Quote:1. Milestones, up to 3 TPE.

Milestones are folded in with All-Star Week.

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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.

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Quote: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) You could make an argument for either. Damien Hirano has developed into a useful player and could have played a solid role on the team. However I would make my argument for Jussi Mutou. He has the potential to be a star player, so it may have benefitted the East to get him into the setup early and get some experience. Although that also kind of defeats the purpose of the allstar game.
b) I can't comment on defensive metrics much, but some other defenseman who had strong seasons (arguably some of them even better than the two top 10 D) are Willow Soderberg-Snooks, Wide Peepo Happy 3 Koivu, Cheeks Klapanen (did very well on a not great Calgary team) and the pair of Jay O'Neil and Christian Kinsinger both had great seasons. It's hard to argue against the reputations of O'Slapahan and Topalo though.
c) When things are close I tend to argue the side with experience, so for that reason I would lean towards the JRuke trio of Martin, Fiske, Bergmark. However Hargreeves may be the best player of the whole group at the moment and Beauregard and Wagner-Svensson are two very good up and coming young players, maybe that youthful fire propels them to the win.
d) My player absolutely should not have made the allstar game and I can't really make any meaningful argument for him to have. He's in the dog days of his career at this point playing a bottom line role. The only reason to bring him in would be as some kind of swan song tribute to his career, but he doesn't have the reputation for something like that to occur.

Quote:11. Written, 3 TPE, Almost a member (150 words min)
Which of the current players, who were still active during the season 76 has achieved enough that they should make it to the Hall of Fame? Are they already unquestionable first ballot Hall of Famer? Are they still close enough to their prime to make their case better or are they already so far in their career that realistically they are just working on their total career numbers at this point?

I think there's a number of people still playing right now that are slam dunk first ballot HOF players. Evil AllBran, Ivan Lacksamus, Lias Ekholm-Gunarsson, Konstantin Selich have all put up huge point totals with lots of time left in their careers, and they've all spent numerous seasons as MVP caliber players, so I think they probably all get in on a first ballot (and there may be others I'm forgetting too, but these 4 stick out to me). There are also other players that I think are clearly HOF caliber players but may or may not be slam dunk first ballots, depending on class strength. Players like Steve Harrington, Mikko Rashford, Ryu Jones, Max Manning should all get in at some point, and again I'm sure many more too. It's harder to comment on the defenseman or goalies without putting in a lot more effort than I'm willing to do for this PT so I can't comment on them unfortunately.