verification word: skipper


The San Francisco Pride's win felt a little inevitable from the beginning, but I think the turning point was definitely that Game Four overtime win. After all, coming into that game, San Francisco was down two games to one on two pretty terrible losses, but on the flip side, that one win was a pretty big one itself. In fact, this game four overtime win was the closest of any game in the series at just three goals scored across both teams, only half the goals per game of any other game in the series except for the first one (in which five goals were scored). Had that game gone Tampa Bay's way, we likely would have seen a different outcome, as they would have been two games up. And clearly that overtime loss affected them, as they allowed an Oskar Scholtz hat trick in Game Five and an Edzus Ozolins buzzer-beater in Game Six to seal the Pride's win. Perhaps Tampa Bay needs to work on their mental fortitude more than their on ice skills, seeing as the overall outcomes average out pretty evenly between the two teams, and a good amount of the scoring was back and forth. [200 words]

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

Celeste is preferential to rooting for teams that they have some kind of tie to. Therefore, they were in fact rooting for the San Francisco Pride, as they have several ties to members of that roster through Quebec City Citadelles alumni gatherings as well as a former teammate in Rowan O'Beirne. [51 words]

[3+4+1 = 8 TPE]