verification: redcarpet

+3 TPE


I don't really remember everything about the beginning of the season so some of this might be guessing. I remember New England had a relatively rough start or at least there was a part in the first half of the season where they weren't as good as I expected them to be, considering that they won the cup the season before. You always have very high expectations for a team that was a cup-winning team just a few games before in the playoffs. They didn't finish as high as I would've expected them either and you see how it ended, they got kicked out by Baltimore in the first round. Do I have an explanation for this? Not really, I think this just shows reality and what I like about the league now. Good teams have to lose at some point and let other teams win. That way it stays interesting.

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+3 TPE


I'm not a huge fan of replacing existing teams. I'd rather see new teams, but I suppose we need the user base for that first and we probably don't have it. There are definitely some European countries that currently don't have a team that could get one. Perhaps Denmark, Hungary or Poland and I'm technically not even against bringing Austria back (either by moving France back there or by expansion). IIHF is always much bigger in Europe than in North America, at least 'in real life' so I'd like to see expansion happening there rather than in some obscure countries in Africa.

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+2 TPE