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We have a method for dealing with that. The issue is for what OUR purpose is, euro nhles are bad. They get bogged down by the guys who don't jump over till their 26+ and end up playing bit roles.
With the new changes to the NHL site we might be able to do something about that. TOI in non NHL leagues has been a roadblock would go along way for us.
I've toyed with fairly arbitrarily tuning euros but I'm sure that's a not a good system.
If we can't figure it out we may even shelf euros for the time being and focus entirely on just getting NA's REALLY good (not what we want to do as it hurts our long term goal of essentially building what HF was but rather then everything just based off opinion it's all done mathematically (including team rankings)
I like the sound of that goal. A solution to the Euro issue would be a prerequisite though. They are making up a very large part of the total NHL population now.
I wonder how it might work if you just focused on international play? 18 and under Euros seem to play a lot of international games in addition to the big tournaments that we pay a lot of attention to. Just a thought.