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Part I - Pick em' (Pick the correct winners of all three games for 2 TPE) Game 3 - Moscow Menace @ Calgary Wranglers Game 4 - Moscow Menace @ Calgary Wranglers Game 5 - Calgary Wranglers @ Moscow Menace Part II - Predict the Score (Predict the correct score and winner of this game for 3 TPE) Game 5 - Calgary Wranglers @ Moscow Menace - Menace 3-1 Part III - Player Predictions (Predict the correct player for each category, 1 TPE for each correct answer) Series leader in points: Jet Jaguar Series leader in goals: Jet Jaguar Series leader in assists: Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen Who has the series PIM lead: Randoms Who scores the series winning goal: Jet Jaguar

+4 TPE, please

What a tense time last night in Calgary as the Wranglers tried to notch their fourth win in their series with the D.C. Dragons, take the best of seven series at home in front of their fans and advance to the second round of the VHL playoffs. In each of the first two periods neither team could find the back of the net and they entered the final period of play all knotted up at 0-0. It was certainly a grim moment for the D.C. faithful when the Wranglers RJ Jubis buried the puck at only 1:22 in the third. But who should come up big for the Dragons with a little less than half of the third to play, but the captain and two other clutch players from the regular season. It was George Washington with the goal assisted by the talented Elasmobranch Fish and the captain Mikko Aaltonen. Washington was a DC draftee just two years ago while Elasmobranch came to the nation’s capitol in free agency. Washington’s clutch goal was all the scoring there would be through the end of the third period sending the two teams into overtime. It was beginning to look like the teams’ snipers would go silent again when the crowd in Calgary was stunned by Aaltonen’s 2nd goal of the playoffs at 13:58. The Wranglers came in thinking the series was wrapped up and left with their heads hung low. Meanwhile, the Dragons’ players skated off the ice with a little extra zip in spite of the additional overtime play. 3-2 and the series goes back to the District. Go Dragons!

1. We're still alive! Do we complete the comeback against the Wranglers in games 6 and 7? I was worried at 3-1, but I'm given a boost of confidence with the the win to go to 3-2. I say, why not?! 2. What has been the biggest surprise of this season for you? It's not a big surprise since I knew we were improving, but getting into the playoffs was nice. 3. Three of the top four picks in this year's draft will belong to teams with 80 points or more. What do you blame this on; bad GMing, bad rules, bad luck, or some mixture thereof? Seems we don't do well in the lottery so I want to blame bad rules, but really it might not be anyone's fault. Just the way it fell. 4. Vancouver just went out to Seattle round 1. Will Seattle threepeat? I went for them early actually in my predictions, but now I'm thinking no. Not just quite enough to make it three. 5. Obviously, we'll need a goalie within the next couple seasons. Vancouver is rumoured to be shopping Spyro around and Wolski is available in the draft. Would you try to grab one of those two or try something else? Confess ignorance here, but I do like to have a good goalie developing in the wings. 6. Now that we're in playoffs, this question is quite a bit more relevant than before; team success or personal success, which is more important to you? Oooh, that's tough. Both are important. I lean on the one that is happening. So, if we have a loss and Lesieur scores 2 goals, I rejoice in that. If Lesieur lays an egg, but we win 4-2, I rejoice in that.

With the results of the D.C. Dragons first playoff appearance in franchise history not yet final (down 3-1 to Calgary), I am hoping to get the final installment of the Guy Lesieur S70 progress report in. With all 72 games played, Lesieur stands at 525 TPE with the following final results: Goals Scored Guy finished the season with 25 goals. This is more than double his S69 performance of 12 which is certainly something to celebrate. What is even more to celebrate is the growth of the team as a whole. In S69, those measly 12 goals were good enough to rank Lesieur as the 4th highest goal scorer on the D.C. Dragons. This year, his 25 goals rank him as … still the 4th highest goal scorer on the D.C. Dragons. More than double the goals and yet still only the 4th best. Guy’s teammates really stepped it up around him and there were acquisitions of veteran FAs that certainly improved the squad as well. Assists Notched There is a similar story to be told on this side of the score sheet as well. Lesieur ended the year with 22 assists. Again, this was more than double his total from S69 – just 10. But again, the improvement in the team in general made for no progress in his ranking among his Dragons teammates. In S69, Guy was the 9th highest for assists and in S70, Guy was the 9th highest for assists. Shots Fired It is in this category where we can explain part of the huge increase in goals scored from S69 to S70. In S69, Guy put 145 pucks on net for 3rd place on the team. In S70, he shattered his personal best, but not quite by double, by putting 271 shots on goal. Ironically, even increasing by nearly 200%, Lesieur dropped from 3rd highest shooting Dragon to 5th. Shooting Accuracy This is where I am most pleased with Guy’s S70 performance. Of course, if you put more goals on net, you are going to score more goals overall. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally. But Guy upped his game in accuracy as well. In S69, Guy ranked 8th on a very young team with a shot percentage of 8.28%. Not particularly good. But in S70, Guy raised his by almost a whole percentage point to 9.2%. This was good enough for 5th place on a much better Dragons team. It’s not where he wants to be (double digits and moving toward 12-13%), but it is definitely solid improvement and proves that hard work does pay off. So, what’s the conclusion? Simply that Guy Lesieur is making remarkable progress and has a great career ahead of him in the VHL. It is also clear that M. Lesieur is very fortunate to have been drafted – well actually, drafted in the first round and traded – to the D.C. Dragons where knowledgable and involved GMs and super supportive teammates have made playing for a very young expansion team a blast and where he was encouraged to grow into his potential. Hopes are high for a turnaround in the first round of the playoffs – and for a great season next year!

My Media Spot for Theme Week was a case for my player, Guy Lesieur, to make the Hall of Fame some day and it was based wholly on in game performance of M. Lesieur – how he was progressing in goals scored, assists notched, shots taken, and an increasingly good shot percentage. This article, however, is taken written more from a meta level – based on more real life, human factors: Guy Lesieur’s player (me), his GM @Enorama, and his teammates. Let’s face it. A Hall of Fame career depends partly on luck. But it also depends a great deal on activity level, longevity of that consistent activity, and good player building. Activity level has never been a problem for me. I am nearly a max earner in every sim league I am in – while I am in them. So, I update early (Mondays/Tuesdays) and often (every week). But longevity did look like an issue just about a week or so ago. I realized that I was just in too many leagues. Not so much that I couldn’t get the PTs done, but that I couldn’t keep straight what was happening in the life of each of the leagues. I had so many story lines to follow that I had a hard time following any of them. So, I began to drop leagues to concentrate on the remaining ones. But then the opportunity to become a GM of an expansion team in my primary league, the PBE, came up. I knew it would take a lot more of my time than GMing in the minor leagues and so I announced to Enorama that I would be bowing out of the VHL. He was great about it, but asked if I might be able to continue, but at a much reduced level. Just so I did not leave a hole in the lineup. That seemed reasonable and I was reluctant to leave anyway so I decided to give it a try. Turns out, with just two leagues I really focus on, I’m doing ok. I don’t see any reason I won’t be able to continue on in the VHL. That seems to have solved the longevity issue through the GM factor I mentioned above. And then there are my teammates. The D.C. Dragons LR is a great place to hang out. It’s a big part of the reason I was so reluctant to leave in the first place. And so, looks like I’m here for a while. And Guy Lesieur’s path to the Hall of Fame remains wide open.

I’ve been tracking RW, Guy Lesieur’s S70 progress all year as a fun way to stay connected with him and see how he is progressing from S69. It started as a way to see how much he could improve in his second year in the VHL having spent only one year in the VHLM. But now, given how much he has improved in just one year and looking at where he is at in only his 3rd overall year in the sim, I am starting to believe that the Hall of Fame is certainly not out of the question. In fact, I’m going to go on record early and say that Guy Lesieur will one day be honored in this way. Let’s look at the numbers now that nearly all the games have been played. I am going to go with the numbers as of 64 games played to keep the analysis comparable on a week to week basis. Goals In the past 14 games, M. Lesieur has scored another 6 goals. That’s nearly a goal every other game and if he had scored at that pace all season long, he would score nearly 36 goals. In only his 3rd season. That is a Hall of Fame trajectory if I have ever seen one. This brings Guy’s season long total to 23 putting him on a pace to score nearly 26 goals in his 3rd season of development. As a point of reference, Guy scored 12 goals in all of S69 – evidence of his meteor-like rise. With 8 games to play, Lesieur has doubled his S69 total less one goal. His talented teammates have also picked up the pace and so Guy has slipped from the #3 goal scorer on the team to #4 Assists As it has been all season, it is a similar story on this side of the scoresheet. In the past 14 games, Guy notched 5 assists for an S70 season total to date of 22. This is a pace of nearly 25 assists on the season. His current 22 assists means he has already more than doubled his total for S69 (10), but again his teammates superior performance means that he slipped from #8 to #9 in assists for all Dragons players. Lest one think that his current 45 points is simply due to being a big fish in a small expansion pond, let us remember that Aaltonen, Frostbeard, Valentino, Fish and other greats play on this team. Also, GM @Enorama pointed out in his recent article, “Young First Gens Destined for the Hall” that Guy Lesieur is leading all S69 wingers in points this season and is only 7 career points behind Soren Jensen who won the Stolzschweiger prize in his rookie year. Shots One of the reasons that Lesieur his having success is that he is willing to be put the puck on the net. As the Great One, Gretzky, famously opined, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Lesieur tries to not let that happen. He has 254 shots on the season and is on pace for nearly 286. That is nearly double his S69 total of 145 and ranks him fourth on his team, the D.C. Dragons. Shot Percentage But it’s not just flinging the puck and hoping something goes in. After 6 games (my first progress update) Guy was on fire with an 11.54% shot percentage. No one thought that could last and that dipped over the next 3 updates. However, as Lesieur continues to work on his game, his shot percentage has risen in both of the last 2 updates. From 7.48% to 8.72% and then from there to 9.1% in this latest update. This is good for 6th on among Dragons players. Here is a man who puts the puck on net and whose accuracy is beginning to grow. Yes indeed, I believe this is a 3rd year performance worthy of early discussion of a Hall of Fame career.

1. We sit in a playoff spot in a meaningful part of the season for the first time ever as a franchise. Who needs to be our MVP for the last 6 games if we're going to make it to playoffs? I'd like to say Lesieur since we can count on our studs, but I think the right answer is our studs have to be studs: Aaltonen and Frostbeard and Valentino 2. It's likely that either us or New York will finish 6th overall in the league but miss the playoffs while Riga, Helsinki, and Malmo/Prague will make it while finishing in the 7th, 8th, and 9th slots. Should we go back to a wildcard system to avoid situations like these? Nah, I like that divisions make a difference and how it plays out will always be shifting around. 3. Looking back at our off-season adds of Kriketers, Frostbeard, Ritchie, and Fish, who do you think was the most important piece for our turnaround this year? That's tough. All so important. But I'll go Frostbeard followed by Kriketers 4. If we slide into the playoffs as the North American 4th seed, we would likely play Vancouver in the first round. Does our 5-3 record against them in the regular season give you confidence in the series or do you think regular season results should be ignored and the playoffs should be a whole new season? It is a whole new season, but yes, our regular season record would still give me more hope than might normally be appropriate. 5. This season's theme week theme is "Future Hall of Famers". Who do you think is most likely to make the Hall from our active roster? Aaltonen. But I'm writing about a fresh face - Guy Lesieur 6. What do you put on a hot dog? And is it a sandwich? Nothing, mustard, or mayonnaise depending on my mood. No, definitely not. It is a hot dog - it's in its own category.

Trying to remember proper procedure for claiming. Claim regular Media Spot +6. Claim bonus +6 as Doubles Week? What about the +1 (+2) for VHL.com article?

1. Kastelic, Borwinn, Kriketers, and McWolf all retire after this season. Who has the best chance at a berth on the Hall of Fame? Tough call. Maybe Kastelic or Borwinn. 2. We're on a tear lately. Who's to thank for our recent success? Mr. John Frostbeard. And Guy Lesieur, of course. He makes Frosty better. 3. We need to pass one of Calgary, Seattle, Vancouver, or New York to make the playoffs. Who do we have the best chance to catch? I've been a proponent of Seattle not falling as far as some thought they will. So, I'm going to say New York. 4. We finished our season series against Vancouver with 5 wins and 3 losses. How does it feel to give it to those elitist assholes? Awesome! And it fuels my hope for our future. 5. Do we have any specific rivalry? There are other teams? 6. Who's a player on another team that you admire? Again, there are other teams?

Another 12 game have been played since the last udpate on Guy Lesieur’s S70 perfomance and with 50 games played to this point, we are on the back half of the season and projected season totals are starting to have some real predictive power. So, let’s dig in to analysis of the last 12 games and Lesieur’s year to date perfomance. Goals Guy really picked up the goal scoring pace over these past 12 games. He notched a nice total of 6 goals for a goal every two games pace. If he could have performed at that pace all year, he’d notch 36 goals on the season – and incredible total for a 3rd year player (including the 1 year in the juniors). As it is, Lesieur has 17 goals on the season, which is 5 more than all of S69 and equates to a pace of 24-25 goals on the year. Really not bad for a second year VHL man. Assists Same is true on the assist side. Guy notched 5 assists for the same total of 17 as he has for goals. This means he is on pace to score about 49-50 points on the season. Again, in his second year, Lesieur will take it. Sure, he wants to eventually challenge for the goal scoring lead in the VHL – but not necessarily in his second year. Shots and Shot Percentage Guy notched 145 shots in all of S69. He eclipsed that total by game 38 and with 195 shots on goal for the year he is on pace for 280-281 for the year. But his goal scoring is not only based on volumn. Lesieur has also picked up this shot percentage over the past 12 games. It now stands at 8.72% - higher than the 8.28% of S69 and the highest this season since his torrid pace through the first 6 games. All I can say is “Allez Guy!”

Welfare +4 TPE

More games have been played, but to keep the updates coming basically as of a Monday in the week, we’ll be looking at Lesiur’s S70 performance as of 38 games played. This means an additional 16 games since the last time we checked in on our intrepid Dragons winger. Goals Guy only scored 3 goals in these past 16 games so as of 38 games he has notched 11 scores. This drops him from 1st on the team in goal scoring to 3rd. That was inevitable. Lesieur still has less than 500 TPE and was never going to outscore Aaltonen and company. He’s on pace for 20-21 goals for the season, which is still a near doubling of his 12 from S69 and not a bad sophomore performance. Assists Pretty much the same story on this side of the score sheet as of 38 games. Guy scored only 2 assists in the 16 games and is on pace for 22-23, but more than double his 10 from S69. He maintains 4th place on the team which he has held for the past 3 updates in this ongoing series. Not bad at all for a second year man. Shots and Shot Percentage This had been the only consistent category I’ve been tracking, but now Guy’s pace for taking a crack at the net has taken a dip – maybe why he hasn’t scored as much in the 16 games in question. He’s sent 147 shots on net (still 4th on the team), but his pace has fallen from 318 on the year to 279 on the year. And his shooting percentage just keeps falling at each update. It has gone 11.54%, 8.51%, 8.25%, and now sits at 7.48%, which ranks 7th on the team. Here is where he really needs to improve. If he were at 12-13%, he’d be a formidable scorer in the VHL! So, all in all, it’s been a good S70 for Guy Lesieur. He is certainly on pace to finish well ahead of his S69 performance and what else can you ask for in a player? Just keep working and improving.

Guy Lesieur +4 TPE

Seattle 5-2

268 D.C. Dragons @ Riga Reign 269 Toronto Legion @ Vancouver Wolves 270 Malmo Nighthawks @ Seattle Bears 271 Helsinki Titans @ Calgary Wranglers

Congrats @McWolf TIme to retire in mourning. JK Enjoy the ride, sir!

1. Who's going to lead our team in points this season? It looked like Aaltonen had it on lock but now Graves and Frostbeard are surging too. I'm sticking with Cap! 2. What position should we be addressing at the next draft? Don't love this one. Requires I say where my teammates might be weakest - or admit that Lesieur might not be measuring up. lol 3. Should we make a trade deadline addition to try and reach playoffs or are you happy with the squad we have right now? I trust my GMs, but I like this group of guys and we've got some pieces that can grow into greatness. 4. What's the bigger surprise, Helsinki falling to 8th after their hot start or Seattle jumping up to 5th after their terrible start? I'd say Helsinki just because I never felt Seattle had regressed that much. Sure, we got a star, but not the whole team. 5. There's a 3 way tie for the league scoring lead between Helmsley, Jaguar, and Borwinn, who takes it home? Only a hunch, but I'd say Borwinn. 6. Yesterday it was announced that Saskatoon GM @Elmebeck passed away. Share a memory if you have one. I'm sorry to say that I didn't know him at all.

1. How do you feel about the trivia rule change (that has since been reversed)? I get it, but actually sharing answers leaves me feeling a bit better about the league. Our activity check (Practice) is only 1 TPE and even getting answers from someone else proves you are active in the LR or wherever you got the answers. I also still learn about the league and therefore increases my interest. 2. Kriketers has been wildly inconsistent between the pipes, should we give Pouta more of a chance? Tough call. Keeping interest of both goalies is probably even more important, but if that's not an issue, perhaps a 50/50 split and see how things are going by game 50 or so? Then if we are on the playoff bubble, which we are right now, we go with the hotter hand down the stretch. 3. Our 4 dmen are at basically the same icetime per game, is this balance good or bad for the team? Again, based on keeping everyone interested and updating. 4. The rookie winger Ritchie was recently moved to the top line with Graves and Aaltonen, what do you think of this change? Can't really pretend to know. If it spurs Aaltonen on to Aaltonen like goal scoring, I'm all for it. I'd say I was disappointed that Lesieur didn't get to the top line, but 1) he nd I can't expect top line play as a 2nd year player, 2) he's a puck hog and that won't help Aaltonen, 3) as a glory hound, he'd resent every shot Aaltonen took. lol Though really he's a team guy too, so Dragons win, Lesieur is happy. He'll be Aaltonen one day and have his role. 5. How do you manage your money? Is it with your parents like Jack Johnson's was before they bankrupted him? I'm a big boy now (read old - especially for sim leagues lol) so it's all me and my wife. 6. Did you watch The Big Game? What did you think? If I could do the tomahawk chop and sing our war song, I would. I'm from Kansas City and have been a Chiefs fan all my life so - after a 50 year wait in between Bowl wins all I can say is .... Yahoooooooooooooooo! GO CHIEFS!

Guy Lesieur got off to a very fast start in S70 which got me wondering whether this was a break out year for him. In other words, was the “way too early” analysis of the first six games of the season a sign of things to come or simply an example of the problems with small sample size. The next 5 games continued to bear out the signs of the first 6, but now we come to part 3 of this season-long analysis with double the amount of games under our belts – 22. Twenty-two games is roughly 1/3 of the season (30.5%) and so the analysis should start to be more realistic in terms of predicting season’s end results. In fact, one might even expect slightly better results as Lesieur continues to improve relative to the league as a whole. So, where are we at? Goals After 11 games Guy had the most goals on the Dragons lighting the lamp 4 times. This would annualize out to 26 goals on the season and with Aaltonen and Frostbeard on the team, no one would expect he’d end the year as the number one goal scorer. With another 11 games played, Lesieur now has 8 goals and is still the Dragons’ number one goal scorer (tied with Aaltonen) and having doubled the number of games played and also the number of goals scored is, of course, still on pace for those same 26 goals. I would be thrilled if he were to keep up this pace! This would mean that Guy has become a valuable player for the D.C. Dragons franchise in only his second year in the VHL – and with only one game played in juniors. Well, we shall see when all 72 games are played. It’s also interesting to note that Lesieur is tied with the DC captain and franchise player in goals with one less shot on goal than Aaltonen and with total playing time skewing in favor of Mikko 68% to 32%. One could question whether those Simon T settings actually do anything, but it seems like they do to some extent. Aalton has played roughly 100 more minutes than Lesieur (652 to 555). Assists It is almost the same story on this side of the scoring sheet. Guy had notched 4 assists in the first 11 games for a projected annual total of 26 which was worth 3rd place on the team. With 22 games played now, Guy almost doubled his total to 7 on the season which would project him for roughly 23 assists on the season, but this has dropped him to 6th place on the team as his teammates have fortunately picked up the scoring pace and there are more assists to go around. Shots and Shot Percentage It is no suprise that these remain on pace for astronomical numbers compared to last year. Guy is definitely a shoot first player and that’s his role on the team. In S69 he put 145 pucks on net. Over the first 11 games Lesieur was on pace to tally 307 and that has only increased in the last 11 games. For S70, Guy has fired 97 shots on goal which annualizes out to an incredible 317 – more than double his total for the prior year. His shot percentage continues to hover around 8% (8.25% slightly down from the 8.51% of the first 11 games). Imagine what he could do, if he could just improve this into the double digits. Even a 10% success rate would translate to 30+ goal seasons based on his shot totals. All in all, whereas we cannot be sure that he will continue to perform at this level, there are two things we can tell: 1) there are no signs yet of his performance falling off the table now that we have played 30% of the season, and 2) Guy Lesieur has a bright future in the VHL.

Here is a question submitted to the D.C. Dragons website by a fan: There is a lot of traveling in the VHL as teams criss-cross the country and the world to face opponents. That can get boring. Guy Lesieur, what do you and your teammates do to pass the time on the plane? Guy: Hey, great question! Well, as for me, I’m real tight with my linemates, C George Washington and RW Raleigh Ritchie. We usually hang out together doing a lot of things – watching movies, playing cards, or just jawing and enjoying a cold brew or two. Mikko Aaltonen and John Frostbeard usually sit together in the back of the plane talking strategy and which season’s version of a certain team is the best one of all time. Benny Graves, Elasmobranch Fish, and Luciano Valentino are the real life of the party though. They get a wild hair and everyone stops to enjoy the antics. Sometimes they’ll act out favorite Monty Python sketches. Other times they will make up parodies of popular songs that skewer opposing teams. Best is when they decide it’s “Improv Night at the Dragon Club”. They just have us shout out a couple of different themes and then off they go. They are sooooo funny. I think that creativity is carried over onto the ice. Just a few of the things the guys do to pass the time – apart from sleeping. There is a lot of sleeping going on. (laughs)

Helsinki 4-3

85 Prague Phantoms @ Helsinki Titans 86 Calgary Wranglers @ HC Davos Dynamo 87 Riga Reign @ New York Americans 88 Malmo Nighthawks @ D.C. Dragons

1 11 games in, we are currently sitting at the 4th rank in the Eastern Conference. Can we keep it up and make the playoffs? Absolutely! Our younger core just gets stronger and stronger relative to the league and we've added some incredible veteran talent. 2 This start of the season has been wild to say the least. Defending champions in Seattle is 10th in the league. Perennial laughing stock of the league in Davos is 5th, 1 position behind our expansion rivals in Prague. What's your biggest surprise so far? Probably Guy's 3 goals and 3 assists in 6 games start. That has cooled off, but still looks like he's going to show dramatic improvement in S70. 3 Who has been the Dragons best player so far? Easy to pick a forward. Going with Benny Graves. Equal to Guy for 1st in goals. More assists. 4 What do your individual stats look like af the moment and what do you hope they'll look like in another 10 games? Guy is off to a fast start. Anything close to this in the next 10 games would be awesome. 5 What song do you think they should play when you guys jump on the ice before our home games? Dance with the Dragon - Jefferson Starship 6 What's worse: snow or rain? In small amounts - rain. Can't help but get wet whereas snow you are ok. In large amounts, snow. Pain to shovel!

Five more games have passed since I have reported on Guy Lesieur’s blazing early start to the S70 season. The “way too early” analysis of the first 6 games can begin to be checked by the ongoing performance over the season. It is still “way too early” with only 11 total games being played, but why not take a look? It is fun, it hurts no one, and as long as things are kept in perspective and unseemly crowing or unfounded pessimism takes over, I shall forge ahead. So, my first analysis was after only 6 games or 8.3% of the season. With 11 games played, we are now at 15.3% of the season played. Where is Guy Lesieur now in S70, only his second in the VHL? Goals Guy has scored four goals thus far. This is a steep decrease in pace versus those first 6 games when he blazed out of the gate with three. However, this still leaves him as the goal leader on the D.C. Dragons. He is actually tied for first, but from here on out in my reporting, I will not be reporting whether it is a tie or whether Guy holds the rank all by himself. This puts him on pace to score 26 goals on the season – more than double his total of 12 in S69. If Guy were to score “even” 20 goals this season, I would count it as a monster success. Shots Guy continues to be one to really swing the stick! In S69 he put 145 pucks on net. Thus far in S70 he has already challenged goalies 47 times. This is on pace for a whopping 307 shots on goal! But it really is not so out of the norm for his team. He ranked third in S69 and has fallen so far to 4th leading shot taker and he is built to be a shoot first high flying winger after all. So, we will just have to see if this pace continues. If it does, those twenty plus goals look very possible. Shot Percentage Here is an area where Guy really needs to improve and he is working hard on this facet of his game. In S69 he ended with an 8.28% scoring mark which ranked 8th on the team. Lesieur started with a greatly improved 11.54% mark, but that has regressed back to the mean as it were. After 11 games he is back to scoring on 8.51% of his shots. This is still a hair above his performance last season, but statistically similar enough to say there has been no improvement shown so far. He has climbed in the team rankings though from 8th to 5th and that is a little odd as the Dragons added some real talent this year. Doubtless just an atypical slow start for those veterans. Assists Guy is mainly a scorer, but it’s important to look at this side of his game too as it only makes the team stronger. The story is basically identical to the goal scoring one. Guy went from 3 G, 3 A in 6 games to 4 G, 4 A in 11 games. So, he is on the same pace as for goal scoring - 26 assists for the season. Again, could he attain a 20/20 season, I would consider it a great season and a nice setup for his third year and a chance for the Dragons to really make some noise in the league. Next week, I will continue to track Guy Lesieur’s rise in the league.