Task 13: Sent PM (3 TPE)

"Task 12: (Written, 3 TPE)

Theres no path to the finals without a little bit of adversity. In 150 words or more, write about the adversity one of the teams faced on the road to the Challenge Cup Finals. (*tag anyone involed)"
One thing not heavilly reported during the season was Calgarys GMs strangle hold he had on the dietary restrictions during the season. Because of his overwhelming love for chicken parm, he made it mandatory that each player eat a chicken parm atleast once a day. This resulted in some issues in the preseason due to weight gain, but it seems as though his play may have worked. Because of the extra calories players were taking on, they had to work harder and push to keep the parm from going to their asses. This in turn resulted in longer more intense work outs. While this may not have been popular among the players it is hard to dispute that the crazy old loon may have had the right idea force feeding his players what can only be described as "the worst possible thing to have to eat every single day for years."

"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)"

Oh man where do I even start. I think once i can build up more training, Ill be fine, my core strengths are there, if anything its just a bit of fine tuning and capping out what I can. That said Ill be excited to join my team as soon as @FlappyGiraffe needs me Ill be there, That also said, Ill be pretty sad to leave my bois in Vancouver. Yea ill see them around the league when we play together, and who knows maybe on day we pick a shit team and make an SHL Whalers super team, but i dont have my money on that, so its going to suck having to leave all the guys and not really see them every day. That said I wont really miss when @GeckoeyGecko goes on his coke filled tirades, which he has actually cut down on lately, so its kind of a lose/win situation?

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.

I had the honor of playing for my home town in the OHL, after a few seasons of playing for our biggest rivals. When asked what I wanted to do for the day (outside of getting the key to the city, which was just a little thing, small stage, small crowd outside of city hall) the only thing that came to my mind was meeting the current lineup of the team. They had just gotten back from a disappointing run at the Memorial Cup where they lost to the eventual champions. Once I finished up a minor tour of the arena, I got to meet the guys who had just finished some training. They had already moved on from the loss, and it was nice to see, an attitude i intend to learn from going forward. I was also there as they added my name to the alumni wall on the upper deck, and received a new customized jersey with the new team logo on it.

Task 09: (Written, 3 TPE)

Which organization that didnt make it to the finals would you consider to be the biggest disappointment? What do you think are the main reasons why they fell short this season? (Must be 150 words or more)

I think the biggest dissapointment for me has to be Minnesota, aside from the fact that they currently employ a number of former (and some current) whalers, they also apparently had a bigger advantage than most of the other teams, and allegedly TONS of cap room, so where did they fuck up? I believe the quintessential fuck up that was had by Minny was not enough tampering. Lets be real if you're gonna do it, do it to the extreme. When taking that into account, their FA pick ups have been lack luster and honestly thats my biggest issue with them. I also know that this is probably going to cause issue with some Minny players, i can hear it now, but to that i say "boo hoo", If you dont want me to be saying this, work harder, play smarter, get the pucks deep, and get to the god damn finals you cowards. (They also seemingly got fucked in several luck based stats, I just wanted to make fun of a few whalers)