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Toivo · 01-03-2025, 11:54 PM

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Operation Ivy · 01-04-2025, 12:33 AM

Written Option 1

As my team prepared for our Winter Classic game, I was filled with nostalgia. As a kid growing up in Illinois, rinks were not as readily available as some other states and certainly in Canada. Baseball, basketball and football tended to be the go to sports. However, I played a ton of hockey with my friends on the pond as a way to scratch that itch for the game I love. Of course later on in life hockey became more serious for me, but in those early days it was truly the pond where I fell I grew to appreciate the sport even more. Some of my fondest hockey memories are praying for it to be cold enough for the pond to freeze over, and then texting all of my friends as soon as we knew the ice was right and we could get a game together. Now playing in this Winter Classic, I am able to once again get that feeling playing along side my teammates outdoors.

Kyamprac · 01-04-2025, 01:38 AM

Option 1

Having spent most of her life in Canada, playing a bit of shinny outdoors was just a part of growing up for Mia Lavoie. Every neighborhood had a temporary rink set up for anyone to use, and there were plenty of ponds around to get some quiet skate time at all hours of the day. Playing outside in a more natural setting just has a whole different vibe that, frankly, can't be matched. They try their best with the Winter Classic and it is a neat concept overall, but it's too big and too flashy to be comparable to playing on a small town rink or pond. That said, if Lavoie did get a chance to play in a Winter Classic game she'd be all for it and particularly excited to participate in a game in Canada. Heck, the Heritage Classic would probably be even cooler to participate in with the old timey sweaters and stuff.

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***sliceruser*** · 01-04-2025, 02:01 AM

Written Option 1: Your team is about to play in the Winter Classic Game. Did your player get to play ice hockey outdoors as they were growing up or are they from area where that isn’t possible? How do you think playing on stadium will be able to replicate those feelings? Is it just pointless gimmick to sell more and more expensive tickets or is it something special for players too, specially your player? And if you had an opportunity to pick who will be your opponent and where the game should be held what would be your picks? Would you want anything else from the event?

Alexandros grew up in the fairly good area to have played on the outdoor rinks. He grew up in the Ontario Canada by Toronto. In recent years the winters haven’t been as ideal for it but as a kid it was a frequent way to hang out, waste time and build interest in the sport. Alexandros isn’t the most sentimental feeling so although he feels like it would be a good replication of those times it doesn’t really mean all that much to him personally. He would have to say the outdoor game is more just an abuse to sell higher price tickets than there stated intended purpose. If he were to an opponent, he would like to play for this kind of event he has a few that he thinks would be fitting like many of the other up and coming teams around the league on similar schedules as Chicago, but the one he would choose is Winnipeg. Winnipeg has been a long standing rival for the Syndicate and were the team to eliminate us in many of our most recent playoff outings, would be a nice competitive game as our teams place in the standings cross back the other way.

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chetib · 01-04-2025, 04:14 AM

Tibuk used to play in the mountains of his native Switzerland for many years prior to his move to North America to continue his dream of playing hockey. He never had a ton of luck with the cities he played in though. Starting out in Kelowna known for its dry arid climate there isn't a ton of precipitation which means not too many opportunities for outdoor hockey. Followed up getting drafted to Tampa Bay where the climate was even less likely to play in an outdoor game! None the less Tibuk would be thrilled to be invited to participate in an outdoor game and has already spent some time trying to figure out what style of toque he should wear on top of his goalie helmet. Hopefully we get some good retro jerseys as well because there is is only so much hot pink a single person can take in 1 season

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Segi · 01-04-2025, 06:17 AM

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*bobdigi9* · 01-04-2025, 07:17 AM

Written Option #2:

Some talk of climbing the metaphorical mountain as a way of achieving their goal.
For Matviy Cajabi, he has summited some of the peaks on his list. He got drafted, won a SMJHL championship and turned pro. And while some may look at winning the Challenge Cup as being as the ultimate, the triumph of the hockey seven summits, for others it's something entirely different. Something golden...

Keeping in the vein of mountain-speak, when Cajabi was a young boy living in the Ukraine (on the off chance that hasn't been mentione fifty or sixty times) he would take his toboggan to the highest hill he could find. He'd slide down and pretend he was bobsledding, luging or doing the skeleton. And imagine that one day he'd have a gold medal draped around his neck and join the small list of Ukrainian athletes who have managed to achieve the same feat since participating in the Olympics since 1994. Imagine that his name would be remembered amongst other Ukrainian legends like the first Olympic flagbearer for the Ukraine, Viktor Petrenko, and the first ever Olympic champion for the Independent Ukraine, the "Swan of Odessa", Oksana Baiul.

Of course, hockey came along and his Olympic sledding aspirations were replaced by those on the ice. But who knows. With his opportunity to win gold at the World Juniors having passed as well as the Ukraine not being represented in the IIHF tournament (and Czechia seemingly unwilling to call his name to wear their sweater as of yet), he may need to turn back to his childhood dreams if he ever wants to make it to the top of "his" Everest and have a gold medal draped around his neck.

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sulovilen · 01-04-2025, 07:17 AM

WRITTEN OPTION 2

Jaromir Jagrbomb was always more interested in winter sports, as where he grew up proper winters were just as long as the summers. As a kid he did actively train for example bandy, ski jumping and downhill skating. Bandy was an obvious side sport with hockey, as both are ice sports and require mostly the same set of skills: stickhandling, speed and agility. Ski jumping was a less serious hobby, and it began with Jaromir just marveling at the jumpers' ability to basically fly hundreds of meters in full control and land safely. Jaromir quit this quite young, as he simply didn't have the courage to take on the bigger hills. Downhill skating was and maybe still is more entertainment than sport, but Jaromir really enjoyed it as it's so fast-paced, dangerous and requires fast thinking, physicality and strategizing. Both bandy and downhill skating were sports Jaromir probably could have become one of the best athletes in the sport history, but he dropped both as a youngster since the money involved in those sports was nothing compared to hockey.

st4rface · 01-04-2025, 09:02 AM

WRITTEN OPTION 2

Aumy Junior II comes from dynasty which is all about the hockey. He might do some other sports too, but only as a hobby. For example, he loves skiing and ice skating. Both of these sports are similar to hockey, so it doesn't take away that much of hockey elements. None of these sports he has done professionally. Usually they are a hobby in off-season, so he can a bit rest from hockey and spend time with family in a bit different way. If Aumy Junior II would want to switch sports and do something different, he could try to be a professional basketball player. Since he is coming from Finland where basketball isn't that popular, he focused on hockey. However, he was pretty talented in basketball too, but he chose hockey. It's pretty obvious that hockey is a part of him now, so there is no chance that he could do anything except hockey. However, he is enjoying watching these other sports live or on TV.

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ec06aaj · 01-04-2025, 09:30 AM

The thing with the Winter Classic is that while it obviously harkens back to the days of playing on frozen lakes and the like, the best place to actually hold a game like that would be the areas of the continent where it was impossible to - a hockey-loving kid growing up just outside Houston or in Miami is never ever going to have the same opportunity to do it like youngsters from north of the border, and that seems a terrible shame. While it IS a gimmick, it's a fun and enjoyable gimmick that if done correctly won't have any sort of deleterious effect on game quality, and that sort of thing can only be good for the game, especially from a marketing perspective. Go the whole hog with it - unique jerseys, old-school logos on the ice, reduce prices of the concessions to S1 levels, that kind of thing.

Simo's preference for a Winter Classic matchup would be a southern team coming north, but if that's not possible then a "revenge" game between the Argonauts and Edmonton would be fun. He has no beef with leaving Edmonton or the way it went down, but there would be an obvious extra bit of spice in demonstrating to the Blizzard why they did their rebuild no favours dropping a superbly talented defenseman so early on.

Bingo97 · 01-04-2025, 10:14 AM

Written Option 2

If I had to choose a sport over hockey it would be skiing because I loved the feeling of being on the mountain. The fresh air, the speed, and the amazing views were much more exciting to me.
In Hockey, you rely on your teammates and work together to win. But skiing is all about you. Every time I went down the mountain, it was a challenge just for me. I had to be careful and make quick decisions on my own. The snow was always changing, so I had to think fast and adapt.
Skiing taught me to be independent and to learn from my mistakes. It also helped me appreciate nature and how powerful it can be.
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Matteo · 01-04-2025, 11:27 AM

Option 2

It's a good thing that Cristoforo Roccamontepiano found ice hockey because there's not much else that he's passionate and talented at. He definitely doesn't have the patience or the control for curling, he's be launching that thing as hard as he could every time. Skiing or snowboarding he could get good at eventually, he has the balance and a lot of his experience with skating could carry over, but I'm not sure if the passion would be there for him to do it professionally. The biggest roadblock would be his competitive spirit, it almost seems like rather than competing against an opponent, he's competing at the same time as someone else and the cards fall where they do. Lastly, bobsled, luge, or skeleton I could see Cristoforo getting really into for just one winter if only because he doesn't understand it at all and it looks insane, but it probably wouldn't be a long-term thing for him.

swoosh · 01-04-2025, 03:07 PM

Graphic Option 1: Create an image that shows your player playing ice hockey outside, as adult or kid.

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Chris-McZehrl · 01-04-2025, 05:32 PM

Written Option #1

Winter Classic Games are for us Europeans always very special. with all the soccer history playing in stadiums without a roof is always so natural for us. But we also like to play on air and not in a hall. For me personally I love to play on winter classics. It is always so special and if you have a home game it feels like everyone can bring in more power, vision and energy. So yeah I like them and in North America this things around the game is also so special and I really love it to see it. In Germany we also have now those winter classic games and I love the idea to do it everywhere. Yeah I heard about the higher prices for tickets and in my opinion it shouldnt be that way. In my opinion it should be cheaper. Because the wheather is mostly cold and outside of a hall it is a hard fight for any fan. So yeah this should be better balanced in the future in my opinion. But the rest is GOD MODE.

**Lime** · 01-04-2025, 07:57 PM

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