2. 4 skaters from Los Angeles made it, should coaches try to keep them together or would you want to see things mixed up more?

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I would mix them up and see just how much chemistry plays in to how well a team plays. Would these players still play like they’re part of a well oiled machine, or would there be missed passes, dropped opportunities, etc? I feel like if the player is good enough, you can probably put them anywhere on any team and they will succeed. The team as a whole may not become all that successful in the long run, but the player themself would probably still find a lot of success on the scoresheet. Kind of like older Edmonton missing the playoffs with two players each having 100+ points on the season. Or, maybe chemistry really is super important and these players who are superstars with their lines they have chemistry with end up not being good at all. Maybe they are nothing without their team mates, kind of like Justin Abdelkader robbing the Red Wings with his huge contract because Pavel Datsyuk was feeding him puck after puck and he racked up a decent amount of points on the last season of his current contract. As soon as Datsyuk moved from his line, Abdelkader was a shell of his former self and really not good at all at hockey.


13. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Just Hear Me Out
Most people would be exited to win an award. Make a case for your player to win an award. If you cannot make reasonable argument, even very biased one, for any award your player should receive, you are free to suggest adding a new award that your player would be competing for.

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I think that the only way Ongo Gablogian is ever going to win an individual award is if one is made up and it’s so specific that he is the only one who could possibly win it. He is a rookie, therefore he is eligible for rookie of the year. However, he is not good enough for rookie of the year, not even close. He is a defenseman, so he could win defenseman of the year, but again, he is not good at hockey. Same with Most valuable player, playoffs mvp, etc. he is just not really good at the sport of hockey. And he was ripped from juniors where he was lighting it up and winning awards and stuff. So, in order to ensure Ongo Gablogian wins an award, the award that I am proposing is the “Rookie defenseman who was drafted by the Buffalo Stampede from the Carolina Krakrn Award.” This will ensure that Ongo will probably win it, though there are not any guarantees and he may not even win that award somehow. To ensure that Ongo will be fully guaranteed to win an award, I would also create the “Ongo Gablogian Award” which would be “awarded annually to any player named Ongo Gablogian.”