Board games are a fantastic way to pass time and help build camaraderie with the group that you happen to be playing it with.

For the SHL I wanted to base it off of a classic game that I remember playing fondly when I was in my youth and that was "Snakes and Ladders". The objective of the game is to get your piece to the end of the board by rolling dice and moving forward, along the board there are ladders which can you move up more quickly to the top or there are snakes which brings you back down or even lower on the board! Whoever gets to the end of the board is the winner.

To SHL-ify the game the ladders can be SHL teams where you get "called up" and can get farther along on the board. For the snakes, they can be your SMJHL team and when you land on them you will be "sent down" on the board. The final place on the board can be the Challenge Cup and whoever wins the board game will be able to hoist the Challenge Cup and call themselves the "Snakes and Ladders" champs of the SHL.