S65 Championship Week - Printable Version

S65 Championship Week - Printable Version

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RE: S65 Championship Week - Accka - 06-23-2022

TPE 16/16

1. CW - 3 TPE

- verification word: prööt

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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again
to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire
FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?
- I'll have to pick the Los Angeles Panthers, why? Even though this might sound biased, because I am on said team, but I gotta say I believe in everyone on said team. We got a good group of guys and gals on here, everyone contributes and let me tell you, that Fuzz fellow.. Smartest GM out there, but don't quote me on that. (63 wc)

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you
line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?
- We'll have to put them in a bodybag or maybe throw a couple of WWE moves at them? Tombstone a mhfker and throw pocket sand at them, that's the only reasonable solution that I can think of, that's exactly why I've got a few small cloth bags full of sand inside my goalie equiptment. Can't let those bastards be scoring just like that, who do they think they are? Our opponents? (71 wc)

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2
more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game
including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two?
Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring?
- How do you get past two guys that are playing out of their minds and very fast paced hockey? Hack em. Hack their feet. Hack their arms. You can't just go out there and score on the opponent like that. You have to have integrity and grace towards your opponent. If you score too many times then we'll have to get physical, that's just how it goes. (67 wc)

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has
(188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team
that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you
think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and
has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?
- I don't think it really tells too much. You know they might end up on the penalty kill more often or they've got guys that are more willing to put their body on the line to keep their team in the game. And you know some coaches will push you more towards that kinda thing and then you might have a goalie that wants you to get out of the way rather than block the shot, so they get a better look, who knows? (84 wc)

4. Written, 3 TPE, Do You Touch It? (150 words min.)

In the NHL there’s a well known superstition that any team that touches
their conference championship trophy won’t win the Stanley Cup. Are
there any superstitions like that in the SHL playoffs? If so, what are
they? Where do they come from? Does your team or your player believe in
them? Why or why not?
- You don't touch another mans yoghurt. That's chiseled in stone and you just don't do it. First of all, okey, are you following with me? First of all, you're disrespecting the man(the yoghurt man(your teammate)) if you touch their snack just like that and second of all you don't know what's in that yoghurt anyway, why the hell are you touching that yoghurt it might be laced with COCAINE!? Now, like, come on now. I know you're hungry, but you don't know what the yoghurt man has gone through during their day, maybe they're dead tired? You ever think of that? But the reason you don't touch the snacky snack is because it creates bad chemistry and you don't need that in the playoffs and that's a fact, you all gotta be on the same level and the gears gotta be turning to the same harmony. The last thing is, why are you even eating yoghurt, do you not know how sugary some of those damn things are? We can't have you having a sugar crash during the playoffs. (179 wc)

16. Written, 2 TPE, Just Like Back Home (100 words min.)

Choose a dish from your IIHF federation and tell me about it! Does your
player make it? A member of their family? What’s special about it to
you?
- Well my player is on the German team and I don't know a lick of thing about German food, so I'll tell you about finnish food. There's this food called rössypottu that has potatoes, fat, pork/ham and baked blood in it and it's actually pretty good. They used to serve it once every month at my old school and I'm pretty sure everyone ate it. I have no idea if they try to serve it to kids these days, cause I feel like most kids are very picky now with what they eat. Another speacilty over where I live at is mayo on pizza and let me tell you, that's really good with some salami and jalapeno's, trust me bro. (120 wc)

13. Graphic, 1 TPE, DALL-E? More like WINN-ING!

Since the ring task was unbelievably easy, I thought I’d try out another
insanely easy graphics task. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini to generate
a Challenge Cup related image. It could be a championship ring, your
player lifting the cup, a locker room celebration. Go nuts as long as
you’re attempting to make it SHL related! The results will be weird, but
it’s fun!
- Whalers? Maybe? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/172791563435376640/989528329050812486/unknown.png

Affiliate league PT
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CW, 2 TPE - just incase trivia goes wrong
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RE: S65 Championship Week - JKortesi81 - 06-23-2022

CW Pass

RE: S65 Championship Week - Aleris - 06-23-2022

CW Pass

RE: S65 Championship Week - the5urreal - 06-23-2022

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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.

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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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

a. I write this without knowing much of anything about the Tampa Bay Barracudas or how they’re run. That said, having been around Fuzz and sve7en in Carolina, I know they have the chops to get it done and think that they’re going to pull it off this season. They’ve certainly built a solid team capable of doing so.
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b. I can’t recall anything about the tactics in FHM since it’s been quite a while since I’ve played it. I think the best way to neutralize an offensive minded line is to focus on puck possession. Keep the puck off their sticks by playing slow and methodical. Crank up the physicality when they do have the puck.
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c. When a team has a really good scoring defenseman, there aren’t a lot of things you can do to effectively neutralize them without leaving a hole elsewhere. Factor in two good scoring defenseman and you can only hope that they get a little less lucky. The key will be clearing the area in front of the net so the goalie has a line of sight to the shooter.
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d. I think this is absolutely a good thing. A willingness to sacrifice your body to block a shot is what can be the difference between winning and losing. Obviously, it would be better if the team could just win with puck possession, but when that’s not an option, having iron willed players certainly helps (especially when injuries are turned off).
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8. Graphic, 3 TPE, There Are Many Sticks Like it, But this One is Mine

Finally a major gear company has reached out to you about manufacturing your signature stick! For some reason that’s all they’re willing to do though, so it’s up to you to take it from here! Create a mock-up of your player’s stick! Include their name, and a bullet point list of some of its key selling points.

The Warrior Covert QRE is super light and offers all the benefits of the Warrior brand:

Quick Strike technology for for an explosive release
Sabre Taper for excellent stability and accuracy
True 1 Phantom Feel for improved balance and response
Ergo shaft shape for increased comfort and feel
Minimus Carbon 1000 for enhanced construction
Protex grip texture for optimal control

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, DALL-E? More like WINN-ING!

Since the ring task was unbelievably easy, I thought I’d try out another insanely easy graphics task. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini to generate a Challenge Cup related image. It could be a championship ring, your player lifting the cup, a locker room celebration. Go nuts as long as you’re attempting to make it SHL related! The results will be weird, but it’s fun!  

LINK: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

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23. Written, 2 TPE, How Are You? (100 words min.)

Instead of asking you about other people this season, I figured I’d ask about you! How are you feeling? Take a couple of minutes to write about what’s going on in your life and how you’re feeling lately. I think taking the time to write things down helps me appreciate or understand them better, so maybe this could help you! Or you can just rant about your cat annoying you for 100 words and collect 2 TPE. I guess that works too.

I’m writing this on the wings of a devastating ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States. I never thought I would see such a ruling in my lifetime. The country is truly going backward.

I’d rather not write about something so depressing though. I have plenty to be excited about in my life right now. My wife just gave birth to twin boys! After spending some time in the NICU, they’re finally both home with us. It’s been pretty tough so far, as expected. We’re not getting much sleep. Throw in work and keeping up with my daughter and everything is really pushing us to the limit. We just gotta keep telling ourselves that these really hard parts are only temporary. They’re so damn adorable, so I can deal with it!
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PBE AFFILIATE
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RE: S65 Championship Week - notoriousTRON - 06-23-2022

PBE Affiliate +3 TPE

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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.

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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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

a. I think I like the Panthers for this series. They were the best team in the league this season, winning 50 games and amassing 102 points. Their leading point scorer Long John Donair was a monster this year with 70 points and with eight players with 90 or more hits, they absolutely punish opposing teams.

b. Similar to what I said in my previous answer, I think the Panthers will have to do what they did all season: punish teams for extended puck possession. Make sure Sean Gatez and Jonas Kahnwald pair with the TBB top line and put Aleks Blixtstrom and Elias Kierkegaard on their 2nd line. Make sure that if TBB wants their skill players to possess the puck, they're going to feel it.

c. This was my biggest take away from looking at the matchups in this series. Tampa Bay is going to need depth scoring. Guys like James Ronlain and Ambacas Cuddles will be key to this series if Tampa wants to win this series. They're going to need defenseman Colin Lambert to chip in for some offense as well, something he did great this season.

d. I think it shows a level of awareness for Tampa Bay to have so many guys willing to lay down and help out their goaltender and I think it will present an issue for Los Angeles in this series. However, the 2nd part is true as well. Tampa is a team that struggles to control the puck and they have to block shots in order to win. Against a good puck possession team, this could set them up to be beaten and battered by series end.

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6. Written, 3 TPE, New Stat (150 words min.)

I work for the FHM dev team and I’m giving you, sweet user, the ability to add any stat you want to our player build system. Footwork? Sure! Stink level? Why not! Stomach capacity? Ok… I guess so! Tell me what stat you want to add, and how you imagine it’ll affect the sim.

I think the attribute that FHM is obviously missing is hockey IQ. There are some guys in real life hockey that, thought they don't have the best physical skills, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. some might say that it is a skill that is not taught but is instead innate. But I would like to see it included as an attribute for the player. In the sim, it would make switching lines or strategies easier on the player. Kind of like a "coachability" thing. Players with high hockey IQ could also recover well from cold streaks and be more likely to go on hot streaks. The mechanic would be similar to a player spending a bunch of time watching tape to figure out what he's doing right or wrong and making the adjustments on the ice. Players with high hockey IQ might also play differently against different archetype players.

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7. 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.

+3 TPE milestones

RE: S65 Championship Week - AW13 - 06-23-2022

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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.

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One (1) affiliate claim from either PBE,  WSBL, SSL, or the ISFL will be accepted for 3 TPE! *if you’re claiming this and have a different username on the affiliate's site then you need to state that in your post to get credit.*

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7. 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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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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

a) The team I am picking to win the Challenge Cup is none other than the Los Angeles Panthers! The answer and reason may be a huge surprise and shock but the reason I am selecting the Panthers is because they already won! Yes, I am from the future and can already know that they won. Really though I would have chosen LAP to win it all regardless due to the fact they were number one points getters in the league as a whole. You can see TBB had a higher goal differential but there was still a 13 point difference from 6 extra wins! Los Angeles knew how to win and would go on to show it in the end.

b) Tampa Bay certainly had a lot going for them especially from their top lines of forwards and I thought it was very interesting looking into it to see how LAP could counter it and maybe even take advantage. What stuck out to me is looking at the game rating stat and specifically the differences between offensive and defensive game ratings with Tampa Bay's forwards in comparison with Los Angeles' forwards. While I did not do the exact math, on first glance, it seems like there is a huge difference and Tampa Bay's forwards are full octane offense but not doing great on defense. Los Angeles, while still higher (they're forwards, they should), have a closer and higher defensive game rating from their front men. I think if Los Angeles just attacks, they can take advantage of some defensive weakness of the Barracuda forwards and I assume they did.

c) Again, while it does not tell the whole story I have to look at the game rating stat which is more of an FHM stat than a pure hockey stat to my knowledge and it is likely highly variable but over a certain amount of time, it should at least indicate a couple things right. I think Kierkegaard may be benefitting a ton from playing alongside Kahnwald or with other solid players in regard to his high GF/60 and low GA/60 because his game rating is pretty low in comparison to his linemates. On defense, he has just a 55 Defensive game rating while Kahnwald leads the team with 74. So in general, what I think Tampa should or should have done is find ways to attack Kierkegaard and make him have to step up to win it for LAP.

d) So excuse me if I sound relatively raw and/or dumb in this but I am new to the advanced stats side of hockey and have been doing some short research on the Corsi statistic. I have found that it is not an end-all-be-all stat and to take caution against viewing it as one but it has been decent in order to see or predict a level of a team's puck possession in the offensive zone. With that being said, when looking at the stat, in general it says that a number of 55% or higher is considered elite for the Corsi For Percentage and in general, players want to have a positive Corsi For Relative Percentage. Now, the reason I bring it up is because it includes shots blocked unlike Fenwick and from looking at the Corsi numbers, it does seem like Tampa is not great in terms of their allowance of puck possession in their own offensive zone. So, they are blocking a lot of shots but they are allowing a lot of possession which leads to a high amount of shot numbers. If you look at individual numbers, Tampa's top 3 shot blockers Kozlov, Blouin, and Jericson all have negative CF Relative % with -2.7, -1.4, and -3.9 respectively. I think they just have a shot of shots peppered at them and props to them, they know how to block them at least!

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6. Written, 3 TPE, New Stat (150 words min.)

I work for the FHM dev team and I’m giving you, sweet user, the ability to add any stat you want to our player build system. Footwork? Sure! Stink level? Why not! Stomach capacity? Ok… I guess so! Tell me what stat you want to add, and how you imagine it’ll affect the sim.

So, i was not sure exactly what to put here but I know what I wanted to consider so I did some research. Now, I am a big baseball fan myself and one of the big baseball, all encompassing stats out there that you see is the WAR statistic which stands for Wins Above Replacement. It pretty much takes your contributions on offense and defense as relative to other league factors and puts it all into one stat which shows what that player means over a replacement level player in general. My goal was to see what stats like that were out there for hockey and look at that, there is technically a WAR stat for hockey and there are articles out there on it as well. There is also a GAR or Goals Above Replacement stat as well that can be split into a ton of different categories such as Offensive, Defensive, Even Strength, and some others from what I was reading. From what I have seen, there has been a lot of resistance in the hockey world to using a stat like this and yes, it is hard especially when you try to have one stat try and catch the overall level of a player and their contributions to the game. Baseball WAR is not perfect and some players get huge boosts in some areas and look like a much better player than they probably are. I want to include an article that I thought was really interesting if someone on the grading team or just in general stumbles upon this and hasn't seen it before! WAR Article

RE: S65 Championship Week - DrunkenTeddy - 06-23-2022

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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.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Do You Touch It? (150 words min.)

In the NHL there’s a well known superstition that any team that touches their conference championship trophy won’t win the Stanley Cup. Are there any superstitions like that in the SHL playoffs? If so, what are they? Where do they come from? Does your team or your player believe in them? Why or why not?

Luc Blouin is a very superstitious player, he concentrates a lot on inanimate objects with his superstitions. You can often find Luc talking to his stick, or his pads as he put them on. In the locker room you can find Blouin staring at his equipment before putting it on, just looking at it and visualizing pucks being blocked by the shoulder pads or the side of the skate. His rituals before the game would take him a while but he seems to feel like they pay off and the more he does them the better a player he seems to be. During warm up you would see Blouin skating around the blueline, even leaning over it, but keeping his skates on one side of the line. To most it seems like a practice of keeping the puck on side but to Blouin I think it is more of a superstitious act than anything else.

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7. 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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12. Graphic, 3 TPE, A Real Ratatouille Situation 

On day one of the playoffs a little animal got into your helmet and started piloting your like a fighter jet. You have no idea how it works, but you’ve never played better! Depict your player in the best game of their life, but make sure we can see the tiny little creature responsible for your success! What kind of animal is it? Up to you!

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, DALL-E? More like WINN-ING!

Since the ring task was unbelievably easy, I thought I’d try out another insanely easy graphics task. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini to generate a Challenge Cup related image. It could be a championship ring, your player lifting the cup, a locker room celebration. Go nuts as long as you’re attempting to make it SHL related! The results will be weird, but it’s fun!  

LINK: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

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14. Podcast, 3 or 4 TPE

Record a mini-podcast on any of the below topics!

-The S65 Challenge Cup Series

-The S65 Four Star Cup Series

-An S65 IIHF Preview

-A Breakdown of How Your Favorite Hockey Team’s Season is Going

1 person Mini-Pod: 3 TPE for 8 minutes or 4 TPE for 10 Minutes

2 person Mini-Pod: 3 TPE for 10 Minutes or 4 TPE for 15 Minutes

Post the direct link to your podcast.

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16. Written, 2 TPE, Just Like Back Home (100 words min.)

Choose a dish from your IIHF federation and tell me about it! Does your player make it? A member of their family? What’s special about it to you?

Blouin is from France, but he plays iihf with team Canada so that he can play with the best of the best. His family does a lot of baking, their specialty is pastries, but Luc's favorite was making breakfast sandwiches using a croissant, a fried egg from one of the chickens on his home farm, and some fresh brie. It does not really have a name, this sandwich of Luc's, but he made it all the time back home. Now that he's playing in Tampa Bay he tries to make it but it just isn't the same as when you are using the super fresh ingredients from a farm. Even so, it reminds him of home and he appreciated that.

RE: S65 Championship Week - CementHands - 06-23-2022

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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.

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Taint

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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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

I'm taking the LA team. (Also writing this after the final, whoops!) On paper I just felt that they were the better team. I think Tampa is in the same window as baltimore, and that window is hanging barely open, whereas LA I think is full of slightly more prime season players. Also tough to cheer for the other Florida team.

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b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

Relatively easy. You play Maine Timber legend Sean Gatez against the top line, and he can probably coach whoever you put on against the other line. The guy is an absolute stud, and deserves a championship. Just like his render, he is destined for greatness and I expect to see him as an early ballot hall member.

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c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

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d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

Well this is a bit of both for sure. It shows a huge buy in to blocking shots (an area where I was told wasn't worth points, but look at who is in the finals? Maybe we don't know everything. I digress. If you are blocking shots, then there are shot attempts on you. If there is a shot attempt against you, blocking is the best solution, but it means you are allowing a shot attempt, and might be hemmed in.

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6. Written, 3 TPE, New Stat (150 words min.)

I work for the FHM dev team and I’m giving you, sweet user, the ability to add any stat you want to our player build system. Footwork? Sure! Stink level? Why not! Stomach capacity? Ok… I guess so! Tell me what stat you want to add, and how you imagine it’ll affect the sim.

A new stat that I would like to be able to dump delicious sweet tpe into is intelligence. We constantly hear about how prospects have “Hockey IQ” or something along a similar line. I think it would be great to be able to invest in things like this. Now what it might effect could be a huge range of things, like being able to pull off a smart pass when you realize the other team is going for a change, or a quick spin to go in on goal and back hand it top cheddar!
Secondary and I think I’ll keep coming back to something like this would be “fortitude” – essentially mental toughness. Now, I know we already have a mental attribute, but it is locked! I’m suggesting we unlock it which allows a ton more opportunity for player types, and this fortitude stat, or chill factor can be used as part of a formula for how icy they are in super important clutch situations, or how resistant they are to their opponents charming ways.

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7. 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.

Milestones - 2 TPE

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23. Written, 2 TPE, How Are You? (100 words min.)

Instead of asking you about other people this season, I figured I’d ask about you! How are you feeling? Take a couple of minutes to write about what’s going on in your life and how you’re feeling lately. I think taking the time to write things down helps me appreciate or understand them better, so maybe this could help you! Or you can just rant about your cat annoying you for 100 words and collect 2 TPE. I guess that works too.

I'm doing fine, thank you for asking. Things could be a lot worse, and I think it's good to give ourselves these kind of checks every once in a while. I have a good job with fantastic security, an amazing wife, and an amazing dog who refuses to show her age and is still a puppy at heart.
We've had some struggles, but we are pulling through. I've been focusing on our family finances a lot lately, and that's actually been helpful keep me centred. Things feel much more stable with a plan, and I'm learning things and putting together a plan that will help us get to where we want to go one small step at a time.

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PBE PT Claim - 3 TPE

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RE: S65 Championship Week - damienj10 - 06-23-2022

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RE: S65 Championship Week - tweedledunn - 06-23-2022

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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.

mavs

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7. 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.

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8. Graphic, 3 TPE, There Are Many Sticks Like it, But this One is Mine

Finally a major gear company has reached out to you about manufacturing your signature stick! For some reason that’s all they’re willing to do though, so it’s up to you to take it from here! Create a mock-up of your player’s stick! Include their name, and a bullet point list of some of its key selling points.

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9. Graphic, 3 TPE, Unorthodox

Coach is super late for practice when someone you’ve never seen before shows up and says they’re the coach now. They don’t seem to know what hockey is, or even how to skate, and are just shouting instructions from the bench! Are they really the new coach? Weird! Show me your team doing a strange practice drill that someone who has never seen hockey before might come up with. The weirder the better!

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, DALL-E? More like WINN-ING!

Since the ring task was unbelievably easy, I thought I’d try out another insanely easy graphics task. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini to generate a Challenge Cup related image. It could be a championship ring, your player lifting the cup, a locker room celebration. Go nuts as long as you’re attempting to make it SHL related! The results will be weird, but it’s fun!  

LINK: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

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19. Graphic, 3 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!

Congratulations, graphic loving procrastinator! Much like the written word loving procrastinator, you too have a special task just for you! Create a post-series splash screen detailing the outcome of the series, or highlighting the player that you think should be playoff MVP. Include at least 3 stats no matter which way you go with it!

RE: S65 Championship Week - roastpuff - 06-23-2022

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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.

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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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

I would take the Los Angeles Panthers as the eventual winners of the series. They are just too good of a team compared to Tampa who weren't really projected to last past the second round. The defense pair difference also really stands out, especially after the Tampa Bay Barracudas lost Magnus Liljestrom in a trade to the Toronto North Stars. 60 words

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b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

I would match the Los Angeles Panthers top pair of Elias Kierkegaard and Jonas Kahnwald against the Tampa Bay Barracuda top line – let these two opponents clash it out. At worst, they’ll neutralize each other. At best, the Panthers defensive pair will prevail and give the Los Angeles Panthers the edge against the Tampa Bay Barracuda. 56 words.

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c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring?

You would imagine that the Los Angeles Panthers would look to try and match this pair against the top line of the Tampa Bay Barracudas. If that is the case, at home you would try to get line mismatches, but if not, you have to hope that your secondary depth scoring can bail you out. 55 words

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d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

A bit of column A and a bit of column B. Tampa Bay is less possession focused and more of a transition team, and that means that sometimes they rely on shot blocks and good goaltending to keep the puck out of the net. In fact, I think that will be the difference maker in this series. 57 words

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Four Star (150 words min.)

Tell me what each of the four stars on the Four Star Cup stands for! Some will say it’s for each of the four divisions in the SMJHL, but you and I know better! What four things are embodied in the SMJHL’s greatest trophy?

The four stars on the Challenge Cup stand for the four pillars of the Simulation Hockey League. That is respectively: fresh blood for sacrifice to the hockey sim gods; salt, to flavor that sacrifice to the hockey sim gods; guts, to garnish the blood and for a snack; and glory, for once you have given all four that is all you have left of yourself. That is why the league continually requires fresh new players to be cycled in and to continue the eternal cycle of sacrifice. Otherwise, the hockey sim gods will get bored, angry and hungry, and that is never a good thing to happen. Chaos would reign, and bad things happen to everyone on the site. Eventually, you have to move on to a new god, which is why the switch to FHM6 happened. The god known as Simon T Hockey Simulator was too angry to placate any more. 152 words

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Do You Touch It? (150 words min.)

In the NHL there’s a well known superstition that any team that touches their conference championship trophy won’t win the Stanley Cup. Are there any superstitions like that in the SHL playoffs? If so, what are they? Where do they come from? Does your team or your player believe in them? Why or why not?

Yes, there are similar superstitions in the SHL about not touching the Challenge Cup or Four Star Cup until you win it, not mentioning the s-word (shutout) if your goalie is on a hot streak, especially in game, being the last one off the ice and so on. Magnus is not especially superstitious, but he hasn’t touched the Challenge Cup because he has never won it. Unfortunately the way things are looking, it may be that he will never touch the Challenge Cup because he seems to be destined to never win it. All the teams that he has joined have not made it past the second round of the playoffs and his energy is fading away. Soon he will be a husk of his old self, and maybe then he will get to touch the Challenge Cup. Though that means that he will never lift it on the ice after having won it. How sad. 156 words

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7. 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.

Milestones

RE: S65 Championship Week - RAmenAmen - 06-23-2022

2. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag
a. This is a really fun matchup, with two teams outside of the usual powerhouses in the SHL. It’s fitting that we get the best team from each conference in this season’s final, but I have to give the edge to LAP this series. The Western conference is quite simply better than the East right now, and LAP has overcome a juggernaut in CHI in the semifinal, and swept their first two opponents, including an SFP team that outperformed TBB during the regular season. I think TBB gives them a challenge, but the series ends in a win for LA in 6 games.
B. TBB has some great forwards, but LAP’s strength comes from its depth. If I’m the Panthers GM right now, I simply roll the lines and force the Barracuda to adjust to me. If the top lines come out even, LAP runs away with this series, and I don’t think there’s enough depth on the other side to match them.
C. Kierkegaard and Kahnwald have been outstanding, and there’s a reason LAP gives them the minutes they have, but just like the inflated GF/GA numbers from dominant teams in the J (NL, NL and NL, for example), this is simply a byproduct of an overall team effort that dominates puck possession. When your opponent doesn’t have the puck, they can’t score, and when you run up the score the way LAP can, the best +/- and GF/GA numbers will always be found at the top D pair.
D. Shot blocks are a funny thing, and you’ll get as many opinions about this as you will users writing about it. Individually, blocking a shot is a great thing, and provides an important role to a team, but just like GF/GA, blocks as a whole are an indicator of which side of the ice you’re playing on most of the time. A shot blocking discrepancy this high indicates to me that TBB is spending more time out of possession than LAP, which bodes poorly for their chances at a cup.

4. Written, 3 TPE, Do You Touch It?
The “curse” of touching the conference championship trophy has been disproven time and again, with plenty of recent champions touching the trophy after winning a semifinal series. That doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to it, though. Curses, good luck charms, pre-game routines and other superstitions all come from a very human desire to bend fate to our liking and ward off that which we cannot control. Hockey, more than many sports, is a mental game. If you worry too much or lack confidence, you don’t play well, and that’s been proven plenty of times in sports. I think this one comes down to the individuals and the team, and what helps them build up excitement and focus for the championship run to come. If you believe in a curse, then don’t touch the thing. If you love to challenge fate, then grab it and lift it up for the world to see. Most of all, take the opportunity to celebrate a huge win with your teammates, and build your narrative together in a way that drives you forward for the bigger games to come.

6. Written, 3 TPE, New Stat
You want new attributes? I want to use the ones we currently have! Player personalities are a huge part of real hockey, and while I certainly don’t want to force users to spend TPE on sportsmanship to make their player not a total asshole, I’d love it if there was a set amount of points users had to allocate to some of the hidden attributes in the game. Want to build a player who’s wildly inconsistent but thrives in the spotlight? Choose the “wildcard” preset and drop your consistency to 5 but send your “big games” attribute to the moon! Give players the opportunity to dedicate themselves to the sniper/playmaker role by choosing their pass/shot tendency level, letting them play to their strengths without bringing individual sliders back into the game at the GM level. I have no experience testing these attributes (and I won’t do it, please don’t ban me), but I think there could really be potential here.

16. Written, 2 TPE, Just Like Back Home

Justin Time is from potato country in Boise, Idaho in the United States. He’s traveled all over North America now, and met players from all over the world, but nothing beats the versatility of the Idaho potato. He loves baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, and especially freshly cooked fries. Honestly, Time has never met a potato he didn’t like. Have you ever had potatoes as a pizza topping? Time has, and they were delicious. His favorite dessert of all time? You guessed it, it’s the Idaho Ice Cream Potato he has every year at the county fair. There may be more extravagant dishes around the world and even here at home, but when it comes down to it, nothing quite beats the humble potato.

17. Written, 3 TPE, A Few Of Your Favorite Things

The good old USA gets a lot of flak from the rest of the world, and not without good reason. When you look past the stereotypes and loud bad apples, though, there’s so much about this country to celebrate. The US is a country built on its diversity, and the stories of every American family are as unique as the people who made them. Our size and population alone mean that there’s a little bit of everything to be found here, and you can spend a lifetime meeting different people and only scratch the surface. Immigrants from all over the world brought with them their food, their music, and their culture, and generation by generation those cultures merged and took on a life of their own, and the best part of America is getting the chance to see them, learn from them, and challenge our preconceptions of what people are like.

22. Written, 3 TPE, Gone Viral

After a disappointing finish to the S64 season, Justin Time and QCC teammate Rylie Versi (@The Roope Hintz Effect) decided to spend the offseason touring North America on a month-long road trip, starting and ending in Quebec. They met up with several teammates along the way, but one moment stood out in particular on the first leg of their journey, on the road to Manhattan to drop off their departing captain, Aksel Fiske (@mer) . At some point just south of the US-Canada border, at three in the morning, Versi’s playlist brought up Love Story by Taylor Swift for the fourth time in an hour. Whether out of genuine love for the song or pure exhaustion, the trio sang along at the top of their lungs, with Fiske secretly filming from the back of the van. The video went viral within the SHL community almost immediately, and while neither Time nor Versi will be up for any awards for their vocal performance, there were many attempts in the QCC locker room to one-up their video during the following season.

16 TPE total

RE: S65 Championship Week - Pythonic - 06-23-2022

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RE: S65 Championship Week - grok - 06-23-2022

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RE: S65 Championship Week - FuzzSHL - 06-24-2022

GM Pass