S75 Championship Week

S75 Championship Week Due: Sunday, March 24th @ 11:59 PM PST

CementHands
HOF Committee
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03-23-2024, 04:01 PM (This post was last modified: 03-23-2024, 04:15 PM by CementHands. Edited 2 times in total.)

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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.

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2. 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. During the Conference Finals Panthers had no players who had multi goal game, yet they beat the Texas in 5 games. Can New England shut down a team with such depth, how could they do it?

I mean yes, New England has been shutting down depth teams all playoffs (look at last round vs Philly if you want an example of this). All they have to do is keep playing to their strengths and they are the better team on paper and on the ice. My East bias is out, but LA has next to no chance at this one.

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b. On New England side Ivan Lacksamus is back on MVP form, scoring 15 goals and 38 points in 19 games, including the 15 points scored in Conference Finals. Should Los Angeles try to find a way to stop him or hope that their stars kick in the next gear to meet the challenge head on?

LA has to hope they can find a way to stop or at least slow down Lacksamus, otherwise this is going to be a 4 or 5 game series. They need the counter punch to keep up, but will need to stem the offensive juggernaut whenever he is on the ice. The Russian Beast is out for blood in his MVP form this playoffs, and Panthers are on the menu.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Merely a setback! (150 words min.)

For more than 5 seasons conference finals have mostly been played between Edmonton and Winnipeg in west, yet this season they were both knocked out earlier. In the east Baltimore and Hamilton challenged Philadelphia and New England but ultimately we saw the same two teams in conference finals. Was season 75 merely a setback for Edmonton and Winnipeg or is the clock also ticking for New England and Philadelphia? Which teams you expect to see making it to finals during next few seasons?

Well with Edmontons wealth of picks from the draft I think it is a pretty easy thing to say that the clock is running out on their current team, but watch out because in 4-5 seasons these players are all going to be solid contributors to another stacked team. They might even be able to sell some of their crop off because due to the current cap rules they won't be able to retain all of their current members as is, so in their ultimate scenario all of their recent picks are huge hits and go on to have long and fruitful careers, and they are able to sell just enough assets to give them a ton of picks coming back the other way. We'll see if teams play nicely though like teams did to the cash strapped Buffalo in the 60's - feeding them tonnes of picks in return for players who would have otherwise been cut. Time will tell if those are vultures circling, or gulls.

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