Quote:Originally posted by Schultzy@Sep 7 2016, 04:15 PM

Back to your original questions. 300 TPE can play in the SHL if you're active. 500 to not suck. 850 for the 2nd line. 1000 for the top line and 1200 to be elite. That's about where the league is. You'll see some inactive 155 healthy scratches in the SHL to meet the roster limit.

I'm actually against active rookies going back to the SMJHL as send downs. I think the quicker you escape the disaster that is the SMJHL and the quicker you enter the real league, the better your career will be.

I can only speak for my past case. There were extraordinary events that led to me going belly up. It had the appearance to me that there was a bias against the two expansion teams in the league. That appearance was probably mostly due to a set of bad coincidences. I got blindsided by the punishment handed out in a tampering rule that I wasn't aware of. My team lost all the other draft choices from my year from bannings and inactivity. It got worse from there and I threw in the towel.

I think that the prospect of going back to the SMJHL and having to follow two leagues was a minor factor. I agree with you that it's better for me to go straight to the SHL if I reach that point. A third or even fourth line role for wouldn't bother me. I'd like to be in the league I'm doing TPE in as fast as possible. Being an SHL send down feels a bit like being in Limbo.