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***boom*** · 04-27-2025, 07:52 PM

Anastasia Söderström's favourite part about playing home games in Calgary is that the pre-game routines are just so much more comfortable when she's at home compared to in a hotel room. Sleep is better at home with family rather than on the road where it's a new environment every few nights, and as a goalie it can be a lot more challenging to play on the road with the additional factor of the opposing crowd. When playing on the road, the crowd's focus at Ana's end of the ice is to try and throw her off her game and distract her from the action happening on the ice, but when she's playing at home the crowd is instead rooting for her and trying to pull those tricks against her opponent. The role of the crowd can also be incredibly helpful whenever the Dragons kill a critical penalty or she makes a big save, which can help energize a tired team and encourage them to push to win close games.

roquefort · 04-27-2025, 07:55 PM

While there is nothing like the roar and cheer of a home crowd, Roquefort has always had a soft spot for going on the road. As a multi-sport athlete, Roquefort has become quite a high profile player. As such, he has many rivals and many enemy fanbases actively root against him. There is no better feeling than marching to the opposing stadium and wooping their team's ass right in front of their crowd. Doing it with the Argos makes it all the better. We get off our flight like we were gifted wings by Hermes himself. We stride into our team bus on the tarmac like a phalanx boarding it's ship. We bravely sail deep into enemy seas, approaching their harbor at night. Then, it's go time. Above all else, Roquefort loves to leave his trademark block of super stinky cheese behind. A memento for every away game, a stench that shall never wash out.

baz · 04-27-2025, 07:56 PM

ISFL PT

Massive Coiler · 04-27-2025, 07:57 PM

Written Option 2:

Playing at home is 100% better than playing on the road. You control your own schedule a lot better that day, which is big. No worrying about the window for a morning skate or anything like that, you get the arena almost to yourself in a way. Road trips can be a fantastic tool for a team to build chemistry, but the actual game itself doesn't compare when you have thousands upon thousands of home fans screaming for you. Seeing the children with their stupid signs and being able to flip pucks up to them doesn't get old. Hearing teams cheer at the names of the starting lineup gets you pumped. The goalie might have to drown it out, but I'm only paying attention for half of the game, so I can soak in the dumb fun stuff. It's playing for the home crowd that keeps me going as I regress. No need to see the other cities out there, once you've seen them once it loses its charm.

***golden_apricot*** · 04-27-2025, 08:00 PM

Gnabe is going tk .are sk.e big changes to the shit bag arena that we have in Philly. The first thing he is going to do is retrofit all of the seats to have beer taps included in the seats. Wr need the fans piss drunk at games and this will help to ensure they will be drinking heavily during games. He also is going to install a fighting ring for fans to entertain themselves during the game as thay is the best way to ensure they come back. To counteract this, we are going tk build the rink next door to the local hospital to help them with funding and to make sure that all injuries are treated quickly. Also the hospital will be retrofit with outpatient stomach pump stations to encourage fan alcohol consumption
This rink is going tk be hell for opposing teams due to the drunken rowdy nature of these Philly fans.

***LeakyCink*** · 04-27-2025, 08:09 PM

Chuck Lumbermouth knows the value of home ice advantage, and he intends to improve upon it. Provided full control over renovations he would move the visiting locker room down a hall...a diabolical hall. This hallway will be exhausting. A series of extreme obstacles will stand in the way of everyone who dares enter the hall. Want to reach the visitors locker room? Go ahead, you'll expend a full days worth of energy on the way. When you finally reach the locker room? Hot box. No air conditioning to speak of. In fact the heat is cranked as high as it will go. There is one shower and you cannot adjust the temperature. There is also a smell. A horrible smell. Its piped into the room at all times to make sure the opposition is as uncomfortable as possible. Once the visiting team finally reaches the bench they will find there is in fact no bench, just one chair. They have to share it.

***micool132*** · 04-27-2025, 08:10 PM

Written Option 2: The best thing about the Atlanta inferno arena, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the way the arena is built. The arena was built purely to host hockey games and as such, the seats and rows are built with a steeper angle to allow a perfect view of the iced surface no matter where you sit in the arena, even in the nosebleeds. The acoustic of the arena is also very optimised to make sure the fans are heard loud and clear and to make it a very hostile environement for the opposing team. The Inferno also made sure to have the best hotdog concessions. It is rumored the GM of the team is a big fan of hotdogs and personally tested every potential supplier before the team signed a deal with the best one. The hotdogs are steamed and served with chopped slaw, mustard and relish, and onions. This is the inferno way but you can add any other condiments because we are not gatekeepers in atlanta, only lovers of the hotdog amiright @goldenglutes

***Inf1d3l*** · 04-27-2025, 08:13 PM

First of all, several hotels will be attached to the arena itself, allowing fans who maybe got a bit too rowdy, have a long drive to and from, or are from our of town (and yes, even some opposition fans) access to room and board in a close proximity to the arena without having to fight through traffic or congestion.

Second, and this one is important, MORE BATHROOMS. There are just literally never enough bathrooms for all the fans to hit during intermissions, so adding more, along with a larger cleaning staff to help keep them clean, will help. Also adding additional security so the idiots that purposely ruin the bathrooms get properly fined and/or punished.

Finally, I think adding a small, extra, ventilation area to the opposition locker rooms will end up being a good way to slowly leak a small amount of aerated tranquilizer into the room, slowing the opponents movements and reaction on the ice and giving the home team a proper advantage.

Ivornen · 04-27-2025, 08:14 PM

Written Option 2:

There's a lot Matti likes about playing in the SMJHL, home or away, but what he thinks he likes the most are all the fans that show up in all the cities they visit. Simply seeing fans invested in their local team, even when the Grizzlies are away, gives him the warm fuzzies.

That being said, there's nothing Matti loves more than playing at home. Coming out for pregame, seeing the fans trickle in, reading all the signs and feeling the excitement, it's just something special. With the record the Grizzlies have had the last few seasons, trying to climb out of a rut, have left them with a core of fans that just seem to love the heart of the game, and who still stick around even when things are getting rough.

Matti's favorite is one family that sits right on the corner, season ticket holders judging by the amount of time they spend there. They've all put together the most hideous hand-made Grizzly hats, and it never fails to make him laugh when he first comes out for warmups and sees them.

WC: 184

lunaripcole · 04-27-2025, 08:20 PM

Written Option 2: What is your player’s favourite part about playing at home? Is it the roar of the crowd? The home jerseys? Does playing there just feel different or better? Is playing at home better than playing on the road in your player’s opinion? Or does your player prefer traveling around North America seeing all that the other SHL cities have to offer?

Vasher's favorite part of playing at home is everything. Now I know that is kind of a cheater answer, but hear me out. It's hard to narrow down the feeling of playing at home down to just one good thing. There is so many small things that tally up throughout the gameday process, that it doesn't feel fair to shine a light on only one part of the home game experience. Getting to skate out and hear the roar of a crowd that loves you is a feeling like no other. Getting to wear our favorite jerseys makes you feel at home. Playing at home is exactly what it sounds like. It's playing at home, you're comfortable and used to the arena, and people love you. There's definitely a merit to playing on the road, and getting to play the bad guy in another city. But the comfort of home games just hits different.

Australiankek · 04-27-2025, 08:26 PM

Kevin Kim has been a home crowd lover since his career, and there's no doubt about it. Now playing his second season in Tampa Bay, Kevin is always excited to play at home and hear the electrifying sounds of the fans. The atmosphere is outmatched like nothing else. Who would want to go to an away game, when they can be cheered by thousands at home. Unfortunately away games are as prevalent as home games, so Kevin tries to cherish every moment when his team plays a home game. Moreover, Tampa Bay, especially in the playoffs has been incredibly loud, motivating the team to its maximum and also creating sudden momentum. Another reason Kevin loves home games is that travelling can be a little draining sometimes. Especially in the regular season where players and teams have to continuously travel back and forth across North America. Yes, travelling can be fun sometimes, however, staying at Tampa Bay feels the best, with no airplane trips or sore legs, Kevin feels the most refreshed and ready to perform his best.

Wearingabear · 04-27-2025, 08:28 PM

Ubba lodbrok, center and leading points getting for the Philadelphia forge of the simulation hockey league, formerly a 3rd round pick for the Anchorage airport of the simulation major junior hockey league and current representative of the Finnish national team, has to bring the Philly forge's arena in to the 21st or 22 century. But it all has to be done within the simulation hockey league arena guidelines. What are those guidelines? That's a good question. Nobody really knows until it's not allowed. So ubba lodbrok starts going to town on this redesign of the arena. first up is the players area, of course. State of the art health rooms, med beds all around so all can heal their injuries immediately. Or don't, not for cap circumventing circumstances at all. Then it's the visitors locker room which ends up being some shower stalls and a beer league esque locker room. It always smells like stale beer in there. Why though? Well, the tap drains all drop straight into an sump pump in the corner.

Kalakar · 04-27-2025, 08:33 PM

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No idea who thought giving me free reign on the renovations of the Bell Centre was a good idea but I will take this new role very seriously. First off, we don't really need to change too many things. The Bell Centre has a capacity of 21,105 seats, making it the largest arena in the SHL. Then I would fix the ads on the boards and on the ice. I'm not sure if there are rules to have ads on the ice, there probably are because the commissioners are greedy and want more money from advertisers, so I would make sure that at least the ads are relevant to the city. Get some construction tape, some orange cones in there. Plates of poutine on the borders. Maple syrup companies by the blue lines. Just make sure there are no betting ads whatsoever near the arena and tell security to escort anyone that talks about betting on games when the Patriotes play.

brocksamson · 04-27-2025, 08:35 PM

Written option 1 - 179 words

Ah, Whitehorse... The jewel of the frozen wilderness that defines the Yukon Territory and, of equal if not greater import, the home of Takhini Arena which of course provides the home ice for the Yukon Malamutes. Of all the players who currently share the distinguished honor of donning a Malamute sweater, the powers that be have chosen my august personage to provide guidance in a full renovation of the our home, sweet home. I, of course, am the ideal person to plan for any scenario! As the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and 2008's sole winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, I am an authority on the sweet science of the worlds fiscal machinations. Lesser known, however, is my pedigree as a designer of bespoke viewing experiences for live displays of athletic prowess! This is why I have made the decision, in all of the wisdom I can muster, to say that we should keep everything the same and lower prices a bit. Done and done.

***ThePyroAlpaca*** · 04-27-2025, 08:40 PM

Juan would an a destruction room to break things

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