1) Welcome to our new GMs Richard and Sylvain. We're happy to have you aboard and look forward to seeing what you do with your teams to get them moving in the right direction again. Both come with challenges, no doubt. Hamilton is scraping the bottom of the fiscal Barrell while Tampere was hampered by the previous owner's inability to actually make a decision. Sorry if that seems harsh but being half-pregnant is not the way to run a CCHL team. Fortunately for the league, both franchises will have stable management going forward.
2) Speaking of returns, BIS is off to a solid start under the returning Matt Condon. Yes, any team with Auston Matthews should be remotely decent but Mr. Condon has added some nice pieces in his time with the league.
3) Speaking of surprises, did anyone see the Amos Comets soaring out of the gates like this? A solid 4-0 start has Maxime Quesnel pretty happy. There was a lot of player movement to get there and even Maxime would likely agree that he's surprised by his team's hot start.
4) Through the first week of the year it appears that special teams will be so very important in the CCHL this season. Seven teams are over 20% on the powerplay while seven are under 80% on the penalty kill. It could literally make or break a team making the playoffs given the large swing from the top of the leaders to the bottom.
5) Does somebody want to tell the Moscow Freezing Bears it's important to win the faceoff in the offensive or defensive zone. 48.73% in the defensive zone and 47.85% in the offensive zone is offset by a 58.18% when the puck is dropped in the neutral zone through the first week. I guess this shouldn't be a surprise if Kadri is taking most of the offensive draws given his 46.32 success rate in the circle.
That's it for this week's inaugural edition of 31 Thoughts that are actually 5 thoughts. For the CCHL Commissioner, I'm the CCHL Commissioner.
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