Shawzy's Take

              The Washington Capitals hockey club has started off their free agency season with a BANG. First off by signing Stanley Cup winning goaltender Darcy Kuemper to a 5 year $26.25 million contract. Since 2017-18 Kuemper leads the NHL in save percentage with a .921 and is number 2 in Goals Against Average with a 2.43. Darcy joins an aging Caps team chasing another stanley cup for the Great 8 Alex Ovechkin. That was not the only move as GMBM continued to reshape the team by trading a 2024 2nd round pick to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for forward Connor Brown. Brown has 1 year left on his contract at $3.6 million and will likely slot in the top 6 forwards until players return from injury. Connor had 39 points and 10 goals in 64 games this past season. Continuing the list of deals on the day. GMBM resigned forward Marcus Johansson to a 1 year deal at $1.1 million. Dman Erik Gustafsson to a 1 year $800,000 deal. maybe the sneakiest signing with the most potential upside c

     Following a game 2 blowout win for the North Stars, they would look to build off of that momentum to come flying into game 3 at the Farrell Agencies Arena in Yorkton. Currently on a 3 game pointless drought, Terriers star Chantz Petruic gets a new linemate in Kaden Taphorn to try and spark the offence. Phillipe Bond looks to bounce back from a shaky game 2.      Just under 5 minutes into the game Ryland McNinch would jump into the faceoff circle to grab the puck, McNinch would retrieve the puck and drive to the net as it sneaks in behind Bond, the puck would stop just before the goal line but McNinch would not give up on the play and gets behind the Yorkton netminder to tap it in and give the Stars an early 1-0 lead, the opening goal is assisted by Esau.  https://clips.twitch.tv/ShySweetLyrebirdUWot with 6 minutes remaining in the opening frame Battlefords would get an extended 5 on 3 opportunity where Quintin Loon-Stewardson would score being wide open in front of the Terriers

     After a dominant 7-1 thrashing by the Mustangs, Flin Flon decided to make a couple changes, one of those changes would not be in goal though as Jacob Delorme would get the chance to redeem himself after giving up 4 goals last night and being pulled after the 1st period. The Bombers decided to insert Dman Cole Vardy into the lineup while also changing up their number 1 Powerplay unit by running with Martin, Houle, Rafuse, Malo, Easton. Shoutout to @sjsiminsider on twitter for that info.      Everyone inside the Northern Lights Palace is buzzing and ready to roll for game 3. just 41 seconds into the game, the Mustangs would come just inches away from opening the scoring on a slapper from Nolan Kadachuk at the point, as Delorme makes the blocker save to swat the puck away it would then go off the backside of Bombers Dman Mason Martin and on to the stick of Alec Malo who would fumble the puck a bit, the only reason this puck stays out is because Martin's stick gets caught on th

     After an absolutely wild ending to game 1 where the Terriers gave up the tying goal with just 0.7 seconds remaining in regulation, https://clips.twitch.tv/ModernEnjoyableBatJebaited?tt_medium=clips_api&tt_content=url , they were able to redeem themselves in overtime by coming in down the left side and ripping a slapshot past Kristian Lyon to give Yorkton the win and 1-0 series lead.  https://clips.twitch.tv/SilkyGenerousArugulaOMGScoots        Battlefords played very well throughout the opening frame forcing Terriers netminder Phillipe Bond to make countless big saves which ultimately led to a North Stars goal with 4:39 remaining in the period on a bad turnover by Dman Zach Ziegler directly to the front of the net where Ben Hiltz would fire it home blocker side past Bond to give the Stars a much needed 1-0 lead.  https://clips.twitch.tv/TrustworthyRespectfulSparrowBlargNaut . Both goaltenders stood strong throughout the first period as it would remain a 1-0 score to end

     Game 2 of this semi final series got underway just after 5pm Saskatchewan time, 7pm EST, Melfort came out on top in game 1 by a score of 5-3 surprising many fans in the stream as the Bombers couldn't get their big guns to find the back of the net, Flin Flon has 5 players rated 90 or higher, which is unheard of for a league team in NHL 20.      The Mustangs would come out strong to start game 2 controlling possession and quickly getting it back when the Bombers got a chance to enter the zone, just under 3 minutes into the game Mustangs forward Kyle Bosch would enter the zone through the middle of the ice to get the play started, leading to a solid opportunity that would bounce out to the corner, Bosch would retrieve the puck and feed Odowichuk in the slot who fed the puck straight back to Bosch in front to fire it low on net at the pads of Delorme, the Bombers goaltender kicked the puck out right back onto Bosch's stick where he would not miss on his rebound to give the M

So far I believe that it is safe to say that the #SJHLCanaltaSIM has been a big success, every stream has been an improvement from the one prior and has been putting up big numbers on the NHL 20 page for viewers. The SJHL and !KS have done a fantastic job with the production in doing their best to make CPU Vs CPU simulation as entertaining as possible for fans to watch. The amount of effort that needed to be put into creating the teams jerseys and rosters is incredible, shoutout to Alex Watson for putting in the time to put all the teams together in NHL 20, an extremely time consuming task that is 100 percent appreciated to see being done. The first round was highly intense as Sunday we saw the Yorkton Terriers knock off the La Ronge Ice Wolves in overtime of game 6 by a score of 4-3 on a goal from Jordan Guiney who potted his 2nd goal of the night. Monday night we saw a WILD game 7 between the Battlefords North Stars and the Nipawin Hawks. The first period had b