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It was by far the best, fantastic or extremely good season for Alexander Wachter. After resigning in Texas in the offseason and get promoted to line one, I hoped to see some better results than before. But the outcome was just a dream, first time in his career he was a point per game player finished with 25 goals and 29 assists for a total of 54 points. And the +/- stats ended with a nice +22, that could reduce the carrier total after a -38 rookie campaign in season 53. In the team scoring race Wachter finished on a great 2nd place behind is line mate Josef Kubinec (62 points) and right before the living legend of the Texas Renegades Andreas Kvalheim (53 points). Not sure if he could do another big jump next year, compared to S55 with 31 points it’s a plus 23 points. Don’t know if that’s doable again. But Wachter will try to get to 77 points, would probably put him into the MVP race next year.

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The world is not going down but everyone starts to worry, also the head office of the SHL and so they started a few discussions what to do if it happens to separate the teams and set up a playoff bubble to guarantee that we could have a champion on the end of a long season. So, after evaluating a lot of scenarios and hours of discussion they have come to a solution. The SHL playoff bubble will be in the desert of Nevada the home of the addicted to gambling or also called The Entertainment Capital of the World or Sin City, but we called it officially Las Vegas. Why Las Vegas? Pretty easy no team calls it home and so there will be nobody preferred. No home team advantage because they have their natural environment around them. Players would only be allowed to stay in their hotel and travel with the team bus to the hockey arena for games and practices.

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Looking at the IIHF teams, it’s pretty clear that the north American teams of the USA and Canada will have a big tourney again. They have such deep rosters that the other teams need a great day to beat them. It’s possible to do, if you look back at the last IIHF when the US boys lost 4 and the Canadiens 3 games in the round robin. Don’t forget the gold medalist himself the boys of her majesties Queen Elisabeth from good old Great Britain. But a team that I believe could come out big, is the team from Austria. A lot of their players had breakout season in the SHL and should be able to translate it to the IIHF team. One big spotlight will be on the last ride from Austrians and SHL legend Mike Izzy. Maybe it will not be his most successful tournament, but probably to most heart breaking when he left the ice after the last game of a very long and great career.


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a. When you look at the roster of both teams, you somehow get dizzy about how good they are. Both have a fantastic offense that can decide games easily with that firepower on the line up. The defense of Buffalo seems to be just a little bit better than that from Hamilton not much but they have a very thin lead because they have with Doyle the better goalie.

b. I guess we will see some changes during the series. Both teams have great strategies that brought them a lot of success, otherwise they wouldn’t be here today. Maybe we will see a tactical change after two or three games into the series if a team is up 2 or 3 zero. Facing elimination is always a good time to change it.

c. Good question I guess every one of these lakes have their own great arguments why they are the best lake. And being a guy from the old world I don’t know any of these lakes and can’t real argument why one is the best. So don’t be to offended when I must say its Erie, I just liked that the name is so short.

d. If I have the pleasure to meet one of the guys from these teams, it would be Tomen. Tomen is like me a German speaking member and does live pretty near compared to the rest of those teams. I guess we will hang out in a bar drinking some beer or something harder and have a great evening.

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