S70 Championship Week

S70 Championship Week

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#235

05-12-2023, 11:11 PM

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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.

Verification Word: Grummy

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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. I would for sure that this more balance attack makes for a stronger Winnipeg Aurora. Having more and more deadly threats out there just makes it all the more harder to defend against this team and it isn't like Rashford is not still killing it out there. It is pretty much like having to guard against 3 of him this time around.
b. Well with the series over, I guess they did not find out how but he did only have 1 more goal since the posting of this championship week. I think really when someone is super hot like that you just kind of hope they have a bad game, step up big time with your defense/goalie, or just outscore them.
c. First off, props to Olof for absolutely killing it. More than anything though I think this is just a bi-product of the extremely long series of games that New England has played during the playoffs but I think the best thing is maybe get a bit more aggressive on the offensive end to hopefully keep the puck on the other side.
d. Shoot I might be able to see in the future but I think the New England Wolfpack got this. I actually had the Aurora winning this finals just because it feels like they are just due to finally get their cup with how stacked of a roster they have had these last couple of seasons

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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?

I have a feeling that this answer is probably extremely common amongst other users but I would have to say just winning another challenge cup. With my last player, Nicholas Owens, I was able to win two challenge cups during my long career with the Buffalo Stampede but that was back in S55 and S60. I know for others it has been much longer with some people not even having won a cup, but with the group of guys I won that last cup with either aging out with their players or even as users I think it would be so cool to just win one more cup while they were still around in the locker room or before they start to become more inactive in the locker room. Unfortunately, all these teams just seem to be getting better and better in the SHL so it will be a very hard task but I'll keep my fingers crossed. (158 words)

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Blood on the Ice (150 words min)

Continuing with the branding wars: this year's final features the return of the glowing bear god against a fresh opponent - a mighty wolfpack! This one seems slanted in the bear god's favor, but don't count the wolves out so easily! Tell me who wins and why! The arena and the rules of the fight can be whatever you desire. Get creative!

Like you mention in the prompt, I think that the bear would have a heavy advantage if we were talking in terms of a one on one fight. It would be interesting to see how many wolves it would take, not many I imagine, to take down a bear but just to keep it to a one on one I would say this fight should be a cook off. Bears are mostly associated with honey but also with salmon fishing so I would expect the bear to probably make some honey glazed salmon dish for the competition. As for the wolves, it is a bit harder to say, Wolves do a lot of hunting a large variety of species but I think I will go with deer for them just because that is the animal I think of when thinking of that environment. So, out of the two potential dishes here I would probably still say the Bear wins. Salmon is just too good.

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

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