S55 Championship Week

S55 Championship Week

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08-31-2020, 01:52 PM (This post was last modified: 09-04-2020, 01:25 PM by _Blitz_.)

1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.) Wrote:Reflection on your season - how did your player fare on the ice this season? Did you meet or surpass your individual player goals or did you come up short? Whether you excelled or disappointed - what can you attribute that to? What will you try to do better next season?

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In general, I didn’t perform as well this season as I did in my rookie season in the SMJHL. Part of that can be attributed to SimonT, I think, but part of it is also the beatings that Toronto took in the regular season. I think we’re starting to be a good team, but you’d never know it with Buffalo and Hamilton using us for stat padding. Overall, though, I think I did pretty well for a third-lining rookie with no PowerPlay time. I’m 2nd in rookie scoring and have a decent case for the Jesster. I ended up with 25 total points, a decent amount of hits and shot blocks. My giveaway-to-takeaway ratio could be better, and I’m not happy with my +/-, but given the way the season went, it could have been a lot worse. I’m going to keep plugging away at growing my player and getting better. Next season will be better.

3. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) Wrote:It's too late for this go-around of expansion, so hypothetically - should there be SHL franchises in other continents? I saw some interesting European proposals in the PT. Should these - or proposals for any other continent that's not North America -
become a reality in the SHL?

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I get that there’s a lot of people who have concepts for non-North American teams. A fair few of them are pretty cool. That said, I think from a makes-sense-IRL perspective, adding non-NA teams doesn’t really work. It was already a stretch trying to imagine travel schedules in the STHS days. I can’t really picture any team wanting to travel from Seattle to Tampa to Hamilton to Berlin to London to Seattle in five days. The other argument against it is that our cohesive branding as a North America-based hockey league separates us from the VHL and other similar leagues.

It could be interesting to do a European expansion at some point, if the league ever got big enough to make it work, with the “ESHL” be European teams with SHL staying NA, and players crossover for IIHF and WJC. That would require a lot of planning and people and might eventually lead to some kind of fragmentation. I don’t think we’re ready for anything like that.

6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) Wrote:The world's hottest app is TikTok - which SHL or SMJHL player would have the biggest following on TikTok? What do they post there?

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I’m not sure who would have the biggest TikTok following. I imagine it would be one of Augustus Wang, Michael Fitted, or (Clean) Andrei Kostitsyn. Maybe a few seasons ago, Cameron Carter II would’ve been top channel for sure, but I think the other three have caught up. Wang mostly posts weed and weed humor. I guess he’s funny if kush is the only thing good in your life. Nobody is sure what exactly Fitted’s channel is about, but if it had to be described, it would be “a video version of his FHN articles”. My personal favorite was singing “Blinded by the Lights” with Ybor Jesus and the roosters. Andrei has a lot of different videos. Some are cooking, some are cleaning, some are new theories about where Sergei might be. They all end with the same call: “Where is Sergei? Have you seen my brother?”

8. Graphic, 3 TPE. Wrote:Think you can do better? Design a new logo for the Buffalo Stampede or the New Orleans Specters or either of the teams in the SMJHL finals.

10. Graphic, 3 TPE. Wrote:Create a magazine cover that highlights either a player in the finals or a standout player from the regular season.

16. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. Wrote:This is now 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.