S80 All Star Week

S80 All Star Week Due: Sunday, February 9th @ 11:59 PM PST

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02-03-2025, 12:40 PM

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1. Milestones, up to 3 TPE.

Milestones are folded in with All-Star Week.

Link your Milestone claim as task 1 for up to 3 TPE towards your 8 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your ASW submission. This is done because the person who grades ASW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

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+1 TPE

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8. Written, 50 to 200+ words. The Teammate One

Tell me about your teammate who made the all star expo! Who are they, why were they an obvious choice to make the All Star roster, and what do you expect from them this ASE? (If more than one of your teammates made the game, pick one of those players other than yourself. If you are the only player on your team selected for the all star game so far, write who else should had been picked from your team.)

There was more than one player selected from the Winnipeg Aurora this season (three in fact), but I only get to write about one of them so I'll choose Langston Hardison-Laurent a.k.a. LHL. So why did they pick him? Probably because he was leading the team in points with 81 which, compared to the rest of the league, might not be that impressive (not even top 10 worthy sadly), but given the strength of our team last season it's quite impressive. LHL also made the league's top 5 in goals so that was quite impressive, despite being tied with a few other players and still 20 goals behind the leader. What do I expect from LHL at the event? Well, hopefully a lot of goals and points in the end, but this will depend a little on the linemates he gets. We do have two of our defenders in the mix as well, so they could pair them together and hope for the best, but I wasn't allowed to write about more than one player, so I'll stop here. Regardless, I'm happy for my teammates that were selected here and I hope they'll enjoy being part of the event this year.

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12. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Most Decorated

Make a case for a player or user of your choice to win an award or multiple awards. Is it a clear case or do you think it would be a pretty close vote for the awards committee. Or is your case more out of left field and you hope that the awards team will see this in time to read the stats as they should be?

Awards are a super difficult topic every season and everyone has their own opinions about them and in the end there will always be some people who aren't happy about the results. We just have to live with it. So many factors go into choosing nominees and then picking the winners. It's much easier for me to look at things since my own player sucks so badly, I don't need to consider him at all. However, I will look at goalies, because that's what I know best. Who should win the McBride? Let's start with that question. I do not consider wins a goalie stat that should be looked at here, that's a team stat, so I will mostly focus on SV%, a little on GAA (not primarily), shutouts and perhaps even GSAA. Looking at all that I would consider Anastasia Söderström (CGY) who might not lead in wins or GAA, but has a very good SV% (over 900), 2 shutouts and an impressive 29.41 GSAA. You could make an argument for Justin Time (SFP) as well with 6 shutouts, a slightly worse SV% (not much) and of course leading in GAA and a still quite decent GSAA With 16.82 but also playing on a much stronger team who of course won the cup and you can't simply make it easy and pick the goalie on the best team and give them the best goalie award. Calgary "only" finished 10th in the standings.

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+4 TPE

Total: 8 TPE