1. Trivia: reciprocity

2. Grab Bag
a. I can't say many teams have impressed me like the Philly Forge, one of the best two-way teams we have seen in a long time. Their mix of strong, powerhouse offense and blitzing, stone-hard defense is something as a group we rarely see in the league (or any).
b. The Forge have to be the more desirable situation in this matchup, because in their eyes, many teams do not get the opportunity to play in another Challenge Cup. For them, a return trip means more than anything else, perhaps more than the desire of their opponents to finally win one.
c. The Blizzard have done what many thought impossible in booting the budding Monarchs from the playoffs, who some saw as a dynasty in the making. Despite the Forge's tribulations, I have to give the advantage in the great paths these two teams have forged to the Final to the Blizzard.
d. Due to certain issues within my own mind and soul and body to ably perform the task of completing this prompt in a time that was necessary to preempt the completion of the series of games that resulted in the victory for the Philadelphia hockey club, I have had to filibuster to get to 50 words.

12. Procrastinator Special: God, how this series was one of the greatest in recent memory. The Blizzards made it an epic fight, but in these sort of series, the bigger, defensive team will be the one to succeed, and the Forge were likely the biggest and best of these teams. They won with superb offensive talent and relying on their defense to keep the pressure up at a pace that, be as talented as they are, the Blizzard just couldn't survive. It would have been easy to say that at the beginning of the series, the result was not in doubt, but hockey is hockey.

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