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*puolivalmiste* · 01-23-2025, 04:44 AM

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Here are this season's tasks for CW. The maximum is 8 TPE. Mix and match whatever tasks you desire, but the maximum TPE to be earned from this is 8.

The deadline is Sunday, February 2nd at 11.59PM PST

Please, add at least the prompt number, wordcount and TPE gained to all of your answers; it makes it much easier to grade and track.

This PT is for SHL players and send-downs only. If your player is S81 or S82, that's not you.

One (1) affiliate claim from either PBE, WSBL, SSL, or the ISFL will be accepted for 3 TPE! *if you’re claiming this and have a different username on the affiliate's site then you need to state that in your post to get credit.*

Please feel free to PM with any questions or concerns.

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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.

CW TRIVIA LINK

Writing Prompts

For all written prompts you will gain 1 TPE for every 50 words written up to a 200 words / 4 TPE from single prompt.
Include at least prompt number, wordcount and TPE gained to each of your answers

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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?

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8. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Dynasty in the Making

San Francisco has made the finals for two seasons in a row now and has won the cup twice in the last 5 seasons with a chance to make it 3. What has made San Francisco so successful? Is it immaculate drafting? Coaching? Hard work from each of their players? All of the above? Should teams learn from SFP and emulate what they’ve done to get their time in the limelight?

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9. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Rising Stars

The Tampa Bay Barracuda have never been the top team in terms of average TPE. Yet over the years, we’ve seen many Tampa Bay players perform at MVP levels. From Max Carnage a few seasons ago to Johnny Wagner-Svenson and Jølngüštrâädüvich DuBølk the few seasons before that, TBB definitely is doing something right with their players. How does Tampa Bay bring out the best of their players nearly consistently? Do they do something different than the other teams? Is it just a bit of luck compared to other top teams? Or is there something about the builds of Tampa Bay players that makes them excel better than most?

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10. Written, 50 to 200+ words. The Unexpected

Toronto ended up making it into the playoffs by one point while Atlanta had the best regular season since S71 Winnipeg. Yet in the playoffs Atlanta ended up losing the second round, while Toronto made it to the conference finals. Does regular season success matter in the long run if the team fumbles in the playoffs? Should teams give much importance to the regular season or focus all of their energy to playoffs once their team has secured a spot? Should the league in general regard the regular season results more highly?

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11. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Did We Really Win

This seasons we saw something unusual as both conferences featuring a division where winner got arguably harder matchup than the second place team as the wild card from the other division finished with more points than the third place team in their division. How does it make you feel about the playoffs structure? Was it actually even worse for New Orleans and Buffalo to have won their division? Or does it really matter as if you are reaching for the cup likely should be prepared to face any team anyway? How much do you think it benefited Los Angeles and Philadelphia to face opponents out of their own division during first round?

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12. Written, 50 to 200+ words. IIHF Back To Back

IIHF tournament is so short that every point is very important for the seeding for the playoffs. On top of that the playoffs are best of one making upsets more likely than during the league playoffs. Despite all that Canada did win the last two IIHF tournaments. Latvia, Switzerland and Czechia made up the rest of the top 4 for last season. Which of the last season’s top 4 teams you think is most likely to make it to the medal games this season and which is most likely to miss? Why? 

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13. Written, 50 to 200+ words. National Pipeline

WJC is always prime opportunity for your nations future starts to get their first taste of playing for the national team. How has your nations team done in recent WJCs and who are some of the most notable junior players that will soon be expected to make an impact on IIHF level? Are these expectations based on their performance in Juniors or growth of their skills? How has their WJC career been, which team(s) they have been playing for, does it compare well to your national team?

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14. Written, 50 to 200+ words.- The Procrastinator Special!

Looks like [TEAM] won Season 80 Challenge Cup! So who won and why? What could the other team have done differently to change the result? What was your favorite part of the series?

TPE scale reminder:
50-99 words, 1 TPE
100-149 words, 2 TPE
150-199 words, 3 TPE
200+ words, 4 TPE

Graphics and Podcasts

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15. Graphic, 3 TPE, This Is The Ultimate Showdown

Create an image that has mascots or logos of the two teams in the finals fighting each other.

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16. Graphic, 3 TPE, Ancient Coverage

Create an image that looks like a cover of a sport magazine, hyping up the finals and highlighting one of the top players going to the finals.

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17. Graphic, 3 TPE, My Captain

Create an image highlighting any of the captains for an IIHF team, if you can’t find info who the captains are for the team, you can create image highlighting the player you would pick to captain the team.

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18. Graphic, 3 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!

Congratulations, graphics-master procrastinator! Much like the written-word-loving procrastinator, you too have a special task! Create a post-series splash screen detailing the outcome of the series, or highlighting the player that you think should be playoff MVP. Include at least 3 stats!

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19. Podcast, 3 or 4 TPE

Record a mini-podcast on any of the below topics!

-The S80 Challenge Cup series

-The S80 Four Star Cup series

-An S80 IIHF preview

1 person Mini-Pod: 3 TPE for 8 minutes or 4 TPE for 10 Minutes

2 person Mini-Pod: 3 TPE for 10 Minutes or 4 TPE for 15 Minutes

You can either post the direct link to your podcast or if you want the exceeding part to be graded for money then post link to thread you have posted on Podcast section under League Media.

You can post your CW podcasts to Podcast section under League Media and get paid for length that exceeds requirement for 4 TPE, for example for 30 minutes two person podcast both participants would get 4 TPE for their CW and have exceeding 15 minutes graded under regular podcast pay scale as long as it meets regular podcast requirements. For Podcasts to be eligible for TPE and not to be treated just as regular podcasts following requirements needs to be met.
- Title needs to mention CW or Championship Week, for example you can add [CW podcast] at the end of the title.
- CW topic(s) need to be covered at the beginning of the podcast for 10 minutes (1 person) or 15 minutes (2 persons) after which other topics can also be talked about.

THIS IS DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND , AT 23:59 PST.

***cake307*** · 01-23-2025, 04:50 AM

CW Pass

Muerto · 01-23-2025, 05:43 AM

1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max

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8. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Dynasty in the Making

San Francisco is certainly a team which shows that a rebuild done right can really be a great journey to the top. As good as they are now, it is easy to forget that as recently as Seasons 68-70 they were a lottery team with a dismal streak of missing the playoffs. But they were committed to growing as a young group, starting in those late S60's they really focused on drafting strong, culminating in a huge draft in S71 when they had three top 5 picks and nailed them all. Those three players are still with the team and have been huge parts of their success so that is real props to the scouting staff for targeting the right players. Along with this strong drafting, the management team made a lot of really shrewd and opportunistic trades, targeting high earning players whose peaks aligned with those of their core, often managing to get salary retention to ease the cap hit. Obviously the great Edmonton Fire Sale after they won their cup was great for the Pride as well as that is when they were able to bring in Justin Time who is arguably the greatest goaltender of his generation. Obviously the Pride are not the first time to have a successful rebuild so I wouldn't say they blazed new trails or anything, but when you see results like they have, and seeing that they will still probably continue to be strong for a few more seasons, you know that they are doing it right.

[255 words : +4 TPE]

11. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Did We Really Win

The situation in both conferences where the wildcard team from 1 division had a better record than second and third place teams seemed on paper to give the advantage to that wildcard team. However as it played out, neither wildcard team was able to take advantage of getting slotted into the 'weaker' division as Los Angeles lost in the first round and Philadelphia got ousted by Toronto in the second round. I don't know if strategically either team was deliberately trying to 'tank' into the crossover position but I don't think they were. It's a tough spot to be in because you know you will be on the road to start every series and most playoff teams are stronger at home regardless of their overall record so it's not as advantageous as you might think. Moreso it's just the nature of having conferences where one division has a lot of good teams that you will see this situation sometimes. I wouldn't change it though, it's fun to see some different playoff matchups in the first round rather than strict divisional brackets.

[181 words : +3 TPE]

***Froste39*** · 01-23-2025, 05:56 AM

CW Pass

**OrbitingDeath** · 01-23-2025, 06:11 AM

Affiliate claim - 3 tpe
ISFL Affiliate

Trivia - 1,5 tpe
randomanswersasionlyneedparticipationtpe

Task 15 - Mascots golf fight - 3 tpe
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***ThisSeemsFishy*** · 01-23-2025, 06:27 AM

One CW Pass pwease

Salming · 01-23-2025, 06:44 AM

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.

Verification word: Borje

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

William Salming will root of course for the team which has a chance to prevent other team to win back-to-back title. Why? Because Salming was part of Seattle Argonauts which won back-to-back titles in S67 and S68. He wants to still keep that latest record within himself and his team mates. That is the main reason why Salming will root for of course that Tampa Bay Barracuda will beat San Francisco Pride. If not, then Salming will sure congratulate Pride organisation for the job well done. It will be very interesting to see which tactical elements will Barracuda to use to stop the powerhouse team of San Francisco. The challenge will be a huge but everything is possible in ice-hockey.

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8. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Dynasty in the Making
San Francisco has made the finals for two seasons in a row now and has won the cup twice in the last 5 seasons with a chance to make it 3. What has made San Francisco so successful? Is it immaculate drafting? Coaching? Hard work from each of their players? All of the above? Should teams learn from SFP and emulate what they’ve done to get their time in the limelight?

In successful organisations, everything starts from the top. The winning culture is created by the owner of the franchise. In this case, the biggest reason too is that the owner of the Pride is very good in his task. He knows how to handle the players, GM's, coaches, managers, scouting staff and employees. Of course, Pride has too some quality players like Logan Webb who leads the team in playoff points after 16 matches. Dominik Winters is good center, Sydney Shaw can move the puck from the blue line, Levin Schattedxg or whatever his name is written can bring some secondary scoring, Viktor Hargreeves is a proven two-way centerman, Oskar Scholz is very talented Danish winger, Mercedes Bayle is as fast as the Mercedes-Benz Car and can burn defenses that way, Filip Svatos is skillful Czech winger, Lucas Raymond is a Swedish diamond and in the net Justin Time is almost as clutch as Mat Smith was once upon a time. So, the player material gives them a chance to succeed but of course you need to have too some solid coaching. Bruce Cassidy is one of the best in the world at his job. He can really organize team defences without losing too much offensive firepower.

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*Rojjter* · 01-23-2025, 07:08 AM

CW Pass

***Belmont*** · 01-23-2025, 07:19 AM

CW pass

***sliceruser*** · 01-23-2025, 07:21 AM

CW pass

***CapnCooper*** · 01-23-2025, 07:31 AM

GM PASS

***Wally*** · 01-23-2025, 07:37 AM

CW Pass

*puolivalmiste* · 01-23-2025, 07:38 AM

PT pass

Chris-McZehrl · 01-23-2025, 07:39 AM

1. verification word: Kopitar (3 TPE)

2. 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?

I would say the San Francisco Pride just have a very good and balanced roster. There anyone with an important role can bring up very high numbers like Logan Webb with his Goals per Game ratio in the Playoffs. So for me it was very sure that they will dominate several sections for forwards and defender. I can't wait to see how the Challenge Cup Final will go and in the end how many Powerplay Goals will Sydney Shaw have. But also the Tampa Bay Barracuda have a nice Roster and also individual players with nice numbers. So yeah this finals could be very wild. (105 words = 2 TPE)

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

I would like to see the finals in germany. Any game in a different City. Hamburg would be the start. After that we would travel to Köln (Cologne). Then the next stop would be Mannheim. The Game 4 would be in Berlin. The next game would be in München (Munich). Game 6 we would go to Düsseldorf and Game 7 to Frankfurt/Main. I really would like to see that in the future. (71 words = 1 TPE)

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

In the SHL I would go with the San Francisco Pride. Overall for me they have the better roster in any section. A top Goalie, Top Defender and Top Forwards. It will be tight but yeah they should win the finals. All other would surprise me here but it also would be an honor for Tampa Bay Barracuda to win their second Challenge Cup in Franchise History since S18 as they were named Seattle Riot. In the SMJHL I would say roster based the Quebec City Citadelles should win the Cup. They were winning the regular season with an incredible goal difference of +185. They also scored an incredible 374 Goals and just had 189 Goals against. In the North Conference Finals they beat the rushing Anchorage Armada in 7 Games. I predict that the Quebec City Citadelles will win the Four Star Cup in 5 or 6 Games and would just prove the odds. (155 Words = 3 TPE)

10. Written, 50 to 200+ words. The Unexpected
Toronto ended up making it into the playoffs by one point while Atlanta had the best regular season since S71 Winnipeg. Yet in the playoffs Atlanta ended up losing the second round, while Toronto made it to the conference finals. Does regular season success matter in the long run if the team fumbles in the playoffs? Should teams give much importance to the regular season or focus all of their energy to playoffs once their team has secured a spot? Should the league in general regard the regular season results more highly?

I would always say the Regular Season is important and you need to reach a playoff spot. But the Post season or in other words the Playoffs always are a restart. So you surely can win a series against a team you never would believe after a regular season. You also in the other way can lose against a Team playoff series you never would believe. It is always not easy to say why Teams could be better than all predict or in other way bad in comparison to the regular season. I wouldn’t say it is a lottery but still not 100% predictable. (104 words = 2 TPE)

TPE scale reminder:
50-99 words, 1 TPE
100-149 words, 2 TPE
150-199 words, 3 TPE
200+ words, 4 TPE

small note: like always I made more tasks to save the 8 TPE if something was it not worth enough. thx Smile

*Reno* · 01-23-2025, 08:21 AM

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