S55 Championship Week

S55 Championship Week

RippleLuck
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09-06-2020, 11:49 PM (This post was last modified: 09-06-2020, 11:49 PM by RippleLuck.)

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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?

Pavel Kharlamov had a season that was better than last year but fell short of what he had hoped for. That could be said the same for his team the Scarecrows, who .400% win percentage after a 3rd place finish last season fell to 4th last in the league. Kharlamov had 21 points and 9 goals which is up from last season but Kharlamov had a 8.33% shooting percentage with a minus 19. Kharlamov looked good out on the ice, overall he had a much better game rating but having a 96.1 PDO is the big standout as it was one of the lowest in the league. The low shooting percentage and PDO might be the biggest reason his season was lackluster and something that should be worked on in the offseason by doing more shooting drills and reviewing more film to have a better understanding on defense. Overall Pavel was happy with the small improvement but has lit a fire under him to get better.

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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?

I do like the ideas of an overseas team but would need to be at least two teams to make it work so travel would be lighter. Pick two cities with a big market like Stockholm, Helsinki, Berlin or London are good examples. Then you have one or two teams fly over to play a baseball-like series against each of the European teams then fly back while either the european teams do a road trip or have more teams fly in. Again the more teams overseas would help reduce the logistics problem. Beyond the logistics issues I believe that the league could easily expand to Europe or another continent.

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Which SHL or SMJHL team was the best team to not make the finals this season and why?

There are two teams that could have easily been in the final instead, those are The Carolina Kraken and Anchorage Armada. First Carolina was let down through the new format and had to face the strongest team in Newfoundland and took them to seven games. Carolina was the second best team in the season and was looking to repeat as champions. Next would be the Armada who had a hot finish which landed them the top seed in the west. The Armada faced and lost to the Timber in the second round in seven games, they were also up 3-1 in the series and could have ended it in an overtime thriller in game 6. Either of these teams could have made the finals and nobody would have batted an eye.

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Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

My choice for the SMJHL playoffs is clean and easy in Cale Amundsen. Goaltending is everything in the playoffs, without a solid last line of defense you will not go far. So to go into the stats which are close to the Timbers goaltender Leo Bloomfield, in a .924% save percentage and 2.01 GAA on top of 4 shutouts in the playoffs. Newfoundland also had no standout on forward, with several being at least or near a point per game. Cale Amundsen ends up being the clear standout with the shutouts winning them a series on their own and keeping it to about 2 goals against helps on a deep playoff push.