1. Written, 3 TPE
VIP Status babyyyyyyyy - your player has been invited to attend one of the first homestands of the CC finals as a VIP guest - all expenses paid, front row seats, any hotel you want - and it's all on the Commissioner's dime! Are you going to Games 1 and 2 in Tampa or Games 3 and 4 in Calgary? Why are you picking there? And what are you going to do in that city to run up Eggy's tab?
All on Eggy’s tab eh? Well I think I would definitely have to order the opposing city’s local dish and get it shipped. Arriving in Calgary I might as well order a nice Alberta steak for dinner seeing as I am in cattle country or if I am going to Tampa I will have to order a fine array of seafood (bringing my own Crab bib though). I will have to take a Limo everywhere right? No a Limo is too small, Party bus all the way. I should also get some new threads seeing as I am going to be in VIP, A nice suit with a high thread count should do the trick. Maybe a second in case I splash Champagne all over the new suit. Also on that same note I will be only drinking Champagne none of this sparkling wine crap. In the end I would probably spend all my time figuring out where to get this high caliber stuff that I end up missing the game anyway and have to pay it all back. Just my luck.

2. Written, 2 TPE
After a slow start to the regular season, the Dragons have surged of late and have rallied around the #CalgaWe notion of togetherness. On the other side, the Barracuda battled through a difficult East and are led by a very strong young core. Which team are you personally rooting for to take home the Challenge Cup and why?

I am rooting for Tampa here. Excited to see young players pushing up and making a difference for teams. Tampa’s young core should make for a good team not only now but also moving forward to possibly create the next SHL dynasty. It all depends on how much more everyone continues to put in. Calgary has had their time in the sun and it should be time for them to step back as some of their players start to hit more advanced regression. Also there is nothing I love better than a crazy story that starts this one guy in Florida…

5. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
Due to some controversial calls during the playoffs, the league is looking at updating the current rules(icing, offside, etc) What new rule or change to a room would you implement to better the game?
Several new rules are being changed with this coming season and several older rules are being modified to catch up with today’s game. Let’s take a quick look.
1. Offside – Offside will now be called if any part of the skates cross the blue line before the puck. While the intention is to clamp down on those who are cherry picking local analysts believe that we will likely see many face plants into the ice as player desperately try and get both their feet back over the blue line.
2. Icing – In a rather strange change Icing will now be enforced if the perpetrator of the icing skates backwards to attempt to retrieve the puck.
3. Distracting – This rule has been implemented because it was determined that too many players were going out of their way to troll their opponents. 4 minutes in the box for this infraction.
4. Tea Bagging – Shocked that such a rule needed to be implemented SHL is sad to report the occurrences of tea bagging after Teeing up a huge hit is drastically on the rise. It has therefore been ruled as an immediate ejection from the game when a player “tea bags” his opponent.

3. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
Are there any changes to the playoff format you'd like to see implemented? More wild cards? Move to a single-elimination to bring about even more chaos? 999-game series to minimize chaos? Be creative!
For the Playoffs I would like to see injuries turned back on. Sure it would suck to have your player go down but it might also give rise to the Endurance stat once more. It might give a new player build to work towards, the playoff player. High in endurance so he can with stand the rigors of the post season grind. I think we should definitely give out more Wild card chances. Everyone loves a good underdog story so why not open up more opportunities to it? SimonT is already a coin flip anyway so we might as well have a bit of fun with it. Finally I would like to see 4 teams playing on the same ice surface at the same time. Rinks lined up in a cross pattern and only 1 puck. Teams only score when they put a puck in their assigned oppositions net. Everything else is a free for all.



14. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.
Hooray congrats to Calgary! I literally didn’t even realize the playoffs had finished because I tuned out after my team never made the playoffs. So let’s throw this one over to the stats for Game 7! My vote for MVP is going to go to Barry Batsbak. Dude scored his only 2 goals of the playoffs in game 7 elevating his team over Tampa. He also posted a solid faceoff win percent of 63% and was one of the best shooters on the ice that night. Also considering the only initials that would take priority over Barry Batsbak (BB) would be those of Anthony Archers (AA), however he was on Tampa so when you can’t got with plan AA go with plan BB.


15. Casual Member Special, 3 TPE max - SENT

Total Claim 16 TPE