If I had to choose, I would rather go see games 3 and 4 in Calgary. The first reason is because there is a slight chance that one of the teams could win the Championship during game 4 and this is something I would like to witness, event if it is highly improbable that the series and in four games. Secondly, Calgary and its surrounding has more things to do that are of interest to me than Tampa Bay. On one of the game days, I could spend my time visiting the Olympics installations of the city that are still there from when Calgary host the games in 1988. On the day where there is no match is being played between games 3 and 4, I could go do one on my favourite activities which is hiking by taking a day trip to Banff which is less than an hour and a half away from Calgary.
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Personally, I’m rooting for the team in my own conference, the Tampa Bay Barracuda. They went through at a lot of difficulty during their rebuild, they even had to move to a different city when the owner decided to change the team location from Seattle to Tampa Bay. However, their general manager and his assistant keep to the plan they had made before the move and they build that team beautifully. They had a bunch of players growing together as the year went by and they are finally seeing the result of their initial plan. It would also be great to have a team win the championship only a few seasons after they came to their new city.
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I will probably go against what most people would like, because for most fans the playoffs are the most exciting part of the year and having the most fans as possible still involved by having their favourite team participating in the playoffs is probably what the league wants to generate more excitement and more revenues. But I think that we should change the playoff format by removing one team from each conference and having four teams by conference making the playoffs for a total of eight teams. The regular season has 50 games where you play against every team in the league while the playoffs are at most 21 games against only three different teams. This led me to think that the regular season is a better indicator of which team is the better in the league while the playoffs are more random. Reducing the number of teams making the playoffs by two teams will keep the high level of excitement that the playoffs generate while increasing the importance of the regular season.
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The first thing that I need to improve to help my team is how I start the season. For some reason, my offensive production starts really slowly and then catch up as the season goes on. To improve that, I think I need to spend more time on the ice on my own before the start of the season. At the end of this season, I decide to ask the coach from the team in my hometown that plays in the Norwegian League if I could practise with them before I travel to North America and he agreed. Hopefully, this will help me start next regular season stronger than I’m used to. The second thing that I need to improve is my shoot. This is reflected by my shooting percentage which I fill is lower than it should be. I gave myself the objective of having a shooting percentage over 10% for next season and I will work out during the offseason with this goal in name.
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I think the young player from both teams who is the most likely to win a trophy in the future is Tampa Bay Barracuda’s left winger Austin Roenick. Roenick was a S47 draftee who just completed his rookie season in the SHL and his stats have been really impressive. He also already 930 TPE, which he could definitely be one of the top players in the league a few seasons from now. The trophy that I think he is the most likely to win is the Jay McDonald Trophy which is awarded to the player with the most goals in the regular season. Roenick already has an impressive 93 scoring attribute and he led his team in goals with 22 during the regular season and he led his team in goals with 8 after the first two rounds of the playoffs.
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