1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

Last year was a blast being front and center watching the finals. This year however will be more intense, as I am official benchwarmer for Hamilton! Imagine that, a SMJHL player already being able to warm a bench for the SHL players. Ok well I guess they say I am on the team, but considering I have only got 14 seconds of ice time (when Coach Harvester looked away for a second) I don't know that I am really on the team. Anyways, if I get to touch the cup at the end of the series that would be pretty cool. I guess I will be staying in during the nights though and eating healthy just in case they need 14 more seconds of fury in the finals. I doubt that they will though, I am pretty sure they are just having me on the team to inspire me to work harder next season in the SMJHL. Winning the cup wont really mean anything to me until I am the one who worked all season to get us to the cup.

2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

Physicists and smarties around the world met last month to analyze their startling discovery of another universe that simingly mirrored our own. In a stunning discovery of connectivity it was discovered that the universe's were only connected through the SHL. However, while they had the same players and teams, they were inverse. As they poured over the results they found that every game that was won by a team in our universe, was lost by the same team in the other universe. The Chiefs and the North Stars were on the edge of glory in the mirror, while Hamilton and Edmonton were beginning a rebuilding phase under the watchful eye of co-co GM McZ. With a sinking feeling they realized slowly that if everything was inverse on the other side, Hitler and Germany had won WW2 and WW1. This was not the SHL, it was the NSHL. Scared they unanimously voted to sever the connection to the other universe, but the other side unanimously voted to further open the connection. Things escalated to the point we are today, scared and huddling in bunkers. Great going smarties.

4. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

It is amazing how much damage a simple car crash can do. When it happens to a bus it can be even more so. Somehow the entirety of the Halifax Raiders are injured except myself. We are forced to play through the rest of the season or we may lose our eligibility to remain in the SMJHL. Fortunately it is easy enough to find someone in Halifax that can play hockey. Finding one that can play well is a whole other matter. Coach Balls, in his wisdom has realized that even though I am one of the top goal scorers in the league  I cannot score enough to keep us in contention. My skills as a goal scorer would be best used... to stop goals. That is how I found myself strapped into the biggest pads I have ever seen in my life. I am Al Kayhall, The Wall. The wall with many holes I found, but a wall non the less. 

5. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)


Well Al Kayhall just won the Challenge Cup, I think Al will be doing a lot of partying for the first half of the off-season and throwing huge parties, but first he will throw himself a giant parade in the city of Halifax, think like the scene in Aladdin when Prince Ali comes to town for the first time. After getting through my party phase, it would be getting right back to the gym and working hard to earn my spot on the team for next season, I was happy with my effort last year and was rewarded on the ice throughout the playoffs and the regular season so I want to build upon that and create a phenomenal player that can excel on both sides of the ice and just be the best forward I can be. I just signed a giant contract, but it is for only one season. As such I will need to train very hard and produce in the SMJHL this year to prove that I deserve a long term contract.

8. Written, 4 TPE

Hamilton, the unlikely holder of cup
last actor expected on the stage
Into the fray of a league worked up
Frothing and ranting in their rage

But lo' did Hamilton continue
against the storms terrible calamity
steadfast they stood in their retinue
against the league devoid of amity

Out-maneuvered at first in their strategy
They rallied, breathed, and responded calmly
Second in the league was not their apogee
Shooters must shoot, and not wrongly

Finally the shooters found the back of the net
And Hamilton beat the league, well met!