In S63, the players hitting their peaks will be the S53-S55 Classes, so a good barometer for what the league will look like in a year will be to look at what teams have bolstered their rosters with those players currently.  By pulling data from the Player Analyze 2.0, I looked at the SHL Teams for all the top skaters, which I defined as within 200 TPE of the highest Earner in their respective class, in Season 53 through 55.  It will come to a shock to no one that Tampa Bay is sitting pretty in first place from this with 9 total skaters atop the S53-S55 range (2, 3, 4 respectively), while a bit behind them is a tie for second with 6 skaters each is Buffalo (3, 2, 1) and Toronto (2, 2, 2), so the Great Lakes will continue to be a blood bath with Buffalo continuing their dominance and Toronto rising from the bottom into contention.  There are four teams with 5 players, Baltimore (2, 0, 3), New England (2, 0, 3), Texas (3, 1, 1), and Winnipeg (2, 1, 2).  The three teams with 4 players are Hamilton (1, 2, 1), Minnesota (1, 1, 2), and San Francisco (1, 0, 3).  Another three teams have 3 players, Calgary (0, 2, 1), Edmonton (1, 1, 1), and Manhattan (1, 2, 0).  Only Chicago (1, 1, 0) team has 2 players.  Then there are three teams with only 1 player, Los Angeles (1, 0, 0), New Orleans (0, 0, 1), and Seattle (1, 0, 0).  Finally, there is one team with 0 players in the top of the S53-S55 classes, and that is Atlanta (Seattle would be here as well without the Jeffie trade).  So the East should hold dominion over the SHL at the beginning of 2022.

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