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marco999 · 06-04-2022, 10:00 AM

Creative Prompt

I don't think Kaapo Kampainen has it in him to be a pest. He's a gentleman through and through. I don't remember who it is, but wasn't there a hockey player that was shockingly bad at trash talking becasue he refused to slur or am I just thinking about Philip Rivers ? I think Kaapo would be like the Philip Rivers of the SHL, trying his best to come up with devastating insults, only to sound like a mad five year-old trying to berate his parents for not letting him eat an extra cookie before bedtime. But at the same time, I think this kind of stuff is beneath a class player like Kaapo. He just focuses on his game and trying to be the best player possible for his team, he doesn't have the time to think about ways to bug the opponents, he better leave this to his teammates or even the fans can contribute sometimes, but if he had to, he'd be pretty bad at it.

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McAl95 · 06-04-2022, 10:18 AM

One of the biggest rivalries Buck has been a part of is Newfoundland against Maine. One thing Buck would do is try to get the crowd on his side. He'd do this by going to Captain Rand Al'Thor to get his iconic !Chop chant going to remind the timber that even the best trees fall. On the ice although Buck isn't much of a "pest" so to speak, he does have it in him to get under the skin of his opponents. This would include trash talk that is oddly specific at faceoffs, or even after a whistle has blown. Buck would also attempt to use his physicality to get under the skin of his opponents through big, clean hits that will get the crowd on their feet and get some energy pumping into the arena and into the Zerks. These are just a few of the things that Buck would do to get under his opponents skin.

overdoo · 06-04-2022, 10:47 AM

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Written Task:  Do you think mischief like dumping water into other players gloves, snowing goalies, or just generally being annoying has a place in hockey? What do you think about these little interactions that aren't technically against the rules, but can certainly throw players off their game and make them unhappy? I'm not talking about violent stuff, just annoying stuff. Is it fun? Is it entertaining? Or do you get mad when you see people doing that? I want to know what you think about pests and people that "toe the line" so to speak in sports. (150+ words)

My opinion on this type of stuff really varies with what it is, so I'm not entirely for or against it, but it is part of the sport and that isn't going away. We've seen it in the NHL playoffs, especially with Tampa Bay and Edmonton.

I don't like anything that can actually cause harm to the player, but not much of this pest stuff really does, and if it does, most would be by accident. For example, don't really like that 3 on 1 on MacKinnon the other day, flipped the stick in the air, I think that is fair game, but tripping a player when they're coasting like he was is kinda dangerous even if it's just really cheeky. I'm also one for some unwritten rules, shouldn't snow the goalie, giving them a couple of glove whacks in a scrum is okay though. Don't shoot the puck at the goalie.. like I said these things don't often hurt anyone but when the goalie eases up, I've seen one go down from it.

But other things like a little squirt of water while they're passing your bench, chopping their stick, showboating a little too hard to rub it in, it can be fun to see when your team ain't involved.

***micool132*** · 06-04-2022, 11:25 AM

PLAYER PROMPT -

This is it. I've had enough of these mothaeffin Barracudas on my Mothaeffin ICE! Again we outshoot them, we outplay them but the hockey gods decided their the ones with the 5-2 lead. ENOUGH! I look up to all my teamates, my pick is flat, my arms are raised, give to them, a solid blaze. "BURLOOGIE" I yell @leviadan. If I don't make it back, tell Gloots @goldenglutes and Paul BInder @camel I love them. I am out of my mind, I am gonna whack my stick all over the other team and throw punch.

Angus goes on to the ice and is ready to fight anyone. He gives crosschecks and makes sure every ankle knows he is using a new Reebok vapor xx18 stick. He's yelling IM GONNA WIN THE CUP many times over for some reason. The refs are trying to stop and eject him but they can't, the hockey gods had decided otherwise today. The frenzy ends only when coach @hotdog says "Come back to the bench my lovely son, you have done enough. My name is hotdog btw." This soothed Agnes McPiep and he sat back down next to that duck wearing ice skates who is somehow the best defenseman in the league, really weird.

Bauer · 06-04-2022, 11:30 AM

If my team is down by that much I'm gonna ask them what the hell happened. I don't play hockey to lose so there's no way i'm going down like this. In all seriousness though I think the real change would have to be an intermission speech by the captain. I'm not a huge fan of all the corny moments in sports, but a motivational speech to every single player to get them hyped up to go back out there can change everything. I think we see it pretty clearly with the Oilers and Avalanche series going on right now, hockey is a fast paced game and the entire complexion of the game can change in a matter of seconds. It doesn't take much to get hockey players going either, they're some of the most freakish athletes on the planet. Oh also having a little player like SD Core can be a huge help.

Waters · 06-04-2022, 11:41 AM

Does your player have it in them to be a pest? Do they enjoy finding ways to irritate their opponents even if they can't find a way to actually win the game? Or is this kind of thing beneath you? Are you a good ol' hockey player through and through? Maybe a mix of both? If you are a bit of a pest, tell me some of the tricks your player likes to get up to. If you aren't, tell me what your player thinks of other players that DO like to do these things.

Oh yeah leviadan, this is definitely a good prompt. Ben Waters Jr is a bigggggggg pest. One of the biggest pests in the game today in fact. Ben Waters Jr gets under other players skins. Last time he played the whalers he called Benjamin Surkhi-Ze'ev a goofy guy who smelled not great. Also he called Benson Fiorentini a big dumbass, one of the biggest. Some of the players, they don't like his trash-talk. They say Ben! stop trashtalking! Here is what he responds: "I don't think so man. I think I will keep trashtalking." Wow. That's pretty cool from him. Pretty sigma. His biggest trashtalkoing tactic though? Holy crap you guys will like this one. So when he talks to Jolmi Koivu he says: "Hey man, I had sex with your mom." When Jolmi hears this, he doesn't like it. That's for sure. He gets really mad. And his production against the knights shows this. Lol.

Leatherneckmike · 06-04-2022, 12:40 PM

Oh hell start grinning and laughing on the bench while you beating my team you will feel it in your bones litterally. Late 3rd anyway so who cares the game is damn near over and we are losing. So im just gonna take a stroll on the ice for my shift and try and hospitalize one of the laughers. They wont be laughing when one of thier friends is out on the ice. Also will get some awesome clicks and probably a giant brawl that I will win. Would give both teams something to do in the next game. The thing to do being fight. Of course I will visit the guy i knocked out with a hard shoulder in the boards. im not totally heartless.

If I wouldnt be aloud to head hunt id probably accidentally toss a puck down the bench boards and remind them there is a game and they shoudlnt get too lax. Also id start a fight, a big fight.

natedoeshockey · 06-04-2022, 02:53 PM

Prompt 1

Patya am not having it in body or mind for being pest. Patya am not as much for strength as am for skill! Patya want for be fast and put on sick moves for make crowd cheer! Patya am not old school player of the hockey who am always look for be mean to peoples. Patya am not skating around ice looking for make trouble! Patya am here for love of game! Patya am here for represent all peoples who say to Patya, "Patya, you am go make us proud!" Patya want for be clean player and be best of representation for peoples of Russia. Patya am know there is being players like this and Patya think this okay. Today, many pests also many skilled. But, Patya still think pure skill much more important. This saying, Patya am know is important for always keep head up or else eat big hit. Maybe is dirty, maybe is clean, but Patya always know that pesty player could be coming for him.

***Evok*** · 06-04-2022, 04:58 PM

Elizabeth Doyle is definitively not a pest player. First of all, she's pretty limited to where she can go on the ice, pretty much being stuck in the blue paint or in the trapezoid, really rarely leaving those two zone to play the puck. Second of all, she's really often the victim of said pests, as annoying the goalie is usually the best way to get them to lose focus in the game and to allow more goals than they normally would do. She pretty much seen it all and despite it. Being snowed, some hits in the pads when the play is whistled dead, chirps ... There's nothing she haven't seen. The worst of them all, however, are the players that still shoot the puck toward the net when the refereed whistled the play dead. There's nothing more annoying than that cocky player that try to one up the other team and play in the goalie's mind.

Arkz · 06-04-2022, 05:04 PM

Prompt 1

Playing as a goalie and being a pest is a difficult combination to reach, but I think that Jon St. Ark has it in him to do it. How? The power of the all-mighty water bottle. Think about it, goalies really cannot follow other players around the ice or easily get up into their face or get into shenanigans on during the faceoff draws. The goalie is stuck in their crease and also covered head to toe in equip such to the extreme that they look like the Stay Puff marshmallow man when they are out there on the ice. But one advantage they do have is with the water bottle. Always held in its perch on top of the net, the water bottle adds projectile abilities to the goalie that other players just can't match unless they are sitting on the bench, and they won't use it there because that's a huge penalty and also just not convenient. So get too close to Jon St. Ark's goal and you might be getting a squirt or two.

JayWhy · 06-04-2022, 05:07 PM

No, no. My player is not a pest. That's a thing, the Aittokallio's have mellowed out over the years. Jakub might still hold the record for most penalty minutes for a goaltender ever. He was a pest who could get under anyone's skin, and had no problem going above and beyond on it. However, that came at a cost also, others got under his skin pretty easily too.

Jason was similar to his dad, but not quite as harshly. He was a more quiet and reserved type of person, but he could get under people's skin when he felt the moment warranted it. He wasn't really one to get upset about losing and go after someone, but more the type to jab at someone going by his crease to throw off their rhythm and annoy them.

Jax wasn't too different from his brother, someone who wanted to get under the skin, but he was probably even quieter about it and didn't really stand out at any point that way. Despite being the only skater in the family to that point, he probably had fewer penalty minutes than his predecessors combined for.

Jesper is along those lines. A guy who isn't going to pick a fight just for the sake of fighting. If you're losing, lose with your head high and with dignity. If you're winning, win the same exact way. Maybe it helps that his family has been here before, at this point every Aittokallio that has entered the SHL has won at least one Challenge Cup. He knows what the goal is, and how to get there, and being an asshole to someone isn't the way to get there.

An old man's dream ended. A young man's vision of the future opened wide. Young men have visions, old men have dreams. But the place for old men to dream is beside the fire.

Thanks to Jackson, Copenhagen, and Harry Hans!

GOING DOWN IN STYLE. TOAST4LYFE

gaby · 06-04-2022, 05:22 PM

Hockey Prompt

I think the first 2 examples you just gave are little things that some fans think are funny but dumb things like that will always lead to something worst. Dumping water is all silly until someone just lose his mind and Marty McSorley him. Snowing a goalie is an unwritten rule you learn early on to not do. If you're dumb enough to do it you have to expect a crosscheck in your back and if you fall face to the ice directly and get injured well too bad buddy. A pest will always have its place in hockey though. Someone who can chirp well is always an asset as they are so annoying and can effect an opponent's game. As a fan I would take a Brad Marchand or both Tkachuk any time. Guys that can toe the line while still being good hockey players. Raffi Torres can just fuck off though. There's a fine line between a pest and a dirty player.

blakec1414 · 06-04-2022, 05:43 PM

Written Task: Does your player have it in them to be a pest? Do they enjoy finding ways to irritate their opponents even if they can't find a way to actually win the game? Or is this kind of thing beneath you? Are you a good ol' hockey player through and through? Maybe a mix of both? If you are a bit of a pest, tell me some of the tricks your player likes to get up to. If you aren't, tell me what your player thinks of other players that DO like to do these things. (150+ words)

While it isn’t their defining trait per se, Kezia is absolutely capable of being a pest. At the time of writing they lead the SMJHL in hits, leaving no question about their physical capabilities on the ice. Of course being physical alone isn’t enough to make one a pest - it’s the little things you do on top of that as well. Maybe it’s finishing your hits with a little more punch when hitting the star player or even the known agitator on the other team. It’s most certainly about chirping the opposing bench any opportunity you get. Kezia is also an expert at the good ole goalie snow shower, because, well, goalies need to be refreshed with a light dusting of snow every once in a while! It’s only proper, and yet the other team always seems to get up in arms about it for some reason. It never bothers Kezia too much though, they live for the carnage. (165 words)

5ympathies · 06-04-2022, 06:12 PM

Mischief definitely has a place in hockey. Whether it be against other skaters, or even the goalie, the mental factor is a key component in winning games. In this essay I will explain how getting into the minds of others, will on average over the course of the season result in more wins for your team. Let's think about this logically, if you annoy an opponent throughout the game, they are likely to get frustrated and instead of just hitting you back with more mischief, it is more likely that they accelerate and commit an act that can be penalized. By getting someone to commit a penalty, over the course of the season, you are likely to see the team capitalize on somewhere between 20-30% of power plays, giving you more goals than the opponents and therefore resulting in more games won over the season. Pretty straight forward that being a pest is good, as long as you also have players on your team that can withstand the pests of the other team.

Thanks to JSS for the signature

Tesla · 06-04-2022, 06:18 PM

Player Prompt (Sorry I always forget to include this part.)

Agent Tesla: Well this is an interesting point task prompt. Of course you have it in you to be a pest Dave; you try my patience on a routine basis with all of your whining. Why do I have to train against orcs, why is this hockey stick haunted, who even is Russ Tyler, and why do you keep hiding leviathan under the ice. Seriously just go do hockey Dave.

Dave Heinrich: That is not what that means or at all how this works. It is asking if I can be pest on the ice by talking trash and making borderline illegal physical plays. Given how concerned I am with putting even one foot out of line given the eldritch abomination that constantly threatens my life I don't think I have the makings of a pest.

Agent Tesla: Oh! Well let me finish reading the rest of this prompt then...that does seem to check out Dave. Well since you are above that nonsense courtesy of having my sword hanging above your head; how about you tell us what you think of players who do push the boundaries of the rules?

Dave Heinrich: I think they are frustrating as I do my best to play the game itself and they are trying to play the people. That does not feel right or fair to me.

Agent Tesla: I can say personally I am a fan of good trash talk, but the physical stuff should go the way of the dinosaur league. Signing off!

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