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*Carpy48* · 02-27-2022, 06:05 AM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

Verification word: triviadone

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2. Written, 3 TPE, Back In My Day (150 words min.)

The SHL has been around for the sim-time equivalent of 63 years now! That’s a lot of time for things to change. What was the league like 62 years ago in season one? Did nobody wear helmets? Were players allowed to smoke on the ice? Plenty would have changed in over six decades!

Back in my day the league was so different. There used to be this guy named Simon who... actually, well, let's not get into that story. First of all, there weren't nearly as many teams. What does it mean to have fewer teams? Fewer players too and higher chances to win a cup, or an individual award or to create league records in all kinds of categories. Those awards we have now had to be named after famous players from the first few seasons, so when the league was new and you were one of the 'good' players, chances were high that you would find an award being named after you later. That doesn't happen too often anymore these days. Players also had shorter careers and yet had so much success that younger players these days should be jealous. And goalies could actually get points, believe it or not. It wasn't uncommon for them to collect assists. That hasn't happened in ages. (162 words)

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Those That Came Before (150 words min.)

When did your franchise last win a Challenge Cup? Write about that team, some of the key players, and what intangibles they had going for them to be able to win it all. If your franchise hasn’t yet won a cup, choose any cup winning team and talk about why you’d like your current team to emulate them. Did they have an all time great roster? Were they scrappy under dogs?

The Toronto North Stars have only one the Challenge Cup once. A long time ago, in season 35. It's been almost 30 seasons since then. Obviously, the GMs back then also won the GM of the Year award, as they should have. The same season Toronto's Zander Rhys won the Ryan Jesster (Rookie of the Year) award and of course one of Toronto's all-time greatest Kristian Eriksson was awarded the Anton Razor Trophy for playoff MVP. Eriksson was the best player in the playoffs scoring 20 points in 17 games, but worth mentioning is the other rookie on the team Chris York who scored 15 points. Both of them have their numbers retired now and are in Toronto's Hall of Fame, just to show you how important both of them were for the team back then. Eriksson still holds virtually all Toronto skater records such as most games played and most points. It really was a great season and a great team back then. (158 words)

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Extinction Event (150 words min.)

Rumour has it that millions of years before the SHL began, there was a pre-historic “Dino Hockey League” that dominated the global sports market before a meteor wiped out most life on the planet. Describe that ancient league. Maybe name a couple of teams or players, tell me about how the Dino league’s rules differed from our current ones? This one is pretty loose, just have fun with it!

The good old pre-historic "DHL" (not to be confused with the logistics company). Those were the days. I feel old now just thinking about it. What do humans and dinos have in common? They want to play hockey of course and win the Cup. Back in the day they didn't have the Challenge Cup of course, but the Jurassic Cup. Each team was made up by different dinosaurs and each of them had different skills. Back in those times you weren't limited to skating on the ground, some of the dinos even took the puck up in the air and tried to throw it into the net. Of course, they had no real rules which means no refs and no penalties either. And no coaches of course. Guess how often they tried to kill each other? Nobody was surprised to see a game where only half of the players survived the second period. You fought for your ice time after all. Those were the days indeed and I'm glad they're over. (171 words)

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

+3 TPE S63 Milestones

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13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)

BWOMP BWOMP BWOMP PARITY ALERT PARITY ALERT- Well, a new team in the finals since the mid s50s, it only took ten seasons. Is parity solved? Will new teams make it in as the old guard becomes a forgotten waste of brain space? Don't forget, Hamilton is here AGAIN. Yes we have new teams... but what if it's TEX HAM again next season? Is that even likely?

The good old "parity" issue. For me personally it won't solved until we see HAM at the bottom of the league or at least at the bottom of the division. It's still a problem. Perhaps not as big of a problem as some seasons ago, but if you take a look at Hamilton's playoff appearances over the last ten seasons, you should be able to see how boring this is. No team can be that good for that long. It's taking away the fun from a lot of other people in the league that aren't on Hamilton (or on the other handful of teams that had comparable success in the past). I get it, if you're on a successful team you don't see it that way. Everyone wants to win a cup, but it's so much better if it's not always the same 3-4 teams. Let others enjoy it too once in a while? (154 words)

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*Mutedfaith* · 02-27-2022, 06:14 AM

PT pass

*kentakira* · 02-27-2022, 08:26 AM

Affiliate PT task (3 TPE): PBE Affiliate

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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7. Graphic, 2 TPE, The Peoples’ Favorite

 Yes, this task can stay. Design a championship ring for either team, you may use the fancy ring site. Here's a link: https://designer.trophysmack.com/productdesigner/index/index/id/97/template/MTUz/cid/MzMwMDA2MzU2Mjk2Mjk=

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9. Graphic, 3 TPE, Misprint

 Whoops! The card printer was trying to get ahead of the game, but it didn’t go so well. Design a Challenge Cup/Four Star Cup Championship Hockey Card for a player that has LOST a challenge cup finals.

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11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

 Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through your terrible time management skills, you’ve unlocked a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Did anything surprise you about the outcome? What players performed above or below what was expected of them?

For me the final is kinda exciting but not just for me but i think almost all the user think that the final is predictable, why? i don't know but maybe Hamilton Steelhawks is much better than Los Angeles Panthers. The outcome itself not surprising at all, but Los Angeles Panthers manage to get to gam 6 is kinda surprising, but other than that i think not that much surprise. For the player itself, just like the regular season Rikard Hammarberg and Mitchell van der Heijden played well and help the Steelhawks win it all, for Panthers itself Jimmy Wagner already try his best but still can't beat Steelhawks

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

 Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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 Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

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***SchwarzNarr*** · 02-27-2022, 10:02 AM

1. moose

2. Over the past 60 years, hockey has changed a lot for the SHL. To begin with, they've moved from being a human only player league, to allowing all sorts to join in and have fun with the sport of hockey. Most noticeably there are many animals, which is prompting the IIHF league commissioners to discuss whether or not they need or even have enough animals to create the "Noah's Ark" region of the league. Some argue that placing all of the animals together is unfair, but it's really unclear if its unfair to the animals, or to the rest of the league. While a tiny Adelie penguin would not seem like much of a threat, a walrus and moose coupled together is definitely something more terrifying to behold. While it may not be something which is coming to fruition soon, there is definitely a lot of work to be done to create parity in this new age between these newfound animal (and other) players, and the human players.

3. Nevada has never won a challenge cup and honestly I don't know where to find the information to figure out who has won previous cups. In terms of emulating another team who did win a cup, well, I guess I'll go with Chicago, because I'm pretty sure Corey won one once. The things we would do to emulate his team is just to be fun and create a place that is also fun. By having a locker room and environment that is filled with people that you love and that want to spend time with you, it makes it so much easier for you to get free agents, or in the case of the SMJHL keep the players still sent down or asking to be sent down to try and win one with you. There's a lot more that could be said about TPE and on the ice and types of hockey player archetype things (idk what they are called in the SHL), but short of knowing I'm a defensive player, I have no idea what any of that would be.

4. During the dinosaur Simulation Hockey League era, there were some things which were actually more akin to games these days. Not all dinosaurs could play hockey, especially the T-Rex who has incredibly tiny arms. So, because of the fact that his tiny arms would mean that he cannot hold a hockey stick and really achieve the right swinging motion to do anything, the dinosaur hockey league played hockey with their tails. Yes indeed, they swung at the puck and moved it around with their tails, and it was much more akin to playing air hockey and just slamming the puck over and over again, than it was anything like hockey is today. There was occasional blood spilled onto the ice as the dinosaurs would play, especially in mixed herbivore and carnivore leagues, but what can you do, it is the natural of the predators to kill the prey. Short of the blood and the lack of sticks and the physical size of the arena, everything else was pretty much the same. Games always ended in ties, though, because the dinosaurs realized that sticking a fat dinosaur in that covered the whole goal was really the easiest way to prevent points from being scored on them.

19. Have you ever seen an episode of scooby doo? Well if you haven't here is how it tends to work. The Scooby squad pile into the van and are heading somewhere, then they get stopped for some reason and someone goes "there's a monster haunting this place" and the scooby squad pile into the house or the amusement park, whatever it is, and they start looking around. Spooky things happen, gotta fill like 20 minutes after all, and at the end they capture the "ghost" or the "monster" and then pull of his mask.

I'd do this. I'd just go to the game, then using Texas' cowboy roping skills against them, I'd wrangle up all of the players, and pull off their masks. Now, you've said they swapped bodies, so I guess the only thing I could do would be to channel the fact that in football I am know as the murder-moose to make sure that everyone knows the stakes here. So Melvin would be threatening them bodily harm until they comply. Maybe it's a little too far, maybe it's a little much, he is reformed and wouldn't murder anyone actually, but like, they wouldn't know that. Nobody knows that Melvin captures every single fly in order to keep them. So after this, they would confess and everyone would realize that nothing has changed and some parts of the league still suck.

21. In order to make the new PT directors life more difficult, I will be posting all of my future point tasks as pictures of moose's actual handwriting from here on out. They will be over the word count, but on top of having to read and decipher moose's handwriting, the new PT director will need to count every single word by hand. There won't be a fancy copy and paste, and because of the fact that it won't be typed up in the correct size, there won't be a way to just glance and go 'yes that looks right' and there won't be a bot which will be able to pull the data either.

***sve7en*** · 02-27-2022, 11:44 AM

cw pass

caltroit_red_flames · 02-27-2022, 12:06 PM

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Affiliate PT, 3 TPE

PBE PT

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Those That Came Before (150 words min.)

When did your franchise last win a Challenge Cup? Write about that team, some of the key players, and what intangibles they had going for them to be able to win it all. If your franchise hasn’t yet won a cup, choose any cup winning team and talk about why you’d like your current team to emulate them. Did they have an all time great roster? Were they scrappy under dogs?

The last time the New Orleans Specters won the Challenge Cup was in S54. The team is almost unrecognizable compared to now, but there are some players from that era that are still left, namely Lyle Odelein III. Odelein III has been a staple of New Orleans and one of the best shot blockers in the league since the swap to FHM season over season. DeMaricus Smyth was also on that team, one of the great S39 players from Czechia. The offense was super dynamic too, lots of goal scorers on the team are going to have a shot at the hall of fame. Lil Manius, Olivier Cloutier, Nicholas Williams, Jimmy Slothface, Michael Fox and Mika Mayfield. They were all super high offense players that dominated the league in their primes. The intangibles they had came from the veteran leadership of Joe Kurczewski and DeMaricus Smyth who were teammates on a cup winning team in Edmonton. They both knew what it takes to get it done in the playoffs.

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6. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Los Angeles has been riding their top players for almost a full minute more of ice time than Hamilton has theirs. If you were a coach, do you buy into this strategy? Do you let your top guys leave it all out there every night or aim for the most balanced attack possible?

b. Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have been absolute block machines for Hamilton in the playoffs with 109 between them. If you’re looking for offense in this series, how do you get around these two defensemen?

c. Los Angeles’ defense, on the other hand, has not been afraid to join the play and put up points. How do you prepare for a five player offensive attack? How do you counter?

d. The starting goalies for these teams, Olof Karsikko and A Jobin have been nearly unbeatable up to this point with a 0.937 and a 0.927 SV% respectively. If you’re a player on the other team, how would you get inside their heads so that you can put the puck in the net?

a.) I 100% buy into that strategy. This isn't the beginning of the regular season where you're seeing what chemistry works and trying it out, this is the playoffs. Ride your work horses. They'll worry about their bruises and sore legs when the series is over. For now it's time to win, and I've never heard a champion complain about having to carry a team to a title.
b.) Honestly what I do is change up the rush strategy. Usually when it comes to a 3 on 2 you have someone try to split the defense and drive the net then make a cross crease pass if it's open. Instead I would have the puck carrier keep the puck and have the other two drive directly toward O'Shea and Giannopoulos and tie them up. Then it's just the puck carrier and the goalie, essentially a breakaway. Easy goal.
c.) I prepare for a five player attack by telling my center to make sure to watch for the defense to jump up in to the play and cover for them if he needs to. Defense jumping into the play is vital for a dynamic offensive unit, really a skater should be able to play every position when your team has the puck and then when you go back to playing defense you need to put the structure back together.
d.) This is my specialty. Drive the net and just stand in front of them, goalies hate that especially on the power play. Just don't let em see. They'll shove you, cross check you, cup check you sometimes. Always leads to penalty, and usually if you're screening them that means you're going to have a 2nd power player because you should be cycling or in a better shooting position rather than standing in front of the net if it's 5 on 5.

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14. Written, 3 TPE, Blew it up (150 words min.)

In your opinion, which team is has performed a successful rebuild and built a legacy around starting from the bottom? What constitutes a successful rebuild? Cups? Playoff appearances? Is this team still poised to do great things in the future?

I think the definition of a rebuild is different in the SHL than it is in the NHL. In the SHL it's much harder to rebuild because you have to be concerned about players leaving to join an already successful team in free agency after like 3 seasons when their RFA seasons are over. In the NHL you can just draft players and wait for them to be good and they're an RFA for so long that you can just draft players around them. You don't really have to worry about poaching. So based on that a rebuild is successful when you're giving the team a chance to win the cup each season.

I think LAP has done this tremendously well, they started with a franchise that really was in an awful situation and then TDZ and Fuzz came in and through the draft and free agency they made the team into a perennial powerhouse that makes it to the finals quite often. If it were not for HAM they would have at least one cup by now if now more than one.

Serpe x 13 · 02-27-2022, 01:06 PM

CW Pass

File worker!

Crazylemire · 02-27-2022, 01:27 PM

3 TPE- Task 1
Verification word: joeblow

+3 TPE - SMHJL milestones

***JKortesi81*** · 02-27-2022, 02:37 PM

CW GM Pass. HYPE.

Jumbo · 02-27-2022, 04:13 PM

GM CW Pass

***notorioustig*** · 02-27-2022, 04:19 PM

GM CW Pass god bless our glorious leader @WannabeFinn

Opera_Phantom · 02-27-2022, 04:30 PM

1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

Verification Word - CueJay

6. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Los Angeles has been riding their top players for almost a full minute more of ice time than Hamilton has theirs. If you were a coach, do you buy into this strategy? Do you let your top guys leave it all out there every night or aim for the most balanced attack possible?

Best players need to be on the ice when champions are decided. They normally carry the team through the season and obviously when the team plays the strongest opposition for the title every team has been dreaming off for months, they are the ones that need to step up and take it. Make no mistake, you would not want to lose a game 7 with all your best players sitting in the bench. (73 words)

b. Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have been absolute block machines for Hamilton in the playoffs with 109 between them. If you’re looking for offense in this series, how do you get around these two defensemen?

You do not try to go one on one against them. This is still a team sport and while creativity and technique on the ice is extremely important, you just do not play to their strengths by going against them. You go for the 2 on 1 with quick movement and passing. They might be fantastic defenders, but they can only be in one place when in play. (68 words)

c. Los Angeles’ defense, on the other hand, has not been afraid to join the play and put up points. How do you prepare for a five player offensive attack? How do you counter?

You just play hard on defense, goon style. They can be really good on offense using all their 5 players, but if they are getting beaten up every time they have puck possession, it makes it very hard for them to be able to get some shots in. If even that does not work, you just punch them on the face to make them leave the game due to injuries. (70 words)

d. The starting goalies for these teams, Olof Karsikko and A Jobin have been nearly unbeatable up to this point with a 0.937 and a 0.927 SV% respectively. If you’re a player on the other team, how would you get inside their heads so that you can put the puck in the net?

Normally what i would do would be to trash talk with them, using their mothers and or wives. Everyone knows that when they are on the ice, they are not paying attention to the female figures on their lives. And getting into their head with that subject would definitely throw them off, making them concede a lot. Like their mothers and wives. (62 words)

13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)
BWOMP BWOMP BWOMP PARITY ALERT PARITY ALERT- Well, a new team in the finals since the mid s50s, it only took ten seasons. Is parity solved? Will new teams make it in as the old guard becomes a forgotten waste of brain space? Don't forget, Hamilton is here AGAIN. Yes we have new teams... but what if it's TEX HAM again next season? Is that even likely?

Every year this topic gets discussed and a lot of people throw their ideas into the hat, trying to make a league more competitive and all that. The truth is that league parity is achieved when every general manager has a long term plan and where the players buy into that plan. Jokes aside, why is HAM so successful? Because everyone works with one goal. The builds, the tactics, everything is tuned to a near perfect state, making it really hard to beat them. As we know, HAM does not always win, so there is not a perfect solution, as other teams also try to work in the same way. But everyone knows that being able to beat HAM is a big deal, and not a lot of teams manage to do it. I know that using terms like "git gud" is not a very good thing, but in the end it has some truth to it for sure: if you want league parity, every team needs to step up.

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18. Written, 3 TPE, zzSnoop Lionzz 150 words min
Well it happened. A general strike by the goalie union led to a mass retirement of goalies and now ALL of them have either quit the site (based) or recreated as a skater. HO has implemented a bot goalie system, but decided goalies were too underpowered and gave the goalies 20 in every stat, even the mental ones we can't upgrade. How does the season play out now that goalies are gods (godbots?) among men. Does anything really change?

God like goalies would be something really cool, but would make every skater on the league upset. All skaters work for stats, goals and assists mainly, so having a complete 20 stat goalie playing against them would really destroy their stats.
That being said, i do not think we would have a bunch of goalless draws all of a sudden. As good as a goalie can be, either in real life or in the sim, they would still concede. Even with max builds, they would still make errors, shank a pass to someone for an open net goal, slip up trying to defend, something like this. Do not forget that for every maxed goalie, you have a nearly maxed or maxed skater shooting against them. I feel like it would make the league interesting on that aspect, with teams suddenly having to find different ways to make their rosters capable. But i still think good teams now would be the best teams after.

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20. Written, 3 TPE, Free Advertising 150 words min
If you're in another sim league and are using 4 of those CW tasks here, you can do this task to advertise that league in your CW. What league is it? Is it fun? How does it work? What are the pros/cons of that league, especially in comparison to the SHL?

Even though i am a member of several leagues, more than i would like to admit as i am still on the denial phase of this, my main league is the International Simulation Football League (ISFL). It has many similarities to the SHL, that is why many members share and participate in both and the best part of it is that you can use tasks you do in one, on the other, saving you time.
But you want to know what is the ISFL best calling card? Freaking fantasy football with discord drafts. It is incredible. Fast drafts, quick checks, it is amazing.
The worst part of the ISFL compared to the SHL is that there is not a lot of drama. When it occurs, it is really awesome, but people forget about it fast. The SHL drama lasts for seasons, with pages and pages of posts. You choose which one is better. One suggestion though: make all drama at decent GMT hours. Much appreciated.

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3 + 4 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 16 TPE

canes2112 · 02-27-2022, 05:00 PM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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2. Written, 3 TPE, Back In My Day (150 words min.)

The SHL has been around for the sim-time equivalent of 63 years now! That’s a lot of time for things to change. What was the league like 62 years ago in season one? Did nobody wear helmets? Were players allowed to smoke on the ice? Plenty would have changed in over six decades!

62 years ago, the game was played on land. Ice was not invented yet in the simulation hockey world. Therefore, the players were reduced to running around on land. The sticks were actually brooms that had gotten to frayed to be effective as brooms. Instead of a puck, the objective object was in fact a coconut. I suppose a lot changes in 60 years from a transition from a tropical sport to an ice sport. Maybe someone was visiting Hawaii where it was invented and thought to themselves, "This would be really cool if played on ice and we strapped knives to our boots and made the coconut a really hard rubber disc". At least that's what legends would have us believe since there's no way there's anyone left from 60 years ago. Originally, the game was 11 v 11 and the goal was the size of a child's soccer goal. Of course over time, things have evolved for the better and we are where we are to progress. The next 60 years hold space hockey in the future.

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11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through your terrible time management skills, you’ve unlocked a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Did anything surprise you about the outcome? What players performed above or below what was expected of them?

I am very made to say Hamilton won it again. This sucks as an SHL user but even more so as a member of LAP. It would be amazing to see someone else win but I guess it's hard to win against the magic sheets. I'm glad LAP was able to get two games but it's still stupid that it ends this way. Very exciting to stomp Chicago though. That was very encouraging for this upcoming season. In a way, these finals were predictable and boring because the bad guys won again but at least it wasn't one of the same old teams that has made the finals for the past 10 seasons.

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14. Written, 3 TPE, Blew it up (150 words min.)

In your opinion, which team is has performed a successful rebuild and built a legacy around starting from the bottom? What constitutes a successful rebuild? Cups? Playoff appearances? Is this team still poised to do great things in the future?

I am definitely biased but I think LAP has gone through a successful rebuild. Never really a bottom feeder but last season and this season reaching the conference finals and then the cup finals have been huge steps forward after many first round exits. Should LAP be able to win this season, the rebuild will be fully online as not many players go through regression next season so that's something very exciting. Another team that has a successful rebuild would be Tampa Bay. Going from 0-50 and it took Edmonton Oilers levels of first overall picks but they have finally been a consistent playoff team. There was some good patience to build a team around those players and good commitment from draft picks to the point where they were trading players away because they had too many good players wanting to stick around. That's a testament to the team's management and vision for the future, even when it meant many bad seasons beforehand.

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18. Written, 3 TPE, zzSnoop Lionzz 150 words min

Well it happened. A general strike by the goalie union led to a mass retirement of goalies and now ALL of them have either quit the site (based) or recreated as a skater. HO has implemented a bot goalie system, but decided goalies were too underpowered and gave the goalies 20 in every stat, even the mental ones we can't upgrade. How does the season play out now that goalies are gods (godbots?) among men. Does anything really change?

Short answer, nothing would change. Long answer, nothing would change because of FHM needing to reach an average number of goals a game. I am not a fan at all of that logic but I understand coding is hard and options are limited. With that being said, this means outcomes of certain games are determined by previous games based on the running average. This means that goalies will appear weaker because for every 1-0 game, that average has to increase in other games. This means that goalies are going to get shafted one way or the other. Honestly bot goalies wouldn't even be bad because then it makes it based on the actual skaters. However, a big part of irl hockey is goalies stealing games so I don't think I like bots as much. Of course, the functionality of FHM is beyond our control but I think that other ways of balancing the league are needed than a total goals per game average to be achieved.

awils13 · 02-27-2022, 05:28 PM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Those That Came Before (150 words min.)

When did your franchise last win a Challenge Cup? Write about that team, some of the key players, and what intangibles they had going for them to be able to win it all. If your franchise hasn’t yet won a cup, choose any cup winning team and talk about why you’d like your current team to emulate them. Did they have an all time great roster? Were they scrappy under dogs?

The last time my team won the challenge cup was this season. Our key players were forwards Rotticus Scott, Mitchell van der Heijden, Rikard Hammarberg, Devin Basher, defenseman Guy O'Shea and a lot of experienced veterans like myself, Theo Morgan, Michael Scarn, as well as some young players like Dogwood Maple and Ty Murphy, and of course A Jobin in net as always. Hamilton had a very good regular season and won the division fairly easily, finished 2nd in the league to Baltimore, and also 2nd in goals for and against with a good corsi and only slightly high PDO. Things got off to a rough start in the playoffs as Philadelphia defeated Hamilton twice on their home ice, but Hamilton came back and won 4 straight to advance to the 2nd round for another series with Buffalo. Stampede took a 3-1 series lead but Hamilton managed another series comeback and took it in 7 games, later defeating Baltimore and Los Angeles to win it all once again.

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6. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Los Angeles has been riding their top players for almost a full minute more of ice time than Hamilton has theirs. If you were a coach, do you buy into this strategy? Do you let your top guys leave it all out there every night or aim for the most balanced attack possible?

b. Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have been absolute block machines for Hamilton in the playoffs with 109 between them. If you’re looking for offense in this series, how do you get around these two defensemen?

c. Los Angeles’ defense, on the other hand, has not been afraid to join the play and put up points. How do you prepare for a five player offensive attack? How do you counter?

d. The starting goalies for these teams, Olof Karsikko and A Jobin have been nearly unbeatable up to this point with a 0.937 and a 0.927 SV% respectively. If you’re a player on the other team, how would you get inside their heads so that you can put the puck in the net?

a. I happen to be a coach of the opposing team and I believe that playing your top guys for 22+ minutes every night is a viable strategy, especially if you want to shelter some inexperienced rookies or aging players on your roster, but ideally you should try to have 3 balanced lines if possible
b. I don't think it's a good thing that Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have had to block that many shots because it shows that Hamilton is not controlling possession as well as they'd like, because good teams prevent situations where their defensemen need to block shots. As to how to get around them, try to get them out of position and set up an open man to take a shot.
c. When you have good offensive defensemen who can join the offense and drive the play, it's great, but having active defensemen also leaves you vulnerable for a counterattack, especially for those patented fhm defensemen breakaways. So I guess the way to prepare for it is to forecheck and try to intercept the puck early.
d. I don't really know Olof Karsikko that well but I know that if you want to get inside Jobin's head, tell him that he's been carried his entire career and he has one of the easiest jobs in the league, and yet he's still inactive and hasn't done a pt in months (jk jobin is great)

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

+3 https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3184852

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14. Written, 3 TPE, Blew it up (150 words min.)

In your opinion, which team is has performed a successful rebuild and built a legacy around starting from the bottom? What constitutes a successful rebuild? Cups? Playoff appearances? Is this team still poised to do great things in the future?

I think in order to have a successful rebuild you need to build a great roster but also have some sim success, not necessarily winning cups, but just being a perennial contender and one of the top regular season teams year in and year out. I think an example of a team like that has been Texas, and recently Baltimore. Texas was one of the worst teams in the league at the beginning of the fhm era, often getting outshot by 50+, but slowly became a top team and won multiple presidents trophies, multiple cups with more finals appearances, and they are still a very good team. Baltimore was also starting their rebuild 10 seasons ago, but now they have possibly the best roster on paper in recent years and just won the presidents trophy. They have not made the finals or won the cup yet, but looks like their window is only starting and it's only a matter of time before they win it all.

spooked · 02-27-2022, 05:55 PM

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