It's what happens to any league where there's competition. Teams want to win of course. That means SHL teams plays the best possible rooster even if it means sending down thier rookie 3 seasons straight (me in this case).

I personally could care less about padding my stats. I'm not really interested in setting records or being a hof player. I just want my team to win to be honest.

I played my entire first season on the fourth line and Tallied up 10 points
I could have let that get to me, but I didn't, I went 8th over all in the SHL draft and landed on a team I'm very happy to play for. I am also one of the top TPE earners on the site looking at TPE/week.

First season will be rough, there's send downs who takes up roster spots, the teams are no longer filled with 155 inactives.

Sadly there's no easy way to tackle the issue as most suggestions either punish the player or the SHL team. I don't agree with either to be honest.

The way I look at it is that if you can't stay active first season of your players carer due to ice time, good luck spending 4 seasons on the 4th/3rd line in SHL playing against absolute monsters. Players who are active will definetly crack top6/4 during thier second sesson.