Quote:1. Milestones, up to 3 TPE.

Milestones are folded in with All-Star Week.

Link your Milestone claim as task 1 for up to 3 TPE towards your 8 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.

Blanchet Milestones

Quote:2. Written, up to 4 TPE - Shiny Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 topics related to the All Star Game to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

b) Both are excellent defensemen, but I think that Samuelsson’s game lends itself better to a fast paced, offensive, ‘all-star game’ style than de Pengu’s game does. While de Pengu is also a real strong offensive player, her real strength is the physical, bruising, defensive style while Samuelsson plays a run and gun offensive style that should be fun to watch at the ASG.

c) There’s a reason all these goalies are in the all-star game, they all are superb tendies and had great seasons. Although they aren’t my western teammates, I have to go with Fantobens and Wall here, mostly due to the absolute monster known as Brick Wall. He’s been superb the last few seasons and is frustrating to play against.

Quote:3. Written, 3 TPE, And Now, For the Main Event (150 words min.)
Tell me about your teammate who made the all star game! Who are they, what makes their game special, and why are they going to utterly dominate this event? (If more than one of your teammates made the game, pick one of those players other than yourself. If you are the only player on your team selected for the all star game so far, then and only then may you pump your own tires.)

The Aurora were lucky to have essentially a whole starting line-up involved in the allstar game (minus our beloved goalies Montagne and Chamberlain, sad). Up front we had Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson, Mikko Rashford and Noel Blanchet make the team. On defense we also had Jay O'Neil and Christian Kinsinger make it in. For Noel he was very surprised but excited to make it, and he really owes that to those other four players for carry his sorry old ass all season long. All four of them are probably genuine top 10 players in the league. Kinsinger and O'Neil are both serious Stevens trophy contenders, and Rashford and LEG the top two point scorers in the entire league. It's pretty easy to have the kind of season Noel did when you get to line up with these folks over the course of a season. They all had a great time together at the all star game, and it was great to hang out with some other players around the league too.