S65 Championship Week

S65 Championship Week

advenny4
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07-02-2022, 07:49 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.

word: LATVIETIS

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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.

+3 milestones smjhl

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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. Given the logic, it seems to me that the Los Angeles team has far greater advantages purely because of history and experience. But everything can happen and Tampa Bay can fumble for a trophy. Everything will be determined by who is more willing to win and who will have more power, because I think the mastery of both teams is at the same level.

b. Certainly I wouldn't break up the already-existing strings, even though the adversaries have a dangerous offensive line, that doesn't mean we don't have good enough protection. After all, we're in the finals, which means we're a good team. This would be my view of this kind of situation. The main thing is not to be afraid.

c. The main thing is patience. No need to set unrealistic goals that would be difficult for players to understand. The game is just the same as it was before, you can win a cup with a good attack. I think the Tampa Bay attack is fantastic and it will be useful in this series. The Panthers team won't have a lightweight series.

d. If we look from a statistical point of view, it's a good thing. This means that the team is dedicated, which has also led to the finals. On the other hand, that means the players certainly have some micro-vulnerabilities with which they will surely have to fight throughout the series because the opponent will put enormous pressure on.

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15. Written, 3 TPE, IIAM Excited for IIHF (150 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC! We’ve had some federation shake-up this season that will surely lead to some interesting results. So who do you got? Who’s going to take it all this season and why?

I have that good opportunity to participate in both tournaments and I can give little insight into my predictions. The IIHF tournament will certainly be different than usual, and teams are determined to prove their strength. The favourites will certainly be the ice hockey professionals of Finland, Sweden and Canada. They already proved the talents of their leaders in the test games. The teams that will struggle more at the bottom of the table include Latvia, Austria and Russia. As much as I don't like to admit it, we have too young a composition to fight for high places. In terms of the WJC tournament, we'll have a pretty tough situation, too, because the team has only two full-fledged defensive players. For the first time in my life, I am facing such a situation and I think it will affect our performance. Leaders will certainly be Canadians and USA youth again.

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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?

I know about such superstitions, and I had a chance to enjoy such a moment. Detroit and I dominated the regular season and handed this cup to us. Since I'm a European player and more or less I don't believe all these things, I touched this cup. A lot of others didn't, and they looked at me quite crookedly, too. But I was sure that with all this we would be able to win the tournament. After all, it happened, and when I looked at the finals series, I still have a strange feeling of pleasure because it was a fantastic play-off. I am pleased with the team and think that if I have to choose again between touching and not touching in the future, then I will certainly continue to touch this cup. History lies! And I'm pretty good proof of such a statement. The whole thing is just in our heads.

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