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From my point of view, in the playoffs, you always to favor the teams fill with veterans and who has previous experience in the situation they end up in. On top of that, Chicago finished the regular season first in the league with 19 points more than Atlanta, hence why Chicago are the favorite to win the title.

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While I think running a balanced ice time for your forward is probably the best way to go about it, it is just not possible for some teams to reach the final by rolling all their lines, because some of their players on their bottom six just don’t belong in this league. However, Atlanta has had massive success during these series with their current approach and I don’t see why it wouldn’t carry into the final.

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The origin of the Challenge Cup is really mysterious to a point where we don’t actually know from where it came from and how it ended up being the trophy award to the winners of the SHL playoffs. There are a lot of rumors going around about the origins with multiple ones being as possible as the others. However, I will only focus on one of these origins stories which is the one I found the most interesting, even if it is highly unlikely that it is how the Challenge Cup came to be. From what I hear, some part of the Challenge Cup would go all the way back to the Vikings time in Denmark and the cup was forged from a bunch of metal cups that the Vikings bring back to Denmark from England during the 9th century. Then, the cup got passed around Europe for multiple centuries and was reforged multiple time until a Canadian bring it back to Canada at the start of the 20th century after a trip to England and the cup was given to the SHL when by his children when he passed away. 

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First of all, the Four Star Cup has by far the coolest name between the two cups. It’s original, while Challenge Cup as nothing really special about it. As a GM, the Four Star Cups is harder two wins, because of the cycle of the junior league. You usually have one season where you will go all in for the cup, something two seasons if you’re lucky, and then, you will have to rebuild, because your best players will move on to the SHL and you will have to do this rebuild through the draft, but you will most likely have traded a few of your top picks since you wanted to go all in. In the SHL, you can more easily build a team that will be competitive for a few seasons. As a player, the Four Star Cup is also harder to win, because you only spend in junior and the team that draft you control you, while in the SHL, you can become a free agent and choose to sign with a team that is competitive.

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I choose my IIHF before I created my player, because I think it’s a major part of a player’s career and I wanted to take a country to another level. I was looking for a country not recognized for is hockey talent or history that was actually part of the league IIHF tournament. So, choosing one of the big six countries, Canada, USA, Russia, Finland, Sweden or Czechia was not a possibility. However still wanted to choose a country where the climate is cold enough to develop an hockey culture without it failing behind the other big sports like it’s the case in Ireland, Great Britain or Japan. This is why I finally settle for Norway.

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