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a. As much as I hate to admit that SFP wasn't the ultimate opponent that caused Texas' route to be difficult, it's pretty clear that Hamilton had the more difficult path. Going by regular season standings alone, Hamilton had to go through teams ranked 12, 4, and 3. Texas only had to go through teams ranked 16, 5, and 8. Chicago was the only team to give them a bit of trouble.

b. It's much more impressive to go through a rebuild and become one of the elite teams of the past few seasons. Clearly Hamilton has found the keys to success and hasn't been willing to give them up for a very long time. Keeping the knowledge of success is so much easier than starting from the bottom and learning how to succeed one slow season at a time.

c. Victor Helstrom was a S16 Swedish player in the SHL created on June 28th, 2013. It's clear that Helstrom had a long and successful career after retiring on January 23rd, 2015. As for why Helstrom is included in this year's trivia, I have no idea, but what I do know is that the user Secord has exactly one reputation. It's from my friend @Matteo for having the same birthday as him. Interesting. I think this is Slash's way of telling us that @Matteo will be the new PT director.

d. It's hard to argue against a case being made for Aaron Wilson as the best player to play for either team. Just one look at his player page and you can tell that Wilson knows how to min/max. He's been well above a point-per-game player for the entire FHM era and is showing no signs of slowing down. He consistently makes all of his line-mates look good season after season.




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https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3116582



So I knew the parity situation was a bit of an issue, but I never realized it was so skewed in the finals. The same 4 teams taking up the most recent 12 finals slots is kind of ridiculous and the same goes for 5 teams taking 16 slots. I think this comes from a combination of a few things. I definitely don't have the knowledge or experience to solve this, but to start, I think a few changes could be made to the salary cap. There should probably be another tier of minimum salary for players with 1800+ TPE. Right now there's no difference cap-wise between a team of 1600 TPE players and a team of 2000 TPE players. It feels too easy for teams to just assemble a roster of superstars and still be under the cap. In addition to this, prospects should count less towards the cap. This means that teams who are looking for future talent and giving players with lower potential a chance to make it in the league aren't prevented from also putting up a solid roster.



After waiting on the sidelines for multiple seasons, Kev Kevens is set to make a big splash in just his fourth year of international hockey in his seven season career. His first appearance in the IIHF is set to be a big one. Joining a strong Team Canada roster, I predict that Kev will store all his energy during the round robin phase. No goals for and no goals against while he's on the ice. Everyone will think he's a bust and doesn't deserve to be on the team. However, when playoffs roll around, I can guarantee that Kev will score every single game winning goal on the road to a gold medal for Canada.



The introduction of two PT prompts per week was a really good move in my opinion. That was definitely the biggest thing you did right regarding PTs. Another thing you did well was consistently posting all the tasks for the week on Sunday evening rather than Monday. It was really nice to have consistency and have time to complete things on the tail end of the weekend before a busy work week. My one and only complaint was that I came to expect this consistency and it was broken at one point. The one time you posted on a Monday (3on3 and Primetime #3), I was thrown off my groove and missed those tasks - first time I'd missed something in 6 seasons. Completely my fault at the end of the day, but if you're going to spoil us with consistent Sunday posts I just hope it can stay that way. Otherwise, fantastic work all around.