S70 Championship Week

S70 Championship Week

raymond3000
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S11, S35 Challenge Cup Champion

#168

05-11-2023, 01:03 AM (This post was last modified: 05-11-2023, 01:30 AM by raymond3000. Edited 4 times in total.)

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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. Winnipeg made the finals last year and came up just short against the Forge. Last year, their offense ran through Mikko Rashford - this year, their top line has been much more of a balanced attack, with Gonzo Gobbledygook and Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson stepping up hard. Does this make Winnipeg a stronger team, or would it be better to spread this firepower out and run multiple scoring lines?

b. New England finds themselves in a similar situation to Winnipeg's last year: star winger Petr Svoboda has an absurd 30 points in 23 playoff games at the time this is posted. 18 of those are goals, 12 are assists: how do you shut this guy down?

c. Olof Karsikko has made 823 saves in these playoffs, nearly twice the number of saves made by Winnipeg's Rebecca Montagne. What can New England do to help their tendie out? Or should they settle on a strategy of allowing their goalie to face a high volume of low-danger shots to get in the zone and stay hot? Alternatively, how can they rattle Montagne?

d. If it ain't broke don't fix it: Who you got? Who wins? Why?

a. Winnipeg has a better offense this year which is primarily due to the emergence of Ekholm-Gunnarsson to give them a co-star to help lead the offense along with Mikko Rashford. Putting these two on the same line is a nightmare for opposing teams. And Winnipeg has the depth to do this, their second and third lines are full of great players who would be first liners on most other SHL teams.
d. With the power of hindsight, I would say the New England Wolfpack would win the finals. While the Aurora certainly have the better roster, it seems they always have difficulty putting everything together and playing up to their immense potential. Meanwhile the Wolfpack have overperformed their TPE for a few seasons now, and have managed to find a way to win several tough series on their way to the finals.

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3. Written, 3 TPE, History Repeating (150 words min.)

Tell me about something good that happened in your SHL career which you hope will happen again! What is it, what will it look like? Did it happen to your current player or one of your former players? What can you do to stack the odds in your favor?

Andreas Kvalheim has had a long SHL career and has been fortunate enough to experience plenty of success during his twenty plus seasons with the Texas Renegades. He's won multiple Challenge Cups, scored over a thousand career points, and won a record four Jeff Dar trophies as well. While it certainly would be nice to rack up more hardware in the limited time left in his career, any individual awards are far out of the question and unfortunately his Renegades aren't quite ready to contend for Challenge Cups. A more realistic goal for Andreas is to rack up more hits next season as he continues his climb up the leaderboards. He sits about 250 hits back of first place currently, and could realistically reach that milestone in a couple of seasons if he decides to throw the body around more. At his current pace, it would take about three seasons to hit this target.

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6. Written, 2 TPE, Hopeful Haiku  (5 words min.)

Write a haiku telling me what you hope to accomplish in Season 71! 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. None of your lines may rhyme with each other.

Just keep on chugging
Win a game in the playoffs
Chase some more records

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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.

+3 TPE

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18. Graphic, 3 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!

Congratulations, graphic loving procrastinator! Much like the written word loving procrastinator, you too have a special task just for you! Create a post-series splash screen detailing the outcome of the series, or highlighting the player that you think should be playoff MVP. Include at least 3 stats!