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*Buster* · 11-07-2019, 07:42 PM

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1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

VIP Status babyyyyyyyy - your player has been invited to attend one of the first homestands of the CC finals as a VIP guest - all expenses paid, front row seats, any hotel you want - and it's all on the Commissioner's dime! Are you going to Games 1 and 2 in Tampa or Games 3 and 4 in Calgary? Why are you picking there? And what are you going to do in that city to run up Eggy's tab?? (This is the same prompt as last year but we've got different cities! be creative! Don't re-use what was written last season)

If I had the choice between going to games 1 and 2 in Tampa or 3 and 4 in Calgary, I'm absolutely going to games 1 and 2 in Tampa. The biggest reasoning for this is that Calgary is cold man. Canada is finally starting to get snow now that it is November and due to living in LA year round playing for the Panthers, I'm absolutely not dealing with the snow for any more than I need to. So for the simple fact that I don't have to deal with snow, I'm going to Tampa. To run up Eggy's tabs, I'm going to every single beach in Tampa and finding every single babe I can. Each one of them is coming to my private box for all expenses paid games one and two. Drinks, food, drinks and more food. I'm giving them the LA lifestyle in Tampa and I'm doing it all on the commissioner's dime.

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After a slow start to the regular season, the Dragons have surged of late and have rallied around the #CalgaWe notion of togetherness. On the other side, the Barracuda battled through a difficult East and are led by a very strong young core. Which team are you personally rooting for to take home the Challenge Cup and why?

The team I'm rooting for in the Challenge Cup finals is the Calgary Dragons. The biggest reasoning is that the Dragons beat the Panthers in round one. It absolutely sucks not being able to make it further in the playoffs but to lose to the eventual champions is a good barometer as to where your team is at. Also, Mike Izzy still scares me. I feel like if I go against him, he's going to take that big man body of his and drive me through a wall. I'm trying not to go out on long term injury so I'm just going to continue cheering for Izzy while keeping my mouth shut.

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3. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

Are there any changes to the playoff format you'd like to see implemented? More wild cards? Move to a single-elimination to bring about even more chaos? 999-game series to minimize chaos? Be creative!

The biggest change I would like to see to the SHL playoff format is a more MLB style playoff system. In the MLB, the players play 4 rounds. Round one is a single elimination wild card game, round two is five games while the last two rounds are seven game series. The biggest reason I want to see this is for engagement reasons. The wildcard round only allows for 4 teams to be engaged for a few days and prolongs the playoffs needlessly. By making it single elimination, it gives the option for giant PBPs to determine who makes it and who walks, sort of like how the MLB makes the wildcard games a huge deal, while making the playoffs go a little quicker. Same with the second round being cut down, it allows for the season to end a little quicker while still making it a series. The biggest opposition would be from GMs wanting a full wildcard series in order to make adjustments but I argue that if you aren't confident enough in your team winning one game, you aren't confident enough to win 4 games in a series. This is a game 7, play it as such. This gets to the off-season faster which in turn gets to the next season and full engagement quicker.

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12. Written, up to 5 TPE Pick up to 5 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words to qualify.

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A. Each team enters these finals with a red hot superstar - longtime league legend Mike Izzy for Calgary and surprise breakout star Gunnar Soderberg for Tampa Bay. Which of these players will have a more dominant finals?

I think the obvious answer here is that Mike Izzy will continue to be the legend he is and have a dominate Challenge Cup finals. He is really the perfect player who can do it all. He can score, he can hit, he's a man rocket. Tampa will have their hands full with the SHLs best player.

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B. Kata Vilde and Benjamin Blue are two of the best goaltenders in the league - which team has the advantage in net?

Between the two goalies, I think I give them advantage to Benjamin Blue for completely arbitrary reasons. Blue is a creature of habit and has a very Craig Anderson like career. He is very good one year and not as good the next. Thankfully for Tampa, this year is an on year for the goaltender. I think he has the ability to hold onto that hot streak for 7 more games before crapping out next season.

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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?

I think this will be a high scoring series because each team has the talent on the top to make that happen. Tampa Bay has the surprising Soderberg and Roenick up front leading a balanced offence, with Ball having an absolutely lights out season this year on the backend providing crazy offense. On the other side, we have Izzy, Shooter and Driftwood doing what they do best. The goaltending is good, but the scoring ability will just be too much to handle.

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

As much as I want to make my favourite name Shooter McGavin because it rolls off the tongue so well, I'm going a different route. My favourite player name is Tampa Bay's Shooter McGavin II. The kid has only played 8 minutes in the playoffs but I love the name because it feels like such an accidental slight towards Calgary. It's a way of saying fuck you we have our own Shooter. I love it.

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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

If I had to pick one finals food item, I would have to pick a chicken parm sandwich from Esa himself. In all fairness, I stopped reading after that choice because this sandwich has been so famous for so long. The sandwich as gained a legend of its own and I feel like I finally need to have one to see if it lives up to it's infamy.

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15. Casual Member Special, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer - SEND ANSWER IN PM TO "PT DIRECTOR" (tagged below)

A. As defined by draft class, who is the oldest player in this series?

B. What is the name of the Calgary Dragons' Arena?

C. Name 3 previous names of the Tampa Bay Barracuda franchise

D. From these two teams, which player had the most PIMs in the S50 regular season? (Look, I'll even give you a link to the index right below this code box. When I posted the link directly, it auto-corrected the colon + slash into a partial frown face; it looks funny and the link still works so i'm leaving it)

**Important**: Send the answers to username "PT Director" with the subject of the message titled “S50 CW" - Do not send it to my personal account; those will not be graded. Do not post the answers in here; you will not get credit for the task.

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