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Eynhallow · 10-09-2021, 08:45 AM

4. Written, 3 TPE, Biopic (150 words min.)
You've been contacted by a big film studio who wants to center the next big hockey movie around your career so far! All you need to do is supply a 150+ word explanation about what will be key scenes of moments or games in your career, the cast, and a general timeline of the film as it follows you from team to team, junior to pro. This one is open ended so how you approach it is up to you!

So, Paramount studios contacted me (Rinky McDangle) concerning an upcoming movie project they wanted to do concerning my career thus far. I thought it odd that a movie studio would want to focus that much attention on a player who hadn’t yet made the bigs, but a movie is a movie. Paramount was mostly interested in how an Irish lad from Waterford, of all places, came to be a professional hockey player. A key scene in the early part of this movie would be one of the Waterford Crystals, a mixed gender kids team, playing hockey on a temporary ice surface in Ireland. Ireland does not, as yet, have an indoor artificial surface. The movie would then move on to discuss My amateur career in the American West culminating in being offered a position with the Colorado Raptors and subsequently being drafted by the Tampa Bay Barracudas, Mention would be made about my being selected in the Expansion Draft by the Great Falls Grizzlies and being traded back to the Raptors in short order. The movie would conclude with a few action scenes from the latter part of the regular season when I was setting the all-time Raptors record for most goals and total points.

6. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Hamilton was not taken to 7 games, Texas enjoyed two series sweeps, which team had the harder path to the final in your opinion?

b. Almost ten seasons ago, in S53, Hamilton enjoyed a 40 win season while Texas mustered a measly 9 wins. Now these two teams sit atop the season standings, and the playoff standings. Which is more impressive, to stay good for a decade, or to complete the rebuild and finally achieve greatness?

c. What is a renegade? What is a steelhawk? Who is Victor Helstrom from the CW trivia?

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

a.) Interestingly, each team only lost three games in getting to the Finals. Just being able to play in a final series is difficult enough as each team had to defeat some rather good teams along the way. However, in my opinion, Hamilton’s path was somewhat more difficult as they had to beat 2 teams that had close to 100 regular season points; Baltimore = 100 points and Buffalo = 96 points.

b.) In my opinion it is more difficult, and, thus, more impressive to stay highly competitive for ten seasons. It is one thing to assemble a team for a periodic playoff run, but quite another to do that essentially season after season for a decade. In the latter case, due to regression and other things, one’s core group must be fluid, and, at the same time, very competitive. Not only does one have to assemble that group at the SHL level, but one also has to carefully manage the assets being developed in the SMJHL.

c.) When asked what comprises a Renegade or a Steelhawk or a truly representative player from any of the twenty SHL teams, my answer is unsurprisingly the same. A representative player is a player who puts his team first. That player will do anything it takes to win, even at the expense of his/her own statistical status. Not only will that player try to score, he will also black a shot if need be.

d.) Again, I reflect on what I wrote in section c.). What makes a good player, or what makes the “best” player ?? How can that be measured ? There are a number of statistical categories one can look at: Goals, Total Points, Goals Against Average. But does that really reflect the “best” player ? I mostly like the player who is good at a lot of things, but not outstanding at any one of those things. I like a player who manages to stay with a team for a long period of time and who contributes over that time. A “team player” makes the “best” player.

12. Milestones

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3117628

+3 TPE

13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)

There has been some discussion on the forums but its always good to hear more opinions: Parity. Going back 6 seasons including this one there have been 4 teams in the finals: Buffalo, Chicago, Hamilton, and Texas. If you add New Orleans you can go back 8 seasons. 5 different teams for 8 straight finals. Is this an issue? Does it need to be fixed? Can it even be fixed? I'm interested to hear opinions, approaches, or just doom and gloom on whether you think this will change, or if we will still be talking about the same teams making the finals over and over in 5 seasons.

So, “parody” or “parity”. When I first saw this I had considered writing some kind of tongue in cheek piece that might be mildly humorous. However, I understand this to be taken a bit more seriously. Ideally, over eight seasons, you would want to see more teams represented in the Finals. That would suggest league parity. Realistically, I think we have to commend the management groups of those teams that perennially make the Finals. That mostly comes from hard work and great leadership. There is a certain amount of luck involved as well, in that when you draft a player you are not sure that the real life player will continue to be an earner over the course of his sim player’s career. This is where leadership on behalf of the team’s management come into play. A GM can motivate players to continue to earn TPE at an above average rate. The GM can also influence a player to stay with his team. If those things come together, as it has for the elite teams in the league, then you will be highly competitive and unsurprisingly make the Finals on a regular basis.

19. Written, 3 TPE, Pills 150 words min

Love it or hate it, that Pill PT (PT 2) was wild and may I say, genius. You've partnered up with the weird trench coat pill guy to design your own pills, with powers and drawbacks to sell to your fellow SHLers! How do you go about this, do you make really good pills to help your team? Trick Hamilton into taking some really shitty pills with the promise of incredible powers? Or do what I did and make a bunch of insane pills and watch the league go absolutely crazy trying to make sense of what the fuck I'm even talking about? Or just make a bunch of jelly beans?

I considered making just jelly beans, the black ones, because that is what I like, but the super power pills are fascinating. The weird trench coat guy has access to other worldly chemists who can custom design these pills. By the way, all of the pills I have commissioned will taste like black jelly beans. One of the pills I dreamed up was a blazing red pill that gave the player inhuman speed for one period of play. The drawback was, though, that he would lack the ability to stop. He would have to rely on the boards or other players to bring him to a halt. This resulted in many bruises, sprains and other injuries. So an additional pill was developed to enhance the ability of the team Trainer to deal with multiple injuries effectively.. This was conceived as a pretty pink pill. Ultimately, the cons outweighed the pros and I settled on just plain jelly beans (black).

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