1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
This was last season in SMJHL for Aumy Jr. and of course - I expected for him to do better than last seasons. He wasn't bad last seasons, but I knew that he can do better for sure. And he did pretty decent - he had almost twice as more points as last season. He scored 15 goals and got 20 assists. Not bad for a defender. I am not surpsied, shocked or dissapointed. I think it was a decent season for him, because he could've done even more better. Next season will be the first season for my player in SHL. I don't expect for him to do something big. I just expect him to hit 1200 TPE mark and do okay in season. He isn't in the convesartion of best defenders yet, so I just focus on maxing him out and in close future we can talk about some bigger goals. Would be cool to get some goals and assists, but main thing I want to do is make my team win championship and that cup.
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4. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Play-Offs bubble is kinda cool. At least - in my opinion, it's cool and interesting. I think that Los Angeles would be greatest spot of all SHL teams location places. Mostly, because Los Angeles is a biggest and possibly more beautiful city. If we talk about biggest safety and less things to do, so players don't get disturbed with some type of parties and more - Tampa Bay could be a nice spot too. There is huge beaches and bubble might be set up near that, so players have to do something in free time. Players would play their consoles, have time to spend in beach, gym and more. They wouldn't be allowed to leave a bubble, but they wouldn't need to leave it, because there would be a lot of stuff to do and they would have to play hockey in general too. Television, Wi-Fi, dinner, team trainings and workouts. They wouldn't have any time left besides sleep. There would be some park and small basketball courts too, so they can't say there's nothing to do.
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6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
I think in SHL, a lot of people expected Chicago Syndicate to make finals and be favorites to win the cup. They got eliminated by Buffalo Stampede by a sweep and it was unexpected. In SMJHL - Colorado Raptors were pretty good last seasons, but didn't get far too. I think that both of these teams were capable to be in finals and get a title, but fell too short. Both teams had great offense, good defense and decent goalies. I think that weak link was strategies and just the fact they couldn't find right tactics to win similar opponents as him. New simtool asks for coaching stuff to learn this game from the beginning and multiple teams don't succeed just because of that, unfortunately.
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7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
IIHF and WJC are always interesting to watch. First of all - a lot of times there are different outcomes for players. For example - you can do well in SMJHL or SHL and be just disgusting in IIHF or WJC. Or completely opposite - you can do bad in regular season and Play-Offs, but surprise with your nation. I think that Finland, Japan and Russia are favorites in this season's tournament. I think it will be individually good for best players of this league - Wagstrom and others. I expect that Latvia, Norway might do not so good. Mostly, because of the fact how they have played in last seasons. However, I think that some new players might surprise with some good games and that would be pretty cool. I think that small countries with less active players have bigger chances for new players to blow up. It might help with confidence for new players aswell. I think that there will be a lot of surprises and a lot of letdowns. I can't give any big prediction, because I'll be honest - we can see any type of surprises!
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8. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min. if written)
Finals are always something big and teams need to figure out how to sell out all the tickets and how to get biggest ratings on TV ever. Buffalo Stampede and Hamilton Steelhawks don't meet in finals first time, so it's easier to promote these finals. This is already some big rivalry which is long multiple seasons. First of all - teams should promote it as a revenge finals. Both teams have met before and I believe that it's an individual rivalry for fans of both teams too. Stampede should create new jerseys - specially for finals and fans to give it away for free. Each ticket owner gets one t-shirt and entire arena wears them in home games. That means - green shirts only and amazing public, atmosphere in arena. That would be a thing they all get for free. For extra price they could buy same type of look t-shirts, caps and even more. Stampede should focus more on colors and fireworks too, so they can get best energy out of all fans. That might help a lot for players to bring home cup again.
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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!
First topic: B - Do you foresee the teams making any strategic adjustments during the course of the series? Should the teams be quick to switch tactics or stick with what they've been using?
- I think that it's usual thing that winner don't change anything. My opinion is that both teams needs to leave same strategies and look how it will go in first game. After that - they can think about changing it if it won't work out so well. However, that's something team's management needs to think of, but that's just a simple thing in any of sports.
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Second topic: D - If, once it is safe to do so, you had to go hang out in person with one of the users on Buffalo/Hamilton, who would you hang out with and what would you do? (if you pick gabe you get -1 tpe)
- I don't even know Gabe that well, so I guess it's easy to say that not him, haha. However - I think that @WannabeFinn is a great guy and it would be really cool to hangout with him. Technically, I am Stampede player, so I root for them and I would lucky and happy to hang out with this dude. Hopefully, I'll be a Stampede player next season too!
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16 TPE!