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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.

Kata Vilde arrived home in Marstrand Sweden to a huge contingent of townspeople at the airport. Being goaltender for the finals bound Calgary Dragons was a huge deal for the town and they wanted to really make it known how much they were routing for Vilde. They whisked me in a limo downtown where the mayor gave me the key to the city. Then it was off to the arena where the local youth teams participated in the Kata Tourney where I was the referee for all the matches. I haven't skated that much in years but the kids were thrilled so we had a great time. That night there was a special banquet held. Little did they know I had a surprise for them as I handed the mayor a check for 1 million Krona to completely remodel the town's arena so the kids would have a state of the art facility to play at. later my old school buddies took me out for a few adult beverages at several local establishments. All in all it was a great day.









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Task 05: (Written, up to 6 TPE)
Pick up to [u]6[/u] 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?

This is definitely an interesting GM matchup. On the one hand you have long time simmer JR who is intimately familiar with all the workings of STHS. This should be a tremendous help in designing the strats for West Kendall. On the other hand you have the gold standard for GMing in Steelhead who's been there done that. 5 times. And has won a cup in the jrs as well. If anyone knows how to get the most out of his lineup it's steelhead. All in all should make for an interesting matchup.




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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 encapusates 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.

So for the anthems I have chosen 2 bands who represent their areas well. from Calgary I chose their most famous band, 80s rockers Loverboy. The Big Parm plays a steady diet of Loverboy over the PA system. The fans particularly get fired up when the Dragons are way ahead and the announcer breaks into Lovin every minute of it. And of course the biggest staple on Friday night games Workin for the weekend. The Dragons have alot of 2nd generation players who remember the hey day of those times so Loverboy is perfect for them. The platoon on the other hand are more into the hip hop culture. And sticking with the 80s/90s theme I've chosen vanilla ice to sing the anthem for the Platoon. Ice Ice baby is always a big hit with the Platoon fans and a perfect fit for any hockey team. Since Vanilla is from Florida we have dediced that he's the one for west kendall.




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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 surprise is that Buffalo didn't make the finals. They were heavily favored going into the playoffs having won the cup the previous season with a completely stacked roster and there really is no reason they shouldn't have gone back to the finals. I'm going to lay it all down to karma. Buffalo and it's management get too caught up in league drama where they should be focused on their own team and I think it finally came back to bite them in the ass. With all the tampering drama going on I think it took away alot of the focus that needed to be on playing the game instead of talking a game. Just my thoughts, not a fan of the team or the way it carries itsself and I think the sim gods threw down a little karma and that allowed a good West Kendall team to get past them in a big seven game series.







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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)

The road to the finals was definitely a surprise for the calgary dragons and the rest of the SHL. The league had pretty much written Calgary off after losing legend Esa Anrikkanen to retirement as well as the trading of the top Dragons players. Calgary is a very young team with veteran Mike Izzy and loads of young players. The league thought it had seen the last of the Dragons for awhile as a rebuild was in order but the upstart young Dragons had other things on their mind like proving to people that you could rebuild on the fly. The Dragons knocked of the Blizzard 4 games to 2 and then the renegades and long time Vilde rival walter Hobbs 4 games to 1 to reach a finals that noone expected them to reach. With 2nd year defenders logging heavy minutes and young forwards playing prominent roles Calgary showed that anything is possible if you want it bad enough.


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