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Task 16 Trivia - Submitted - arya

1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
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?

- Honestly, I have zero goals or expectations for the player heading into his rookie season. As far as expecting any sort of recognition in the award categories I knew as a 3rd pairing defenseman on a still rising team wouldn’t garner any extra attention compared to the forwards. Defense seem to have a big hill to climb besides the elite forwards, so getting noticed at all will be a task unto itself. I was just happy to end the season on a positive plus/ minus, and break double digit points. As far as real progress for my player, it’s sort of hard to make large jumps in skill like you used to. With the really steep TPE scale, you kind of just slowly grind up the list and pray you have some good line combinations and supporting cast. I have that in Texas I feel, but with teams like Hamilton – Buffalo – Chicago in the east, it will be sometime before I can make any noise individually I feel. (168 words)

3. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
FHM's 12-team playoff bracket setup has received a fair bit of scrutiny. It re-seeds after the play-in round and for some reason puts the #1 seed and #2 seed on the same side of the bracket. I challenge you to come up with a different playoff format - can you come up with a format that's dumber/worse than this? be creative! Come up with the worst possible format for a 12-team playoff.

- I mean this is a pretty simple fix. Revert the system back to the OLD NHL style. Divisions needs to die and lets just have straight conferences with rankings 1st to 7th. Top 4 teams from each conference make it, and away you go. This will reward the top teams for being top teams, but also give those mid tier teams a chance to maybe make it past the first round. I’d like to see once those 4 teams from each side are decided we stick to conferences. It’s crazy that you have 2 eastern teams playing for the finals, and didn’t we have the final 4 all be the east? What excitement and fun is there in that? I get that people want the ‘best’ teams in the finals, but the randomness is what makes hockey fun, not the status quo. (142 words)

4. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
If the SHL needed to set up a playoff bubble (like the NHL did in Edmonton/Toronto or the NBA in Orlando), which city would be the best candidate to host as the hub city? What would the players do during their time in a playoff bubble? (For graphic option, make an advertisement [like a pamphlet/brochure] in support of a specific city as the hub city and highlighting the reasons why.)

Safetest bet for SHL

- Hamilton – literally the place is as close to a dump as you could want. Sure it’s within proximity of some major attractions but with the numbers spiking in the Toronto area constantly and really shitty highways, the players would never want to leave the bubble both in fear of catching the RONA and because of the meth heads wandering the streets with the decaying ruins of the metal industry. Not to mention the crammed one way streets that clusters to the downtown core.

Best Overall Experience

- Seattle. Yes I understand the USA is an absolute mess right now, but with that state generally being more reasonable with it’s mindset, and the weather bubble it is apart of, I think this would be the perfect location to lock the players down but leave them the chance to still get out for their own sanity. I only wish there was a Vancouver team to set up as a 2nd bubble (SMJHL doesn’t count) as it would make the perfect 2 city hub (with travel restrictions put aside)

8. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min. if written)
The arenas in Buffalo and Hamilton want to make sure they're pulling out all the stops on the big stage. Help the concessions department of one of these two teams develop a new product, with marketing specifically pertaining to this finals series, to be sold at the arena during the finals. Describe the product and the marketing in 150 words or create a promotional poster showing the product, its name, the price, etc.

- Hamilton inspired Kool aid – Drink this and when your player reaches the pinnacle of your career, you will buy into the memes full steam and request to be traded to Hamilton ASAP or wait until free agency hits leaving your draft team empty handed! The colour of this amazing and totally not cult like kool aid is steelhawks blue! But that’s not all, get ready to have your taste buds assaulted with the blue/raspberry flavor! (Lemon/Lime Yellow will soon be available as well)

- Buffalo Ludwig Koch Schroder Voodoo doll – Channeling the inner mojo of this long reviled ex stampede player, the stampede continue to reap the benefits of using this now staple to grant themselves luck in the finals to win another cup. Where most teams have t shirts or towels for events like this, the Ludwig Koch Schroder voodoo doll has become symbolic in nature and continue to be littered on the ice whenever there is a hat trick or Buffalo victory in the playoffs.