S56 Championship Week

S56 Championship Week

JURT
All-Star Committee
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#68

11-08-2020, 08:43 PM (This post was last modified: 11-11-2020, 01:09 PM by JURT.)

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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?

It wasn't an easy season for the Colorado Raptors as a whole. On a collective level, there weren't a lot of goals we could reach. My individual performance, however, wasn't really impacted by our general struggle. I ended the season with my highest career totals for my last season in the SMJHL : 6 goals (previous highest : 4), 19 assists (previous highest : 15) and 26 points (previous highest : 19). Meanwhile, I kept being the defensive force I've been every year. I'm hoping this time, as it's my last chance, I can win the Holmes award for Best Defensive Forward in the SMJHL. That's the one individual goal I had in mind when I started my junior career that I haven't reached yet. I've reached most milestones I had in mind in this regard (both in regular and advanced stats), but as of now it is not known whether I'll reach this individual goal or not.

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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.

There isn't many ways to make a bracket any stupider than the one we've got : having the exact same number of teams in the first two rounds is the biggest joke you can get for the shape of the bracket. What would make it even worse is not changing the bracket type, but the way the bracket is filled. My dumb proposition is this : fill it at random. No more guaranteed byes for the top teams, no more re-seeding, just every team team put in the bracket randomly. Anyone could get a bye straight to the 2nd round, the two best teams in the league might face in the first, and so on.

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5. Written, 2 TPE

Write an SHL themed Haiku Sonnet (see link below) which I just learned is a real thing. The format is: Haiku Haiku Haiku Haiku Couplet

It is now over
My time in Colorado
I must turn the page

Mack and Sven and Gud
Simothy and Lord Raiden
Juni and Carlos

Never to the end
Of Cups forever deprived
But hands full of friends

Award nominate
Never the winner, a shame
One last chance to shine

Chicago, here I come now
Syndicate, now here I go

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8. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min. if written)

The arenas in Buffalo and Hamilton want to make sure they're pulling out all the stops on the big stage. Help the concessions department of one of these two teams develop a new product, with marketing specifically pertaining to this finals series, to be sold at the arena during the finals. Describe the product and the marketing in 150 words or create a promotional poster showing the product, its name, the price, etc.

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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 an impressive set of skaters - without factoring in any coaching or tactical strategies, which team do you think has the better roster of skaters on paper?

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?

c. These two teams hail from the Great Lakes Division. Which of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) do you think is the Greatest and why?

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)

a. Hamilton, in my opinion, has the better roster. They have four players over 2000 TPE to Buffalo's one (although Buffalo has a lot of players close to that glorious mark) and have one fewer player under 1200 TPE. The Stampede, however, has a better goalie, so they are definitely a match for the Steelhawks
b. I think every losing team has to try to change tactics at a certain point in a series. It can be some little adjustments if the series is close, or more of a Hail Mary if the team is about to get swept. Too much change isn't good, but sometimes it's better than sticking to a losing strategy.
c. Lake Superior is obviously the greatest of the Great Lakes. It says so right in its name : it is the superior one. The others are named for random things that are nearby : Ontario is a province, Michigan is a state, the hurons are an amerindian people and I'm not even sure what Erie means but it certainly isn't something as prestigious as the Superior title.
d. I would hang out with Evok, as we both live in the same province and speak the same language. We'd talk about Bob Bissonnette (may he rest in peace) while listening to all of his great songs. La Machine à Scorer, QCC's goal song, is only one of many musical masterpieces focused around hockey and beer (two things I am very fond of).

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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.