1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
VIP Status again 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! Eggy has complained to me the past two seasons about having to pay for this so I'm graciously volunteering SDCore to front the costs for this season's splurge! Are you going to Games 1 and 2 in Edmonton or Games 3 and 4 in Hamilton? Why are you picking there? And what are you going to do in that city to run up SD's tab?? (This is the same prompt as in the past but we've got different cities! be creative! Don't re-use what was written last season.)

To be brutally honest I have never wanted or desired to go to Hamilton for anything besides maybe meeting my buddies at McMaster University for some bar hopping. So I would rather go to Edmonton as I have never been there before besides to play SHL hockey. To start off like usual, I would go with the nicest hotel in the area the; Delta Hotels which is in the core of the downtown area. Of course I would go to the West Edmonton Mall and see how big it really is and hopefully find some dope records. While I’m in the area I would check out some of the national parks in the area like Elk Island National Park cause who doesn’t want to see a bison.. Since it is winter I would definitely go up and see the ice castles. Lastly I would try out one of the ski hills in the surrounding area.


2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
Alternate Reality: Physicists and other smarties believe that this reality is just one of infinite realities existing alongside this one in parallel. Take us over to one of those realities in which everything is the same but these S51 playoffs have unfolded differently. What happened in that reality's playoffs and who's in the Challenge Cup over there?

Oh this is fun. First I’m going to be bias for fun. This will be a meme team and dream ride for the SHL. The wild card goes the same but the Jets came back down 3 to beat the Panthers much to Troy McClure III disappointment. With Big Dick Nick Brain carrying the team. Next the Jets would face the New Orleans Specters and it would be a home and home series up until the last game where it goes to overtime in New Orleans and Lil Manius’ coughs up the puck to his old teammate Ignatius Blunt for the series winner. The Jets would then face Edmonton like what happened in real life and which becomes a brutal hard hitting series between Alberta and Manitoba. The fans louder than ever where every game goes to OT in a 7 game nail-biter with the old beauty Gary Grease banging home the winner. In the Challenge cup finals The Jets would face the Steelhawks and the steelhawks would go up 3-0 but Commander Shepard got pissed off and went on an absolute madman tear with 10 assists and 4 goals in 4 games and a game winning OT goal. Pass first player wins.

4. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
Pretend that your team has hit an injury bug - the roster is so depleted that your coach is asking you to play out of position. What position is your coach asking you to play and what about your player build will help you be successful in this new role?

This is somewhat easy for Shepard as for some of his junior career he played defense for both the Militia and team Canada. In fact Shepard is playing defense on the main Team Canada roster this coming IIHF tournament. Commander Shepard is actually a natural left wing, and besides playing defenseman Shepard is also already playing out of position as a center for the Jets because we are lacking in natural centers. I always found my pass first build works good for teams as you can have me as a 1st/2nd/3rd center depending on team build. I find my player build of a hard working defense first player works well on defense especially with Shepards smaller size which compliments generally bigger defensemen in the league. I also like to role play as the coach's dream where I go wherever the team needs whether its LW, RW, LD, RD, C, or even goalie I will do it. It’s probably why I’m center and sacrificed points in other areas to have at least an average faceoff rating.

15. 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.

D. Which player name is your favorite from the rosters of these two teams? (not your favorite player, but your favorite name)

This is a hard one as Hugh Jazz is really good, but I find Tony Pepperoni a hilarious name. It just rolls off the tongue like butter and I always picture a slice of pepperoni pizza as his head skating up and down the ice sniping goals and being an MVP just cracks me up.

E. WOULD YOU RATHER: (a) eat a Pepperoni pizza with Tony Pepperoni (debatably cannibalism), (b) get a nice long hug from Teddy Cuddles, © have Tor and Tommy Tuck tuck you into bed at night, (d) do squats with Hugh Jazz, (e) have a tug of war with Tig, or (f) have Aaron Wilson uncover a brand new strategy for your team to use? Why?

As a segue I would most rather eat pepperoni pizza with Tony Pepperoni as I would be curious to see if he would even eat the pizza or stare at it in horror as his fellow Pepperoni is devoured by me much to my delight. I’m guessing he’s half human half pepperoni so he may well eat it and it wouldn’t be considered full cannibalism.

16. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min)
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

Despite the PA/SC controversy it looks like a goalie stole the final series for the Steelhawks. I would give my vote to Geezus Kryst. Kryst had a 934. save percentage throughout the entire playoffs essentially bailing out his team in every game and only lost once in the entire playoff leading up to the final series. In the final series, Kryst made 45 saves in the 3-2 first game, giving him a 957 save percentage, in the next game Kryst mad 33 saves in a 4-2 win. And I’m guessing he played just as good in the other final games as i can’t find the link for game 3 and can’t access the link for game 5 and the index is not updated.

18. 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. In which season did the Hamilton Steelhawks last win the Challenge Cup?
B. Name a player who has won the Anton Razov trophy while playing for the Edmonton Blizzard
C. Which Edmonton Blizzard player famously has a cow as their player render?
D. Of the 18 skaters on Hamilton's playoff roster, how many of them have a Passing rating higher than their Scoring rating?


**Important**: Send the answers to username "PT Director" with the subject of the message titled “S51 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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