S56 Championship Week
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Snoopdogg
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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? (This season came to me fast and I took it in as best and as much as i can. Being it my first season in the SHL as a young rookie prospect out of the S54 class, I had limited expectations to say the least. Staring the season off with a mere 830 TPE I felt and thought that I would get run over by these shl superstars. But luckily the Edmonton Blizzard being the classy organization that they are made good and sheltered me. Handing me two great players like Julio Tokolosh and James Truong and kept that line together for the whole season. Love these two feloows and i would run through a wall for them. I by far had a great rookie campaign collecting 3 goals and 32 oints on the season. Astonishing as it may not seem to others, but posting a +/- of +29 3rd best on my team was an even bigger surprise, as Laforest is widely know better for his offensive skills rather than his defensive ones.) Code: 3. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) FHM's 12-team playoff bracket setup has received a fair bit of scrutiny. It re-seeds after the play-in round and for some reason puts the #1 seed and #2 seed on the same side of the bracket. I challenge you to come up with a different playoff format - can you come up with a format that's dumber/worse than this? be creative! Come up with the worst possible format for a 12-team playoff. (Well not sure if it would be considered worse or not, but here is my take on a twelve team seeded playoff format. First off I would abolish all divisions and conferences. Condense the whole league into one division and have the twelve teams who make the "playoffs" have a mini season schedule amongst themselves. Play each team 2 times once at home and away and have them reseed themselves that way. The bottom 4 teams are automatically eliminated and the rest face off each other in the standard format we all know very well. 1st versus 8th, 2nd versus 7th and 3rd versus 6th etc etc. Best seeded team always plays the worse seeded team. Throwback to the 1980's!) Code: 4. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min.) If the SHL needed to set up a playoff bubble (like the NHL did in Edmonton/Toronto or the NBA in Orlando), which city would be the best candidate to host as the hub city? What would the players do during their time in a playoff bubble? (For graphic option, make an advertisement [like a pamphlet/brochure] in support of a specific city as the hub city and highlighting the reasons why.) (Well it may not be the most cost efficient way to proceed but I would definitely have the playoff bubble held in the city of Montreal. Planning ahead and having ample amount of time to do it, I would construct a mini city literally under a air tight bubble globe that surrounds the mini city. And all the air is manufactured by machinery and is of top quality for our shl stars. Built in the downtown core of coarse, it would have four arenas total and not two, so games can be played out at a much even pace for our athletes and give them extra time to recuperate and heal from the big games. Each team would have their own hotel and are allowed to invite as many as 100 friends and family members to join them inside the bubble. (after the standard 14 day quarantine of coarse) By doing this, it would ease the players from the pain of not seeing their loved ones for "x" amount of time and therefore the games would be played at a much higher quality in front of a few thousand fans at least.) Code: 6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) Which SHL or SMJHL team was the best team to not make the finals this season and why? (Well biased or not i really don't care, bu the best SHL team not to make the finals is of coarse our beloved Edmonton Blizzard! Why? How about because we took out the best team in the Western conference the Calgary Dragons and followed that up with a devastating loss to the best team in the league the Hamilton Steelhawks and took it to a game seven. All this with 3 green rookies in the lineup playing significant roles/minutes on the team. Add to that a defensive core that to be honest was mangled from the get go with our 3rd pair combining for just under 900 tpe. Our coaching and management staff is one of the best in the league and it is shown here again this season) Code: 7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.) What's your prediction for this season's IIHF tournament? Which teams do you expect to do well (or not well)? Which players? (Drum roll please, since just a couple days ago Daniel Laforest decided to transfer out of the Canadian federation and into the Norwegian one. Myself and fellow draft class Dwight Knight also decided the same as myself to join the ranks of Norway. So I believe that after going in last years championship 6-5-1 and adding two big pieces up front like ourselves (over 1700 tpe combined) and with some already elite talent on the squad, Norway is a team that will battle and surprise many teams this IIHF. For sure the top dogs will remain the top dogs, and here I speak of Canada, USA, Japan just to name a couple. I think this year Norway may not medal but finishing a close 4th place would be a great revelation for the nation. As for top point getters, none other than Monkey D.Luffy will surely enjoy a very successful tournament.) Code: 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. (Snoop) |
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