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a. This is an interesting finals, Atlanta reminds me a lot of a young Chicago before we broke through and won our first cup, I think they're a very good team with a very bright future ahead, that being said I think long-term Chicago is one of the top 3 run orgs ever since expansion and I think the wealth of knowledge available to Chicago in the war room gives them the edge in this series.
b. Without tactics available it's harder to adapt to stuff like this. But I think the types of players you play together on a line is hugely important to stuff like this. Turning over the puck is not a massive deal as long as when you're turning over the puck you're not getting scored on, having defensively resposible players on every line is extremely important in modern day SHL, so the best way to avoid giving up goals on these turnovers is make sure every line is defensively resposible.
c. This stuff is somewhat random, but special teams are always important. You need to outplay the opposition to win the special teams game because the team spending more time in their own zone generally takes more penalties. You never want to spend time shorthanded on FHM because it can completely tilt the game, especially if your team doesn't have the stamina to recover from it.
d. The balanced attack is always the way to go if you have the players to run it. If you don't have the players to run a balanced attack then the sheltered approach is better, even though every team would much rather be able to roll 3 lines. I think Chicago has the advantage in this area because when you can run lines you never have to be worried about sending a weaker line out against way tougher competition, or overworking your best players.



Why did you choose your IIHF country? Is it where you’re actually from? Is it where your friends play? Was it for a specific role play reason? I want to know how you decided where your player comes from![/code]

When I was recreating I was trying to decide between making a Korean or Japanese player, ultimately the Smeb family went with Smeb as our last name so it wouldn't make much sense to name our players after Smeb and be from Japan. When IIHF expansion came up I basically thought although Korea would be better for the Smebs and our lore, that Japan would be a much easier nation to attract new players to, there was already a wealth of Japanese players on the site at the time and there's a lot of weebs on the site, and since we recruit so heavily from reddit there would be even more weebs joining the site, which is basically what's happened now that Japan is one of the premier IIHF nations. I still think if IIHF ever expands again Korea would be a great option and probably have a lot of members wanting to play for them.


The SHL has the most prestigious cup, it just does. The SHL GM job takes more long-term planning and calculation to make sure your team is planned out years in advance and that you're maximizing your teams cup window, some teams miss out on their cup windows because they aren't willing to spend assets when they HAVE to spend assets to win. The SMJHL jobs are more about developing but also take a lot of skill to be great, I think there's more GM's that are considered "great" in the SHL but there's more bad GM's in the SHL that are easier to take advantage of. It's harder to be a GREAT GM in the SMJHL because there's less bad GM's in the SMJHL.  The one thing with the SMJHL is I wish you could get into the GM HOF solely off of a SMJHL GM career, especially now because more work goes into those roles than ever before and there's some really good SMJHL GM candidates for the HOF



I think the dream line for my player would be Smeb-Smeb-Smeb-Smeb-Smeb, I don't believe this dream line ever became a reality, although we all had different combos at various points in our careers and everyone except for Steve Craig played for Japan. If Kit Smeb had stayed active and Chico Smeb hadn't been sniped by Calgary when he was it could've realistically been an actual line for Chicago at some point and actually would've probably been a very good line, even Khan who didn't play much was a pretty decent depth defenseman and could've been carried by the other Smebs. Unfortunately, Calgary sniped Chico which we knew was a possibility at the draft, the unlucky part is Chico probably would've had a much better career had Chicago drafted him because I could've kept him active much easier. I think this line is one of the bigger what if's in SHL history and would've been very cool to see for a few games on Chicago at some point.




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