PBE PT 24-4


Let me start this by saying you hit the nail on the head in this prompt. The same few teams reaching the final every season, especially ones coming out a single division, is getting very old very quickly & something needs to change sooner rather than later. I guess if I had to pick a surprise from the season, it'd have to be that the best record in the regular season didn't come from a team out of the Great Lakes division. Don't get me wrong, having been around the Texas locker room the past few seasons, I'm not really surprised by what they were able to accomplish this time around, I just wasn't sure the league would allow anyone but Hamilton succeed & given how the postseason panned out, I guess they got their way anyway. I, for one, anxiously await the day when the league's curse is lifted & the Steelhawks' reign of terror finally comes to an end.

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Not enough storylines? Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the same handful of teams have been running the league for basically the entirety of the FHM era so far & people getting quite bored of watching the same old same old. Now, to answer the actual prompt. As these scenarios are worded, there's a pretty obvious choice. Since option A clearly states that your team would play the entirely game with 6 skaters on the ice at a time, so that obviously means they would also be immune to taking penalties as well as being allowed an extra skater. While this would still leave you open to icing & offside calls, the constant power play would be well worth the risk.

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I touched on this briefly in one of the other questions, but the best team in the Simulation Hockey League to not reach the Season 58 Challenge Cup Final would have to be the Texas Renegades. They finished the regular season with a final record of 54 wins, 11 losses & 1 overtime loss. Let's just digest that for a second, FIFTY FOUR wins, that's absolutely insane for a 66 game season. An interesting stat I'd like to point out in the middle of that is that Texas only went past 60 minutes 4 times this season, but in none of those 4 was the game settled in overtime.

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I'd be lying if I said I've been paying a lot of attention to IIHF since I've been back, but a lot of that has to do with both my player not really being involved despite being on the Norway roster & being more focused on the World Junior tournament the last couple seasons as the GM of Team World. Thankfully, I'll have an uncapped build for this coming IIHF tournament, so hopefully I'll have more of a vested interest in it this time around. As for the tournament as a whole, I honestly couldn't even tell you who won it last season, so I'd have to do some digging to even really get started here. Okay, so it's looking like maybe Great Britain won? Can't say for sure as the index is pretty wonky when it comes to playoffs, but that wouldn't surprise me too much. With a forward group comprised of names like Forty-One, Brain, Zheng & Slothface, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had another strong showing in this season's tournament.

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