Verification word: triviadone

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Back in my day the league was so different. There used to be this guy named Simon who... actually, well, let's not get into that story. First of all, there weren't nearly as many teams. What does it mean to have fewer teams? Fewer players too and higher chances to win a cup, or an individual award or to create league records in all kinds of categories. Those awards we have now had to be named after famous players from the first few seasons, so when the league was new and you were one of the 'good' players, chances were high that you would find an award being named after you later. That doesn't happen too often anymore these days. Players also had shorter careers and yet had so much success that younger players these days should be jealous. And goalies could actually get points, believe it or not. It wasn't uncommon for them to collect assists. That hasn't happened in ages. (162 words)

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The Toronto North Stars have only one the Challenge Cup once. A long time ago, in season 35. It's been almost 30 seasons since then. Obviously, the GMs back then also won the GM of the Year award, as they should have. The same season Toronto's Zander Rhys won the Ryan Jesster (Rookie of the Year) award and of course one of Toronto's all-time greatest Kristian Eriksson was awarded the Anton Razor Trophy for playoff MVP. Eriksson was the best player in the playoffs scoring 20 points in 17 games, but worth mentioning is the other rookie on the team Chris York who scored 15 points. Both of them have their numbers retired now and are in Toronto's Hall of Fame, just to show you how important both of them were for the team back then. Eriksson still holds virtually all Toronto skater records such as most games played and most points. It really was a great season and a great team back then. (158 words)

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The good old pre-historic "DHL" (not to be confused with the logistics company). Those were the days. I feel old now just thinking about it. What do humans and dinos have in common? They want to play hockey of course and win the Cup. Back in the day they didn't have the Challenge Cup of course, but the Jurassic Cup. Each team was made up by different dinosaurs and each of them had different skills. Back in those times you weren't limited to skating on the ground, some of the dinos even took the puck up in the air and tried to throw it into the net. Of course, they had no real rules which means no refs and no penalties either. And no coaches of course. Guess how often they tried to kill each other? Nobody was surprised to see a game where only half of the players survived the second period. You fought for your ice time after all. Those were the days indeed and I'm glad they're over. (171 words)

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+3 TPE S63 Milestones

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The good old "parity" issue. For me personally it won't solved until we see HAM at the bottom of the league or at least at the bottom of the division. It's still a problem. Perhaps not as big of a problem as some seasons ago, but if you take a look at Hamilton's playoff appearances over the last ten seasons, you should be able to see how boring this is. No team can be that good for that long. It's taking away the fun from a lot of other people in the league that aren't on Hamilton (or on the other handful of teams that had comparable success in the past). I get it, if you're on a successful team you don't see it that way. Everyone wants to win a cup, but it's so much better if it's not always the same 3-4 teams. Let others enjoy it too once in a while? (154 words)

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