[slugger922cubs]

Ive been playing as the Hawks too. Ive found that my team does better when I put Kane and Toews on the same line. I personally dont look at game to gme numbers but over the first couple years my team seemed to do ok with S and SA numbers overall. Something you need to look at with this years Blackhawks is that much of thier success was driven by staying healthy and timely scoring. They were 11th in S and 23rd in SA this year. Not overly resounding numbers to suggest success. Meanwhile having the 3rd highest PDO in the NHL. They were bound to regress on thier mediocre underlying stats. Nashville meanwhile was 6th in S and 16th in SA. Fancy stats would have you believe that those 2 numbers are the best indicator of a teams playoff success. On both accounts, the Preds were better and not otherwise overperforming. I found Nashville actually does quite well in FHM (FWIW NHL17 had them doing well too) which shows the power of these simulation engines to get things pretty right.