S55 Championship Week

S55 Championship Week

Tayjay
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09-06-2020, 11:04 AM (This post was last modified: 09-06-2020, 09:33 PM by Tayjay.)

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16. CW TRIVIA - blueberries

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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?

I was pretty awful this year. I was bottom ten or fifteen in terms of plus/minus and didn't contribute a lot offensively or even defensively. On top of that I was getting pretty tired on these long road trips which was causing me to play even worse. I talked to my GM's and asked me to increase my stamina. So hopefully the full season of a better stamina rating will help and I need to get my speed up as well my other skating attributes. I was at a pretty low TPE level as a rookie this year but I'm hoping that with a full year under my belt of TPE that I can play a lot better on the third line next year. Stamina was the biggest issue but with the higher physical ratings I should be able to keep up and play more into my strengths as a counter attacking forward. I need a good offseason to and IIHF to work towards being better next season.

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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 a South American team would be pretty awesome. I'm not 100% sure why and hockey is not very prevalent down there but I think you could put a team in Brazil or in the mountains somewhere and you could have a pretty awesome branding. I also think any European team would be a slam dunk. A Scandinavian team would be dope but I think Russia is the must play. There are a lot of cities you could use and I think just even putting a team in Russia from a branding perspective would be pretty intimidating. They are a Super Power on the World Scale and in hockey as well.

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4. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)

Which SHL or SMJHL team was the best team to not make the finals this season and why?

Probably Hamilton or Edmonton. It's really hard to say because unlike the Simulation Junior Hockey League teams legitimately tank in the Simulation Hockey League. New Orleans and Buffalo are very good teams and I believe both finished first in their respective conferences. Edmonton has just as dominate of a defense as New Orleans but scored thirty more goals during the season. It has to be disappointing that after the moves they made during the season and offseason that they were unable to get to the finals and they inch closer and closer to regression. Plus with expansion on the way who knows how the season will shake out next year.

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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.

Expansion is kind of weird in the SHL The teams don't cannot get prospects unlike the PBE but they can usually pick from a host of impending Free Agents or older players since those are the most likely candidates to be unprotected. Specifically for Toronto we were able to protect our entire prospect pool and basically all of our young talent. We were fortunate enough to be able to keep much of our roster intact. It seems weird that the Simulation Hockey League teams are able to protect all of their prospects and a great amount of the people on their teams. As an expansion team you can basically field a team of inactives and then build through the draft. We had a tough decision to make, or I should say ML our General Manager had to, and I was glad to just be one of those guys lucky enough to be protected. I'm on the lower spectrum of TPE in the league and in my class I only rank around 23.