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Tesla · 03-30-2024, 02:05 PM

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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. Before last players are picked Edmonton is the only team that has 4 players selected for the game. Among those only defensive pairing from a single team Isaac Forty-One and Emil Egli. They both were traded to new teams this offseason. Would you let them play one more time with each other or would you highlight them with their new teammates Dirty Boots and Brandan Laroux who also made it to the game?

b. Inferno and Panthers got to send two forwards each, Shōyō Hinata and Binko Koivu from Atlanta and Adam Prpich and Derek Martin from Los Angeles. Would you let them show of their chemistry and potentially dominate the game by letting them play on the same line or is All-Star game prime opportunity for them to show their creativity and skill even when playing with other top players?

c. Should the starting goaltender be the one who arguably had better season? Or as the stakes aren't as high as usually would you think it is better to offer the experience for the goalie who has had less appearances? Or maybe honor the one who has had more? Who should start and why?

d. Aleksandr Iskandrov and Wide Peepo Happy 3 Koivu get to play on their home arena as Hamilton is hosting the event this season. Does it matter more for the fans or the players that they get to play in front of home crowd?

e. 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, tell us why they were picked.)

A. Based on my limited understanding of how the sim works I would have them play with their former teammates rather than their new teammates in the hopes of optimization by virtue of them having preexisting chemistry. Whether that would actually help significantly or not is beyond me, but in case it would it is also beneficial in that I am not helping them preemptively develop chemistry with their new team thus preventing future me from being harmed by this decision. Least that is how I choose to look at it!

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B. This feels like a bit of a repeat of the previous question given the overall thoughts, but I am glad to see that I remembered chemistry being a thing. Now having recently caught up on Blue Lock I am going to go a different direction here in that I do think getting them some experience with a different set of forwards will be beneficial as long as the coach remembers to preach to them about embracing their ego and some other strange stuff about how clashing egos will cause chemical reactions which will lead to artistically satisfying goals.

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C. My stance varies dramatically based on circumstances, but ultimately I would say barring it being a last hurrah for a legend that the overall better player during the season should win the starting job. You deserve to go out there and show your skills after earning a spot from working hard during the rest of the season. However that does go out the window if for example a player with a decade of experience already announced this is their final season in which case if they make it they deserve to have the spotlight more as long as they are the longer tenured of the two because this is it for them.

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D. I would say it matters more for the fans all day. The players are used to playing on the road good and bad, but the fans do not usually get the experience of watching their stars play under these circumstances. This is a rare opportunity for the fans whereas it is a special Tuesday, but still ultimately just a Tuesday for the players. Or to put it another way I would expect the players to play and enjoy the experience regardless because it is an honor; whereas for the fans it means they don't have to pay as much in airfare and that means a lot to their more limited budget.

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4. Written, 2 TPE, Participation Trophy (100 words min.)

Currently every team gets to send at least one player to the All-Star game. Are this seasons selections good in terms of team variety? Would you prefer more even selection from all of the teams or more focus to be put on individual performances despite the teams they represent? Do you think it is important for each team to get representation?

I would say that it is good in the sense that every team sent someone, but if our goal is more team variety then the fact that two teams sent a total of nine players is pretty not great. Given that there is a joke in the post though about having to send someone I am not sure whether that is ultimately what should be the goal? If a team is tanked wins next to no games and has no real star performing player I don't think they should have an All-Star just for the sake of having an All-Star personally, but at the same time just because one team is overloaded with talent does not mean that I want to see the two top teams send all of their people to the All-Star game if that makes sense. One thing I would admittedly also want to take into consideration is surrounding talent is beneficial and so someone being the third best player on X team might not have had as impressive a season relative to the best player on the worst team given that best player on said worst team had to do more for their team. Ultimately I come from the gridiron football fandom where the Pro Bowl does not require a player from every team, but star players on trash teams do get some recognition like Joe Thomas who went to ten straight Pro Bowls as a member of the Browns despite the team having a better record than 5-11 just twice in his career. End of the day if every player on a team is inactive or borderline inactive they should not have a guaranteed spot, but otherwise there is probably someone on the team deserving of the nod I would hope. Thank you.

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8. Written, 3 TPE, 75 seasons worth of stars (150 words min.)

It is 75th season and we had excellent media series produced by Luke that showcased the best players the league has ever had. Your task is to make an All-Star line (3 forwards, 2 defensemen and 1 goalie) out of those 75 players. To make it bit harder, you can only pick one player from each of the following ranges: 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-55 and 56-75. Who you pick and why?

I would like to open this point task by saying that I love the idea behind what Luke did and I love that kind of media as media grader in another league. They are always beautiful love letters to the league in my experience, and it is a fun time reading about past stars. Now having said that I don't read media in this league at all because I do not know hockey at all and despite attempts to become more interested in hockey it has historically been a non-starter for me. That said I am doing this task solely for the TPE because I don't have enough milestones for that to matter this season, and all of the rest require knowledge beyond my easy access. Honestly even this one kind of hamstrings me because the rankings don't include what position the player played anywhere easily accessible relative to where they ended up ranking which just makes the limited selections from ranges to make it harder feel completely unnecessary as far as increasing difficulty goes. Now onto my picks!

Goalie will be second ranked Jason Visser, left defense will be eleventh ranked Kristian Eriksson, right defense will be twenty-third ranked Tony Pepperoni, center will be thirty-first ranked David Winter, left wing will be forty-first ranked Tor Tuck, and last but not least will be fifty-ninth ranked Martijn Westbroek. Are any of them playing out of position? I don't know, but the rules don't say anything about a dog playing basketball so fingers crossed this got left out of the rulebook as well!

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4+2+3=9 reduced to 8 TPE please and thank you!

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