Prompt 2

This Texas Renegades team has had their sights set on winning the championship(s) in this decade ever since they kicked off their rebuild some time in the S40’s. We already made our goal in S59 and have been treating every season since as ‘our season’. But while we did make it back to the finals last season, the final outcome of that series was a huge disappointment which we are definitely looking to put right this time around. 

The truth of the matter is, that with this current divisional playoff format where not just the first, but the first two rounds are played in-division, it is highly likely that the western conference crown will once again be all but decided in the extremely likely second round matchup of Texas vs Chicago. With all due respect to the other western conference teams in contention, that’s just how the current state of the league is and it’s very evident from the regular season standings as well. We have in fact already seen that both these teams have secured their berths in the second round with little quarter given to their first round opponents. Texas won their series against Minnesota 4-1 and Chicago was even quicker and simply swept Edmonton out of their way 4-0.

As a Renegade, I am of course hopeful that we will have what it takes to beat Chicago in this series, but they have certainly shown incredible dominance over the whole league this season and we will have to get the best out of each and every player on our team in order to break the Syndicate. It will likely take all seven possible games to decide this one, hopefully again in our favor.

Assuming that we do, then frankly, I wouldn’t be too worried about the conference finals matchup, as if we are able to beat Chicago to advance, we should also be able to defeat either Seattle or LA without too much trouble. I would allow one, maybe two games to be won by the opposition in this series.

The finals though promise to be another tough series against one of Buffalo, Baltimore or Hamilton probably. We have dramatic finals history with both the former and the latter and it would certainly be a heated series. Buffalo would look for revenge for their defeat in the S59 finals while we would seek the same for last season’s crushing sweep at the hands of the Steelhawks. This one also, if we are to win it, it will probably take all seven games to decide it. The same also applies if our finals foe will turn out to be Baltimore. Though we perhaps lack the animosity borne out of previous dramatic playoff series, they are surely also a formidable foe, clearly so if they have made it past the likes of Buffalo or Hamilton to reach the finals.