S80 Championship Week

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01-30-2025, 04:57 AM (This post was last modified: 01-30-2025, 04:58 AM by Dextaria. Edited 1 time in total.)

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1.5 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

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Written, 50 to 200+ words each. Short Prompts

Sydney Shaw has an incredible 6 powerplay goals leading the league this playoffs by 3x any other player, as a defenseman no less! Is there something San Francisco is doing differently to make Shaw a power play sniper?

A total of 5 goals separates SFP and TBB’s goal differentials. The difference? SFP has 17 goals from Logan Webb with most of his teammates just feeding him puck while TBB has no player besides 1 to have less than 2 goals scored this playoffs. Which team’s strategy is more likely to pay off in these finals and why?

Both Tibuk Soonika and Justin Time are playing extremely well for their teams, boasting very similar numbers all around. Soonika does have the edge on goals save above average however. Will this give the advantage to Tampa Bay going into the finals, or will SFP find a way to outdo the goalie playing above expectations?

If the SHL finals were to be held in another country this season, where would the best place be and why?

Which team would your player root for in the finals and why?

Who you got? Who wins the Challenge Cup or Four Star Cup? Why?

2. With the best combined shooting accuracy and shooting range on the San Francisco Pride, and being on the team's first powerplay. It is clear that the coaches have the best defenseman shooting, but maybe since San Francisco just has overwhelming depth, the other teams are collapsing, limiting shots in close, freeing up the point. (54 words, +1 TPE)

3. Personally I like Tampa Bay's strategy of depth scoring because that provides 3 different lines for the other team to fight against, limiting line matching and counter tactics. With that, when a player is literally scoring 2 times the number of goals as the next best player while having someone like Oskar Scholz who is up there with the Tampa Bay top scorers, maybe it isn't just Logan Webb, but just overwhelming offense in comparison so I would give the nod to the San Francisco Pride. (86 words, +1 TPE)

4. Tibuk Soonika needs to play lights out if he wants to stop the likes of the San Francisco Pride offense with Logan Webb scoring at a point per game pace. Goaltending is clearly the advantage for the Tampa Bay Barracuda but with great goaltending requires goals for the team or else it doesn't matter how good the goalie is, the team will still lose. (64 words, +1 TPE)

5. The Pride and the Barracuda sound like a very tropical animal so let's move the SHL finals to the tropics in the country of Brazil! Sure there are no lions in the vicinity, but Brazil has great infrastructure to keep the ice cold as these two teams duke it out. Plus, fans can even take some safari walks or zoo outing to see real life barracuda, hopefully expanding the love of the game to warmer countries! (76 words, +1 TPE)

6. Ville Sato-Maki would be rooting for the San Francisco Pride because the Pride eliminated his team of the Winnipeg Aurora in the first round of the playoffs in a 4 game sweep. It was a great learning lesson for the young rookie, but as a consolation prize, it would be great to know that you were eliminated by the best team in the playoffs this season. (66 words, +1 TPE)

7. For the SHL, it is hard to bet against the San Francisco Pride who have made it to the finals many times in the last few seasons and once again were near the top of the standings albiet a step below the Atlanta Inferno. As for the SMJHL, I have the top team of the regular season, the Quebec City Citadelles, taking it all. (64 words, +1 TPE)

8/8 TPE