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**Chevy** · 04-14-2025, 09:44 AM

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About 15 minutes before the start of the first pre-season game your player gets a call. Muffled voice tells them that your team needs to lose this first game 6-5 in the OT or your player’s grandma wont see their cat ever again. They tell that the cat will be gone along the dog of cousin of opposing team’s goalie if either of you tell anyone or make anything appear to be off. The call ends. Are they willing to throw a preseason game just to be safe? Do they inform police or rest of the team? It was clearly a prank, or was it, are they willing to risk it? What does your player do?

After receiving the strange call before the preseason game, Peanut mulls over in his head the implications of a grandparent losing a cat, threateningly if the game isn't thrown. Funny enough, thanks to technology, the call came in as potential spam on his cell phone. After doing some extensive reverse googling of the number, it turned out to be spoofed and the call came in from a phishing call center from a person who calls themselves "Bob" and claims to be a Windows technician. Peanut, being the ever so savvy humanoid legume, places a call to a youtuber that he knows who relishes in tracing back these scammers and toiling with their every day life. Plus, the joke is on the scammer in the fact that John Peanut didn't have a grandparent, let alone a grandparent who likes cats. He does take the time though after calling his counter-scammer friend to inform management, who in turn informs the other teams management and lawyers.

Then its just a waiting game for the video to hit the internet of the scammer being counter-scammed, which will be thoroughly enjoyed with popcorn.

Fluw · 04-14-2025, 09:48 AM

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***DrunkenTeddy*** · 04-14-2025, 09:53 AM

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ValorX77 · 04-14-2025, 10:05 AM

Option 2:

With news of expansion on the horizon and after a run to the conference finals, Mumei decided to make her place a bit more hockey-like, the first of which is to make sure that she wears different sets of hockey gear to ensure that it’s the right fit. The next thing she does is to create an artificial odr inside her basement. This is to ensure her skating is on point and to ensure that she isn’t slow compared to the rest of the team. The next thing she does is create AI generated test dummies to simulate practice games in order to make more focused mentally for the games that lay ahead. She puts in the descriptions of her specters teammates and then uploads the descriptions of random teams in order to ensure that she can pinpoint every move in order to be successful this season. The last thing she does is use one of the dummies to practice her hits, and to make sure those don’t get called as penalties

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***Beavie*** · 04-14-2025, 10:07 AM

Option 2:

After getting eliminated in the J playoffs after a rough season in Nevada, Claude visits his SHL team and has a meeting with the new assistant general manager. Something you can read about here. In the meeting, they discussed long-term plans for him in the organization, with Assistant GM Rosie Beavinski's Pokemon often interjecting. It is pretty clear to Claude that he will be staying in Buffalo and will be protected. He then would go on the ice for an off-season training session with the team where the coach is honest in that this season may be the last chance with this core as is due to expansion. Some players are shaken slightly. They hope to stay longer. In talking to some of his hopeful future teammates, Claude says something surprisingly wise for being young.

"Bust your ass. Make them either be forced to keep you, or regret losing you."

Once Claude's gone. It's the off-season and his training seems to be more on ice than anything, training with the World Juniors Canada Black team AND Team Quebec for the IIHF. His routine would not change, instead focusing on the effort itself. Before stepping on the ice he would start to isolate himself in the hallway in his gear with headphones on, listening to Lofi-Beats. Even during game-day. Once warm up is done, he would put headphones on and listen to music, only taking them off if the coach steps in, or if it is time to head on the ice. This would help him lock in, winning gold for Canada Black and helping Quebec achieve its first playoff appearance in the IIHF, and even winning goaltender of the tournament.

Now, he's got a new routine.

EricNCSU · 04-14-2025, 10:26 AM

Whoever the person is they are not going to be happy that Thomas Hudson answered the phone. You see, Thomas has a particular set of skills, skills acquired over a very long career, skills that are a nightmare for a person like them. Thomas will not allow animals to be hurt under any circumstances. Let the cat and dog go and that will be the end of it. He won't look for you, he won't pursue you. But if you don't, he will look for you, and he will find you, and he will feed you wet cat food until you can never walk into a pet store ever again. He does not care about the outcome of a preseason game or whatever kind of fix you have to win $20, but he does care about animals, and that's where you crossed the line. Good luck.

RainDelay · 04-14-2025, 11:05 AM

Wow, I'm pretty unsettled by that call. Not exactly sure what to do. It could easily be a prank... but what if it's not? I cant risk the safety of these pets and the happiness of these people who are important to us. I would definitely like to alert authorities, but I feel as whoever made this call would find out. I just... can't take that chance. It's just a preseason game, we can lose it and it will be ok. As a goalie, I can choose how many goals to let up. I'll play normally until it's time to give up more. But I can't do it too early because then what if they score legitimately against me and the scoreline is off. I also need to rally my team to score. I am not sure exactly how we will do that, but I need to find a way. It's what has to be done, no question about it!

Just-Here-To-not-Get-Fined · 04-14-2025, 11:06 AM

Written option 2

With the looming expansion draft threatening teams all around the league. No Cheddar would want to do everything he can to win with the core established to share the accomplishment earned with their hard work and tenacity. Knowing every other group could feel the same way, he confirms he will not have to just train a little more, he will have to improve on a scale much faster than he was anticipating to keep up and support his teammates. No Cheddar begins by bringing his stick and a puck with him everywhere he goes. Practicing his stickhandling and learning to keep the puck on him without even thinking about it. He did raise quite a few eyebrows in the grocery store. Workers and customer's stared in confusion as his bags shifted back and forth while carrying them out to his car. He would obviously pause while driving but the moment he stepped out of his vehicle, the puck was dropped again as he continued walking from the driveway to the door. In a state of complete focus, he couldn't notice while his neighbors waved and tried to inquire what was going on. Training his control in a way never seen before, Cheddar will be ready to bring his teammates glory this year.

*Eggcracker* · 04-14-2025, 11:10 AM

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sobrien6187 · 04-14-2025, 11:23 AM

#2

Yoshinobu cues his off-season training montage, which is very similar to a Rocky and Karate Kid training montage with some Japanese flair. He walks into random forests and vigorously rakes leaves with a weighted rake to improve his wrist strength and faceoff reaction speed. After breaking all of his rakes (10 in total) he leaves them in the woods and heads to the busiest local museum for some cat and mouse.

Upon arriving to the museum he pinpoints some targets and does his best to keep track of them in large, fast moving crowds, hoping to improve his offensive and defensive awareness. Then realizing that greatly improves his overall attributes score in the SHL video game and not so much in the sim league, he gets lost in the eternal void of hope of a blooming cherry blossom mural at the art museum.

Finally he grabs some sticks and heads to the beach. It's up to him to defend the dining tourists from the divebombing seagulls. What better way to improve his poke checking ability?! Yoshi finds this to be an incredibly challenging task, mainly because there are no beaches near Great Falls, Montana. Maybe he should have fended off Grizzlies? There's always next year.

ZodiacEXE · 04-14-2025, 11:48 AM

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jackkmart · 04-14-2025, 11:57 AM

Prompt 2

Hoglord was on the beach during the time those speeches would have been made; his feet kicked up on a beer crate, leaning back in his plastic chair with a newspaper covering his face. Hoglord had all but retired ahead of what he thought would be his final season with the Armada, having been drafted and released the previous season. His slumber was interrupted by a few texts, however. SHL teams, for some reason, had taken an interest in his services - perhaps foolishly - but it was now time to get underway again. As such Hoglord transformed his Adriatic beach holiday into a mini training camp for himself to get in shape for what very well could still be his final season in Alaska. Whatever the outcome may be, Hoglord wants to be the best he can be for at least the remainder of his disappointingly short career, and perhaps he may even find a way to extend his fortunes with enough focus, and dedication.

Tate · 04-14-2025, 11:59 AM

Blade Hunter heard coach’s speech about how this was the last season with the group before the big ol’ expansion draft, and something just snapped in his brain. He said to himself, “Alright then, time to go full hockey or nothin’.” So he went and rented a whole dang rink, dragged a mattress, microwave, and his little TV in there, and just lived on skates all summer. He didn’t take them off except to shower. Ate cereal on the bench. Did pushups by the goal. Slept with his elbow pads on, said it “keeps the dreams focused.” At one point he started chewing on a rubber puck, saying it’d “toughen his bite for chirpin’.” Ain’t no science to it, but he swore it worked. Way different than past summers. He used to just go jog or do some weights and call it good. But this time? Nah, this was Blade losing his mind in the best way.

*Puppy* · 04-14-2025, 12:07 PM

Written Prompt 2

It’s unlikely that such a moving speech would change too much about how Ju-gong would go about training. Afterall, if you’re not already training at your very best, well why aren’t you? Given an already packed and well-orchestrated training schedule, this kind of stuff just serves as good motivation to stay on track and not slip up on the regimen. The most that he could hope to eek out of his schedule, would be to find more ways to train while back home in Korea, and even then, he’s not there for too long, and values that time as a good way to mentally reset for the upcoming season. Ju-gong would find some flicker of motivation in knowing that during his time in the J, his group survived and expansion draft and went on to win in the season after, as well as the fact that this group of players also won with their last chance as a group. A lot of good parallels to draw optimism from a not-so-great situation.

***SDCore*** · 04-14-2025, 12:10 PM

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