3 tpe, #16
Capital

3 tpe, #1
In an alternative reality, the Simulation Hockey League Challenge Cup Playoffs for the 53rd Season have been fantastically altered in a way no one could have expected. A global pandemic struck in the beginning of the first round, resulting in the entirety of every team performing in the playoffs needing to be critically relocated to another location. In this transition there was a fiasco regarding the swapping of two teams’ equipment, the Buffalo Stampede and the Hamilton Steelhawks. There was a huge concern that the equipment was going to be tampered with, that some sort of skate would be dulled, laces stolen, sticks broken, or any sort of other terrible mishap with the most absolutely holy and sacred equipment of another team. However, thankfully, there was no such issue arising from the fiasco of swapped equipment. Playoffs continued as they did in many other alternative realities where things continued as normal from the beginning.

3 tpe, #2
I, Joseph Weston of the Calgary Dragons, would be surprised if this free redistribution did anything to radically shakeup the result of the Season 54 regular season or playoffs. Despite the season being “quite wide open at the moment”, as claimed in the prompt, the season prior, the Season 53 regular season, was also regarded widely to be “quite wide open at the moment”, to use the original prompt’s quote again. At the beginning of the Franchise Hockey Manager 6 era for the Simulation Hockey League, every team and player were given the opportunity to redistribute their attributes to build a player however they want. This means most teams should already have a good idea of how their players are built, and the odds of people already needing to radically alter their attributes is much lower than some may assume. It would be an entirely surprising circumstance if a team somehow managed to radically change all of their player attributes to take advantage of the information gained in one single season.

3 tpe, #5
The International Ice Hockey Federation tournament is going to be an interesting time, to say the least. In the new Franchise Hockey Manager 6 era facing the Simulation Hockey League, there are going to be quite a few changes. The new format introduced for the International Ice Hockey Federation tournament means that all 14 teams have to face off against one another, and should help minimize the concerns people have of numerous strong teams being placed in one group together and minimizing a strong team’s chance to succeed. I think that transfers are still going to be critical, but minimized team rosters is a bit concerning as it reduces the chance of people to play for the team they truly desire on the international stage. I think the United States of America will still remain a strong team, but other smaller national teams will gain the boon of being able to pull players in a much easier manner.

3 tpe, #6
The arena in Hamilton certainly does not need any gimmick to get people into the stands to fill their seats for this dedicated team and fanbase. Their team is hot, their goals are good, there’s a whole lot to be played for on and off the ice. There still needs to be a program of intermission entertainment to keep people hyped up for the serious and monumental events occuring in the arena, however. To this effort the lights and sounds crew in the arena has developed a hybrid projection and holographic system to be utilized between the seats and aisles around the arena during stoppages, pauses, timeouts, and intermissions. This setup will flood the arena in a light blue light that will simulate being up in the sky, the natural habitat of a steelhawk. Various events can be utilized or simulated simultaneously with this setup, such as storms, flights of birds, or other sorts of visuals to hype up the crowd.

1 tpe, #13.d
Snow is nice. It covers the ground ever so cleanly and makes everything outside appear peaceful. I will fully admit that snow is a pain and frustration to deal with in the colder months, and that shovelling it is a brutal pain. However, this does not stop me from liking snow. It’s great.