S69 Championship Week

S69 Championship Week Due: March 12th @ 11:59 PM (PST)

Festinator
SMJHL Awards Committee
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03-12-2023, 09:08 PM (This post was last modified: 03-12-2023, 09:17 PM by Festinator. Edited 1 time in total.)

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.

Wheeler

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?

While i think both roads to the playoffs impressive and to be commended, I believe that the road Winnipeg took in doing a full scale rebuild is the more impressive road as it means stripping down everything and building from the ground up, which is always risky. With an expansion, you can build a playoff calibre team right off the bat if you wanted, although it wouldn't be successful longterm most likely, so Philadelphia probably went about it the right way.

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?

I think if you are philadelphia you need to take away the options for Rashford to make him less effective. He's racking up those assists because he is able to find the open man with that elite vision so Philly needs to make sure they're not leaving anyone open for him to feed to for easy goals.

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?

If I were winnipeg, I would keep the shots coming, as he has faced a lot of rubber and this could break the goalie down, especially with the quality winnipeg has. They will be able to find the high danger opportunities and then they have players that can finish off those high danger opportunities, regardless of who the goalie is.

4. Written, 3 TPE, Playoffs Shmayoffs (150 words min.)

Write about a time you didn't make the playoffs, and what you did to take your mind off it! Did you expect to miss the playoffs when it happened? Was it a shock? How did you take it? If you've never been on a team that missed the playoffs, tell me about an early exit you made instead.

Luckily Joans has never been in a position where he has not made the playoffs with the team he's been on. In newfoundland when he was in jrs he was in the playoffs all 3 seasons, although got bounced pretty quickly in that 3rd season. With the Panthers, they've always been in the playoffs and even won the Challenge cup one year. Also a couple of 1 and done's there though. With Seattle all Joans has known is the finals. I think some of the early playoff exits with LAP would have hurt the most as those were the ones where we would have expected to go farther and ended up falling short, which was disappointing looking at the teams we had. Each of the first 4 seasons in LAP we exited the playoffs in the 1st round, which was always frustrating trying to figure out what we had to do to take the next step. But we kept at it and finally got through until we won that cup in s65.

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.

Went for a Three-peat

Got Knocked out in the third round

Just disappointing

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.
Milestones

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?

It was definitely another good season for Joans and Seattle, making back to the conference finals but just not being able to get back Winnipeg, getting beaten in 7 games. I think what really surprised me in the playoffs was Philadelphia getting to the finals and then winning it all. I did not have them getting past the 2nd round so definitely props to them for proving everyone (or at least me) wrong and going all the way to win it, and not only win it but they made quick work of a very very strong Winnipeg team. Hoping to get back into the finals next season though!