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Game 264: Watchmen vs Red Wolves Game 265: Storm vs Gladiators Game 266: Blades vs Royals Game 267: Rush vs Lynx

240 Bears 5 vs 2 Titans

236 Wranglers vs Legion 237 Reign vs Express 238 Iron Eagles vs HC Dynamo 239 Americans vs Meute

Boychuk with the OT winner. Aw yah.

ALWAYS BET ON RED BABY

HC Dynamo birthday cheer

I love these paint sigs.

Vincenzo Valentini, Travis Boychuk, and Azmet Ali took a weekend off recently in hopes of boosting their chemistry in the face of a stretch that sees their team go 9-9. The top trio has had their playing time cut lately in favor of the second unit (featuring Dexter Morgan and Kristoffer Ruud around Mikael Svensson) which is currently outpacing line one in point production. The Finland-based Outlaws are a short flight away from the Swedish capital of Stockholm, where Valentini, Boychuk, and Ali spent a night at a spa – presumably being oiled up and massaged by world-class, blonde masseuses. “When Travvie [boychuck] asked if I had ever been to Stockholm,” said right winger ‘Azi’ Ali, “the first thing that popped into my head was a eucalyptus sauna and deep tissue massage.” The three linemates come from different ends of the world and their struggles to gel early in the season are being well-documented. Boychuk, who played in Ukraine before being drafted into the ‘M’, serves as assistant captain on top of being the first line pivot. As a leader and teammate, he’s been influential on his wingers Valentini (who played hockey between Italy and Canada before the minors) and Ali (a University of Vermont product). “[boychuk]’s always looking to find ways for us to improve as a unit, you know?” Ali had to say on the subject, “He’s trying to pull us up. He’s earned a little hands-on relaxation from some Swedes.”

Drafted at number fourteen overall by the Turku Outlaws, expectations were not high for the young Turk coming into season thirty seven. The Outlaws saw at least a defense-minded, minute-eating winger and at most a consistent compliment to a top-six line. What they’ve gotten so far is a first line, two-way road warrior who is just getting settled into his role. Azi Ali GP:28 G:8 A:17 P:25 +/-:3 PIM:18 Azi started the season as the first line right wing after impressing the coaching staff at training camp. During a rough start to the season that saw Ali earn only four points through his first ten games, plenty were questioning whether or not he was the one to hold the spot on the top line. The coaching staff of the Outlaws could have listened to their critics (and, according to some reports, a self-doubting Ali), yet they placed their trust in the former Brampton Blades captain and kept him in his spot. What Turku has been rewarded with is a winger that has scored twenty one points in the eighteen games following his slump while playing over twenty minutes a night – for a total of eight goals and seventeen assists on the season. Ali’s poised to break the top ten right wings in the ‘M’ before season’s end after not registering a point in six of ten contests to begin it. In a league that regularly features the top scorers accomplishing point totals of over one hundred thirty, players have to register at least a point in every game to be considered cream of the VHLM crop. His point total doesn’t hold up so well when you look at the rest of the VHLM’s wingers (third-overall scorer Queen Latifa setting the benchmark for right wingers), but the progression is what is impressive with Turku’s second year winger. When asked about what has made Ali so successful Turku coaching staff praised his responsible defensive game and discipline, saying that he “stuck through the tough period at the beginning of the season and made the adjustments to fit in” with the club – a reference to his heavy role with Brampton in season thirty six. Furthermore, Azi has proven to be a player that the coaches lean upon on the road swings, where he averages a point per game against his .8 points per game at home. The personal success hasn’t translated into team success, however. Despite finding himself in the middle of a nine-point, five-game hot streak, Azi and the Outlaws have slipped in the standings. In those ten games at the beginning of the season when he scored four points the Outlaws won seven. Since then, in the eighteen games during his twenty one point burst, the Outlaws have only won nine. That’s a negative twenty percent difference in win percentage between the first part of the season and the rest, and a pretty ugly correlation for Ali. So what does Azi Ali think needs to happen for the Outlaws to start winning more than half their games? “I need to keep playing my game, you know? I think that’s important, you know? The boys, especially Travvie [boychuk], stuck by me when I was in a funk, and I gotta stick by the team while we figure it out, you know?”

181 Meute vs Bears 182 Express vs Titans 183 Legion vs Iron Eagles 184 HC Dynamo vs Americans

185 Wranglers 2 vs 4 Reign

Game 149: Gladiators 1 Vs. 5 Rush

Game 145: Storm Vs Watchmen Game 146: Outlaws Vs. Red Wolves Game 147: Royals Vs. Lynx Game 148: Blades Vs. Wild Blades get their first win of the season.

Molholt if you can make a condensed version of this I'd be happy to use it in my sig.

Azi Ali Turku Outlaws +2 pls

Woooooow cool. I think this is the first graphic done of my guy.

All good on my end. Thanks!

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116 Reign 5 vs 2 Wranglers

117 Meute vs HC Dynamo 118 Express vs Bears 119 Titans vs Americans 120 Iron Eagles vs Legion

Game 96: Lynx Vs. Royals Game 97: Rush Vs. Red Wolves Game 98: Storm Vs Wild Game 100: Outlaws vs Gladiators

Game 99: Watchmen 3 Vs. Blades 0

Boston Bruins pleeeeease TheLobbyBox I'll join tonight.

Down on 360.

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