S55 Championship Week

S55 Championship Week

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#236

09-07-2020, 09:00 PM

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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?

Name Redacted did very well on the ice this season. His Vancouver squad was off to a pretty slow start, and he was partly to blame for that. However, halfway through the season he was able to get very hot, and the team popped off with him. Vancouver ended up with one of the best back-half records in the SMJHL and managed to clinch a favorable matchup in the first round of the SMJHL playoffs.
Name Redacted ended up hitting 7 milestones, which is absolutely phenomenal. By all measures, this season can be considered a huge success for him. He managed to hit a ton of stat goals, and was able to backstop Vancouver to a playoff series win in his first playoffs.
Next season Name Redacted hopes to work a little better with the defensemen in front of him and work to either get passes up ice or to freeze the puck more quickly. Vancouver still has a bad habit of turnovers high in their own zone, so Name Redacted can help quarterback that a bit and make sure the team has a good shot at a favorable breakout.

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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.

So I’m an outsider to how this whole thing works, and I’m definitely not a natural for a GM position. But the SMJHL has gone through the expansion draft already and I can see certain things being very important in an expansion draft in order to put together a good team. I see some high TPE players exposed, and I fully expect those to be picked through first and foremost. I see defensemen being the most important of those, as they are harder to come by.
Secondly, I see the draft taking a few goalies that are either young and on the upswing, or are pretty high tpe but regressing. As long as the expansion teams can get 6ish seasons out of whomever they pick, they should be able to last long enough to grow their own defensemen through the entry draft.
Most importantly, however, I think expansion teams are going to end up selecting some players strictly as locker room presences. Expansion teams are expected to go through some tough times, and having a locker room that can weather the storm goes a long way to making sure that players are retained and rookies want to be drafted there.

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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?

We should absolutely consider franchises outside North America in the SHL and SMJHL. The main reason this doesn’t happen in meatspace is because of travel and scheduling issues. This entire thing is happening virtually, so why not open it up for other nations and cultures to be able to put their mark on the SHL. London, Paris, Stockholm, Beijing, Tokyo would all be excellent places to put a franchise in a simulation hockey league. It would really set things apart and generate excitement. I don’t think it would conflict at all with IIHF, as it’s still SHL and not International level play.

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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?

As much as I give them shit throughout the year, I’m shocked that a stacked Anchorage Armada team didn’t make it to the SMJHL finals. Firstly, up until the playoffs, Scoochie Stratton was red hot and was an unstoppable force in the Western conference. For some reason, that completely died in the playoffs and he regressed hard. They also had a stellar defense that was super suppressive. It was very difficult to get good shots on net against them all season. While that did show up, it wasn’t enough to counteract a powerful Maine Timber offense, and they ended up bowing out early.

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6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) The world's hottest app is TikTok - which SHL or SMJHL player would have the biggest following on TikTok? What do they post there?

If there was a famous SHL or SMJHL player on tik tok, it would have to be (Clean) Andrei Kostitsyn. Every time he is penalized and goes to the box, he has a chessboard set up in the box and he posts tik toks of him playing speed chess against himself while waiting to be released. He gets very upset if the penalty ends early and he doesn’t have the full two minutes to play. Also, as inspired by his recent plea for Ace to be returned his GM position, he frequently sings a mashup between Tenacious D’s “Tribute” and the Killers’ “Human,” which is a fan favorite.

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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.

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

The sloth is by far the coolest animal appearing in a name this series. Sloths are amazing creatures, they hang out all day and sleep and eat stuff and don’t give a fuck. When not training or playing hockey, Name Redacted strives to live the sloth lifestyle as much as possible. He is also going to set up a sloth preserve.

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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.