Fixed CHL C Licences for Belfast and Cardiff

General Updates:
- Fixed Olympic year offsets, should now be drawing properly -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter!!
- Fixed World Cup of Hockey start date (every 2 years between comps, skipping Olympic years)
- Various staff updates across the world

NHL/AHL/ECHL Updates:
- Organizational refreshes (players, prospects, staff and other details) - big thanks to caley for his depth charts on HFB!!
-- Carolina Hurricanes/Charlotte Checkers/Greenville Swamp Rabbits (thanks WreckingCrew for feedback!!)
-- Chicago Blackhawks/Rockford IceHogs/Indy Fuel
-- San Jose Sharks/San Jose Barracuda
-- St. Louis Blues/San Antonio Rampage/Tulsa Oilers (thanks Beauterham for feedback!!)
- Updated various goalie attributes based on testing for both NHL/AHL and prospect goalies -- thanks ImActuallyAnOtter for the research!!

Austrian Updates:
- Removed duplicate EV Vienna Capitals II club
- Removed Erste Bank Young Stars League as human-playable to work on new league structure for 2019-20 season (https://www.erstebankliga.at/news-ebysl/?id/10659/90601) - no timetable on a return

Canadian Updates:
- Updated OHL affiliates -- thanks Beauterham!!
- Cleaned up Canadian free agent players/staff, over 820 lines! -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated all players/staff on LNAH -- thanks Matee!!

French Updates:
- Updated Synerglace Ligue Magnus structure and schedules, folded Lyon clubs and updated all players/staff -- thanks Matee!!

German Updates:
- Updated arenas and attendance figures for DEL2 - thanks schmoo83!!

Hungarian Updates:
- Updated Hungarian Junior League to U21 and updated/added clubs
- Updated clubs in U18

Russian Updates:
- Updated all players/staff in VHL and PVHL - over 1,400 updates -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated all players/staff in KHL and club affiliations -- thanks ppaalloo!!

Slovak Updates:
- Updated all players/staff in Tipsport and Slovenská Hokejová Liga and processed a lot of retirements -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Updated all abbreviations, club names, competition names, colors and affiliations
- Reset all club reputation values to more appropriately place them in the world ranking

Swedish Updates:
- Latest Swedish transactions -- thanks Aahlstroem!!
- Removed affiliation between Malmö and IK Pantern
- Updated career histories for Swedish goaltenders, over 1236 lines!! -- thanks Aahlstroem!!

Ukranian Updates:
- Updated name of Ukrainian Hockey League as localized name was not proper

United Kingdom Updates:
- Updated player career histories -- thanks Archi!!

- Fixed Allsvenskan so it's drawing proper playoff winners from Ettan for relegation league -- thanks Nexer!!

Retired Luongo to save Florida cap space (should stop trading Ekblad now), removed a duplicate PHC Budapest club from Slovak 2. Liga

NHL Salary Cap Fix

**KNOWN ISSUES**:
- HockeyEttan issues: We are going to keep this as a playable league structure but we HIGHLY recommend not using it if possible. There are a lot of known issues with it and it's going to require extensive time to fix.
- Pooling of prospects on Maine High School hockey clubs, who end up staying there until turning pro. This appears to be a game bug, really weird issue.
- US NTDP clubs signing Canadian players, this appears to be due to game logic considering Canada as a "domestic" nation for United States leagues. This appears to be a game limitation, still investigating.

General Updates:
- Updated all currency exchange rates
- Cleaned up UFA pool and retired a lot of players/staff no longer active or valid -- thanks Matee!!
- Fixed Olympic draw dates (finally) -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!
- Added/updated captains and staff for lots of clubs around the world, more to come!

PROSPECT GENERATOR V5.5 CHANGELIST:

OVERALL CHANGES:
- Reduced the number of players generated to better control database size. Previously 500 players per draft were created for 100 years, plus ~1,000 "sons" - Total ~51,000 players . Now it is 500 players forgot the first 20 years and 128 players for the subsequent 100 years, plus ~1,000 "sons". Total ~25,000 players. Will make for faster databases.
- Changed nation generation to better match current player distribution (more big countries, less small countries)

PLAYER GENERATION:
- Top end player generation is now more diverse. Previously I allowed -10 and -15 players to only generate 3-5 different roles within their position, that has been expanded and updated.
- Players can now have 2nd nationalities, be born in different countries, have ethnic family names etc.
- Increased the current ability of generated players across the board to compensate for EHM's lack of prospect development in pre-draft years.
- Reduced the potential ability of generated players across the board to reduce the likelihood of a situation where too many players are top liners.
- Changed reputation generation so that players generate with lower reputations than before, this works with the CA raise above so that players are more likely to join clubs, and initial testing is showing that the likelihood of American players sitting a year because they don't get signed by colleges is reducing (they tend to sign with AA junior clubs in Canada instead).
- Changed positional generation a bit, removed the ability for players to generate as both defenders and forwards.
- Ramped down the average consistency level generated to make it an average of 10.2 (was 11.1 before), but put in protection for all goalies, and for -10 and -15 players so it doesn't drop lower than 8 for those guys.
- Ramped down the average important matches level generated to make it an average of 10.2 (was 11.1 before), but put in protection for -10 and -15 players so it doesn't drop lower than 9 for those guys.
- Changed pass tendency for some roles for more diverse player generation
- Changed average injury proneness generation so players are more likely to get injured (average was around 7 before, now it's 10) - no protection for anyone
- Changed average natural fitness generation so players will degrade younger (average was around 13 before, now it's 10) - no protection for anyone
- Modified acceleration and speed generation so that players that generate at 15 yo or more (basically, the prospects in the first three drafts) are better generated.
- Further reduced potential ability generation as skaters were still getting too good
- increased goalie potential ability generation as good goalies were not frequent enough
- Generated 360 moderate ca / variable pa non-players between the ages of 25 & 40 to fix the long-term game staff issue better
- Reduced hidden stats generation in a way that the average hidden stats are lower, but generally don’t drop below 7. Added minimum of 9 for all -15 or higher prospects (3-4 skaters & 2-3 goalies per calendar year)
- Added a hard limit of 15 for most “growable” stats to stop op youth generation.
- Reduced top end ca generation as well to compensate for the hard limit above

NHL/AHL/ECHL Updates:
- Raised salary cap to 91.5/70.2M
- Latest player/staff transfers and injuries
- Updated lots of PA and Offensive/Defensive role values for players and prospects -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter for your research!!
-- ** Note ** this will impact all U23 players, it will really add a lot of randomness to player potentials, each playthrough will be much more unique!
- Updated Natural Fitness attributes for NHL players -- thanks DAfleggo for the idea
- Updated ECHL trade deadline dates and playoff draw dates

- Organizational Refreshes (players, prospects, staff and other details) - big thanks to caley for his depth charts on HFB!!
-- Anaheim Ducks/San Diego Gulls
-- Arizona Coyotes/Tucson Roadrunners/Rapid City
-- Boston Bruins/Providence Bruins/Atlanta Gladiators
-- Buffalo Sabres/Rochester Americans/Cincinnati Cyclones
-- Calgary Flames/Stockton Heat/Kansas City Mavericks
-- Toronto Maple Leafs/Toronto Marlies/Newfoundland Growlers
-- Vancouver Canucks/Utica Comets/Kalamazoo Kings
-- Vegas Golden Knights/Chicago Wolves/Fort Wayne Komets
-- Washington Capitals/Hershey Bears/South Carolina Stingrays
-- Winnipeg Jets/Manitoba Moose/Jacksonville IceMen

Canadian Updates:
- Retired Sidney Crosby's #87 across entire QMJHL

Czech Updates:
- Added Czech Univerzitní liga ledního hokeje (ULLH) and updated EUHL - updated players/staff -- thanks Matee and Dani9!!
- Updated players/staff in 2. Liga and Krajske Ligy -- thanks Matee!!
- Updated clubs and league structure for 2. Liga -- thanks Matee!!

Finnish Updates:
- Updated Liiga and Mestis affiliations and players/staff -- thanks ppaalloo!!

Russian Updates:
- Updated league structure for Prevenstvo Vysshey Hockey league
- Updated competition names of MHL and NMHL
- Fixed Professional Status for MHL and NMHL clubs back to junior
- Increased squad count for Russian Vysshaya Hockey League

Slovakia Updates:
- Added details for new prospects in Slovak Tipsport -- thanks Antho42!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated financial data and salaries for SHL -- thanks Aahlstroem and alijali231!!
- Removed overage rule for J20 SuperElit

United Kingdom Updates -- thanks ArchibauldUK:
- Updated EIHL, NIHL National/1/2 and SNL rosters as at 5 October 2019
- Added 200+ missing players and staff
- Updated dates of birth for certain players and staff
- Set approximate years of birth for players and staff where no such data is presently available
- Updated bio data, CAs, PAs and positions for various NIHL players
- Transferred player ratings from TBL Rosters v11.2 for various NIHL players
- Added club histories to all EIHL, NIHL National/1/2 and SNL teams

United States Updates:
- Reduced reps of US-HS and New England Prep school clubs to try to force more realistic player movement and reduce player pooling through entirety of juniors

Fixed Zadorov contract and added Rinaldo's

Added transactions for recent NHL signings, trades, updated injuries and loans

Updated contracts for Matthew Tkachuk and Samuel Montembault

NHL Updates:
- Latest player/staff transfers and injuries
- Adjusted CA/PA for many NHL signed prospects, this is intended to introduce a little more randomness in PA generation and should make the sim slightly more difficult for NHL clubs -- thanks IAmActuallyAnOtter!!

AHL/ECHL Updates:
- Latest player signings

Austrian Updates:
- Added/updated players/staff for EBEL -- thanks ppaalloo!!

Canadian Updates:
- Updated players in OHL -- thanks Manimal!!
- Updated all OHL draft picks -- thanks Manimal!!
- Updated Provincial Junior C Hockey League clubs and divisions
- Updated all players in the QMJHL -- thanks Antho42!!

Czech Updates:
- Updated Tipsport affiliations -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Updated all players/staff in Czech Tipsport and Chance Liga -- thanks ppaalloo!!

Germany Updates:
- Added/updated players/staff and club affiliations for DEL -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Added/updated players/staff for DEL2 -- thanks ppaalloo!!

Polish Updates:
- Updated Polish clubs -- thanks Matee!!
- Removed foreign player limit from Polska Hokej Liga

Swiss Updates:
- Added/updated players/staff for NLA -- thanks ppaalloo!!
- Updated National League (NLB) and MySports clubs, affiliations and schedule
- Fixed league structures (relegation now working properly across all leagues) -- thanks Matee!!

Swedish Updates:
- Updated all players/staff for HockeyEttan -- thanks Matee!!
- Fixed HockeyEttan league structure, imported the previous 48 club structure from TBL and made some minor changes to work with current clubs, this has been tested and fixes the 24.2 crash issue with Allsvenskan. Further work will be done to update this league to be accurate for the real life 46 clubs and divisions.
- Updated all players/staff in HockeyTrean and some updates for J20 SuperElit -- thanks Matee!!

United Kingdom Updates -- thanks ArchibaldUK:
- Removed SNL from human-playability to troubleshoot crash issues discovered during testing
- Added schedule templates to all UK playable leagues (other than NIHL) which fixes all of the previous scheduling issues
- Added the NIHL South 2 Cup as a playable tournament
- Renamed Bracknell IHC 3 to Bracknell Wasps
- Updated club reputations to better align player and staff generation with the rest of the world
- Added competition histories for the past two seasons

United States Updates:
- Updated commitments for the following clubs: -- thanks Antho42!!
-- St. Cloud State Huskies
- Updated all players/staff in NAHL -- thanks Matee!!