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reid · 11-10-2020, 06:14 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?

Reid Sutherland was god awful yet again this season. Coming in with almost 1K TPE, he was poised for a better season, and some of the testing that was performed had me set up for an excellent season of 30-40 points. Unfortunately, I sucked. With 14 points on the season, I only increased my production by 2 points in S56. It didn't help that I had a league worst PDO of 94.9, which is awful, and certainly did not help my scoring totals. I shot just over 6% and had a brutal -32 rating. I think what I can blame it on would be playing on the 3rd line with similarly low TPE linemates, around 870 TPE and 930 TPE. Being on the third line, other teams top lines matched up with us, causing a lot of situations where we were matched up with a line of full 1500-2K players. With any luck, next season will bring a promotion to the second line and more TPE will cause some good results. [171 words]

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

Of the 10 most recent finals series, which do you think is the most memorable and why? Which will be remembered in history as the best/most important/most memorable series or victory? S46: BUF over NOLA, S47: WKP over CGY, S48: BUF over WPG, S49: EDM over NEW, S50: CGY over TBB, S51: HAM over EDM, S52: MAN over SFP, S53: HAM over EDM, S54: NOLA over HAM, S55: BUF over NOLA.

I would say that the most memorable final would be S50 between the Calgary Dragons and the Tampa Bay Barracuda. This one was memorable for one reason: reverse sweep. As we know, Tampa Bay was one of the powerhouses in S50, finishing second in the league. Calgary however, barely snuck into the playoffs. The script was flipped in the playoffs however, with Calgary winning losing only 1 game in their first 3 series. This included a 4-0 sweep of the regular season champion San Francisco Pride as well as the New Orleans Specters. Tampa Bay had a harder time of it, battling in 6 game series with Toronto and Hamilton before the finals matchup. In the finals, Tampa went up 3 games to 0, showing that they were the better equipped team regardless of the playoffs results so far. Much to the Barracuda's demise, Calgary came back and won 4 straight games behind some incredible goaltending from Kata Vilde. This cemented the finals as a legendary event, and is certainly the most memorable one. [174 words]

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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.

I think that the worst (read: best) playoff bracket imaginable would be one where the top team had to run the gauntlet against all the other teams. Have it be a linear playoff format where the #1 ranked team played the #2 ranked team in a best of 7 series. Then the winner had to play the #3 ranked team in a best of 7. Then the winner plays the #4 and so on. This means that if you are the best team, it would cause you to have to play a max of 77 playoff games (if every series went to 7) in order to win the cup (based on 12 teams making the ploofs). It would also have the awful side effect of incentivizing tanking so that the better teams didn't have to run the gauntlet as much... lowest seed possible while still making the playoffs. [148 words]

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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?

I think Chicago is the best team to not make the SHL finals this season. For a team that is as stacked as they are, with as many high TPE peaking players around this time, it is really their time to shine. In so much of my testing, they were the best team in the league, so them not making the finals is hella rough for them. They have league leading talents such as Daniel and Parker Smeb, Corey Kennedy, and Martijn Westbroek. Almost their entire core is entering (or already in ) regression next season, so their window is quickly closing. All that being said, they are both the most talented team, as well as the team with the biggest whoops to miss the finals. [125 words]

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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?

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. I would say that Hamilton has the more impressive group of skaters, although it is close. Theo Morgan had a clear MVP season in S56, and along with Aaron Wilson, Gabe Johnson, Michael Scarn and Dick Clapper, their talent is insane. They also have A Jobin so that makes this an easy decision. [53 words]

b. Yes. I have the benefit of writing this later on in the finals (Series is 2-1 for Hamilton) but with Hamilton outplaying Buffalo by a fair margin so far this season, I think we see Buffalo try in desparation by running 9 aggressive forcheckers on offense and 6 crease clearing defensman. If possible, they will also set their goalie to a goon role so that they can really fuck up Hamilton with a goalie fight. [75 words]

d. This is tough, as there are a lot of beauties in this series. From Detroit, hanging with @nour or @"Awesomecakes" would be giggity. I would say JSS, but no one wants that. WBF, Mayuu and fishy are all solid peeps from Buffalo, so it makes the choice even harder. I would probably hang with Jobin though and make him draw me like one of his French girls. [67 words]

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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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