The Seattle Argonauts made an offseason splash with a big trade with the Los Angeles Panthers which landed them their leading scorer this past season in Luukas Lilja, veteran scorer Jimmy Wagner, and defensive star Jonas Wagner.  It was a huge trade that added a lot of talent to the team and made their team very deep.  It is no surprise they ended up in the finals and I think they have enough depth this season to win it all.

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It looks like their forward Lev Lebedev is having an insane playoffs with 43 points in 27 games which is just an unreal performance for the Rage and probably a huge reason they are in the finals.  Name Redacted also has a save percentage above .920 so that is huge for the team too, showing that they can stop pucks as well as score.  I am not sure they have enough in the tank to win it all though.

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I think this will be an advantage for the Seattle players because it will let them rest their bodies a little bit more and the Rage players may break down from too much damage in the playoffs.  I think rest is key in the playoffs for any team so the more the better for sure. Luckily this is a sim though so we can't even get injured.

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I think this just shows that nowadays in the SHL you need a little bit of luck to make it to the finals.  I do not know if there was one specific driving force behind this or it just happened that these teams got key bounces more often than other teams.  I think it will keep being a surprising playoffs but the sim is going to have to choose one team to be unlucky here so it will be interesting to see who it is.

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If the SHL were to buy the rights to a song for the S67 Playoffs they should really buy the rights to "YMCA" by the Village People.  Now you may ask, "Sloth why would we pick such an outdated and sorta lame song to represent the marketing for the playoffs?" Well you see I put a lot of thought into this.  In the song YMCA the lyrics reference the word man a lot and with Manhattan in the playoffs they could show a highlight from them every time the word man is said in a song in a commercial.  Then in the chorus every time they say the letter C we could put the word "sea" up on screen and show a Seattle highlight.  It is the perfect tie in for both of the teams in the finals and people could really get going dancing to it at the games.  Just don't think about it too hard and it is genius!

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In my opinion the best SHL team that did not win the Challenge Cup this season is the Philadelphia Forge because well, I'm on the team.  I also know that we have the best roster around even if we may not have the most TPE compared to some of the other teams around the league.  But we were seriously robbed when were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.  We also pulled off a reverse sweep after the sim gave us some bad luck in the first few games of the series.  Then after BASE PACK played a few decent games with the Forge playing great in front of him, BASE PACK laid an egg in the elimination game and was a huge reason that Philadelphia was unable to advance to their rightful place to win the Challenge Cup.  Hopefully we have gotten all our bad luck out of our system with yet another early playoff exit and we can look to go on and win it all next time.

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BASE PACK is still a young rookie in the league so he is roomed up with another rookie in Ricky Koivu for most of the road trips. Usually only the veterans are getting solo rooms even though BASE PACK tried to argue with management that he is just a pack of cards and they can lay him down in a pretty small single room and he wouldn't take up too much room. They disagreed sadly. So BASE PACK usually just wants to get some rest when he is on the road in hotel rooms, and luckily Koivu is respectful of that. There have only been a handful of times when they have stayed up and partied too late (maybe BASE PACK did that in the playoffs when they lost). BASE PACK will usually want to wake up early so he can do whatever it is that a pack of cards would do all day. Hopefully he can get his own room in the future seasons just so he can say that he made it as a veteran.

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Well I usually tend to do this in real life in a way with sim sports so I will write about it from that perspective instead of rambling about some made up BASE PACK nonsense. If my team loses a game in the playoffs while I am watching then I won't watch the next game that they play in. If they win the next game then I am banished from watching games the rest of the series because I am deemed bad luck. If we lose again then I am allowed to tune in for more games in that series since it was not my bad luck that made us lose that first game that I watched. I would think that this superstition would reset in the next round but lately we haven't been advancing to the next round in the playoffs so I have not really been able to test it out. We will see if I get this to work in the future and we can move on in the playoffs for once!

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