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S81 Championship Week
Due: Sunday, April 6th @ 11:59 PM PST
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Rtpc31Registered Posting Freak
1. shwoop +3TPE
12. Expanding with an additional four teams is surely going to shake up the power balance of the league. While the cores of successful teams will likely remain untouched, the depth that separates the great teams from the good teams is the facet that is going to be hit the hardest. Those teams with three strong forward lines and three powerful defensive pairs are going to have to make tough decisions whereas teams with a few good players will likely only lose replacement level players. Therefore, I think there will be a rush on free agents by teams in their contention windows to replace the good players they lost, while mid to low tier teams will likely fill this with mid tier stop gaps or bringing up their prospects to fill the voids. In the immediate interim future after the expansion draft, I think we will see a lot of prospects turn pro early. Ultimately, over the long term, this will increase parity and hopefully spread the wealth to prevent these prolonged contention windows that we are seeing in the current era with only a handful of teams making it to the conference finals and going on to win the cup season after season. (203 words) +4TPE 15. The San Francisco Pride ended up winning their third consecutive championship and it came as no surprise. They have been the bogeyman of the league over that time and their depth and talent is nearly impossible to match over a seven game series. Tampa Bay put up a good effort, but ultimately fell in a similar way that Winnipeg, Seattle, and New Orleans did before them. You can get keep it close over a two or three game stretch but eventually the Pride are going to be too much to overcome. (91 words) +1TPE
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