Option 2:

Cristoforo Roccamontepiano hasn't been playing for long by any stretch of the word, just completing his rookie season, but already he has a strange relationship with the Four-Star Cup. This started last season, when Cristoforo decided to sign with the Vancouver Whalers for his DFA late season/postseason. Expectations were low as Vancouver wasn't quite at the cup-contending level just yet, but still the team managed to achieve a first round upset before getting steamrolled by the Quebec City Citadelles on their way to winning the Cup. That offseason, Cristoforo would end up getting drafted by Quebec City headed into a rebuild. As they often do, QCC defied expectations and finished fairly high in the standings, and managed to make it to the second round of the playoffs. This time the roles would be reversed though as Vancouver became the powerhouse which deleted Quebec City on the way to winning a Cup of their own. The only constant through all this was Cristoforo Roccamontepiano being on the losing side of the Citadelles-Whalers second round matchup both times and the winning team going on to win the Cup, even though it was a different team each time. As the saying goes though, each loss is a lesson, so Cristoforo will be going into his next three juniors seasons hungry to make that push for his first ever championship.