PBE Affiliation

11.

I will say, I am not the most knowledgeable about hockey, so maybe take this with a grain of salt, but if I had a choice and a chance to change it up, I would ensure that the staleness would be gone with adding 4th lines to each team. Adding 4th lines adds 5 total new players to your team, and increases the amount of ice time shared for guys that are just stuck in the SMJHL with being able to go up. I say it adds 5 players, as you get 2 wingers, a center, and 2 new defensemen that get to go up and participate in the SHL and continue to live out their dreams of playing in the big leagues and competing for being the best there ever was or ever will be. Adding another line, or well I guess 2 lines, one for the forwards and one for the defense, will add more abilities for the coaching staff as well to mix and match and make it challenging for other teams to see what they are doing.

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12.

This is a rough one, because I still haven’t picked a team with which I am going to go to in the IIHF, so it does not really affect me right now. I do think, though, that with the IIHF being such a short tournament, that it really only takes one team to get hot at the right time and just run through the round robin stages and take that fire into the medal rounds. It’s so hard to predict, because nothing really carries over from your time in the SHL to the IIHF, and it is hard to really decide who is going to make it out on top or not. But honestly, you can never really count out the two biggest nations, in the USA and Canada, as you people love to create for these teams and love to represent where they are from, so I think they could both surprise this upcoming IIHF because any given night, right?

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