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The SHL has the lowest injury rate of any pro sports league in the world! It's a marvel of modern medicine and scientists have been stumped for decades as to the secret behind the success! Well, as it turns out, it's a combination of several factors, programs, and league initiatives that keep all SHL players performing in tip-top shape year round. 

Firstly, all SHL and SMJHL teams are serviced by the finest athletic physicians money can pay to hire, graduates from the long-prestigious SHL School of Sport Medicine; the world's most prolific MD factory. These graduates are prepped on the latest, most cutting edge procedures, technologies, medicines, rumours, hearsay, medical wizardry, and illegal extraterrestrial resources.

Secondly, the teams and players are protected by the most recent, newest, and well-designed hockey equipment on the planet, developed through a multi-layered partnership overseen by experts from the fields of sports, aeronautics, and the defense industry.

And lastly, SHL ownership maintains a steady supply of valuable livestock and harvest sacrifices to their custom-built temple to Zxy'Ch'grar - the Endless One, Arbiter of Fortune and Doom. As long as his grasping hands (and there are so, so very many) are full of humble sacrifices, no harm will befall the players. This is the Covenant of Shielding, established by the SHL's forerunners, the ancient Circle of Mystery, led by the great Thaumaturge and Demonologist Sir REDACTED.