S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

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#169

12-26-2021, 02:22 AM

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.

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2. Written, 3 TPE, GM stands for Great Man (150 words min.)

There have been some good and some bad GMs in SHL history. (Mostly bad) Pick a GM you think was outstanding and explain why you think they were one of the better GMs in SHL history. Point to trades/signings/trophy wins/locker rooms to support your claim.

I would like to say that Fuzz and TDZ in LAP have done an amazing job running the team and building it into what it has become today. Wasty was a legend in LA obviously, but when I personally stepped into the lockerroom, I have to say there was not too much going on in there and a bunch of us had just joined in. With Fuzz and TDZ at the helm, the activity levels quickly picked up and with their draft and trade acquisitions, the lockerroom has quickly become a fantastic place to be with a lot more activity than it started out with when they first took over. On the ice, it may have taken a while but they have built and extremely strong and promising team here in LAP. With the acquisitions they've made, especially stocking up on many of the top players in the S56 draft, we have a very strong core there that will be competing head to head with other top teams in the league and starting next season has a real chance to start coming out ahead of them in my opinion. (189 words)

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?

Well, considering that I have never played a game in the STHS era, a cup win in the FHM era would be worth more to me. And from what I hear, the STHS era was pretty simplified and not as creative so that sounds a lot less fun. That being said that seems to be what is going on with the FHM era, but regardless I value the present more than the past. (73 words)

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?

I will be honest, no I don't think we would have seen the same final 4 last year. If LAP had run into Chicago, I think they had a very good chance of beating them. LAP was right there in the matchup with Texas, as Texas only barely got by them in 6 games. Not that they didnt deserve to get by but it was a very close matchup. (69 words)

11a. 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! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Is one team the clear winner?

Well, I waited until the last day to grind out my CW, and I must say it was actually a pretty exciting final, if you ignore the fact that it is the same two teams from last year. The biggest difference this year is that it was not just a sweep of one team like last season. The series went back and forth all the way to game 7 and the team that lost last year came out victorious this year so that must feel pretty damn good for Texas. Clear winner since they won, but they weren't that far in the clear. (103 words).

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.

Claiming 3 TPE

14. Written, 3 TPE, Blow it up (150 words min.)

In your opinion, which team is on track to completely sell off all assets and begin a long rebuild? A few teams are already in the midst of this, but what teams are watching their window slowly close and need to get younger soon in order to start the climb back to the top?

In my opinion there are a few teams that are at or nearing this point. So Toronto was at the top for a very short amount of time and so they will be blowing shit about in the coming seasons. Unfortunately for them it seems like they really were not able to take advantage of a very strong lineup that they had tpe wise. But they also had the misfortune of being cast in the great lakes division which had buffalo, chicago and hamilton, the top 3 teams in the league for a very long time. We'll see how they turn it around. I think Hamilton might be nearing the end of their reign at the top with the incoming changes to regression as they are an older team but it has hamilton so that is probably a dumbass thing for me to say and they'll probably get away with it and be strong for like another 5 seasons or maybe forever. (162 words)