S70 Championship Week

Quote: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.

Falco

Quote: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. In a real life scenario, the coach is spreading it out, not one on each line but maybe moving one to the second line, at first. If it starts to not work out or they are down at the end of the game, they are all coming out on the same line.

b. Usually, a team will have a more defensive shut down type of line, a lot of times its the third line but it can be pretty much any line. The line usually has a solid two-forward that plays more on the defensive side and their goal is to be out there as much as possible when Petr Svoboda is on the ice shadowing them. Could also be a certain defensive pairing and not an offensive line or could be both! Also need your goalie to be your best defensive player.
c. You want to do whatever you can to help out your goalie. I do not think letting them face that many shots, even if they are low-danger, they are still shots and you are not going to score unless you are shooting the puck. Doesn't matter how the goal went in, it's still a goal! To rattle the opposing goalie is to do just this, keep shooting and trying to screen as much as possible. Make their life difficult on the ice!
d. I am going with the Winnipeg Aurora on this one. New England made a very bold statement during the season that they belong, but I am going with Winnipeg on this one. I went with them last season too, but they fell short to a very good Philadelphia Forge, who the Wolfpack had to get through to face Winnipeg in the finals. Beating the reigning champs may just gave them the extra edge they needed to win it all.

Quote: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?

Not so much it happening in Bnana NWaffles' SHL career but happening in his SMJHL career, that he wishes to have in his SHL career as well. This feat or good thing that happened to him was in third season with the Detroit Falcons, and it was not only winning the cup but also being the best player in the league and winning a lot of awards that he dreamed of! This has happened to my current player, and I wish it happened to my previous player, but they did win a cup with Detroit and one award (Most Improved Player). This past season, season 70, was a step in the right direction for NWaffles. Was able to get some points in tough league, on a team that is part of the bottom half and must play one of the top teams in the league many times. Just need to keep it going, improvement every season, put in the work, gel with teammates as the team as a whole is getting new players and better, and the pieces will eventually fall into place!

Quote: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.

Slapshot echoes loud,
Ice rink gleams beneath the lights,
Hockey dreams take flight.

Quote:7. Milestones, up to 31 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.

Bnana's S70 Milestones 1 TPE

Quote:17. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through my most gracious scheduling error, you’ve won a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Were the playoffs as you expected this year, or were there some surprises? Who were you hoping would take it - Winnipeg's redemption tour or the fresh-faced Wolfpack? What did you like or not like about this season?

I will be completely honest; it went about how I for saw that it would. Well on one side of the bracket, definitely not on the other. Pretty sure I had New England Wolfpack losing in the second round, not the first I knew they had that in them but yeah probably the second round. For Winnipeg I had them going to the finals again and winning it all, or as it was stated "Redemption Tour". They had their goalie stand on their head again for the team and had a great season and got more fire power from more than one forward, but again came up short. Maybe next season!