1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - Verification word: parm


5. Graphic, 3 TPE, Worth a thousand words.


The season was S27, at the time the Calgary Dragons had not won a cup in 17 seasons. They had a young GM in Esa Anrikkanen who brought the team to the cup in just his 4th season. They had recently named a new Captain, Kriss Labsvards @kikish18 a Latvian member who was a great player and team leader. The Dragons found themselves up against a tough Hamilton Steelhawks team who squeeked out to a 3-0 lead in the series. A young GM Esa Anrikkanen reached into his bag of sths tricks and found a new line up and system and one game at a time the Dragons completed the first reverse sweep in the cup finals in SHL history, winning game 7 in overtime on a goal by rookie Michael Burch, his only goal of the playoffs. Another historic part of this was Kriss Labsvards was the first Latvian Captain in SHL history to lead his team to the challenge Cup. It was the first cup of 6 cups for me personally and the cup that started the historic Dragons run of championships that last through S50. A milestone cup for many in the franchise and certainly one to remember. The only other team that completed a reverse sweep in the cup finals since was the Dragons, again in S50.

6. Written, up to 4 TPE
a. What is worth more to you, a cup win in the FHM era or the STHS era?

Obviously the sths era was worth more, that's what the SHL was for 52 seasons of your 62 season histoery. That's what SHL is to me, sths, where a team could win without being one of the top 4 teams in tpe. If you were a strong team and had a good system you could make a run to the finals, it wasn't automatic that the best teams always won. I think that's healthy for the league and keeps everyone having a chance every season.

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?

Yes obviously. It would have been exactly the same final 4 as the year before because that's what we get with fhm, the same thing every year, the rest of the teams, let's say the teams in the 5-8 range are all playing to win 1 playoff round at best then lose to one of these teams, usually in a sweep.


17. Graphic, 3 TPE, Clairvoyant



18. Written, 3 TPE, Apocalypse Now

Most of the SHL quitting out of spit after the same teams are in the finals 4 seasons in a row seems like a real possiblity tbh, so I'll play along.. If I was allowed to create 4 other players they would be named, Esa Parmalainen (Finland), Esa Parmchuk (Russia), Esa Parmessier (Canada) and Esa Parmageddon (USA). Parmalainen would be a puck moving defenseman, offensive powerplay specialist. Parmchuk would be a sniper and high scoring speedy winger with no defense. Parmessier would be a two way center with good offense and a focus on defense and have some physicality. Parmageddon would be a bruisin power forward who hit everything that moved and created havoc on the ice, little bit of scoring when he's developed. They would all end up Calgary because that's where my players play and tbh I can't see myself every playing anywhere else. All their careers pan out great and they win a few championships together.


21. Written, 2 TPE, No take backs

I think @BarnabasCollins would be a great PT director because I can gaurantee you every PT would be about food. So obviously I would love to see him in this role and I'd enjoy his pt's very much. He's very creative and knowledable about all things food and has is a true hockey guy so he could combine those and we'd have pt's about food and hockey. Seems like a perfect fit to me. Design your teams concession stand menu, talk about your teams pre and post game meals, etc. That being said I'm sure it would be complete torture for him as many SHL jobs end up being in the end, so I would not wish this job upon him, but I do want to do more pt's about food. I mean I don't think there's been a pt about food in a long time. There should be at least 3 pt's about food a season, why the hell there's not I will never know.