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#61

So this one is pretty easy for me personally.

Texas.

Now this isn't a full on homer take. Look at the roster and how it's constructed and that a calendar year generally contains 4 seasons on average?

At the current rate of growth the team is experiencing mixed with league wide regression you already having texas vaulting up the standings.

The Mid point of S56 saw us around the 9-11 range for Offense - Defense - Goalie TPE. By the time we are at the MID S57 mark we are in 7th across the board.

As long as Puoli and RCD can keep the core mostly in tact and make some moves to keep some fresh legs coming in while managing the cap, I think Texas is at the CHI - HAM - BUF tier for talent and success. I have full confidence in Puoli at the helm of this team, especially with testing and think the West is Best moniker will return in full spirit for the league.

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The team that will for sure be on the upswing and competing by next year will be the San Francisco Pride. They are building through draft and developing their young core in their full rebuild mode. They have some big names coming up the next couple seasons including some of the top earners from different rookie classes. Needless to say by New Year’s next year they will in in the thick of things competing in the SHL. Of course this doesn’t change the fact they will have to make some tough decisions along the way. It is possible they will find themselves with some players that peak early or become inactive. Through trades and the next few drafts hopefully panning out like the last few have the Pride will be on the upswing of things and be a playoff team which makes them a contender. All you need to do is make the playoffs and then anything can happen!

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#63

In Season 64 of the SHL, not much will have changed. Buffalo will still be toward the top of the standings, contending for a Challenge Cup just like they did the previous seven seasons. Chimkin Tendy will finally be able to show off his skills eleven games a season as the underpaid and underappreciated back stop to the still extremely skilled Elizabeth Doyle. There will be a scandal that will come forth that Tendy was lacing Doyle’s Gatorade with laxatives before every game to try and get her to be stuck on the toilet so he could see more ice time, but it turns out the laxatives were expired so it didn’t really do anything. Tendy will be punished by only being allowed to play eight games the next season instead of eleven. Toronto will still not have won a single game against Buffalo, but will still somehow consider Buffalo to be their top rivals. Buffalo has forgot Toronto existed by now.

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#64

Zooming ahead one whole year is tough because a lot can change in 5 seasons. That is supposedly going to be the power spoke for TBB and they should be pretty dominant but I am not convinced that they will be the ones who are dominating the cup run. I actually think that NEW is going to be pretty capable again and will have a strong run but I can't discount that Atlanta also gets a good run. Basically you can take any team that seems young now and take them and turn them into real contenders. Yet there is one team that is going to be above them all. I think Toronto is going to be the real winner here as they are both a young team who is doing exceptionally well right now and have a decent growth chart. Ham and Buf will fall off and that will allow TOR to rise to the top of their difficult division.

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#65

wtf is this? Everyone in here is just saying that their own team is going to be top of the league in a year.

Anyway, the Tampa Bay Barracuda will counteract their 0-50 season with a 50-0 season in 1 year. Okay, maybe we won't do that, but we'll be looking pretty good. Trella and Dwight having been hoarding all the best prospects in the last few drafts. I don't see them slipping up anytime soon. As soon as next season, we'll have a fully active D core, and in a year we'll probably all have 100,000 tpe. It's gonna be nuts. I'm especially excited to see what they do in this season's draft, considering how deep it is.

I'd also imagine that Buffalo and Hamilton would still be going strong a year from now, but I hope not. That wouldn't be fun.

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We flash forward a year in time and have come to a future where the Los Angeles Panthers are SHL Champions. The time has finally come for the Panthers to sit on their rightful throne atop the league and dominant as they have always meant to. We now have a Panthers squad that is well balanced with a strong offensive force upfront and a tough, disciplined defensive presence on the backend. In the net is two time McBride winner, Knox Booth, tending the goal and not needing to stand on his head because the team is just that good. This has begun a new era in Panthers history that will see them reign supreme for many seasons to come, becoming truly a giant in which all other SHL teams strive to conquer. Because the Panthers have become such a dominant force they hold one big gigantic parade of the team and the city that sees a Panthers float go down the center of downtown Los Angeles and since this, itself is such a triumph it singlehandedly destroys the Corona virus so that people far and wide can come to the city and party together. Rock on.

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One thing we have all learned in SHL - it's unpredictable. It's hard to predict what will happen and I will talk from franchises perspective. How they look now, how they've looked before and how it might look in the future.

We have seen that there are teams that in long term are good. For example, Buffalo Stampede, Calgary Dragons, Hamilton Steelhawks. These are teams who are rarely below average in SHL. It's bigger chance that they will make finals than will finish in last position.

Right now, we can see Hamilton Steelhawks and Buffalo Stampede dominating this league and to be honest - I think it will continue. Stampede, Steelhawks and Dragons will be leaders even after whole year. All three teams have amazing rookies now and they will be old then, but still with solid bagage of TPE if they won't be retired by then.

All these three teams have smart head office and coaching stuff. These teams are looking in drafts for great players and not well-known user players, so it's pretty obvious that they are doing better than other teams. In my opinion - dominance of these three teams will continue and these three teams will lead the entire league next year too.

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#68

One year from now in the SHL, the Toronto North Stars will be running the league. The draft class from S52 will be some of the best players in the league. Rhys Pritchard, Cal Labovitch, Strom Chamberlain, Adam Scianna, Danny Marston, Sven Yxskaft will be atop the league in TPE and production. Toronto has drafted and retained talent incredibly will and some of its young stars will be leading the charge for this team in the future. Scoochie Stratton may have taken over in goal for Harry Carpet by then or at least the two will be in a split. Mika Kandinsky and Bobby Lane will probably be in decline but will be surrounded by the young talent of Pritchard, Marston, Ryu Jones, Ruslan Zaporozhets, Luffy Richard, Taylor Johansson, Ryosuke Sato and others. Of course, the North Stars won’t be the only good team in the league. Minnesota, Winnipeg, Texas, Tampa Bay and San Fransisco will likely be finished with their rebuilds by then and will also be within their competitive window.

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#69

Right now from primarily looking at just the past few drafts, my instinct is that the Barracuda will be the most likely team to be competitive in a year. They had 4 firsts in both the S55 and S56 drafts, all of whom could potentially be hitting their stride at the same time around S63. They also had some potential supporting players taken in the second round - including the first player of those second rounds - to supplement this young core. With some even further supporting evidence, the current roster has 2 S53 folks and a pretty amazing 5 S54 folks that could all theoretically still be around and only slightly into the cruelty of regression. Assuming the strong GM duo they have sticks together and can keep these players together, they could easily be dominating the league by S63. I would also look out for New Orleans after the strong draft they had in S57 - those players will also be hitting their stride around a year from now, though their window could be a bit later out even.

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Simple answer is it will be Hamilton again at the top.  Just like the astronaut meme, it always was Hamilton.  We already have a stacked roster and plenty of talent in the wings ready to come up and fill in for guys in regression.  There is no reason why our squad can't stack multiple cups here while we're in our prime.  I am hoping I can still be part of the picture by then, possibly as a top paid d man at that point.  Now that I have casino money coming to me, there is no reason why I should not max earn and I know most of our team also is about to get paid.  Clear some space in the trophy cabinet, that cup we won last season is going to have some company.  There are plenty of other teams that have solid squads and may try to take a run at the champs but you will have to wake up pretty damn early to be beating us.  We do not lay down for anyone.  Come see me bro.

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#71

Wow, this is an interesting PT. In the season S63/64 I'd like to think we'd have a changing of the guard at the top, or at least a few new names. Out west I think Texas will secure it's spot at, or at the very least near the top, short of a colossal fall. New Orleans has done well to acquire picks for regressed players and I think they'll be in the mix for a bubble spot come S63, but trending up instead of trending down like they are now. Edmonton and Calgary have done well to remain competitive for what seems like an eternity and I think they will remain a playoff contender in 5-6 seasons. Never the favorite, but always in the discussion. It's tough for me to really get a good read on Winnipeg and while they have made moves to remain somewhat competitive I just haven't seen anything to indicate they'll make the jump over the likes of Edmonton, Calgary and now Texas. Seattle still needs some time to figure out where they stand exactly in the wild west, but seeing their GM recreate to fall in line with the rest of his team is promising and I think they could be a real threat by S63 if they execute well. Los Angeles has been incredibly active trade wise these last few seasons and have mortgaged the future to contend now. In a perfect world they win a cup, or maybe 2, by S63 and they're near the bottom in a re-build. San Francisco is an interesting one and have set the bar real low these last few seasons. They'll definitely improve by S63, but given the franchises history they're going to need some serious homerun drafts to change the tide in San Fran (and Portland). Lastly Minnesota. The optimist in me wants to see them excel, and ideally I'd lump them in with Seattle, but until I see some serious progress I think they'll stay outside of the playoff picture indefinitely.

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After doing the article on how teams have planned forward this past off-season, I can very easily say Toronto is going to be the best team in S63. If you look at their team, they have high TPE S48/49/50 players who will be able to still be in the upper echelon at the time. Their key players were from S52/S53/S54/S55 all of whom at that point are reaching their peaks and starting to be truly dominant. There won't be a team out there that can compete with this team in terms of experience and talent combined.

Tampa Bay is going to be scary at that point as that's the time their peaks start to hit for their core group who are mostly from S54/S55. So a season or two later, they're all at peak and carrying on from there. So I can definitely see a Tampa and Toronto battle, but Toronto is definitely the leader.

Buffalo will still be tough, but a little bit over the hill comparatively (just barely) and Hamilton will likely be in the Manhattan position now of an older team that is needing to retool now for the future, most of their team will be around 15 seasons in and starting to really get hit by regression.

Out in the West, I'm not entirely sure. Calgary is a bit older, but could retool into maintaining contention. San Francisco is a team that has recently been rebuilding, but it isn't until S65/S66 that they start reaching their peaks from the current group so I don't see it being their year until 2022 comes around, if then. They'll likely be starting to make playoffs in S63.

I would say Texas is the most likely team to watch. They're already dangerous, they're already really good. But they have a big group that is in that S52 to S55 range who are really, really good players and hitting their peaks right around S63, so they should be the West team that makes it far. A lot of the teams out that way otherwise are building more around S56 and later and won't be a threat in S63 exactly.

So I would say S63, my prediction is to see a conference finals of Buffalo, Texas, Toronto and Tampa in some way, with the Finals being possibly Toronto and Texas which is a toss up really but I'm leaning Toronto.

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#73

2022 is an awfully long time away so it is pretty hard to predict what the league will look like then. If the league stays in its current state then you will probably have only a handful teams who will be true contenders that are stacked with players in the S52-S55 draft class. Perhaps Tampa Bay and Texas might be such teams since I believe they have a lot of players from those draft classes. However, things can easily change. The league may adopt changes that improve parity which could open things up. You may also have a decent amount of players on a team go inactive which would significantly jeopardize that team’s chance of winning. You might also see a cycle where the current top teams such as Hamilton and Buffalo will still be the top teams in 2022 since they are able to attract the top TPE players through FA signings or trade demands from players who don’t want to be stuck on rebuilding teams.

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Honestly, I could easily see one of the best teams in 365 days being none other then the team that has not one, but two Petrovs on it, which happens right now to be the Tampa Bay Barracuda. Besides the fact that the team is super young, you have so much talent just sitting in the SMJHL, waiting to be called up to help dominate the SHL for years and years to come. You have to look at the Tampa Bay Barracuda as a glass half full team, because they have so much untapped potential and you just want to watch and see what they are going to do. They have weathered the badness of this storm, and it’s time to have clear sailing to the promised lands in that of winning challenge cups, not just one, but multiple ones. I hope that everyone believes in Tampa Bay as much as the players that are there already believe in them.

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#75

The favourite has to be Tampa Bay after their hard reset from a few seasons ago. Most of their core are from the S54-S56 drafts, so they'll be into that 1500-2000 TPE range if they max-earn. The interesting part about Tampa will be how they manage the salary cap of these young players as they hit their prime, as the age of cost-controlled deals is pretty much done. Texas is another team that's heavily stocked with younger players and will be able to keep climbing, while Toronto's rebuild is coming to fruition this year. The North Stars in particular should be a team on the rise, as their core is nowhere near regression and players like Liam Slate, Ryosuke Sato, Taylor Johansson, Scoochie Stratton and others will be leaders reaching their peak around 2022 and priming Toronto for deep playoff runs. It helps that their rivals in Chicago and Hamilton do have primarily older players leading them.

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