1. (+3TPE) Verification Word: juiceisloose


2. (+4TPE)

A- I Think LAP will win.  But I don't want them to, I want TBB to win because I feel like they've been so close in the past and now is their chance.  But looking at each team's rosters, I just think LAP has what it takes to win the series and bring the Cup back to LA.  I hope TBB can prove me wrong though, go Fish!

B- I think it's important to cycle lines and make sure your top guys are fresh going into the third period of the game.  Yeah Tampa's top two lines are on fire, but they eat up minutes like crazy.  So if possible just have your third and fourth line playing damage control and defense oriented hockey for an equal amount of time as your top two in the first and second.  

C- Well because Tampa is such a top heavy team, you are going to have to figure out how to beat them early and often.  Use the skill and speed of the top two lines to hammer them early with pressure, and wear them down.  If these two players are the defensive backbone of the Pride, then try to break them early in the game so that the flood gates open.  It will be easier said than done though.

D- I think that the two teams just play a very different style of hockey.  I think that LAP pressures the puck up front a lot more than TBB does.  TBB will play the bend but don't break type of defense, allowing movement through the neutral zone but shutting down opponents in their own defensive zone.  It will be interesting to see who prevails by the end of the seven game series.


3. (+3TPE)

The four stars of the Four Star cup are one hundred percent sensa.  It's like a piece of abstract art, its all in the eye of the beholder.  Some would say its for each of the divisions, but that is total bullshit propaganda.  I think the four stars represent each of the four skreeeeees that were belted out by the Detroit Falcons players in season 53.  After each player passed the cup off to the next, they would take turns skreeing as loud as they could to the crowd.  Each player did it exactly four times, thats no coincidence.  Some may ask, why thats only happened in season 53 and the four star cup has been around much longer, how??  Deal with it, is the answer.  Time is a flat circle, its coming back around homie.  The real question is, will the four stars on the four star cup continue to represent the four skreeeeees, or with they be dethroned and a new meaning will emerge.  Fuck that will be exciting, won't it?  If you want a new meaning to emerge for the four stars on the four star cup give me a hell yeah.

4.  (+3TPE)

While its a known fact that athletes, hockey players in particular, are superstitious, this also historically applies to the SHL and the SMJHL.  One of the main superstitions in the SHL is not about touching a trophy or using a certain type of stick tape, or even doing a specific amount of passes on the skate sharpening stone with your skate blades, but in fact the main superstition revolves around goaltending.  More specifically, starting high TPE goalies.  Starting high TPE goalies in the SHL seems to be almost taboo because of the frequency in which lower TPE goalies seem to win.  Imagine this, you're a GM who's going into game 7 of the finals and you have to make the tough decision, do I start my 2000 TPE goalie, or the 800TPE rookie?  You start the 2000 TPE goalie and he posts a big fat L with a whopping .840 save percentage.  Congrats, you should've started your rookie who would've won with a shutout.  


7. (+3TPE)
Milestones +3TPE Claim

Total CW TPE: 16 TPE