I plan on making my player "Parker Smeb" the very best enforcer the league has ever seen. STHS enforcer legends like Steven Jalopski and Joey Langdon will be weeping tears when I drop the gloves 45 times per season and win all 45. I plan on fighting Chico Smeb 30 times since he's had it coming his entire SHL career. Since the Syndicate GM also specializes in fixing brain injuries I have no worries about the CTE I will deal with later in life. No pain no game is what the Smeb family says. I also plan on focusing on screening because you always want your 3rd pairing d-man to be able to screen the goalie.


I would choose Barrett McCarthy on the Manhattan Rage. I'm a big believer in having two-way defensemen that can do it all and that's why Parker Smeb led the league in +/- last season, the hardest thing to lead the league in. Barrett McCarthy was within 10 +/- of Parker Smeb which makes me thinks he's on the right track. I think there is real potential for McCarthy to win the Scott Stevens award at some point in his career, he's already one of the best passing defencemen in the league and if he can pot a few more goals he'll have no problem leading all defenders in points in a season.


FOR.First off it gives more places a chance to host games. Plus it would allow us to host the finals in Europe or Asia or somewhere that is actually more interesting than playing every single game ever in NA. I really don't understand why we don't have a team or two in Europe, it literally makes no sense for a fake sim hockey league to only have teams based in North America, especially when our user contingent has so many Europeans. The SHL has been around for like 60 seasons and we have still never had a Europe based SHL team. Moving the finals around would at least allow us to do that.


1. The Rage easily has the advantage since they have JayWhy as their GM. He like triples everyone else in SHL experience and was also a long-time simmer replacing the infamous JACK CROSS. As random as SHL can be I'd much rather have the GM with more SHL experience and multiple cups under his belt than the less experience team.

2. In a long series like the CHALLENGE CUP FINALS you need to take into account how much ice-time your top players have played. I would much rather have a team with depth than a team that only has 1 good line and needs to triple shift them to score goals. Triple shifting their players have helped the Pride get to this point but I think it will hurt them in this series against a well rested RAGE team.

3. Personally, I'm not a fan of either logo. The Rage logo looks like a very malnourished and possibly inbred Lion and the Manhattan logo is a literal RED BULL, meaning if he ever sees a mirror he will commit seppuku. If I had to pick a logo between the two I would pick the Rage, I have more nostalgia for the rage as a team and they used to have a polar bear that was holding Manhattan between his paws which is a top 3 logo in SHL history.

4. BACKDOOR BARNACLE is easily the greatest name in this series and one of the best names in SHL history. You can take this name so many ways, is it about SPONGEBOB? Is it about a BARNACLE stuck in someone's rectum? Is it just a regular name? Who knows but I drafted this guy precisely for this legendary name and now he has a cup. Look how smart I look.

5. I don't really want any of these things but JayWhy is old school and my teammate for one season when I traded myself to the Blizzard so I'd probably want him to teach me how to use a chain saw. Gritty would probably be my second pick since being alone in a room with him gives me a good chance at getting rich from a lawsuit.


I'm going to go with goaltender Peter Larson for series MVP, he had an absolutely insane playoff run and a fantastic finals performance and was the main reason the Rage were able to beat the Pride in this series. In the first 5 games of the series Larson held the Pride to 2 or less goals in every single game for a total of 9 goals allowed in the first 5 games of the series while also managing to shut-out the Pride in one of those games. The final game was a bit closer but even in a higher scoring 6-4 game he was able to show he can play in any environment and was able to carry the Rage to the win. If the Rage had a lesser goalie in this series then they don't win so Larson deserves it.





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