CW Task #1: I would choose Buffalo’s draft class of season 46. They have six players that are all future top four defenseman and top six forwards. These players include Svensson, Luffy, Kyllonen, Vanderberg, Karhuen, and Sharp. All of which will be in the SHL in the next few seasons if some aren’t already there. All these players are active, and Buffalo did a great job of developing these players into becoming top prospects. Building a team around these players will not only give me a good base of elite talent but it will also allow me to spend money to bring free agents into to build around this core. The franchise would be shaped with instant talent and success because of all of these players are very good TPE earners and will be all over 1000 tpe in a matter of a few short seasons, which will give my team a core of talented players who will be under contract.

CW Task #3: The New Orleans Specters had a very good regular season but come playoff time we were not able to get the job done once again. The GMs @JoeK and @TheDangaZone did a very good job of assembling a good team and planning for the future by restocking the pipeline season after season. This year was the first year the four big rookies got ice time and their future is looking bright in New Orleans. I would like to improve my minutes played because I felt like if I was on the ice more my team would have won more games in the playoffs. I would like to get more minutes on the power play because I am an offensive defenseman and I would enjoy getting some more points and helping create more chances for our offense. We have a really good goalie who can cover my back when I jump on to create offensive chances.

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2 I would choose Buffalo’s defense. The core of Tatu Makela, Connor Tanner and Charles Walker are all elite defenseman, and all have previous champion cup experience. These three players can play against any opposing line and be able to shut them down. I think that the Winnipeg blueline is good, but they are still very young and deep in the playoffs the veteran players also raise themselves to another level.

3 I believe one of the main reasons why Winnipeg was able to make the finals is because they have a superstar forward. @Bonk is an outstanding member of the site and he knows how to make a great player. Lil Manius is all of that and some more, he has great vision, shooting, and is a great leader on the ice. He truly does raise his teammates to another level.

4 The primary member for the success of Buffalo in recent seasons is Tatu Makela, known as @WannabeFinn. One the ice Makela is one of the best in all of the SHL and in the general manager seat Finn has been able to make some trades and draft extremely well to put his team in a position to be able to contend for the past few seasons and for many future seasons to come.

5 I believe that Cedric Robinson will have the upper hand in this series. He has more TPE and is a younger player who seems like he is on the verge of becoming a superstar goalie and a champions cup win will help him make that jump to superstar status even quicker. Robinson also has the better team in my opinion and his offense will be able to make up for any mistakes that he might make.