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roquefort · 01-17-2025, 07:36 PM

2. I'm gonna go a little off prompt here and not write about a team that just changed over one season. Instead I'm going to talk about the Seattle Argonauts and how much they've changed over the last handful of seasons. The team has been struggling the past few seasons, enduring a long rebuild after their last contention period. The current roster is spearheaded by long time Argo Rence Sykut, a well rounded Center out of Latvia. The team also brought in a heavy hitting Winger in Prince Marius, user Karey. Finally we saw very impressive play from Shadow Fenix who led the team in scoring. While nobody individually stood out relative to other leading candidates across the league, the team is well rounded and deep. Finally beginning to come into their own, the Argos are a team that will continue to rise season over season. With a core of players ranging from 73 to 77, they are in the perfect position to take the league by storm and compete for the cup for several years in a row.

LGRW613 · 01-17-2025, 08:46 PM

I mean, how do you NOT talk about the Atlanta Inferno? The season to season jump is so insane, that I'm fairly confident that they've turned to witches to secure the success. Here's a quick breakdown to the uninitiated:

In season 79, Atlanta finished 10th in the SHL, which is a solid finish! (Thought a bit of a slide as they finished 6th in season 78). The season 79 Inferno put up a respectable 287 goals for against 248 goals, for a respectable +39 in the goals department. The team also rocked a 78.2% penalty kill, and when your PK is running that hot, success will always find you. They were lead by Jiggle E Puff who, in their 7th SHL season, put up an astounding 98 points and 45 goals. While the standings may not have reflected it, this was an Inferno team that was ready to make a statement in the S79 playoffs. And make noise they did, marching all the way to the conference finals before going down to Philly in 6 games. This run was the diving board, and boy did they jump off.

The season 80 Inferno, having rocked the success they had in the previous season, decided that the league was gonna be the first hockey league in history to have a successful Atlanta team. The Inferno finished 1ST in the league, owning a B-E-A-Utiful 54-10-2 record that had them be the only 100+ point team in the league, and the only team to hit 50 dubs. Jiggle E Puff took it up a notch, racking up 109 points this time with an IDENTICAL 45 goals. But the start this season was Jae-ik Barron, who woke up this last off-season and chose violence. The monster put up 121 points and 64 goals, good for a league lead in both categories, and a MONSTER 19 goal lead that separated them as the DEFINITIVE goal scorer this season.

Are the Inferno for real? Who knows? A big round 1 win over the Platoon has be ground to a halt in the second round, as they're currently down 3-1 to the Barracuda. Can they make a comeback? If they do, they'll definitely be taking their spot as one of, if not the best, team in the SHL.

Kyamprac · 01-17-2025, 09:53 PM

Option 1

If the whole team is kind of screwed anyways we might as well have some fun with it and get the fans involved. We still need the zamboni driver to zamboni and the equipment folks to gear up whoever we can wrangle to play the game.. so I say bring in the fans. Find the most hardcore looking fans that look like they can handle a hockey stick and get them out on the ice. Don't even put an age limit on it, 5 year olds, 80 year olds, as long as you can show you're able to stand up on a pair of hockey skates let's give it a go. Heck it could even work to our advantage, unless you're playing a nasty team I can't imagine many players would be willing to hit these folks very hard, maybe some of those zippier little kids can get around them and hold things off for that last 10 minutes. or get smoked. But it's that or forfeit anyways, probably, so why not.

**SFresh3** · 01-17-2025, 10:18 PM

Graphic Option 2:
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tredpalo · 01-17-2025, 10:40 PM

Written option 1:

Ok, so the entire team besides Trevor is completely out of the equation and he's forced to play with a ragtag ensemble of nobodies. TOTALLY normal, no biggie at all. Ok, that's a lie, that's a BIG biggie, one that's going to be a big pain to solve. Well, if we have to go down, we're going to go down having as much fun as possible, and what better way to do that than by letting the team staff in on the fun? Surely there's a handful of equipment managers, assistant coaches and caterers who know SOMETHING about hockey, why not give them an opportunity to step out onto the ice for a professional hockey team? It's the best chance we got at actually winning a game against a fully healthy SHL team, and worst case scenario, at least it'll provide a bunch of employees who dedicate their time to our team a memory to pass down to their children and grandchildren.

***lore*** · 01-18-2025, 12:57 AM

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You say "favour", but Viktor is old. It sounds like creaking stairs when he gets out of bed in the morning, and his teammates are this close to buying him hearing aids. The guy operates on pure instinct these days. He's going to wish he had been taken out by the rotten aperitifs while he's looking for a whole new team to take on the ice with him. He hates tight timelines, and he hates having to interact with other people even more, but he will do what he needs to do for the Pride. To save himself a little bit of pain, it's likely he'd want to go the arena staff route. Odds are that most of them know how to skate, and it's pretty likely they have some sort of grasp of playing hockey. That, and he's already pretty familiar with all of them, which is a huge plus for Viktor. While the odds certainly won't be in their favour, I'm pretty confident that they'll have a real shot to hold on for the win.

*leviadan* · 01-18-2025, 01:29 AM

The Seattle Argonauts have jumped from 13th in the league with a 59 point season, and a 0.45 points percentage in S79 to 5th in the league with an 85 point season, and a .64 points percentage in S80. While we've been coming out of a rebuild, I don't think a lot of people expected us to swing this hard this fast! It can be tough to get your footing coming off of what was, well let's face it, a long run of losing seasons. But in S80 we hit the ground running and didn't stop! I think it's a testament to the club we've build and the culture we've fostered that's allowed us to always strive for more and not get complacent. We have always wanted to win more than anything, and that spirit didn't leave us even when we were doing a lot of losing over the last couple of years. I think the Argonauts are just getting into form and if we're already top 5 in the league as our window has just begun to crack open? The SHL needs to watch its collective back for the next decade.

***Vandy*** · 01-18-2025, 04:26 AM

This is definitely Buffalo's time to shine as most of the staff of the team is made up of former Buffalo players, some of which still absolutely have tread left on the tires. I go get the GM, Eric Vanderberg Sr. and definitely add my player's dad as my D partner. Then I hit up the alumni suites and dragoon legends like Selich, Wing, Sharp, Luffy and Doyle. Then I grab the EBUG to back up Doyle and take a run through the coaching staff and maybe a couple of fans who can prove they have hockey skills. Though, living in Buffalo pretty much assures that we're gonna find at least two or three grinders automatically so we've got the fourth line covered in one dragnet. Next step would be to grab Buffalo PD or any fans in the stands like Bills players or Niagara College football players to act as Defense and Power Forwards and ice hopefully two lines with that group.

Dhoop · 01-18-2025, 05:25 AM

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