The Texas Renegades pre-season was perhaps not one to look back to with extraordinarily huge satisfaction, going just 4-2-1, but as the team seemed to pick up their play and perform better and better in every succeeding game. They lost the first two games against expectedly strong Buffalo and Edmonton teams and then the fourth game against perennial dark horse Winnipeg in the middle there, but closed out the preseason in good form with three consecutive wins against Baltimore twice and Winnipeg again in between there. Despite those tail end victories of the pre-season coming against presumably weaker teams, they are none the less quite confident that the regular season itself should become another strong march forward to contend first for the Presidents Trophy and ultimately of course the coveted grand prize of all sim hockey players, the SHL Challenge Cup! To get to that ultimate prize, they of course need to find a way to shut down at least one or two of the league’s perennial contenders from the fearsome Great Lakes division, but the Renegades are dead set on proving all of the SHL that their successes are not simply a product of playing in a weaker division or conference, but that the team that had invested heavily into a thorough and thought out rebuild has now as a result reached a level where it can truly contend with the very best in the league with no caveats needed or deserved! The seasons of the Renegades are upon us!