S63 Championship Week

S63 Championship Week

kenvald
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03-03-2022, 10:12 PM (This post was last modified: 03-06-2022, 09:47 PM by kenvald.)

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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.

trivial

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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. Los Angeles has been riding their top players for almost a full minute more of ice time than Hamilton has theirs. If you were a coach, do you buy into this strategy? Do you let your top guys leave it all out there every night or aim for the most balanced attack possible?

In the playoffs I definitely buy into the strategy of riding your top guys. There are two days rest between each game which is plenty for everyone to recoup their lost strength. And the playoffs is where things matter the most. You can't take a chance on some lower skilled player just to give them a chance a see how they do. It's all or nothing.

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b. Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have been absolute block machines for Hamilton in the playoffs with 109 between them. If you’re looking for offense in this series, how do you get around these two defensemen?

Honestly, the best way to get around them is to keep shooting. The fact that they're always trying to get in front of the puck can also be a negative if the puck bounces weirdly towards the net. Whenever a puck changes direction, be it because of a tip from an opponent or a redirect from a team mate blocking a shot, it throws the goalie off and makes it harder to make the save.

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c. Los Angeles’ defense, on the other hand, has not been afraid to join the play and put up points. How do you prepare for a five player offensive attack? How do you counter?

With a five player offensive strategy they have to watch out for, well all kind of counters. If they don't focus as much on defense it opens the ice up for a counter-attacking forward to shine. Have someone quick on their skates hover at out own blue line and rocket up the ice as soon as we gain possession.

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d. The starting goalies for these teams, Olof Karsikko and A Jobin have been nearly unbeatable up to this point with a 0.937 and a 0.927 SV% respectively. If you’re a player on the other team, how would you get inside their heads so that you can put the puck in the net?

The easiest way to get a goalie off their grove is to play a little dirty. I don't really condone it, but as long as players keep it within the rules there's not much teams can do. Try to get into the goalies faces. A few extra taps here and there keeping plausible deniability when they cover the puck. A lot of small things can cause an avalanche as soon as the first goal is scored.

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11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through your terrible time management skills, you’ve unlocked a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Did anything surprise you about the outcome? What players performed above or below what was expected of them?

I don't know if it was exciting. Honestly I saw Hamilton in the finals vs Los Angeles and figured there was no point in watching it. And as expected Hamilton ultimately won it again. But it does look like Los Angeles did put up a fight, taking the series to 6 games. So I guess that was what surprised me the most when I looked up the results after the series was over. Jobin seems to ultimately have been the deciding factor. Not allowing Los Angeles any fun at all. Jobin if anyone must be guaranteed a first ballot Hall of Fame entry.

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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.

+3 Milestones Claim

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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!

Sweden is finally gonna take it all! Even though I repeat myself in this prompt season over season, and it never happens, this is the year! We have a great squad that is highly skilled. Maybe even have the most TPE among all nations. At the very least we have to be top-3 by now. Personally, Yxskaft has never done very well during international tournaments so I don't expect much this time around either. But we have other great names such as Sven Svenson, Jimmy Wagner, and Magnus Liljeström that I believe will carry Sweden to greatness and finally have us wrap the gold medal around our necks.

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21. Written, 2 TPE, No take backs 2 100 words min

Leviadan has made the grave mistake of becoming PT director. I'm already sapping his life source and joyful innocence (yum). How could you, as a user, also make his job unnecessarily difficult? Make media about his shit PT prompts? Write your submissions in Spanish?

I'm gonna start a thunderdome for every single PT prompt Leviadan posts. Because clearly they're all gonna be awful and boring and 10 times worse than the previous PT director who, after stepping down, will be remembered as a great PT director that never did anything wrong and whose prompts were amazing in every way.

On top of that I will make sure to post my PT submissions one minute after the PT deadline passes and later complain in my locker room and to Head Office that Leviadan refuses to give me my hard-earned TPE. Because previous PT directors never cared about the deadlines.