S78 Championship Week

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CementHands
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09-29-2024, 06:24 PM (This post was last modified: 09-29-2024, 08:35 PM by CementHands. Edited 3 times in total.)

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8. Written, 50 to 200+ words. The Path

Los Angeles comes to finals after two seven game seriesses while Tampa Bay has only lost one game after the first round and they have 3 less games during the playoffs. Do you think Tampa Bay gets meaningful advantage from seemingly easier path to the finals as they come in more rested? Or is there no stopping the train of the Los Angeles after they fought their way through teams that finished second and third during regular season? How do you think the path to the finals will impact the series and does it change who you favor?

Well I think LA is the better of these two teams and I simply thing Tampa got hot and isn’t that great of a team. And yea, they knocked us out round 1. And it sucks that yet again we gave them their toughest competition, such is life and we will deal with it. LA has taken on top teams each round and handled them. I think it’ll be more of the same beat down in the finals.
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9. Written, 50 to 200+ words. It Has Been A While

Tampa Bay has potential to end the longest standing cup drought in the league, even longer than what San Francisco ended by winning their first cup in S76, and even if they fall short here they should be in position to be competing for cup for seasons to come. But even as we have seen some droughts end there are still multiple teams that have had to wait for more than 25 seasons by now. Toronto hasn’t won since S35, Minnesota since S39, Baltimore since S47, Calgary since S50 and Manhattan since S52, which of these teams do you think is in best position to end their drought and why?

I believe Toronto is uniquely set up out of this group to be the first of them to bust their streak. I think they did the best job with their hard rebuild acquiring top quality assets and I do think they are in a great spot moving forward. The scariest team in the near term and team I see having a lot of season success is manhattan. They were able to spread their rebuild very well so they have an excellent diversity of talent which should go a long way to making them a very solid dominant team among the likes of the top contenders season in and season out. I don’t think they are going to have a high enough peak though. Minnesota in classic Minnesota fashion flubbed their rebuild. They have been so bad ever since I’ve been involved with the league and it isn’t just performance because they used to be ok just not great. He entire franchise has flubbed everything from their rebrand to continued rebrand. Strange graphical issues, but then behind the management door seeming to make odd trades. Their new management gave up a ton of future for some current talent, but that talent isn’t anywhere near enough to make a serious push in the playoffs and before you know they will be rebuilding again.

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