S73 All Star Week

S73 All Star Week

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11-23-2023, 07:45 PM

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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 ASW submission. This is done because the person who grades ASW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3441613

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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.

a. The presumable top forward line of both conference teams this season is two teammates plus one from a division rival. For the East, Lacksamus and Svoboda of New England will have their line completed by either Shoyo Hinata of Atlanta or Ricky Koivu of Philadelphia. In the West, Edmonton's Winter and Surkhi-Ze'ev teaming up with an old nemesis in Ekholm-Gunnarsson gives me the shivers as a goalie. Which of these top lines do you think will score more this ASG?

As someone on the coaching staff of a team in the Western Conference, I was in the forefront of the headache that was facing the lethal combo of Evan Winter and Bejamin Surkhi-Zhe'ev repeatedly, and to a lesser extent, Lias Ekholm-Gunnarson. The combination of both the Edmonton players has been lethal all season long, and may it be away or at home, they gave us nightmares, as we knew they would find a way to blacken the scoresheet. So the idea of adding someone that has been at the top of the league's scorers for almost 10 seasons now is down right frightening, and the Eastern Conference goalies should probably require a hefty bonus pay just to have to deal with them.

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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?

I'm an agent of chaos, a gremlin that loves seeing a beautiful thing crash down to Earth and burst into flames. As such, I wish for all pairings to be separated (in all honesty, even for the previous question, I would rather both forward pairings to be on separate lines as well) and for players to learn to play with other people, who have different playstyles. After all, the goal of the All-Star Game is the clash of styles that comes from uniting all the league's best players, so why not reinvent oneself for a week's span?

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8. Written, 3 TPE, Lazy Reaction Content (150 words min.)

The Last Men In are now decided and the rosters are finalized. Who was a good pick? Who got snubbed?

I will let my homerism show, and once again argue that Kyle Murray, once more one of the league's prime goal scorer and one heck of a locker room guy, was snubbed - and the worst part about it is the fact that there were not only one, but TWO players from the stinky Los Angeles Panthers were voted in! The nomination of Reed Kobo is a bit tough to argue, once again as a homer (he is my teammate on Team Switzerland, after all), but I still believe that Murray is a better offensive player, and younger to boot. Speaking of younger, if pure goal scoring is not enough to please the voters, I would've thought that the blazing rookie of season of two-way wizard Oskar Scholz would have been enough to illuminate the eyes of the league, and earned him a spot in the All-Star Team - especially considering his contributions on both special teams' units so early in his career. But alas, the Panthers' fans took over the vote, and we have to suffer our Californian rivals having 4 representatives to the All-Star Game against our sad, lone Lion that is Viktor Hargreeves.

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S73 All Star Week - by Zerg - 11-16-2023, 11:28 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by Zerg - 11-16-2023, 11:29 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by Rangerjase - 11-16-2023, 11:32 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by spooked - 11-16-2023, 11:36 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by spidey - 11-16-2023, 11:36 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by ec06aaj - 11-16-2023, 11:55 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by UptownCord - 11-16-2023, 11:55 AM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by CapnCooper - 11-16-2023, 12:01 PM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by HabsFanFromOntario - 11-16-2023, 12:02 PM

RE: S73 All Star Week - by luke - 11-16-2023, 12:08 PM