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Sean Couturier led the regular season in points and assists. On Sunday night, the man affectionately known as ‘Coots’, netted 4 goals as part of a 6 point effort to lift his team to their 3rd cup championship in the past 7 seasons, effectively staking the Barons claim to a modern dynasty. Cleveland is now 12-2 in cup finals games, topping Thunder Bay 4-1 in 2013, sweeping Boston last season and finishing off Cornwall 4-1 tonight. As is the norm, we must take a glance at this juggernaut moving forward and the winningest GM in contemporary GHL history has his work cut out for him once the champagne stops flowing. The Barons have 10 roster players entering UFA this summer so GM Holland is facing a quite literal case of breaking up the band. Topping that list are Couturier and Brad Marchand, but also entering free agency are forwards, Mikko Koivu, Michael Frolik and Eric Staal. Add to that list, defensemen Johnny Boychuk, Niklas Hjalmarsson, Jeff Petry and Kris Russell, as well as goaltender, Ryan Miller. Holland will have a short period to rest up before facing a very trying off-season. The Barons have a lot of very nice pieces still in place so don’t expect a complete tear-down here. Forwards Claude Giroux, Jonathan Toews, Teuvo Teravainen, Gabe Landeskog and Timo Meier are still signed on going into next season. Defensemen Shea Theodore, Jaccob Slavin and Josh Morrissey are all RFA’s but still under Cleveland control and the goaltending is very deep with Laurent Brossoit, Anton Khubodin, Matt Murray and Louis Domingue all under contract. GM Holland will be busy this summer but this team will not fade into the abyss after 3 titles, they will continue to be a top contender in the G, especially if GM Holland elects to bring back Marchand and/or other UFA’s.

Power Rankings (Top 5 Teams) as of 4/6/2019


151.5	143.9	140.5	138.7	132.1

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Player

Team

LastEdit

Rating

Johansson, Marcus (W/C)

Philadelphia

6/7/2019 11:43 AM

Marchand, Brad (LW)

Philadelphia

5/1/2019 11:41 AM

Eichel, Jack (C)

New York

1/29/2019 6:56 PM

Kreider, Chris (LW)

New York

1/29/2019 6:54 PM

McDavid, Connor (C)

New York

1/29/2019 6:54 PM

Rantanen, Mikko (W/C)

Colorado

11/16/2018 11:51 AM

Thatcher Demko (G)

Suffolk

4/30/2018 7:59 PM

Matthews, Auston (C)

Suffolk

4/30/2018 7:58 PM

Miller, J.T. (C/W)

Suffolk

4/30/2018 7:57 PM

Tage Thompson

Suffolk

4/30/2018 7:56 PM

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Just a quick note regarding how the engine uses a digital rink broken down into 32 different zones (see above) when resolving games.

Naturally if a team is able to navigate the puck to the more dangerous zones, the better the chance of burying one.

While for information only at this point, a derivation of the image to the left will be used as a core component of the FHL game viewer and FHL head versus head engine in the future. xxx

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InjDate	Player	Pos	Team	DaysOut
3-30-2019	Quincey	D	CIN	40
3-06-2019	Martin	D	PIT	69
2-21-2019	Neuvirth	G	SEA	57
2-17-2019	Blandisi	LW/C	PIT	33

19-20 Projected Team Strength

Rank		Team	Score
1		Hamilton	184.0
2		Halifax	172.6
3		Philadelphia	169.1
4		Alaska	159.2
5		Cleveland	151.6
6		New Jersey	148.2
7		Suffolk	148.2
8		Boston	144.8
9		Hartford	144.7
10		Adirondack	137.6
11		Pittsburgh	131.8
12		Johnstown	124.8
13		Colorado	121.5
14		New York	121.1
15		Washington	119.1
16		Montreal	114.5
17		Syracuse	111.4
18		Cornwall	108.9
19		Detroit	107.7
20		Hershey	104.5
21		St Paul	104.3
22		Quebec	102.9
23		Milwaukee	98.6
24		Edmonton	96.5
25		Calgary	89.9
26		Cincinnati	76.4
27		Moncton	68.0
28		Toronto	59.7
29		Baltimore	52.3
30		Seattle	48.4
31		Chicago	31.7