S73 All Star Week

S73 All Star Week

adamantium
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#65

11-17-2023, 11:42 AM

8 TPE Total

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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.

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b. Both conferences also have two pairs each that played together all season. The East has the top pairings of the Wolfpack and Forge, while the West has those of Edmonton and Winnipeg. If you were coaching these games, would you keep those pairs together, or would you mix them up? (90 words)

Fuck, I say let 'em play. There's a reason those tandems worked as well as they did all season, right? You wouldn't cut off your right tire and leave the left to fend for itself just because all of a sudden the media wants to talk about how maybe your right tire is too dependent on your left tire and your left tire needs to lead a car by itself to prove that it's not just a hanger-on, right? I mean, it's an axle for a reason. Anyway. Vote Podzer.

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d. Why should YOUR player have made the all star game, and why should you be the last man in? (If your player did make the all star game, argue for one of your teammates instead!) [53 words]

Podcalzone is maybe the toughest son of a bitch we've got in Seattle, all things given, besides me of course. The physicality, the determination, the grit, the silky mitts, the goal scoring ability. There's no reason he shouldn't be playing the all-star game there alongside me and Sophie Boards or whoever. Vote Podzer.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Go Team! (154 words)

If Podzy gets the last man in nomination, and he absolutely fucking should, then I think it's an absolute no-brainer to run me, him, and Sophie Boards on the third line there. I mean, there's legitimately nothing more unreal than three basement dwellers with nothing to fight for but pride and a draft pick teaming up to run up some easterners and fill 'em in all the way through. Sure, sure, the Edmonton boy and LEG have "a lot of skill" between the three of them and MST and Donskoi "play the game the right way," but look at the fucking intangibles on the Fiordezone line: basement dwellers, Saiyan pride, and nearly a combined 300 hits between the three of them in the regular season. If that doesn't scream grit and glue for your ASG run, I don't fucking know what does, pal. Vote Podcalzone and watch some fucking chiclets fly this all-star weekend.

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Last Men In (189 words)

Okay, so hear me out. I know we only roster the two goalies for ASG weekend, but hear me out.

It's a fucking shame that the corrupt commissioner declined a league-wide petition to have Argonauts backup goaltending legend Thor Odinson attend the all-star festivities in his final season with the league. There might not have been a single better backup goaltender in the league than Odinson who, even on glass bones and paper skin towards the end of his career, still put up crazy numbers and shutouts against even some of the best teams in the league--he wasn't just getting a soft as baby shit schedule every year, right, this dude was getting shelled by some of the best, consistently, at least a few games per season, and WINNING more often than he lost. So for corrupt and, frankly, not particularly handsome commissioner WannabeFinn to not allow for a third dressed goaltender in the west purely because he "thinks that Seattle management is a little up its own ass" is just a fucking shame for the history of backups in the sport. There will never be another Thor Odinson.