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*Katth* · 08-21-2019, 02:12 AM

Sources within the SHL have confirmed that there have been talks about starting up an official minor league affiliate program between the SHL and the SMJHL. Currently the SHL and SMJHL teams have no affiliation, but it’s looking like that there are talks about having another league in between. This news has come from the SHL’s head office directly. As PT Department we went across the league to ask for ideas about this new minor league affiliate program and there are some very great and also funny ideas. Here are some of the best ideas we came across:

Quote:Parent Club: Chicago Syndicate
Minor League Affiliate: Rockford Underworld
Location: Rockford, Illinois

Mindset on Location:
Rockford is the third most populated city in Illinois, the first being Chicago and second being Aurora. Rockford has a far better sound to it than Aurora and is relatively close in population to Aurora as well. Rockford has also proven to be a successful market for the AHL and if I were in an owner of the Syndicate and or could choose where the affiliate was I would want it to be close to the city of Chicago, so that way the cost and time it would take to bring up players would be minimal.

Mindset on Team Name:
Being that the parent club is named Syndicate and it is an ode to the Chicago mobsters of the past I felt it was appropriate to go with another synonym of organized crime. My initial thought was to use the team name of the Rockford Racketeers, but after seeing Underworld as an option I thought that was the sexier pick of the two. I feel there is far greater potential to design a unique and captivating logo of the Underworld rather than playing on the crime of Racketeering.

Management:
My first choice for general manager is the first manager I came to know on this site @hhh81 . He instantly saw potential in me and has helped me grow as a player and always has his players best interest in mind. Without question, he's the right leader to guide this team to a championship. Equally important, I would I'd want to bring along @StadiumGambler to be our Head Coach, we need an experienced and knowledgeable voice in the room and with him as our head coach our team would be in good hands. There are good reasons why the Colorado Raptors LR is one of the best, and it starts from the top.

I really like this idea from @Tate. The team name is well thought of as is it’s location. As far as management goes I think those are some good choices as well. All around great looking idea.

Quote:If I were looking for a new affiliate for the New Orleans Specters, I would want something semi-close to the city for prospect travel purposes. But I would also want to add a little international flare to the league and put my affiliate team in Mexico. So I would place my team in Monterrey, Mexico since it is the capital of its state and on the Eastern part of Mexico. They would be branded as the Monterrey Chupacabras to keep with the spooky aspect that the New Orleans franchise has going. It also ties into the folklore of Mexico and would hopefully bring in more fans. I would probably keep the colors similar to the Specters, and I would definitely design the logo to be as spooky as possible. It would also allow the new affiliate franchise to have a lot of options as far as fun third jerseys go. They could sell special jerseys on days like Cinco de Mayo and really embrace the culture so hopefully the country of Mexico will adopt them. Because capitalism. I would force @thedangazone to pull double duty as NOLA Co-GM and the new head GM of Monterrey because I like to see him suffer. I would then poach @Kalakar from the Halifax management team and enslave him as the Monterrey Co-GM. Sorry boys.

I like the name and the idea of having an international affiliate team in Mexico, but I doubt Mexico is a market with potential. Also with the future wall in place it might take some more travel time between affiliate and New Orleans. @slothfacekilla

Quote:The Tampa Bay Barracuda will have a new minor league affiliate, the Orlando Florida Men. We decided to call it such as it is a very creative and good name for a team based out of Florida. Florida Man is a very popular figure in Florida so the Tampa Bay Barracuda have decided to name their minor league affiliate with such a name. It's a great name that will strike fear into the hearts of the opposing minor league affiliate teams. The Tampa Bay Barracuda have decided to name @Fantobens as the manager of the new team. He himself is a Florida man so it only makes sense that local Florida man manages hockey team. The Orlando Florida Men will be a very successful and important team in the Simulation Hockey League's new affiliate league and will be influential in making the league successful. Tampa Bay will be close enough to watch their players develop and keep a close eye on developing manager Fantobens. This is a great idea and will be great.

I had to laugh quite hard when I read this one. I’m not sure what @Fantobens has done himself as a Florida Man, but I’ve read that Florida Man has done some crazy things in his life. So naming a hockey affiliate this way can also be added to list now. Which is probably not even the craziest. @Jepox

Quote:Our affiliate will be in South Korea because of superstar Chico Smeb. We’ll be the first team in the SHL to have an affiliate outside of North America which is a huge step for the SHL. The hope is to develop more young korean players who genetically have the potential to be a superstar like Chico, but lack the proper coaching and equipment to get started. We hope to see a boom in new Korean hockey players within the next ten to fifteen seasons after this and will maybe even have our own iihf team someday branching away from team japan

The team will be called The Seoul Mates because we are really into peace and love. The Seoul Mates will force all teams to have to travel to Korea which I’m sure will piss off the league, but oh well, they get to experience a great country and eat some of the best food in the entire world. So I wouldn’t be complaining if I was them.

So after having an affiliate in Mexico, @xDParK takes it one step further and wants to create an affilate in South Korea! Because of future super star player Chico Smeb (actually there are a few more Smebs in the league) the Dragons organisation would like to create a farm in Seoul, calling it The Seoul Mates. That’s brilliant! I wonder how you make a chicken parm on a Korean barbecue.

Besides some great articles we have also seen some amazing art being produced in this weeks PT. Here’s a selection of the best art created.

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