes you wonder what the NHL would be like without shootouts. Would it be less interesting, or would the watch rates of the games go down? Who knows, but either way I think shootouts are fantastic.
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Hockey Prompt
Oh boy. Ohhhhh boy. This is it. This is FINALLY my time. Anyone who sat through any of my college hockey rants when I got to Quebec City knows just how I feel on the topic of hockey overtime. Shootout? Why should we decide games on skills competitions? 3 on 3? Also a gimmick, whose luster has worn out considerably since it first came onto the scene. 4 on 4? Better, because that's a scenario that actively happens during games, so I can tolerate it. When college hockey, in an attempt to synergize with the professional game, introduced 3 on 3 and shootouts to the entire nation (whereas before it was just conference by conference, and the Eastern conferences did not use them)...a lot of Eastern fans were not happy, including myself; there's even a guy on the /r/collegehockey discord whose display name is still "Bring Back Ties." Shootouts suck because if you're one of those well-built teams that focuses on cohesion and chemistry, you lose that in favor of a team with a bunch of individual "dudes" that can't click. And I don't think 3 on 3 is much better; once coaches figured it out it became a rather boring game of keepaway, something Bob McKenzie predicted LITERALLY WHEN IT WAS INSTITUTED.
Ties are a perfectly legitimate way to end a game. You want a little overtime, fine, but don't go smaller than 4 on 4. You dump that shitty fucking half-win known as the loser point (remember when the Panthers got the three seed despite winning like 35 games because they had 20 loser points???), and you buff the amount of points for a win to 3. Therefore, chasing a win has more reward (a gain of +2 from tie to win) and less risk (a loss of -1 from tie to loss). Boom. Problem solved. And if you think there's no such thing as a fun tie, one of my favorite college hockey games when I was at uni was a batshit insane 4-4 draw on Halloween weekend against our closest in-league opponent that featured a last minute game tying goal. Not every tie is a 0-0 or 1-1 snoozer.
Down with gimmicks.
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Written Task: You've got one breakaway attempt on national television with no holds barred. You have to pull off the most fun, exciting, theatrical breakaway attempt in SHL history. Costumes? Sure. Wires from the ceiling that help you fly? Why not. Fireworks on your skates? Absolutely! This barely even has to be a hockey moment. As long as you put the puck on net and entertain the fans, you're doing your job. (150+ words)
Ben Jammin rarely ever gets to have a breakaway or a shootout opportunity because he is a defensemen. However, this season's SHL skills challenge the fans have chosen Ben Jammin to participate in the breakaway challenge and he has quite a show he got to put on for the fans.
As Ben takes center ice, the lights go down in the arena and the music starts playing over the arena with DJ Ben Jammin's best songs. A DJ set with a wicked turntable set and Ben begins start putting on a show for the fans. Ben starts to play a bunch of songs that gets even the goalie to jam out, as soon as that happens Ben begins to skate towards the net chucks his headphones towards the goalie to distract them and pulls a wicked spinarama to bury the puck in the back of the net.
All the fans erupt into massive cheers and the entire breakaway goes viral on the internet. This event has brought millions of fans to the SHL and to Ben Jammin.
(177 words)
Let's get it! Vlastislav Malik would love this! He would likely end up spending WAY too much time planning the perfect breakaway. Hours, days, weeks down the drain. Anyways, let's get to it. Firstly, we need to use NOLA colors in everything. Let's get a NOLA legend's jersey on as well. We can decide whose later, Malik will have to look into NOLA's history for that. A Superman cape has been done. And Superman isn't even the best superhero to be honest. In fact, Malik is more of a villain to be honest, since he's always messing with people with pranks, etc. A prankster, a...joker! Let's dress up as the Joker! And we need to come out to a video on the big screen of all of Malik's pranks on Valterri Kauppinen. Well, there's too many of those. Might have to be a highlight reel. As for the actual breakaway, we need to utilize NOLA's superstars (besides Kauppinen of course) and have them do some tricky passing. Some fakes, some twirls, pay the goalie to bite hard, and put it topshelf. Can you tell Malik cares more about the show than the goal itself?
Creative prompt
Sadly, again this sounds like it's been written with skaters and not goalies in mind - at least from a goalie's perspective looking at it. We don't really have those kinds of breakaways and shoot the pucks on net, all we do is stand there in front of the net, wait for the skater to come at us and try to stop them. It's mostly not super theatrical nor should it be. What we do should be just one thing: effective. The way we goalies might be able to entertain the fans (from our team of course) is by making the skater - who is trying to put the puck in the net - look stupid or perhaps by making some kind of acrobatic save. Sometimes that happens, but we're still doing our part of the job either way. As you can see, there is not too much you can write about a breakaway experience if your player is at the opposite end of the ice and trying to stop the puck.
I don't mind the shootout, but I do feel like the 3 on 3 is so different from regular hockey and it gets to it so quickly that I'm not a huge fan of the current format. I'd prefer a 5 minute 4 on 4 then a 5 minutes 3 on 3 before the shootout. I miss the 4 on 4 OT even though it wasn't as back and forth as the 3 on 3 we have now there was less of a need to be crazy about possession. You actually had teams taking more chances with the open ice. I think all 3 options of 4 on 4, 3 on 3, and shootout actually have some value, if we could see all 3 in a game that would be exciting. I have heard people suggest 4 minutes for 4 on 4 and then 3 minutes for 3 on 3 but I like the idea of a full 5 minutes of each.
Putting pucks on the back of the net is something Jay Cue is more than used to doing. But for a challenge like this, the team needs to go the extra step.
The Inferno like to play with, surprise surprise, fire. So, get this: Cue has the puck, he is completely alone at the halfway line. Then, some lucky fans that won a raffle get into the ice, regular shoes, so they slip a whole ton. Whaaaaat? They have flame throwers on their hands. Their tasks? Try to get to the legend Jay Cue, and burn him before he scores. Tough tasks you might think, how on earth is Cue going to dodge several blood thirsty fans on the ice and score? Did you forget it is Cue we are talking about? The puck is a part of his own body, so he will evade every flame and destroy the goalkeeper. The probability than some of the fans misjudge stuff and kill themselves is higher than Cue getting slightly burned.
(170 words)
Hockey one
I have really mixed opinions about shootouts in the NHL. I really think they do not bring out the best of the game, since its all revolving around individuals against individuals. It does not reflect good team play at all, whether it is on the offensive or defensive side of the ice. From where I stand as a viewer, shootouts are just boring, and they should be removed. To get more of all the teams involved, they should just stick with the golden goal in overtime. Infinite overtime, 3-on-3, 20minute periods and 5 minute breaks. With the intensity coming along with having those shorter breaks, the "infinite overtime" will not actually last long when compared to players having 15 or 20 minute breaks. This would still be entertaining hockey and still bring out the best of the best of both teams. Tie games have no place in hockey, especially with how the standings and playoff seeding goes. Basicly tie games mean nothing in that direction, and are overlooked apart from goal differential, which is why overtime is the way to go.
Quote:Written Task: What are your thoughts on the using shootouts to end games in the NHL? Do you like it? Would you change it? If so how? Bring back the tie? Infinite 3-on-3 until someone scores? Do you find them exciting or do you groan when OT ends? I'd love to hear your thoughts! (150+ words)
I was honestly never a fan of the shootout so removing them would definitely be at the top of my list of things to do if I had that power. I think I'd probably try a 4 on 4 overtime for 5 minutes then 3 on 3 for another 5 minutes. If it hasn't been decided by then, a tie would be awarded. I know that would probably be an unpopular move but I grew up with ties and they were fine. The issue wasn't the tie but that teams would play for the tie and not press. So changing the wins from 2 points to 3 would help with that which is a bit radical but would help. Honestly the 3 on 3 isn't a great solution either judging from the way that teams have been playing them the last few seasons. Ragging the puck and not pressing to tire out the opponent for minutes isn't exciting. So I guess there is no perfect solution.
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