Seeing as we're well into the playoffs at this point, it's a genuinely fairly simple task to point out why the Hamilton Steelhawks were as good as they played this regular season. The depth on this team is beyond stellar. Almost everyone was playing at a 20+ point season, and you didn't see many Hamilton names at the top of scoring leaderboards because the points were so spread out across the roster. Almost everyone was contributing night in and night out, and having a team that can do that is as valuable as it gets.

Beyond that, our defence + goaltending were some of the big reasons that we took the President's Trophy. Picking up JY for the start of the season gave us a big boost in confidence, having a retiring but still incredibly solid goaltender sitting in net. When you've got a reliable back end, it makes it easier to not worry about letting goals in--which lets your team focus on gunning them into the net.