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O4L · 09-07-2020, 02:31 AM

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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?

After winning the Stevens in S54 my individual goal for this season was either winning another Stevens or helping Corey win one. A lot of SHL awards these days is who can score the most vs the bad teams and unfortunately for whatever reason, we struggled scoring lots of goals vs those teams as much as we did the year prior which hurt all of our best players point totals. Our team struggled out of the gate before playing much better and then around 30 games in we just went on an awful streak where all our players underproduced. I still managed to break the 40 point barrier in the last sim of the season but was 13 points off my point totals from last season but was still 4th in D scoring so it wasn't all that bad. I was glad to still league the league in hits but next season I think I'll tinker with my build and hopefully end up dominating again.

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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 always an exciting team for the SHL. It's always hard balancing how much you want to compete now with how much you want to set yourself up to compete in the future, especially with the behind the scenes politics and unfair playing field that can exist within SHL at times. I think both GM's were excellent choices and will help to make the expansion draft as fair as possible. With multiple Smebs available in this expansion draft I hope both are picked high and treated with respect, I think both teams should value competing in the future vs trying to win now since unless you have a horde of players joining you in free agency right after expansion it can be very hard to do much in your first few seasons. From Chicago's point of view, we have a number of solid players exposed in this draft so hopefully, we can come out of this content with who we lost and who we got to keep.

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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?

This should've happened ages ago and it's stupid it still hasn't. Makes no sense for all the teams in a fake simulation sports league where continents and conferences and timezones literally do not matter at all to be based and playing in North America. I've said this for like 30 seasons and there have still been zero teams placed in Europe or Asia or anywhere outside of North America. It would be really great to see the next time the SHL expands to get unique EU teams instead of 2 more boring NA cities but since it's SHL I doubt it'll happen.

Anyway, Copenhagen Pagans 4 life

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5. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)

What are your predictions for the upcoming IIHF or WJC tournament? What team do you think will win/surprise people/be bad/etc.?

I think right now you'd have to go with Canada as the favourite and Japan as the team that will most likely surprise people this year. Last year lots of people had Japan not even making the medal round, but not only did they make the medal round, they upset the USA who was completely undefeated the entire tournament leading up to that point and the likely favorite to win the entire tournament. Japan ended up finishing the tournament in 4th place and barely missed winning a medal but should be able to see even bigger growth this season. With players like the Smeb bros, Luffy, Martijn Westbroejk, Akira Ren all making big improvements and Ryuuji Minamino and Jack Klompus being called up from SMJHL and being allowed to use their SHL builds the team should have even more threats to score and should be a real threat to upset the top teams and win their first medal.

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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.

a. Both of these teams have stacked defenses - which team do you think has the defensive advantage in this series?

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?

c. Based on FHM player ratings, New Orleans has higher average ratings in bravery, aggression, and fighting? Will that toughness have any impact on this series?

d. What is your favorite name from a player appearing in this series? Why do you like that player's name?

e. There are several animal names in this series - which of these animals is the coolest? sloth, hippo, otter, monkey, fox, kirby.

c. There are no players named Smeb in this series so my options are already limited. I guess if I had to pick one I'd go with Poopity Scoop even though it isn't that original Poopity Scoop is still a great name taken from one of the greatest moments in human history.
d. Kirby is easily the best out of all of those options, but is Kirby even an animal? He literally has a copy ability in one of the games called "Animal" which sounds like a dumb ability if he were actually an animal and kinda offensive tbh. Kirby is still the best option out of those so I pick him.

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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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"“HA HA! THIS GAME WILL NEVER END! I POSSESS THE SOUL OF EVERY GOALIE ON TEAM B!! CREW 4 LIFE!! SIGN WITH EDMONTON FOR THE CUP!!!” cackled Belial as he placed a Fedora on his head."
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