S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

BasedMinkus
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S1, S3, S4, S6, S13, S19 and S28 Challenge Cup Champion

#25

12-20-2021, 05:09 PM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 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.

Victor Helstrom

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2. Written, 3 TPE, GM stands for Great Man (150 words min.)

There have been some good and some bad GMs in SHL history. (Mostly bad) Pick a GM you think was outstanding and explain why you think they were one of the better GMs in SHL history. Point to trades/signings/trophy wins/locker rooms to support your claim.

There have been a number of good GMs throughout my time as a member on this site but I am going to focus on the best GM I have played for who did the job by himself (Tez would have been my pick but he was carried by some great people around him). Jay McDonald was my teammate for 3 seasons and my GM for two. In those two seasons I was with him on the Comets, we won back to back cups and decimated the league. I won awards as did most of the team and we were honestly a powerhouse. Outside of that, JayMac also made another finals in season 2 (Losing to the Platoon) and another playoff appearance in his final season. A small sample size for sure, but when you are as dominant in the league as JayMac was in the GM role, it is hard not to sling praise upon him. (156)

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Draft Busts (150 words min.)

There are a lot of "could-have-been" draft picks in the SHL, but let's have some fun thinking about someone that busted hard. Write about their potential and where they were picked, and how that franchise could look *if* they had in fact panned out

Looking back there are a number of busts in the higher picks of the draft. Drayson Williams, a first overall pick doesn't even have a bojo box, but I am going to focus on a bust who went out in a crazy way. Jack Crasher was selected 2nd overall in the Season 4 draft by the Vancouver Ice Wolves. The Wolves never really found their footing and would relocate fairly quickly with poor drafting being a big reason why. Crasher played 3 seasons with the Wolves in an era where points came easy. In 144 games, Crasher finished with just 7 goals and 44 points with very pedantic peripherals as well. What makes this juicy is during his free agency, Crasher agreed in DMs to sign with multiple teams. This was found out by the league and Crasher disappeared leaving in his place the Jack Crasher rule making agreements in DMs binding. A truly bizarre end to a very unspectacular SHL career. (162)

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6. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. What is worth more to you, a cup win in the FHM era or the STHS era?

b. Be honest, would we have seen the same final 4 as last year (Chicago, Texas, Hamilton, Buffalo) had BUF/HAM and TEX/CHI not run into each other in the second round?

c. Hamilton has a population of roughly 5 people. Where would you relocate the franchise?

d. Who is the best player to NOT make the final in the past 2 years?

A. I think a cup in the STHS era is more impressive to achieve than the FHM era. Main reason being that in the FHM era, if you have the best players by TPE build, you win the cup. It is boring but incentivizes people to train which is great. In the STHS era, you could go in with a lower TPE team and win the cup by manipulating the strats and the sim to your advantage. That is more impressive to me. (82)

B. I think you never truly know how a playoff will go as there is that chance that had BUF/HAM and TEX/CHI not faced each other early, the same final four may still have been different. However, going back to my point that the best teams by TPE win the majority of the time, it seems pretty logical to me that had they not faced each other, then Buffalo, Hamilton, Texas and Chicago would have been the final four as they are the four best. (86)

C. I would probably keep Hamilton in Ontario and re-ignite the Ottawa-Toronto rivalry. It would be fine to have more real life rivalries and this would be a great one. It would also be different from real life considering that Ottawa would be run by ownership willing the spend and make big moves while Toronto is the team that cant seem to really get anything going. (65)

D. I am going to give my vote to Oliver Cleary. Cleary is a top tier defensemen in this league with a high tpe. He has also been on multiple good teams including the Rage, the Panthers and most recently the Baltimore Platoon. Even though these teams have the star power, Cleary and Co can never seem to put it all together and make the dance. (65)

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.