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.

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Quote:10. Written, 3 TPE, IIHF Analysis (150 words min.)
How do you think the IIHF federation you play for will do this season? Will you be better than last seasons? Why or why not?

I think Canada has as good a shot as anyone else of winning the gold. The roster is full of high TPE players, and the coaching is competent. It’s just a matter of putting together a tactic that will reap rewards.
That’s very tough now with the prohibition on test simming. You kinda just have to wing it and hope for the best. That’s an especially tall ask in a tournament, when the opportunities to tinker are so few and far between.
There has been some roster turnover this season, with Billy Herrington, Bastien Primeau, and Bean Beanman coming in to replace Kezia MacKenzie, Gudmundur Kristjansson, and Tommy Westbrook. Those last three were getting long in the tooth so it’s good to get fresh blood in the mix.
Last season’s tournament saw Canada not even qualify for the elimination round, so there is certainly room for improvement in S73. Though, to be fair to last year’s team, 5th in the division Canada was at 19 points while teams 1-4 in the conference finished with 22, 21, 21, 20 respectively.
Since it was such a slim margin, there are any number of ways Canada can inch itself across the line and qualify for the medal round. Scoring more goals would be a safe bet, as would tightening up the defense and hopefully being in an easier conference this time around.

Quote:12. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)
Looks like [TEAM] won Season 73! Who won and why? What could the other team have done differently to change the result? What was your favorite part of the series?

The Edmonton Blizzard won the S73 Challenge Cup. Why? Because they had the more balanced offense.
I hate to use one game to make a case for this one way or another, but there's something to be learned in the final game of the playoffs: Game 7 between the two teams, an affair that ended 4-3 in favor of the Blizzard. In that game, Philadelphia had one player that provided all three of their goals: Ricky Koivu. Edmonton, on the other hand, had goals from four different players: Kobliska, Wong, Winter, St. Martin.
If you have your offense being filtered through one player, then your team lives and dies by that player. In game 7, it was Ricky Koivu. It could have just as easily been Red Kirkby, who led all players in post-season points.
But if your offense comes from everywhere, as it tended to do from Edmonton, then it’s much harder for your opponent to shut you down when it counts.
It might seem cheap to take such a lesson from just one game but consider that one goal was all that separated these two teams in the finals. This reason seems just as good as any other.