I'm at the halfway point for Season 3 of my Strat-O-Matic historical hockey league. To be honest, I feel that this campaign has been rather dull thus far. Parity has ruled the day, with a scant two points separating the first-place Victorias from the last-place Thistles. Scoring is way down, with teams currently averaging 2.83 goals per game (compared with 3.27 last season). The steepest decline in offense has come from the game's biggest stars. Cyclone Taylor co-leads the league with 10 points (3 G, 7 A). On pace for 20 points, he would far stupefyingly short of his record 32 points from last season or his 25 points from Season 1. Frank McGee, who notched 18 goals in Season 2 is on pace for 10 this time around. Granted, we're dealing with very small sample sizes (each team has played only six games), but it's weird to see such huge fluctuation in the scoring totals. What was it about Season 2 that resulted in such ridiculous amounts of scoring? Season 3 is much closer to what we saw in Season 1, but somehow feels less compelling. I think I'll scour the stats to find some interesting storylines to mull over.
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