1. CW Trivia verification word: rags
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8. Path to the finals (209 words +4)
Now normally I would say that it’s a 50/50 that Tampa either has a huge advantage over Los Angeles from the down time with all that rest, or they have a huge disadvantage from the down time because they’ve just been sitting around waiting to play someone, and they have perhaps gotten rusty. In the real world, we have seen both happen. It is usually a complete toss up whether the rested team wins and it’s blamed on their extra rest, or they lose and it’s blamed on them being rusty from all the off time. All this tells is that it really has no effect whatsoever. Now of course, this is real life. In the Simulation Hockey League world, I don’t think it really matters all that much who has a lot of rest and who is just coming off a couple seven game series’s in a row. I have seen 425 TPE goalies stop 55 shots for a shutout in a game and 2k TPE goalies let in 5 goals on 7 shots in that same game. This will just lead me down a path of complaining about realism in the SHL and probably cause me to go on a rant about regression so I’ll stop here.

11. Give me more (121 words +2)
If I was the new dictator of the SHL there would a few things I would work toward changing. First and foremost, I would take a good hard look at regression and try to figure something else out. I will die on the hill that regression happens way too early, and that it’s basically the equivalent of a player starting to fall from their prime around the age of 27, which is usually when a player is in their prime and will be for a few more years. If a player is getting over a point per game, it seems odd that the next season they just regress so much that they loose 200 tpe and suddenly are a third liner.