Task 01: (Written, 3 TPE)
You are at the airport awaiting a flight to meet back up with your team after spending the day being honoured as a 'Hometown Hero' in the place where you grew up! Tell us about your day... what did they have planned for you? Who did you see there? What were you given? How did it turn out? ... In 150 words or more, tell us all about this big moment as hometown hero.

So Martijn grew up back in the Netherlands and he went back to spend the day which actually coincided with "Koningsdag", also known as Kingsday.  Kingsday is a national holiday in the Netherlands and everyone dresses up in orange to celebrate the day, which is filled with a lot of beer drinking and a bunch of EDM festivals are held as the genre is quite popular in the country.  In Westbroek's small hometown, they all wore orange but with a special edition orange Outlaws hat to commemorate their hometown hero coming home.  Martijn had to abstain from drinking heavily (or so he said) in preparation of his final series with Montreal but took part in many festivities.  There was the cornhole toss, where you threw a bag into a lady's cornhole (crazy Europeans).  There was a hot dog eating contest in his honour (sorry @hotdog ) and he was finally set to judge a beer competition later in the day.  The day concluded with the Kingsday festival in Holland, where he performed a surprise B2B set with Martin Garrix, the #1 DJ in the world and Dutch native.  

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Task 03: (Written, 3 TPE)
If you are in the SMJHL then you have been there for at least a few seasons and its likely that a promotion to the SHL is coming soon. The question is.. are you ready?..  what areas of your game do you believe are SHL ready and what areas are you concerned about?  what things are you sad to leave behind and what things are you excited about when moving to your parent club. (Must be 150 words or more)

Martijn Westbroek Wrote:I absolutely believe that I'm ready, I was one of the top 3 scorers for my team in the SMJHL this season and logged heavy minutes, proving I could play on both the powerplay and the penalty kill.  I wouldn't be upset about hanging in Anaheim for another year as we have a great group of guys and it's going to be hard to leave them but I also absolutely feel that I can step into the SHL and make an impact in Chicago.  Chicago also has some of my best friends in hockey, so I"m excited to get there and get some of our chemistry back from when we grew up playing together.  We've made some great strides in Japan together but I feel that there's much more work to be done.  If we can get the job done in Anaheim this year, I'd say that there moves to a 100% chance that I'd want to move up this summer to the big leagues.  I have a little left to prove but if we can take care of that, I'll have nothing left to do in the SMJHL other than beat up some rookies some more.  I know guys like Cannelini and other SMJHL lifers who choose to stay down like to beat up rookies and stack their points, but that's not the end goal whatsoever.

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Task 05: (Written, up to 6 TPE)
Pick up to 6 challenge cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth '1' TPE. Each answer must be '50' words or more.

2. A major managerial showdown is about to take place Between WKP's (Jr95, Wongy) and Calgarys (Steelhead77, C00kies) which set of GM's have the tactical/managerial advantage in this series and why?

It has to be Steelhead and cookies.  Firstly, Esa is a legend and he will always hold the advantage in any series.  He and cookies could go inactive and be sending his mom on to make their lines and transactional decisions and he would still hold the advantage.  I don't care if his whole team is 300 tpe inactives, Esa gets the advantage.

4. Which player do you believe will be the differance maker in their franchise winning the title here in S47?

I believe that Alex Light will be a difference maker for the reason that he had a lackluster season after I picked him as my forward in fantasy.  I then dropped him and he decided to pickup his play in order to spite me.  The spite JNH tour continues in the playoffs and he's put up solid numbers thus far and I wouldn't be surprised to see it continue in the finals.  The guy has game breaking ability and could be the difference maker.

5. After trading off there best players and declaring themselves in a full rebuild back in S45, The Calgary Dragons have made it to the S47 finals.. just 2 seasons later.  Choose: ('No surprise', 'mild surprise', 'major surprise' or 'in shock') and explain why.

No surprise.  Like I said, Esa is a legend and gets an advantage in anything that he does on the site.  If anyone here thought that the Dragons would be down and out for any extended period of time they were mistaken.  They're a very solidly built team, regardless of any rebuild.  Also STHS is absolutely nutty so there should be no such thing as a surprising.

6. Which young players in this series (S42-S47) have a chance to break out and make a name for themselves here in the Challenge Cup Finals? (*Tag that player)

I think that @xDParK aka Chico Smeb could break out this playoffs and play a decisive role in bringing Calgary yet another cup.  The guy is an SHL legend, he's made many great players and this seems to be yet another.  Esa trusts him.  He's also a Smeb and Smebs are destined for greatness.  The only thing working against him is that he's a snake who ditched Chicago.

7. The West Kendall Platoon are back in the finals after a season out of the playoffs and a team that was in serious regression Choose: ('No surprise', 'mild surprise', 'major surprise' or 'in shock') and explain why.

No surprise.  The team was fucking stacked and it was a surprise that they missed last year.  Therefore, their rise back to prominence this season wasn't surprising to me whatsoever.  They've got Koch Schroder on the end and the guy is basically a god, super solid in both ends of the ice and a real franchise defenseman.  Up front they've got a lot of guys who can absolutely bury the puck and Biscuit is a weapon in net.

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Task 07: (Written, 3 TPE)
You have been given the responsibility of organizing the National Anthem(s) for both teams in the Challenge Cup Finals. With the entire world watching the league feels its imperative that who ever you choose really encapulates the persona of the team and their fanbase. In 150 words or more, let us know who you chose for both teams, why you believe they represent that franchise and anything notable about their performance,, IE outfits, accompaniment, etc.

Alright so in terms of organizing the National Anthems I have two very clear choices in mind. For Calgary, they are the legends of the SHL. They're the most successful team in the modern SHL and the SHL in general. Their management are legends. For that reason, the Canadian national anthem will be performed by the band known as Queen, with a Freddy Mercury hologram cause it isn't Queen without Freddy. For West Kendall, they're a bunch of old fucks who are still somehow doing the hockey and doing it quite well. Therefore the American National Anthem will be performed by none other than The Rolling Stones. They're selling out gigantic arenas still even though half the band looks like they may croak any season and nothing encapsulates the Platoon quite like that. I heard some of the Stones and the Platoon actually went to school together growing up. As a backup, I would have Martina Ortiz Luis on hand (the Leafs anthem singer) because she's the greatest anthem singer in the entire NHL and no one could tell me any different. She is an angel sent from god.

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