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3. I'm a pessimist at heart, so my thought is always to plan expecting a failure. If your plan counts on one player carrying your scoring, you are tempting the wrathful god of simulation to smite you for your hubris. Teams should try to have players who can score all over the roster. Even shutdown lines need a guy who can take advantage of the odd man rushes that inevitably result from the aggressive play that high scoring lines are prone to. If every line on your team has some sort of scoring threat, it make strategy much more challenging for your opponents.
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4. As noted in my previous answer, my philosophy is to expect a failure and plan accordingly. This is why I hate to count on high level goalie play. One of my old buddies says”Goalies are voodoo.” They're impossible to predict. I have the top TPE goalie in another league, borderline consensus pick for multiple awards and his save percentage isn't even in the top 10. I'd much rather ice a team that can maintain possession in the Zone and suppress scoring chances than invest in a high level goalie. Obviously the ideal is to do all three things, but there's a salary cap. Don't spend it on G.
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8. Look, it's time to face facts. You know it, I know it, the people who aren't reading this know it. The San Francisco Pride have identified a gap in the league rules and are exploiting it to the maximum extent possible: the league does not test players for the use of anabolic steroids. This has been waived off as irrelevant because this is a sim league or spurious and baseless. Frankly, I don't care if it's based or not. It's time for the SHL head office to take the ethics of the game back and test every single member of the Pride to catch this exploitation.
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9. How do you think? They've got their eye on things, they've started giving their players steroids, too. Frankly, this whole league is a mess and I'm wondering if anyone here has ever even cared about sportsmanship. It's all win at any cost and no love of the game anymore. Makes me sick.
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