Rule:
-You may schedule a friendly with whoever you wish, but you must announce it prior to the season in which the friendly will take place. They will be simmed as an exhibition and can be used to experiment with rosters and lines and to give new guys a shot if you wish to rest some of your grisled veterans.

Schedule: (based on normal international cycle)
Year One: Four friendlies following the end of the playoffs
Year Two: Two friendlies after 10 games in the SHL season
Year Three: Two friendlies after 10 games in the SHL season
Year Four: Two friendlies after 35 games in the SHL season

For this current cycle, Year One is S20, Year Two is S21, Year Three is S22, and Year Four is S23.