Written Task: This season you have to save money and quick! How do you do it? The only rule is that nobody loses their job! The SHL puts workers first, so you gotta get creative! Does the whole team go back to wooden sticks? Do you take a lucrative dairy sponsorship and skate on frozen milk instead of ice? Or do you go absolutely bonkers and do something like raise ticket prices? (150+ words)


To save the Calgary Dragons some money, I started with having a look at the buffet table set up in the team locker room. Normally it is piled high with chicken parms and meatballs and cookies and all sorts of amazing things created by the team chefs. It is always very extravagant and keeps the players well-fed before, during, and after the game. But we need to save some money so I asked the chef to lower the food cost. The first thing was that we substituted out the fresh parmesan cheese flown in daily from Italy, and replaced it with the crappy grated stuff from the discount store. Also, instead of using ground kobe filet mignon for the meatballs, we now use secondary cuts of beef like tongue and liver. We completely phased out the fresh fruits and vegetables since nobody ate them anyway. Instead of 18 different types of hot sauce there are now only 8, and just 2 choices of mustard instead of 17. I tried to get rid of the 8 foot tall chocolate fountain as well but that was a hard no from everyone so I guess it stays. We have definitely saved a bunch of money but clearly it has had a disastrous effect on team performance as the Dragons languish in last place in the conference standings, the players are all just too depressed and hungry to give it their all every night.