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Just after I joined I picked Barracuda to win it all on my first prediction and by that I mean I copied prediction that had them winning both regular season and Challenge Cup because I liked their logo and that has not changed. Dragons dominated their way into Challenge Cup finals and that makes Barracuda seem like a challenger or underdog which I usually prefer when I dont have any real stakes on match or series. Also I feel like I have to root for MCP (and Barracuda) as he has done great job as GM of Vancouver even when outnumbered by one to who knows how many during last series versus Steelhawks in our discord. (116 words)

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Just had this though when driving home from work that it would be fun to see how stepladder type of playoffs would work and now we have this question here. I would actually let most (in example, all) of teams into playoffs and just make earlier rounds shorter. This would increase wait times for many teams and players most likely making playoffs less exiting but it would greatly increase value of regular season performance.

So format would play out like this for both conferences:

7th vs 8th, best of 3
winner of above vs 6th, best of 3
winner of above vs 5th, best of 3
winner of above vs 4th, best of 3
winner of above vs 3rd, best of 5
winner of above vs 2nd, best of 5
winner of above vs 1st, best of 7

And then winners from both conferences would play each other in Challenge Cup Finals at regulat best of 7 series.

So minimum number of games from start of playoffs to challenge cup finals would be 18 while as with current system it is 12 and maximum games would be 29, an increase of 8 games to current system. So either we could use third sim every day or cut off 3 first rounds and start with 4th vs 5th and we would have between 12 and 20 games until we reach challenge cup finals which are almost same as with current system. (240 words)

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Click to open full size image, I just hope this does not fall between options A and B

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C. Do you expect this to be a high-scoring series or a low-scoring series? A mix? Do you think it'll be competitive or will one team run away with it?

Calgary hasn't really been challenged yet and so their current goals for is quite high and Tampa Bay isn't too far behind. Both have good defence and thus pretty good goals against but I still expect high to average scoring series that will be pretty even from game to game but will end up as sweep for either team cause I know how unlucky dmills3 can be and he has 5th PBP. (72 words)

D. What's your favorite player NAME on either team? why? (note: not who's your favorite player. which player name)

Well it might not be best name of them all but sure the most notable for me is Maui. Without checking his player profile which I didn't do I have no glue if that is first or last name and from what ever part of world he might hail from. Even as I write this I start to question genre of this player. (63 words)

E. If you could choose any one of the following four options, which would you pick? 1. A chicken parm sandwich from Esa 2. A tray of cookies from c00kies 3. A custom feet pic from JSS 4. An hour long stick and puck session with Jepox

As I'm not huge fan of parm which I assume to mean Parmesan cheese I have to skip Esa's generous offer, I have enough problems with my own feet so I don't need to have picks of others and haven't hold a hockey stick for something like 15 years so taking a lesson would be quite pointless. That leaves me with option 2, Tray of cookies from c00kies and it just happens to be that I actually quite like many unhealthy foods including many kind of cookies, but if they end up being shit I'll just move along and take that sandwich from Esa. (104 words)

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