I'm not sure if this season was much better or worse than last season. For me personally it was an average season. We cannot ignore the fact that we had more games compared to the previous seasons, so sure I've had more wins and more shutouts, but without looking into details and calculating it exactly, I don't think it was my best season (that one was probably S54). The main stat I'm looking at is SV%. I'm happy when it's over .920 and the best season I've had was .922. So until I beat that I wouldn't say it was a particularly good seaon. This season it was .918. Sure, GAA, shutouts and wins were better than last season, but I attribute that to the increased number of games. I can't do much to get better except the usual - fight regression. I'll do my best of course, but so much depends on the team and I know we will be better next season.
(164 words)

3 TPE


My player would go around to underprivileged people in the local area that cannot afford their own coffee and buy coffee for everyone. How can we live in a world where people cannot afford coffee? Unbelievable! I could easily see getting some kind of deal from a coffee brand that would sponsor this. Coffee will make people happy. Perhaps the rest of the team can get involved as well. We could collect some used equipment, signed some autographs and similar material, auction it off and then use all the money to buy more coffee. The world can never have enough coffee. Let's give coffee to the people. (107 words)

3 TPE


Probably Winnipeg. At least that was my biggest surprise. Not many people expected them even to go as far as they did in the playoffs. Most people probably saw either Edmonton or Calgary or maybe Texas to be the last team from the West to be left in the playoffs and not Winnipeg. They were easily the best team from the West if we're looking at their playoff performance. They even won one game against Hamilton. Obviously you could say Buffalo as well, but I like the Winnipeg story better. Buffalo was expected to go as far as they did, Winnipeg surprised most of us.
(105 words)

2 TPE


I'm not sure if it's going to be much different than the previous years. Obviously I haven't paid all that much attention to other teams, but since I know the roster of my own team (Finland), I'd say that I don't see us go very far again, unfortunately. We still have the best goalies, but unfortunately we lost one of our top defenders (and the best name too) with Poopity Scoop. Got a few new rookies this time around which is good to see, but the team simply can't compete with the big teams like Canada etc. We even need to use a forward to play defense. Finland won't be the worst team, but likely in the bottom third I'd say. Any team that still uses Junior players with 425 TPE simply can't keep up with the big guys. There will always be some surprises in the end, but I'd be shocked if Canada didn't get a medal again this year.
(161 words)

3 TPE

a. The season series between these two teams was tied 3-3. Do you think either team has an advantage in this series or do you see it as a true toss up?
Hockey is always a little random and a little bit of luck is involved. I don't really think either team is that much better than the other one. So if anything matters it's probably the people off the ice, managing the tactics, lines and all the stuff behind the scenes that we can't see. (54 words)
b. Each of these teams boasts a very strong first powerplay unit - which team has the special teams advantage in this series?
If we're looking at the numbers only then it looks like Hamilton has the advantage. They have three players with 4 PP points each and then three other players that have at least one PPP. On Chicago the 'best' player only has 2 PP points. Oddly enough the player with the most PPTOI on Chicago doesn't have a single PP point during the playoffs. (64 words)
c. Which of these two teams' brandings do you prefer? Take into account colors, logo, name, location, and anything else you consider relevant.
Chicago. While I'm not really a fan of the city itself, I do like their branding. Mostly the color scheme. Black and gold looks stylish and even the name has a certain dark vibe that Hamilton doesn't have - in my opinion. Neither are really my favorites among all teams in the league, but since there isn't really much I like about Hamilton, Chicago wins here. (65 words)

3 TPE

Verfication word: coffee

3 TPE

Total:
claim 16 TPE