Not sure if the Thistles will win or lose this championship series, but holy cow they've gotten better since last year! Their move from 8 to 13 points (rising from fourth place to second) was driven by tremendous improvement in scoring prevention. Upgrading goaltenders from Paddy Moran to Riley Hern played a big part, as did improvement in their penalty killing (71.43% in Season 2 to 87.18% in Season 3). While their offensive output was largely the same (34 goals scored in Season 2 vs. 33 in Season 3), they went from allowing 48 goals (a league record) in Season 2 to only 32 in Season 3! That's 4.00 goals per game vs. 2.67! Wow!
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