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12-02-2024, 02:43 AM (This post was last modified: 12-02-2024, 02:43 AM by Lime.)

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During their 20 seasons in league Philadelphia has never missed the playoffs. Which is impressive but still there are other teams with longer playoffs streaks, while other teams clean the house others try to stay afloat and do a retool while still staying in playoffs, both with varying successes. Out of last 5 Challenge Cup winners both Los Angeles and San Francisco missed playoffs about 6 seasons before they won their cup while New England has been in playoffs since S67. What in your opinion is best way to achieve success in SHL? Is it better to have high but shorter peak or should teams try to aim staying close to top but likely never reaching it for longer, potentially almost indefinitely? Can they somehow do both?

I think its a lot easier to blow things up and build a team from scratch to compete in a window. Obviously if everyone does this only a couple will win but at least you are kind of giving yourself a chance out there. Some teams keep trying to retool and retool and never end up in a spot where they could reasonably win it all. But the elite class of teams can keep retooling and still remain actual contenders for extended periods of time. This is pretty rare though, but teams like New England, Buffalo, and Philly have had long stretches of top tier performance while still winning it all at least once or twice.

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13. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Five Nation Tournament

The only international tournaments in SHL are WJC and IIHF but in real life we have had Olympics, World Cups and now the 4 Nation tournament. What kind of tournaments besides of IIHF and WJC you’d like to see in SHL? How they would be different from the current tournaments? How often they would be played and would they be played instead of current tournaments or would both be held at the same time? Or would you think it would be instead better to restructure current tournaments?

I was going to say no new tournaments because the SHL workforce can be spread thin as it is-- especially simmers. But thinking about it now, it wouldn't be too taxing to hold an Olympics event every four seasons. It would be cool to have something longer term to look forward to in terms of career and make IIHF teams more engaged. There would be more time to prepare for each Olympics if it is every four seasons as there would only be one or two per year. I'm not sure how it would be differentiated from the current IIHF tournament though. Maybe different rules to keep things interesting. I think that the Olympics could be held during the regular season so that it does not step on the toes of the IIHF, and I think we should still have the IIHF even with the Olympics that season to keep the current tradition.

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