S76 Championship Week

S76 Championship Week Due: Thursday, May 23th @ 11:59 PM PST

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05-20-2024, 08:56 AM

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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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+3TPE (hopefully)

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2. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

c. Willow Söderberg-Snooks has 7 goals, 18 points, 18 takeaways and no giveaways, is that enough to make them best defenceman in finals? Who would you pick instead?

d. Which of the teams had easier path to finals?

e. Which one would win a fight, a lion or an eagle? How would it go?

c. Soderberg Snooks entered the finals as the best defensive player for either squad, and the decision was clear. On their own team, the San Francisco Pride, WSS played as the first pair RD and lead all defensemen in ice time at 22:29 in the playoffs while leading in scoring. On the Platoon, the closest competition would be Philip Fry, who leads their entire team in ice time and in the end finished the playoffs with nearly 4x the blocks that WSS had at 86 but produced fewer takeaways. Overall, between the two it comes down to which type of defender you need, with WSS providing more offense and stick-based defense and Fry a more physical prototypical stay at home d-man. In todays fast paced game, I give Soderberg Snooks the Edge and that played out in delivering the ship to SFP. - 141 Words, +1 TPE

d. If you look at the strength of the competition in the playoffs, the teams SFP faced enroute to the finals accumulated more regular season points than those faced by BAP, at 228-216 total. However, BAP had to play more total games in the opening rounds, 18-16. Throughout the regular season, SFP was able to sleepwalk into the playoffs by facing a division with three minnows, with the other teams in their division scoring only 223 points all season in the standings, versus the 286 racked up by the other teams in Baltimore’s division. All these numbers are beefed up for SFP by including fellow powerhouse LAP with 102 pts, who the Pride needed the full 7 games to vanquish. Overall, I think their paths were similar, but I give SFP the edge in the ‘easier path’ debate due to playing fewer games and using very little energy over the full course of the season. - 154 words, +1 TPE

e. This is a tricky question but I’m going to have to go with the eagle. Assuming a fight on open terrain, you might be tempted into picking a lion, if you googled the same things I did and found out that they can survive up to two weeks without food, versus only 1 week in the tank for an eagle. Additionally, a lion can move faster while hunting, than an eagle can fly at steady altitude. However, I don’t think a lion can maintain both their speed and their food-free endurance, whereas birds of prey can soar above expending very little energy by riding the thermals and winds. So, I think the Eagle just rope-a-dopes until the lion falls or loses interest. Of course, this could all change based on the geography, weather, amount of prey for both animals available in the combat arena, etc. for instance if you were to tell me this was a cage match, id probably go lion – but without that caveat its eagle for me. - 170 words, +1 TPE

+3 TPE

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Haven't I seen this already (150 words min.)

SHL has a playoffs setup that has teams in the same division playing each other for the first two rounds.With only 5 teams in each division it often means that same teams play versus each other season after season. This can lead to good rivalries but also get pretty repetitive. Do you think this is a good structure or would you like to see it changed? Why? You can but don't have to ignore limits of FHM.

The SHL currently seeds the playoffs by division, much in the same way the NHL does but without the wildcard slot. While this does indeed lead to some stale matchups – teams playing repeat series from prior years against foes we saw them battle throughout the course of the regular season – it also creates rivalries when some of the same teams are dominating divisions every year. For this year’s finalists, BAP played the same two teams they faced in the first two round of S75, in these first two rounds, while SFP dispatched LAP in round two, the team that bounced them from round one the season before. Personally, I think its good for rivalries. Where it falls apart, is overall playoff seeding or lack of re-seeding after round one. the BAP-PHI and SFP-LAP matchups in the second round of the playoffs this season were the top two teams in each conference. While you must beat the best to be the best and in theory these matchups could have occurred anyway, it should be happening in the conference finals. Instead, our fans got to see Hamilton, who had a 68-point regular season, trounced in five games as BAP cruised to the finals. We see a lot of ebbs and flows and dynasties in the SHL, and I think if it were possible to better reward teams for good regular seasons by ignoring divisions each round and re-seeding that would be the best course. The rivalries will continue to exist regardless. -249 words

+3 TPE

TOTAL = 9/8 POSSIBLE TPE