Prompt 1 - Fan appreciation day!

The Scarecrows are a little too extra for something as simple, practical, and affordable as a rally towel, or a foam finger - the bobble heads might well take off, there's a fair few people who support individual players - Ozzy and myself, Popol and Alexa, and of course, the venerated dman, Jack Booth. But, having seen the cool plastic-injection work done on popcorn buckets recently, I think the team might well decide to make commemorative buckets - maybe have the Scarecrows logo embossed on them, and make them extra big, so that our fans can keep them filled right the way through to the OT finishes that our team so often gets!

(110 words, +2 TPE)

Prompt 3 - Secret Plans

The scarecrows are a frugal and simple lot - we don't want to be doing anything too convoluted, since it may involve many points of failure, and we want consistency. So naturally, we plan on building a space station and hosting all of our games in zero-gravity; something for which our team will have trained, and our opponents will be woefully under-equipped to handle. This is not banned anywhere in the rulebook, believe me, I checked. This will massively increase our team's effectiveness, though it may come with the risk of some of our opponents floating off into the vacuum of space. The head office of the scarecrows has decided that this is a risk we are willing to accept.

(119 words, +2 TPE)

Prompt 10 - In the Zone

I now have the chance to talk about my draft brother - the venerable rookie, Ozzy Bradford. Not to say that he underperformed during the regular season, but when playoffs hit, he suddenly became the sim's favourite person. Knocking out goal after goal, assist after assist, Ozzy was tearing through the Nevada Battleborn with a vengeance - we had only 5 games in the playoffs, and he racked up 6 points in that series - while sharing the ice with one of the most formidable defence men in the entire league, Cade de Vries. His shot percentage in the regular season was around 6% - double my own - but when the playoffs hit, he suddenly crashed through the door with an ELEVEN PERCENT GOAL CHANCE - that's absolutely unheard of from a dman, especially in such a cutthroat series.

If I'm going to talk about Ozzy, I also desperately need to discuss Jack Booth - being an absolute wall of a man with 219 shot blocks in the regular season, everyone expected him to keep going - and he certainly did not disappoint, locking down 31 shots in just a few games, but what wasn't expected from our defensive defender was just how aggressive he would get to be on power plays, specifically, nailing three assists with only 2:45 average time on ice during a power play. That's a very significant increase over his regular season, with 7 power play assists over the entire time. Getting assists like that isn't even his job - he's a shot-block machine and a bone-crunching hitter, but once the playoffs started, he was suddenly nailing assists and winning face-offs, without any sort of drop in his defensive qualities.

And lastly, though I know I spoke about him already in my Deep Dive, "Battle of the Goalies," I'd also like to bring up one of the greatest treasures on our team, Evil Kyle Murray. Especially with two rookie dmen joining his team, Kyle really had his work cut out for him, and the final stats allocated to him really don't do him justice - MET had some of the strongest forward lines in SMJHL history, and Murray really took it all on the chin. But. We will never forget how he stood on his head, blocking an absolute storm of shots from Nevada and MET, too, before it all went down. If you've ever played Halo Reach, it really did have that same feeling, watching this absolute unit of a player slowly be worn down by attrition - dare I say it, he may well be too good for the team that has him. And his performance in the playoffs exemplified that to a T. In that first upset series, he really did just pick up the whole team onto his back, and said "nope. We're winning this, just watch."

(466 words, +9 TPE)

Prompt 18) Milestones

Here is the link to my post!
https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3545248

I was number 37, if it helps!

(3 milestones, +3 TPE)

And that'll just about do it! Thank you all for reading, I'll see you all in the next season! Good luck!!

[total 800 words, total +16 TPE]