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**JamesT** · 06-22-2022, 01:08 AM

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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.

Jammin

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2. 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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

a. My brain is suggesting that LAP should win this series as they have been dominant the entire season and have the most TPE roster wise in the entire SHL. However, TBB winning would be an underdog story finally getting their moment because have had good regular seasons but could just never get over the hump in the playoffs until this season. I would have to say LAP will win the cup this season.

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b. If I was the strategizing as LAP trying to figure out how to line match against TBB's top line, I would look to have my defensive/checking line be on the ice whenever that line is on the ice. I would make sure that my top D pairing are out there as well to shut them down.

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c. If I was TBB and wanted to avoid LAP's D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald, I would split up my top players and spread out the offence on all 3 lines. I doubt LAP would want to split up their top D pair as they have been consistently amazing all season long and have established chemistry together.

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d. I would say that having more shot blocks is a double-edged sword in terms of your teams performance. In this case, it shows that TBB is willing to get in front of the puck and sacrifice the body to help block shots, but that also means they aren't playing on the offense more and are playing more in their own defensive zone.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Do You Touch It? (150 words min.)

In the NHL there’s a well known superstition that any team that touches their conference championship trophy won’t win the Stanley Cup. Are there any superstitions like that in the SHL playoffs? If so, what are they? Where do they come from? Does your team or your player believe in them? Why or why not?

It has been a tradition that the conference champions do not touch the conference trophy when participating in the ceremony upon winning the 3rd round in the playoffs. However, we have seen that the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning don't follow that superstition and have touched that trophy twice and have won back to back cups! They even held the trophy and skated off with it as well.

For me personally, I would follow the lead of my captain and follow what they would do upon taking the team photo.

A superstition that happens in the SHL playoffs would be for various members to wish me a happy birthday (even though they do this almost everyday). However, not that in Chicago we just acquired Pasta the Turtle I can see this superstition continue even more in our locker room during the playoffs.

We also always say "WEH" when we win a game and I have no idea where that originated from but it's just funny to see everyone spam that when we win a game, so that has become a thing we do in our locker room now.

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Mysterious Person 150 words min

Make up an important character from SHL history. Tell me their name, what their job was, and why they’re important. Maybe they were an eccentric team owner? An agent that represented half the league? Heck, make it a real person from SHL history if you want! I’m always down to hear cool old SHL stories!

An important character from the SHL for me would have to be Hannah, aka @mer, aka "Aksel Fiske". Although she only joined in S62 as part of the reddit draft class, she has been one of my best friends in the SHL and has made my 2nd player re-create even more enjoyable than my 1st player. Hannah is a person who you can always chat with about anything and her positive energy can help alleviate any stress you may have.

There was a reason she was drafted 1st OA by the Manhattan Rage

in S62 and I am still surprised she is in other sim leagues and has time to have league jobs in them.

I have joined Hannah in QCC game nights and she is even more fun to interact with in voice calls and is extremely friendly as well. I hope that Hannah continues to be active in the SHL and other people have the chance to interact with her if they can!

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6. Written, 3 TPE, New Stat (150 words min.)

I work for the FHM dev team and I’m giving you, sweet user, the ability to add any stat you want to our player build system. Footwork? Sure! Stink level? Why not! Stomach capacity? Ok… I guess so! Tell me what stat you want to add, and how you imagine it’ll affect the sim.

Thank you FHM dev team for giving me the power to add any stat in the hockey world to add into the mystical sim world that is FHM8.it would have to be the attribute of "Focus". At the end of the day we're all human and have emotions or other things factoring into our hockey play. Some games or days we might not be 100% focused or completely honed into the game that day. This would have a high factor into performance as a "Mental Attribute" because in most sports we have learned that mental is just as or not even more important than the physical aspect when playing a sport.

I would assume this would be a based and locked stat in FHM, because currently we can only adjust two mental ratings for skaters which are "Aggression" and "Bravery" which doesn't really get any TPE allocated towards it because from what I have seen it's not that big of a factor for the sim engine.

It will be interesting to see how the SHL adjusts once we swap from FHM6 to FHM8 and if this "Focus" attribute would be a "meta" stat or just a stat most people would tend to ignore. I would predict this would be locked and everyone would have a 15 focus rating.

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7. 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.

Milestone Claim link

Total: 16/16 TPE (Did milestones in case got trivia wrong)

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