S63 Championship Week

S63 Championship Week

r1c3bowl22
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03-06-2022, 04:23 PM (This post was last modified: 03-06-2022, 11:54 PM by r1c3bowl22.)

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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.

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2. Written, 3 TPE, Back In My Day (150 words min.)

The SHL has been around for the sim-time equivalent of 63 years now! That’s a lot of time for things to change. What was the league like 62 years ago in season one? Did nobody wear helmets? Were players allowed to smoke on the ice? Plenty would have changed in over six decades!

Back in my day, there were much fewer teams. This is in the SHL and SMJHL. I believe there were only 6 SMJHL teams, the Force, Scarecrows, Whalers, Falcons, Impact, and someone else. It was also crazy to think we didn't use discord. Everything was forum based, which is interesting. The site was a lot more active and the proportion of toxicity to actual posts was much lower. Simply because math. We also had a lot of activity in team locker rooms. Oh ya, teams had locker rooms back in the day. I think the St Louis locker room ended up getting nearly 400 pages in the S19 thread, It was a very active time and I enjoyed SHL a lot. tbh most days I don't even know why I like coming here anymore. The community kinda sucks and HO has failed imo. It's been terrible for years. Alas, I don't play hockey anymore so this is kinda cool to see stats and stuff.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Extinction Event (150 words min.)

Rumour has it that millions of years before the SHL began, there was a pre-historic “Dino Hockey League” that dominated the global sports market before a meteor wiped out most life on the planet. Describe that ancient league. Maybe name a couple of teams or players, tell me about how the Dino league’s rules differed from our current ones? This one is pretty loose, just have fun with it!

So a million years ago, there weren't any humans so I don't know who would've been playing hockey. Oh wait, there were cavemen. So it was probably the neanderthals that currently roam the streets of Hamilton. Rumour has it, they attacked and pillaged each others camps. It was a pretty terrible sight to see. Apparently they were actually pretty terrible at hockey. Now, they're much better at hockey but just terrible people. Kinda giving the people on Edmonton a run for their money in that regard. Fast forward to today, and wow. Ya both teams are good. Must be from all of the years spent training playing against dinosaurs. I wonder if they ever get PTSD when they hear about how Colorado's doing these days. That can't be easy for them. Anyway, I've yet to face off against these time- and battle-tested individuals. I'm sure it'll be interesting. Hopefully I can gain some of their experience.

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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?

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?

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?

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?

a. I definitely buy into this strategy. As a GM, I learned very early on that if you want to win games in a sim league, you need to play your best players as much as you can. I was GM for like 4 seasons and won a best GM or coach award in 3 of them. No cups tho. So maybe it doesn't work too much.
c. I'm a strong believer that strong defensive games will win games. You can have very strong output, but if the other team is just matching it, then you're kinda in for a long game. You need to play as defensive as possible and hope for those clutch goals in a tight game.

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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?

So apparently Hamilton won again? That's not a surprise. It seems like they've been winning a lot lately. It's kinda tiring and I remember HO cutting them some slack for management issues not too long ago. Maybe if HO would stop favouring them, there may be more exciting hockey happening around here. I'm sure they've built up a good roster tho. It appears to me that Rotticus Scott had a good playoffs. Same with Hammarberg, the two of them had 23 points in 25 games. A third forward had 22 points, so clearly they've got a lot of options. It's hard to contend against that.