S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

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08-11-2021, 09:34 AM (This post was last modified: 08-13-2021, 06:00 PM by mastersheep.)

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6. 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?

I expect that my team, the United States, will do fairly well despite our young defensive core. The bulk of our team is still growing and should be a season or two away from being a bigger force than we currently are, but I expect to at least make the medal round. Bobby Lane will be the player to watch once again after scoring a ton last season. The best team is probably going to be Canada as usual. They have great coaching and a fantastic lineup and will be led by a strong pairing featuring Adam Barron and Augustus Wang, who will get the bulk of the work for the club. I expect Japan and Czechia and Great Britain to all be close to them and potential finalists as well. The team that could be a wild card is Sweden after acquiring Jimmy Wagner as he will immediately be one of their top forwards.

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12. 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.

b. Buffalo has been here many times in the past 20 seasons, this is only the second (I think I'm too lazy to check) time for Chicago. Which is more impressive? The continued dominance of Buffalo? Or the solid couple of runs Chicago has made despite the team only being 15 seasons old?

This is easy. The Stampede dominance is far more impressive than what Chicago has done, which comes from their ability to maximize asset retention, keeping a solid core around and building new ones without dropping in quality, as well as their strong coaching. Chicago is starting to trend in that direction as well, but they are going to need to figure out what to do about their aging core and then make the finals far more often to rival Buffalo.

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d. Who is the best player to play for either team? Is it a current player? Retired? Traded? Make your case.

In my opinion, Martjin Westbroek is going to go down as the best player on the Chicago Syndicate. He has played at such a high level for so long ahead of other higher TPE forwards on the team. In his career, he has scored 310 goals and 397 assists for a total of 707 points. He even had a career high this season with 89 points and finished 4th in scoring.

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13. 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.

For the first time in quite a while, I think that a player on the losing team in the finals should be the MVP of the series and the playoffs. Martjin Westbroek had 13 goals and 17 assists and his 30 points was 11 points higher than the next closest player on the Syndicate and more points than anyone in the playoffs. With the exception of Games 1 and 6, Westbroek had a point in every game against the Stampede in the finals and usually came away with multiple point games scoring 8 points in the finals. While the team couldn’t match Buffalo’s firepower, Westbroek was virtually unstoppable the entire series.

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15. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is 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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