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Beaver · 03-08-2018, 01:52 AM

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TASK ONE: There are two options for this task. 

If you are a player in the Challenge/Four Star Cup: How is your player feeling for the Finals? Are they nervous or excited? Are they ready? Write at least 150 words about the few days before the beginning of the Finals for your player and how they prepared for the series. 

If not: How has your player kicked off their offseason? Are they traveling? Meeting up with friends and partying? Following the games? Write at least 150 words about the beginning of your player’s offseason. Must include at least one other player.

Jack Tanner is pretty upset with the way the season ended as his team narrowly missed the playoffs and his brother Connor's team - the Edmonton Blizzard - made it so he's been hard at work improving his skating and puck handling to try to ensure that something like this never happens again. That said, he did need a bit of recuperation time after the regular season so he headed back to his home country of Ireland and has been mostly relaxing to let the accumulated injuries from the season heal and watching the playoffs unfold. He's also met up with a few fellow Irish internationals several times to work on their game and prepare for the upcoming IIHF tournament, Joe Lombardi in particular. These training sessions have been very casual and impromptu but as a newly honored ass. captain Tanner does feel like he has some responsibility to prepare himself and his teammates as best as he can.

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TASK TWO: Who is your choice for the unsung hero of the S39 playoffs up to this point? Must be at least 150 words and include at least two statistics in support.

Mikhail Lokitonov has got to be the unsung hero of the S39 SMJHL playoffs. As the Prince George Firebird winger prepares for the finals he's become somewhat of a meme considering his back to back playoff underperformances but hockey is a fickle mistress and he's doing the process exactly right, he's simply not being rewarded with points. As of the last sim update, he's shooting 3% these playoffs which is hilariously low and unsustainable for even the worst shooter in the long term. Considering Lokitonov's offensive prowess we can be certain that the fact he has just 3 points is nothing more than shitty luck considering his linemates have 6 and 7 points. Lokitonov drives possession, though, as evidenced by his 33 shots that lead all players in these playoffs and that's what you want to see even if the points aren't coming in. Luckily his team hasn't needed those points but hopefully he gets rewarded for his good process in the Finals.

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TASK FOUR: Unscramble the names of these four players who will be competing in the Challenge Cup Finals. Send the answers to me by PM. Please make the subject of the message “CW Word Scramble” or something along those lines. [Grading: 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer]

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TASK SIX: Finals series always show surprises. Who will have to stand out the most from each team in order to win it? Make a prediction for potential series MVPs. Must be at least 150 words and mention at least one player from each team.

Anything can happen in a 7 game series. We've seen series that should be lopsided, easy wins go to 7 games and we've seen series that should be evenly matched end up as a sweep. We've seen favorites take care of business and we've seen underdogs shock the world. Considering all the variables that teams can't control it's easy to say that the player who needs to stand out for each team is the single most important player on the ice, the only player who's on the ice for virtually the entire game, the goalies: Timo Haas and Olli O'Koivu. On top of their teams battling for the league championship, these two goalies who were both part of the stellar Season 31 goalie class are battling to win their first Cup in their career and in the case of Haas it's his last chance. Both goalies have played fantastically up to this point with Timo Haas posting an unbelievable 0.941 save percentage and Olli O'Koivu posting the second-best playoff mark at 0.910 - it's not a coincidence that the two highest marks are facing off in the Finals, as go the goalies so go the teams which is why they're my picks for MVP before a single game is played.

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Bonus question: Who scores the Cup-winning goal? (NOTE: This question will be graded at the conclusion of the [u][b]winning-game sim of the Challenge Cup Finals[/b][/u], [u]even if that happens before the conclusion of Championship Week.[/u])

Sophia Bennett.

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