S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

StadiumGambler
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12-21-2021, 05:21 PM (This post was last modified: 12-24-2021, 08:17 PM by StadiumGambler.)

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1. 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.

Verification Word: SaltySlash?

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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. What is worth more to you, a cup win in the FHM era or the STHS era?

b. Be honest, would we have seen the same final 4 as last year (Chicago, Texas, Hamilton, Buffalo) had BUF/HAM and TEX/CHI not run into each other in the second round?

c. Hamilton has a population of roughly 5 people. Where would you relocate the franchise?

d. Who is the best player to NOT make the final in the past 2 years?

a) Toss-up. On one hand, Simon T has a lot of RNG, because it tends to prop up the bottom teams as long as their TPE counts are somewhat reasonable. This can lead to bad teams winning a ring, but can also lead to a good team being starved of championships through fluky playoff nonsense. Buffalo could've won more than 2 rings with their good rosters, and San Fran could've contended more than they did, being deprived of rings due to Chris Partridge having horrible save % luck. Then you have FHM with them costing players rings that have talent but no one else on the team. I'd be inclined to say Simon T though.

b) Baltimore and Tampa Bay are making strides and I think with reworked seeding they could've maybe gotten an upset had things gone differently. Not that the Big 4 are bad, but Hamilton did have a substandard regular season, and Baltimore were like 3rd in the race for our version of the President's Trophy. Who knows?

c) Cleveland I think is one of the biggest markets with no SHL team, so you could go them. I believe they are around the Great Lakes area as well, so it wouldn't cause a major divisional shift. I was also advocating Kansas City for divisional alignment before everything went to hell, and it might fit if you move and rework teams.

d) Sven Yksaft or however you spell it is probably the most purely talented player to not make a finals in the past 2 years. Ryuuji Minamino had a monster season this year and no finals to show for it. Karl Krashwagen's had an interesting career for a Baltimore team that is right at the cusp.

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3150845 +2TPE

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

hahahahahaha remember this task from last season? The one where everyone was like "nah we're good, tampa and BAP will be in the finals soon and you'll see that the old guard will make way for the new young teams". Now that we have the exact same fucking teams in the final again, let me ask, is parity an issue in the SHL? How do we combat this?

I really feel like we're fine. Hamilton will have core players that get bored soon of the culture and move on. Also, its not like they've won every Cup. Chicago and Buffalo and NOLA had their turns, and Texas built from nothing at the start of Simon T to a competitive team. Other teams can follow that model, and I really doubt theres so many specific strategies that Hamilton are exploiting to make them unbeatable, otherwise they'd use them in the regular season too to get a better seed and not risk losing out on home ice advantage.

Of course, everything's up in the air cause of the infamous regression decision and the fact COVID is opening things up in society again. A lot of teams might lose their lunch to the oncoming changes in the league, and Hamilton and Texas could be among them. Parity is such a minor concern compared to maintaining user retention and etc.

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15. Written, 2 TPE, The yearly IIHF task (100 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC if you care about that more. Will there be surprises? Will any players make their country proud? Who's gonna suck? Be bold!

Seems like Ireland could be the wink tip for an upset, as Elizabeth Doyle is holding down the fort well with a save percentage of .927. Canada is also getting some magnificent goaltending from Damien Vertigo, as well as some quality from Rotticus Scott up front. I think Bobby Lane and Adam Barron will continue to be the real straws that stir the drink for Canada, but we'll see how the playoffs develop.

Surprisingly a competent Great Britain team is suffering a bit through, starting 2-3. Their stalwart goaltender, "Lucky" Luca Del Vecchio, is off to an awful start. He['s battle-tested and could turn things around, but maybe its just one of those days.

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