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Thelastheraclid · 03-11-2023, 04:23 AM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1.5 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, 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. Both Winnipeg and Philadelphia have taken the long road of drafting and development to find themselves in the Challenge Cup Finals. Winnipeg in full scale rebuild, and Philadelphia in the expansion draft. Each began nearly 10 seasons ago. From your point of view, which build is more impressive? Full scale teardown to challenge cup, or expansion draft to challenge cup?

Building an organization from the ground up and taking them to a Challenge Cup within a decade is by far the more impressive feat. You start off at an automatic disadvantage since all of the best talent the league has to offer is going to be protected by the already established teams. So, you need to build the bones of your organization on the blue-collar type players. Then you need to draft perfectly right off the bat. One bad draft stalls your window, unlike it would for an established team. To hit the mark and succeed in a franchise’s infancy is unbelievable.
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b. Winnipeg's Mikko Rashford has been an unstoppable assist machine with 25 in 20 GP. If you're looking to shut down Winnipegs offense, who do you target? Rashford, or goal scorers surrounding them? Do you double down on guarding the scorers and letting a pass-first player take a shot, or do you go heavy on the passer and hope nothing squeeks through?

You shut down the goal scorers. Pass first players tend to get in their own heads fairly often and panic when they have that open shooting lane. A goal scorer is always going to be ready to have the game on their stick and be able to perform under the pressure. A gifted passer like Rashford is going to be thrown off balance so to speak when their game is flipped on its head.
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c. Philadelphia's BASE PACK has made over 500 saves in 17 GP. If you're a Winnipeg team looking for a weakness to exploit, do you think this is one? Does this signify an exhausted goalie that you can pepper with shots and eventually break the dam? Or is BASE PACK just an on-fire goalie that you need to find another way around?

BASE PACK is just fire incarnate. This is nothing you can do when a goalie is playing at the level that PACK is. To say he is in the zone would be an understatement. Game in, game out, he is playing some of the best hockey on his young career and it is going to take some kind of wizardry to get the upper hand.
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d. As always I ask... who you got? Usually when I analyze teams for this segment I see a contrast in results or deployment or something I can latch on to, but these look like remarkably similar teams at this point in the playoffs. So who wins? Why?

The Philadelphia Forge win because they will have the entire collective fury of the Philadelphia faithful to deal with if they blow the Cinderella run that they have going for them. The fans are yearning for the Challenge Cup and sacrifices will be made if that glorious trophy does not find its way to Philadelphia this season.
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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

A much-hyped season
Play like garbage the whole time
Good thing Forge are good

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 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.

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18. 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! Were the playoffs as you expected this year, or were there some surprises? Is it exciting to have two completely new teams meet in the finals? What did you like or not like about this season?

Well, seeing that the Philadelphia Forge won the whole dang thing this season I would say that their were quite a few unexpected surprises that I am more than happy about. The Forge went from never advancing past the first round to winning it all. It is beyond exciting to have two new teams in the finals after literal years of the SHL working on parity. We are finally (hopefully) seeing the fruits of the hard labor of everyone in HO to make this league more enjoyable for everyone. Seeing surprise winners emerge is something that should energize every person in the league and I am not just saying that because the Forge won. The thing I like most about this season is the emergence of new teams as serious threats. Philly, New England, Montreal, and Winnipeg all are proof of positive change coming.
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22. Written, 2 TPE, Hope and Hapiness (100 words min.)

I've asked this before, but since it may be my final time writing CW, I wanted to ask it again. It was one of my favourite questions to read responses to. Tell me something that happened recently that you enjoyed, something that brings you happiness, or something you have hope for in the future. It could be a huge thing like buying a house or a small thing like having fun with your lockerroom this season. I just want to give you a chance to write down something positive.

I just recently started taking up archery and it has been dope as hell. My kid has been shooting Olympic style for close to a year now and I finally could not stand sitting on the sidelines any more as of a couple weeks ago. Rather than shoot Olympic style, I am learning traditional Korean style archery. Out of a couple arrows loosed, I have had maybe five decent shots but it is a fun way to kill an hour or two on the weekend and I get to spend some quality time with the kid sharing in something he enjoys. It has been the highlight of the year so far.
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