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advenny4 · 04-28-2022, 12:35 PM

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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.

Verification word: LATVIETIS

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. Just link your Milestone claim below this task 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 - SMJHL Milestones

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15. Written, 3 TPE, IIHF Hype (150 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC! Do you think the same teams will be on top this year, or are we due for some turnover? How are you feeling about your country’s chances this time? Any players that you think will light up the tournament?

I have two feelings. I played both tournaments and I would like to see both of these tournaments. I'll start with THE IIHF tournament. The forecasts will certainly be boring, because mostly I think there are a couple of favourites and then there are other teams. I want to add Sweden, USA and Finland to the favourites. It seems to me that there will be the next champion between these teams. From the sub-final teams, it could be said that Latvia, Austria, Russia and Germany will split the sub-table sites. If we're talking about THE WJC tournament, I'd say I can only forecast some of my team's positions, because it's not really time to keep track of everything. I would like to say that our team will be one of the leaders, because our offensive line is at a high level. I would like to say that all the lines are very good. And because of a strange coincidence, I have come to the Swedish team, which is a great surprise to me and an ordeal at the same time.

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Cup Check (150 words min.)

Which league has the more prestigious cup in your opinion, the SHL or the SMJHL? Which cup is harder to win? A lot is said about the different skill sets required to GM in each league, so which do you personally think is tougher to manage? Is a trophy case with three Four Star Cups as cool as a trophy case with three Challenge Cups? Maybe you think it’s even cooler. Why?

In my opinion, both quarterbacks are equally strong and difficult to get, because yet the player's career is not so long as to be able to win all the eventual caucuses. It's hard. In fact, it is also a matter of luck, where you come and be able to fight for a trophy. But if we look at it as a whole, it would be logical that the adult-level tournament trophy is superior and much more difficult to get. Looking at the Cup winners in advance, though, it's hard to find quite a lot of teams out there that have accomplished it. There are teams of favourites in the big league and then there are others chasing them, but I think there should be leadership shifts soon, too, as the old leaders will start to paginate and have to make a team remake that certainly won't happen soon enough. I would like to leave the caucuses as they are, because the Junior Cup is also a big challenge, which is certainly important for the young players to be able to motivate themselves even more.

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3. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Four Star Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Newfoundland has gotten 25 points in 11 games from two of their top D, Rand al'Thor and Mikko Rashford. If you're Quebec's coach, how do you adjust to Newfoundland having guys on the blue line that are just as offensively dangerous as the wingers?

b. Quebec has three players shooting 20% or better in Bertrand, Utah, and Kidd. If you're the Newfoundland defense, how do you find a way to bottle up three forwards that can't seem to miss the back of the net?

c. Looking at each teams' PDO, we see that Quebec is riding a bit of a hot streak while Newfoundland has actually been a bit unlucky. Do you think this a is a good thing for either team? Is Newfoundland bound to find some luck, or are they going to get stuck in a rut? Is Quebec going to come back down to Earth, or did they get hot at the right time?

d. Newfoundland has appeared in all 4 of the last SMJHL finals and won 3 of them. Quebec, a consistently strong presence in the SMJHL, has a lot of playoff success behind them as well, having won several series since their last 4 Star in S58. How do you approach this series mentally on either side? If you're Newfoundland, are you worried your streak can't last forever? If you're Quebec, do you fear that you can't take down a goliath?

a. I would certainly encourage my players not to be afraid of such caliber players. All of us are human beings and can be mistaken, and I think these players will be able to do that too. The key is to work hard in defense, and to track down opponents. If it works, I don't see any problems.

b. Pressure must be exerted on these players, the more they will be covered, the worse they will get. And with such tactics, they will start strescentuating and feel uncompromising. It's also what should be done to stop them. They have every chance to do it. The second option is all simple, shots need to be blocked.

c. All hockey is, in some ways, a game of success, because if the two teams meet in the finals, it means that tactly they are the best teams and good luck will make it all right now. I think this hot line might end up and go over to the other team. I think it could happen, and Quebec has already been pumped out.

d. Newfoundland is just a wonderful team. I want to see how long such dominance will continue, because so far I haven't heard of such teams that have been in leading positions for so long. It's certainly a big plus for them because they already know how it is to play in the finals and Quebec will need everything they can to break the dominance of that team.

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