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?

I'm happy with my season, all things considered. As a team, Québec improved a lot even if we lost an important piece with Alexander Roach going up to Buffalo. I personally spent most of my season playing with Boris Petrov so it was a bit difficult to generate offense with him as my partner but we did great defensively and I improved my +/- by a big fat +40. I was still able to improve my offensive contribution by 9 points so I think I'm on the right path. I'm doing good on even strength but I would like to perform better on the powerplay next season. I was one of the most used players on the PP and I only had 5 points all season. As a team we didn't do that great overall on the powerplay but improving it starts with individual performances. I'm sure most of us unbanking an additional 75 tpe will help a lot and we'll see Québec do much better in the rankings.

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.

To do something even dumber than having the #1 and #2 seeds be on the same side of the bracket would be really difficult because that format doesn't even take the regular season into consideration. Being seeded first is the sole purpose of the regular season as it is since all teams participate in the playoffs so it blows my mind that this issue even exists. To make this even worse, maybe we could pit the team with the most fights won collectively against the team with the most shots blocked in the first round because that makes as much sense as not respecting the order in which the teams finished in.
After I was done writing this I realized you might be talking about the SHL so it might not make any sense but that's 5 minutes of my life I'm not getting back.

13. Written, up to 4 TPE - Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.
a. Both of these teams have an impressive set of skaters - without factoring in any coaching or tactical strategies, which team do you think has the better roster of skaters on paper?

Both teams are stacked as hell but I believe Theo Morgan wins the head to head between those teams on his own. Dude is a machine. He was an absolute monster during the regular season but he slowed down a bit during the playoffs but luckily, the rest of his teammates picked up the slack. That's not to say the rest of Hamilton's roster is bad, far from it, since they have tons of 1500+ tpe players.

b. Do you foresee the teams making any strategic adjustments during the course of the series? Should the teams be quick to switch tactics or stick with what they've been using?

I think when you reach the finals of the Challenge Cup you'll just keep using whatever worked and hope you'll keep winning. I haven't followed the finals at all but I imagine if any changes were made they weren't dramatic at all.

d. If, once it is safe to do so, you had to go hang out in person with one of the users on Buffalo/Hamilton, who would you hang out with and what would you do? (if you pick gabe you get -1 tpe)

Might be cheating because I did so already but I would totally hang out again with @Evok! We would go to her favourite restaurant, Panda Peng, then go watch an almost scoreless Laval Rockets game because I know she loves both of those things. We'd bring @Zoone16 along just for a bonus!!

14. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min)
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.

Man, I sure love [HOCKEY]. [TEAM] really deserved their win.

I'll go with Dick Clapper as MVP for various reasons. First, MVP gotta be on the winning team. Then, Clapper might have less points than his teammate Theo Morgan but he did better defensively, with more hits and more shots blocked. I don't think those stats should be overshadowed because he got 2 fewer points than Morgan.

He was used in every situation and did well in all of them. He was notably one of the better powerplay players in an engine that doesn't seem to really reward special teams at all.

An argument could also be made for Jobin in net because he did really well too but I like giving the edge to skaters for this award.

16. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. 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.

Verification: Maximov

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