Quebec City Meute
VS.
HC Davos Dynamo
Season 56 VHL Finals Preview
Rusty Trombone tries a rap around on Apollo Skye during the Season 56 Regular Season.
Regular Season Match-Up
In the regular season Davos took the series 5-3 with two of their victories coming in a shootout win and over time win. All regular season wins were quite lopsided for both sides. The Meute owned the Dynamo early on and then even before the acquisition of Petenis, Davos seemed to turn things around. With the acquisition of Petenis, Davos looks to have the depth to over power the quality of players the Meute possess.
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Key Head to Head Match-Up
One of the two goalies will be hoisting the cup shortly. @Velevra @STZ
Right now I'm predicting that the goalies will be the deciding factor in the series. Both goalies are practically the same age and same TPE level. Both are franchise goalies in their primes who have had ups and downs but can be regularly counted on to steal their team wins. Apollo Skye currently boasts the best goalie stats in the playoffs with Degrath following closely behind. Degrath has played more games but over came the offensive catalysts on the Riga Reign.
Who do you think will have the higher save percentage at the end of the series? (reply below for the fun of it)
Line Up Comparisons
Meute
Forwards
Pietro Maximoff - Lukas Muller - Pierre Gaudette
John Locke - Fook Yu
Defense
Fabio Jokinen - Hudson Abbott
Goalie(s)
Apollo Skye
Dynamo
Forwards
Rusty Trombone - Shawn Gretzky - Diana Maxwell
Motherfucker Sharpe - Peter Quill -Takashi Fujimoto
Defense
Lee King Snatch - Diego Jokinen
Pablo - Guntis Petenis
Grigory Kopraikov
Goalie(s)
Rhett Degrath
Just by comparing the rosters above the depth on Davos is substantial. Quebec has the higher TPE earners based off mean. But Fujimoto, Gretzky, Trombone and Sharpe are all hovering around that 500 TPE sweet spot. I think Davos might be too much for Quebec to handle if they take penalties, once the CPU's play their minutes that will be advantage Davos. Looking at player overalls, Quebec again boasts higher overalls. I think the Dynamo depth will be too much to over come though as we've seen with New York after their two cup wins, star power doesn't always win cups. The Meute took them down far sooner then I thought they would.
What Past Series Have Told Us?
Absolutely nothing. If the Season 43 Seattle Bears can win anyone can @DollarAndADream can agree with me on this. STHS tends to be a bit random in the post season. After all Felix Savard is currently the leading scorer. Last season Quebec lost to Helsinki in the finals even though they boasted a better regular season record. This season Riga lost to Davos after boasting a inferior regular season record. What does all this mean? I have no fucking clue. So this should be a fun series and hopefully a close one that does it justice.
Series prediction is Davos in 7 Games, I think their depth and even goaltending will be our (the Meute's) demise.
Good luck to everyone involved!
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