Quote: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?

My player had a terrible season this year. Not sure what the big difference was in terms of my players capability but I found I dropped off quite a bit and even had a lot more of a TPE difference between the two seasons.
When it comes to why that happened, I think there are many factors, but 2 come to mind as why.
The first one would just be the play as a team. I think my production dropped just because the team did not play to the same level that we did the last season. Less goals scored, a lot of tougher matchups against opponents and just having difficulty with chemistry. When it comes to the team, we had a lot of new faces and old faces have gone to wear different colours. We lost a lot of guys that I had chemistry with and helped me produce on the ice and that hurts when those faces get traded away.
At the same time, I think the lines had changed a bit throughout the year. Not saying it was for the worse, but it would have helped to build chemistry with the same partner and really build off of eachother.
Luck was not on my side either, my shooting percentage might have been the worst in the league. And if it was not the worst, it def was not far off haha

Quote: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.

For me it would be the Season 54 finals. Would it be the most memorable one? I do not think so. I can not even remember howit played out so it probably was not anything special. But from my perspective, it was special because it was my first ever cup.
In regards to the past finals, I do not really know which one thy would make a movie or a documentary about. I would love to see what Don Cherry would have to say about some of the people in this league in these great series. But when it comes to me sitting down and watching television for the SHL finals I really was not too interested. I have other things to do like go to the gym and get ready for the next season, especially when I play as bad as I did in the past season.
But in all seriousness, not really my style to watch other teams play. Even in the sims, I do not really watch the other games if the Specters are not playing

Quote: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.

If you really want to make the playoffs a real SH1T SHOW you can always have everyone make the playoffs and have no re-seeding. But at the same time, if you are the worse seed, you have to win 1 less game in the series. Or well, maybe better expained, the team that has finished lower than their opponent starts the series always with a 1-0 series lead. I think it would make the league a lot more fair and create some parity. Especially with the super teams that have developped. Looking at the teams that finished last in each conference this season, I think they need that free game in regards to the top teams in the league. It would just be a crazy site to see come finals time when you have 2 top teams that make it. Or maybe not, maybe 2 bottom teams advance with the little buff they receive from series to series

Quote: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.

What is good about developping a new product to sell at the consessions at the stadiums and the arenas is that both teams have different colors and can target different things with them.
When I look at the Buffalo Stampede colours I think of Mustard and Relish. When I think of a Stampede I think of a lot of things cluttered like Buffalos and then having a lot of things all together. I am from Quebec and Poutines are a great meal. So a Poutine style fry with Mustard and Relish as the Sauce and you can call it the Stampede Poutine. Even kind of rolls off the tongue when you think about it or say it pretty quickly.
Now, when I think of the Hamilton Steelhawks, I think of a place in Canada that probably has some tough winters. Maybe not as bad as some other places in the world but it forsure gets cold in that city. At the same time, the Blue and Grey colours are some cold colours. Even steel itself is considered like a cold metal. So something cold, something along the lines of an ice cream would come to mind in regards to the Hamilton Steelhawks. But thinking of what kind of ice cream. They have Blue and Grey and a little bit of white. So it would be a Vanialla Ice Cream floater, with blue berries and some Blue Slush all in one cup.

Quote:14. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min)
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

Congrats to the Hamilton Steelhawks on winning their Championship. SOmething a lot of people had seen coming just because of how well built the team was. My MVP would have to be Theo Morgan. I m voting him solely based on the fact that I am related to him and wish him nothing but the best. Missing the championship for Theo because he has already won the SMJHL, the World Juniors and the IIHF, he can finally get inducted into the Quadruple Gold Club. I have not even watched a ingle game and do not even know the amount of games was needed for Hamilton to win the series so this is a blind guess and wish him nothing but the  best.

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