4. The cure is real and very documented throughout the years of SHL FHM era. We have seen a constant supply of great teams win one but not the other and this season is just more of the same history. I strongly feel that the program FH.has a huge role to play in making or not making that possible. We have seen it year in and year out that the top teams in the regular season struggle to have long term success in the post season. FHM tends to highly favor the lower seeded teams in the playoffs and knock out the stronger regular season workhorses. This may be due to long term fatigue or other unseen properties within the program itself. We tend to see the strongest teams on paper do well and as expected in the regular season but once the playoffs start, it's a whole new game and everyone is a possible contender.
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5. Rivalries are one of the biggest draws that leagues such as the SHL and SMJHL have going for them. This is also true for the lesser known leagues such as the NHL and similar leagues to it. These Rivalries usaly are birthed in the playoffs and flow into the regular season in some form or another. Players and fans a like create life long love and hate for their teams through this method of playing one another so often and it really shows when 2 teams match up for a best of seven series year after year. Teams and cities really get to know one another well during these long drawn oight 7 game series. Having teams remain in the same divisions each year makes.for great regular season hockey. But what really makes.money for teams and builds life long fans is when those rivalries get to meet in the playoffs. I love the current structure of the league and think there's no better playoff system on earth.
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13. 2 games into the 4 Star Cup finals and it already looks like Maine is the winner! The Timber were the clearly superior team throughout the playoffs and it was no different in the finals over Quebec. It's easy to see the e Tra effort the Timber have put into the game and why they are the easy winners. Whether it's the extra effort in the board battles or the attention to detail on the breakout, Maine was all over Quebec and never let up enough to allow them to breathe. But in the end the final nail in the coffin was simply the goaltending and defensive play of the Timber.
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