(1, 2, 3, 8, 13, 16) 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 16 TPE

Quote:1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)

Reflection on your season - how did your player fare on the ice this season? Did you meet or surpass your individual player goals or did you come up short? Whether you excelled or disappointed - what can you attribute that to? What will you try to do better next season?

Entering into the second season in the Juniors, my role on the Anaheim Outlaws was being expanded upon.  I was to be placed on the 1st line alongside Ethan Price and Rikard Hammarberg, who I was line mates with in Season 54.  The team was relying much more on my time on the ice, and with my set up skills to get Ethan Price the puck in scoring while we’re on the ice together.  I was able to score 10 Goals and get 19 Apples through the season, but the Assists were much less than I was looking to get for the Season.  One of the contributing factors to that would be Anaheim trading away Rikard Hammarberg at the Trade Deadline to Maine for some picks in the upcoming Season 56 Draft.  This threw off a bit of my groove midseason as I had to start to gel with the new 1st line Center, Hubert Andrews.  Having half a season of chemistry with Hubert will hopefully transition into Season 56 and mean more scoring both in Goals and Assists.  (179 words)

Quote:2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)

This offseason will be extra exciting, as it features the rare expansion draft! Write about how you think the expansion draft will play out, either for one or both of the expansion teams or from an SHL team's perspective.

The Expansion Draft will be such an interesting spectacle in all aspects of it.  The thing I’m most looking forward to is the chess match that the Expansion Draft will offer.  Since only 2 players can be picked per team, once that second player is picked, no more can be selected from that team.  So if one of the GMs make a pick from the team, and are looking to snag someone else later in the Draft process, the opposing GM could, knowingly or unknowingly, shut that down by taking another player from that team and screw over the plans for the other GM.  Seeing that Tig has the first pick for the Draft and since Hotdog will have to pick himself from Buffalo in the last round, Tig could (and I think should) make his first pick from one of the other Buffalo players that were left unprotected to completely block out the rest of those players from Hotdog.  The same can just as easily be done by Hotdog with the Hamilton players that were left unprotected, but that list is much shorter than Buffalo’s unprotected (4 vs 8). (190 words)

Quote:3. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
It's too late for this go-around of expansion, so hypothetically - should there be SHL franchises in other continents? I saw some interesting European proposals in the PT. Should these - or proposals for any other continent that's not North America -
become a reality in the SHL?

I think that an international team could technically work because there isn’t actually any travel time needed for a simulated hockey league that is in a made up reality, but if we were trying to be as realistic as possible, anything overseas would be not feasible in the real world with the logistics.  The time difference from all of the flying to and from the non-North American team would be a massive advantage to the home team.  Some of the Western teams would have about a 10 hour time difference for their local fans to be able to watch any of the games, so most of the games would be at a time where most would be at work for games on a week day. (125 words)

Quote:8. Graphic, 3 TPE.
Think you can do better? Design a new logo for the Buffalo Stampede or the New Orleans Specters or either of the teams in the SMJHL finals.

Your new Buffalo Stampede logo:

Quote:13. Written, up to 4 TPE Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.
b. In the two regular season matchups, each team won once at home. Do you expect the results to reflect a home ice advantage in this series?
d. What is your favorite name from a player appearing in this series? Why do you like that player's name?

b. Both of these teams are a force to be reckoned with, and if either can take a game off of the other when they are on the road will definitely be a boost to the chances for whichever team can manage to do that.  Once the momentum starts to swing one direction in this matchup, I feel like it’ll be hard to overcome that for the other team.  (68 words)
d. Monkey D. Luffy is my favorite name out of all of the Players in the SHL Finals.  I’ve been a huge One Piece fan for the last 10 years, reading the manga weekly that whole time.  So seeing his name pop up on the Play by Play always makes me chuckle. (51 words)

Quote:16. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is now completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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