S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

Zoone16
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#138

08-13-2021, 08:54 AM (This post was last modified: 08-13-2021, 09:32 AM by Zoone16.)

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

Pokemon! Everyone loves em, and if you don't, you didn't have a childhood. Or adulthood. Anyways, let's imagine all SHL and SMJHL players are now pokemon. Assemble your team! On top of that, what is your strategy to navigate the POKESHL? Try to get the strongest pokemon and become champion? Catch all of the possible players and complete your pokedex? UwU Breed them? Catch low level juniors players and train them? Or become a gym leader, helping others on their path to greatness? I'd love to hear your approach.

My PokéSHL team would have to be balanced so to begin we need a Fire type pokeSHLer. For this we pick up Valentin Kalashnikov (Suavemente) who spits fire and deals psychic damage. We then bring in Lord Raiden for that electrical and physical damage cause that’s what Raiden does in Mortal Kombat. Luca Del Vecchio is our Ice type, staying cool within the pipes game after game. Karl Krashwagen would be my choice for flying (cause he’s flying out there on the ice) and fighting (that man gives a beating to the opposition every game). Ethan Duncan can be my fairy/psychic guy, being the magical tactician that he is both on and off the ice. My last PokéSHLer will be Nat Emerson who is basically the Dragon type, being there since forever and a half ago in SHL years and being from a land far away.
Overall, this is a balanced team full of different types that have all levelled up together. They are ready to challenge the elite 4. (170 words)

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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?

Based on the standings after Day 3, it looks like we’re in for a good shakeup in the IIHF this season. My predictions will be that Japan, Finland and Norway are the favourites to win it all. These teams have the right amount of youth and experience, with high TPE totals. Right behind them are a big group of teams that need to fix something in order to climb up the order. These include Great Britain, Sweden, Austria, Czechia and Canada, essentially all the teams that are either on their way up or ageing out of contention. The fall of the US will continue because they don’t seem to have figured out how FHM works. The biggest surprise will be the US not making it to the knockout rounds for a second consecutive year. For a nation boasting the largest contingent of creates, this is a disappointing performance they’re putting on the ice. (153 words)

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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.

a. The salt special: Do these teams deserve to be here? Or were they gifted a trip to the finals through puck luck and bullshittery?

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?

c. Everyone's a critic: Nitpick one thing about either team's logo, jersey, rink design, goal horn, or general site demeanor.

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

a) As much as seeing the former great lakes team be in the final year after year, Chicago and Buffalo both won their respective conferences in the regular season as well as the playoffs. They have every right to be in the finals with performances like these. The salt comes from being bored of seeing the same 3 teams make it far each season. (63 words)

b) Both teams being continually at the top is what is impressive, but mostly because both teams were on the rise at the start of the FHM era which has made the strong teams even stronger. I for one am looking forward to teams other than these three at the top for a change. (53 words)

c) I just cannot bring myself to like the Syndicate’s logo. The name is whatever, an homage to the mafia days in Chicago. But the logo is so bland, has nothing to do with hockey and looks like a teenage kid’s attempt at a logo. The diamond in the back might as well be for a baseball team. 57 words)

d) Alexis Metzler is without a doubt the best player to play for either team. As a defenseman, he put up star forward numbers throughout his career, won some awards and made it into the Hall of Fame without being a doubt. Back in the S30s and part of the S40s, Buffalo was not as strong of a team so him being able to do it there was extremely impressive. (69 words)

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