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*puolivalmiste* · 04-08-2024, 03:01 AM

Please pick ONE prompt to write about. Do not mix and match prompts. Identify the prompt you are using in your submission - Copying and pasting the prompt will deduct from your word count so if you do this make sure YOUR submission is 150+ words excluding the prompt.

Written Option 1: Your team is taking part of this seasons SHL Global Series and they start their season with 2 games in Japan because HO has heard there is untapped market potential there. As your team arrives at the arena your player discovers that they have become quite popular among local fans after their Chirper actions. On their offday between the games they get invited to some Japanese game show. What kind of game show it is and how does your player perform? Will this make them big in Japan?

Written Option 2: Your team is taking part of this seasons SHL Global Series and they start their season with 2 games in Japan because HO has heard there is untapped market potential there. How does your player feel about the trip? Is it pointless travel to play in front of neutral crowd and missing on actual home opener? Or are they just exited to see the world and thrilled about the opportunity to win over the local fans? Does all this make the game feel more like showmatch than actual regular season game?

Graphic Option: Create an image showing your player and 2 of their team mates on their time off during the trip to Japan.

You will receive 3 TPE for fulfilling all requirements.

All responses are due on Sunday, April 14th at 11:59 PST. NOTE: IF YOU SUBMIT/EDIT AFTER THE DEADLINE YOU WILL RECEIVE REDUCED/NO TPE.

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This task is for SHL players and send downs only. If your player is S77 that's not you.

PT credit: puolivalmiste

oilmandan · 04-08-2024, 05:07 AM

ISFL oilmandan

Salming · 04-08-2024, 06:40 AM

Task 2

William Salming is a Finnish player so for him traveling to play abroad is not a big deal. Things might be different for the locals which I mean US and Canadian citizens. Seattle is a two-time Challenge Cup winner so Salming understands very well that it is a very interesting franchise for marketing the game to new customers and wider audiences. That's why Salming supports the decicision to play in Japan two games. He has never visited Japan or even Asia and would love to play there. He was supposed to travel to Tokyo to watch Olympics but in the end he folded that plan. So, it would give a Salming a chance to visit also Tokyo at the same trip when they would play two SHL regular season matches in the Sapporo and Nagano. Those are some legendary winter sports venues and historical too so Salming would love to visit there too at the same trip! Let's go global SHL. Expansion team from the overseas would be cool too.

***retuperkele*** · 04-08-2024, 06:54 AM

Opt 2

N'Zola has never ever been to Japan so he is excited beyond his limits, almost giggling like a little girl. From its cultural perspective the trip is just a big bonus for him as a person, but as a player the untapped market of many japanese hockey fans who do not get to see greatest hockey being played that often it is also good for marketing and getting the Los Angeles Panthers brand known worldwide. It's not really pointless to visit there to have a friendly match or even an official match, which ever it would be. Hopefully against the San Francisco Pride for the bragging rights of the superior pacific division cat logo team. Pointless trip? Not at all, thats literally just good for the team, for the players and for the league - quite the opposite I would say. Frankly speaking if Georg would not be thrilled to get to go to Japan for the first time in his life he would still go, cause thats his job

soevil · 04-08-2024, 07:19 AM

option 1: Austin Morley is very excited to travel to Japan for some SHL action! It has been a long time since he has been to the Land of the Rising Son - almost as if it were a lifetime ago. When he arrives, he is shocked to realize that he is somewhat of a huge deal to the locals, but as Austin always does, he embraces this opportunity. When he found out he had been invited to be on a revival of one of his favorite childhood television shows - Takeshi's Castle he could barely contain his excitement. Morley, of course, would be included in the Americanized comedy version called MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge). He knows this will likely lead to some amount of humiliation for him, maybe especially back in the States, but it is all in good fun. Morley ended up getting some good screen time on the show and even ended up as the Most Painful Elimination of the Day! Austin's popularity among the Japanese skyrocketed and he hopes to build upon that in the coming season. (180 words)

***cake307*** · 04-08-2024, 07:37 AM

Option 2:

Alexa Johansen is right back in Japan. It's impossible to pretend she's pleased to be here again. Holding the draft here was insane enough, in her opinion, but now the league had decided for a preseason tourney of some kind right back here. It was hard to get excited about playing in Japan so soon after being there for what she honestly considered to be a much bigger event, after all. That wasn't the only reason it was difficult to get excited, though. She had just spent most of her break playing in Norway, after all, part of the USA Blue team at the World Juniors, which meant this didn't feel like such a special event to her. The fans had a tendency to be too quiet, too, and it definitely made her squirm a little bit on the inside, feeling like a bug under glass, observed by curious masses who didn't really understand, some of whom probably only showed up to be able to say they had been there. At least it counted as part of training camp, though?

Fluw · 04-08-2024, 08:33 AM

Simmer PT pass

***Frenchie*** · 04-08-2024, 08:41 AM

Code:
Your team is taking part of this seasons SHL Global Series and they start their season with 2 games in Japan because HO has heard there is untapped market potential there. How does your player feel about the trip? Is it pointless travel to play in front of neutral crowd and missing on actual home opener? Or are they just exited to see the world and thrilled about the opportunity to win over the local fans? Does all this make the game feel more like showmatch than actual regular season game?

Derek Martin has always been a player of the people and for the people., Of humble beginnings where he'd play on a frozen pond with a hardened puck of cow poop, he undersands what it means to be self made from a world where hockey isn't glorified, and if he can bring a couple smiles, some cheers and a lot of happiness to a blooming market and to fans that aren't as lucky in terms of seeing hockey regularly, than by god will he do it. Furthermore, as reigning SHL champion and Captain of the Los Angeles Panthers, its somewhat his duty and his responsibility to foster a positive image of his team and be an ambassador to the Panthers at home and abroad, and what better way to grow the cub fam than by taking part in the SHL Gloabal Series! Bring it on!

***Caleb*** · 04-08-2024, 08:55 AM

PT Pass

ec06aaj · 04-08-2024, 09:10 AM

Option 2: Publicly, Simo puts a good face on it - as one of the oldest players on the team, his actions and words will have an effect on the rookies and he has too much loyalty to Detroit to want to foment dissent. But privately, he's not at all happy with the decision, simply because it runs the risk of absolutely wrecking the team's preparation. It means playing the preseason in America, then spending a handful of days halfway across the globe and suffering through jet lag and total chronographic dissonance, only to play twice before coming back and resuming the regular season as if it never left. It throws a gigantic speed bump in front of the natural momentum of the year for not a huge amount of gain, and Simo is staunchly against it. Spread the gospel of hockey, by all means, but doing it like this does more harm than good.

*Puppy* · 04-08-2024, 09:15 AM

Option 2:

Playing in Japan is hardly anything new for Ju-gong. Just before being recruited to the SMJHL, the young Korean boy was playing in the ALIH with AL Anyang, the top Korean hockey club that constantly made trips to Japan in order to play games. Not only does he know a bit of Japanese from these trips, but he would also have a small fanbase among the Korean hockey fans living in Japan. If anything, he would be able to show the team around, navigate the airports and subways, and generally be about as useful as a guide could be without being from the actual country. That said, the games themselves would certainly be far less intense and exciting than the ones back in the US and Canada. The sport was still growing in East Asia, so even with some enthusiastic crowds, it simply couldn’t compare to packed arenas back in the big leagues. On the bright side, it was easy to have his parents attend these games, which makes the games much more important to Ju-gong.

Rabidsponge21 · 04-08-2024, 09:26 AM

Takashi's Castle.

This is the only answer to which game show you are invited to and are going to participate. There really is no other option worth mentioning. The main thing I would request to help spread the idea of bridging both the league and our culture would be to include the announcers who did the voice overs for the english version which we all love to really make it something special as my player is pelted with giant rocks and swings to stick on a giant velcro target to ultimately fall into the mud. I think to top it all off though we should hold a special event where the local fans offer up some of their favourite foods for my player to try and vice versa to see who can stomach more of the different cuisine and who might be so turned off what is eaten by the other regularly. It would make for good TV and help get rid of the no personality idea that surrounds hockey players.

***luke*** · 04-08-2024, 09:30 AM

Pt pass

***Chevy*** · 04-08-2024, 09:34 AM

Code:
Your team is taking part of this seasons SHL Global Series and they start their season with 2 games in Japan because HO has heard there is untapped market potential there. As your team arrives at the arena your player discovers that they have become quite popular among local fans after their Chirper actions. On their offday between the games they get invited to some Japanese game show. What kind of game show it is and how does your player perform? Will this make them big in Japan?

He couldn't believe it. Right there on his phone was an invitation to be the first peanut-man to star on the resurgence of Takeshi's Castle! He had heard so much about this show, and the challenges and obstacles the participants would face. He knew that he would be the one to be able to conquer Mt. Midoriyama and defeat Takeshi's army and masses of booby traps. Though, confident, the one obstacle he was most unsure about was the boulder run. Would his shell crack if impacted by a falling boulder, or would he be able to dip, dodge, dive and duck to victory!

Even more amazing is how the show's producers have already been promoting Peanut's participation in the show. There is most assuredly a love for different things here and someone on the staff did their homework and knew John would accept. The anticipation of the episode, which they have advertised as being a surprise episode that they won't reveal when it would be broadcast, has spiked Tokyo Broadcast System's ratings through the roof.

As accepting as they are, and as popular as the idea has been since his arrival, it has made J.P. wonder if there might be a better future for him in Japan!

mee · 04-08-2024, 09:50 AM

Written Option 2:

Johnny has never been the biggest fan of the Far East. Playing games in Europe on the national level as a junior was fun, but that is a real hockey experience. These games in Japan are not quite that. The fans didn't really seem to know when to cheer and when to boo, and of course it wasn't a home crowd in Philly. But at the same time it was a great experience. The locals seemed quite happy to trade some culture, some weird food, and overall gave us a great time. While I don't see the Japanese becoming a major player on the hockey scale, you do never know. As an aside, their IIHF team is quite good, I honestly do wonder how they have so many SHL players without a real hockey league there. Where do all the players play at grade-schoolers?
Anyway back to the trip, while I'd rather not have had to fly there, adjust to the time and then back, I did have a great time learning all about the Japanese. I hope the league makes some money off of it, so my paycheck grows.

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