CowboyinAmerica

Better than little knob. I have standards.

Aww no medal While I agree, I think this team could be super scary come Season 46. Lots of young talent that will be in their primes.

Nope. Their trip was just collusion to trade Jericho to Cologne at the deadline, then back to New York in the offseason, to make sure the record lives.

Calgary -- After a hot start, rookie Calgary Wranglers goaltender Hans Wingate has begun to cool off. His save percentage is now under .920, and despite a few shootout wins, he still is tied for the most losses among all goalies in the league. Where have things gone wrong? To hear the Calgary team doctor talk, it may have begun around the time Calgary traveled to Stockholm to play the Vikings. "That game, Wingate just seemed off. He couldn't focus to save his life," team doctor CAL FUCK MAYBE told reporters recently. "I tried testing for everything, but I couldn't figure it out. But then I went on VHL.com, and boom, it hit me." In an odd twist, Stockholm goaltender Blake Campbell announced that he is the best thing since sliced bread. For Hans Wingate, this was a problem: The goalie has a strong gluten allergy, and the doctor believes that playing Stockholm and something even better than sliced bread may have affected him from across the ice. His condition did not get any better after playing New York. "E'Twaun Delicious called himself the best thing since sliced bread as well! We couldn't escape it," FUCK MAYBE said. "We've had to do some emergency procedures to try and fix Wingate's allergy. He was in pain, but at least we got him away from the super-bread." For Calgary, the doctor may be the team's best hope. While Wingate is holding on for dear life now, coming in contact with the best thing since sliced bread again may result in damage that cannot be so easily cured.

What will the lottery bring? Mock drafts are always interesting, to be sure; in the National Football League, pundits are already speculating who will be the first pick in the draft next April. However, in the VHL, doing a mock draft isn’t exactly as straight forward for one key reason: the lottery. As the Riga Reign could tell you well, the worst team in the league actually has the best chance at getting the second pick in the draft, not the first. The second-worst team is most likely to sit in the third draft selection. The full breakdown of odds is as follows (assuming that if the second-worst team gets the first pick, there’s another lottery for the third and fourth selections, which I’m not entirely sure about): You may notice something odd from this table: Each of the three worst teams are actually more likely to move down than anything else. In fact, the team with the second-worst record actually has a 91.7 percent chance of not picking second, as being in that position would require the worst team to win the lottery, then the second-worst team winning the corresponding lottery for the No. 2 slot. As a result, mock drafts are pointless. That’s why, as we come up to halfway through the S43 season, I want to do something else. Right now, the four lottery teams, from worst to best, are Helsinki, Calgary, Riga and New York. All four own their own pick. I’ve decided to break down how I think the lottery would go in a variety of interesting lottery scenarios, with TPE totals based on Kendrick’s most recent prospect breakdown. Scenario 1: Helsinki wins lottery, Calgary second : LW Edwin Reincarnacion : LW Marcel Faux : D Kekko Hyvarienen : RW Simon Valmont Analysis: I decided to look at this one first because I think this is one of the few scenarios where Hyvarienen may not go second. With the ninth and twelfth selections in the draft, Calgary selected defensemen Michael Clardy and Chuck Goody, and even though Goody initially expressed displeasure with the franchise, both seem to have settled in nicely with the franchise. With Wingate in net, Calgary main target now is young offensive stars, and they need them badly. Could the team need offense badly enough to pass on Hyvarienen? In the end, it may not depend on TPE totals, but rather how strongly new General Manager Austin Gow wants to keep a connection with the team’s past and former GM Jason Glasser. Scenario 2: Helsinki wins lottery, Riga second : LW Edwin Reincarnacion : LW Marcel Faux : D Kekko Hyvarienen : RW Simon Valmont Analysis: If either Helsinki or New York win the second selection in the draft, I think Hyvarienen is as good as gone. However, if Riga wins the selection, then things could get interesting quickly. Hyvarienen is perhaps the selection that makes the most sense personnel wise, as MC Hammer is the only young defenseman in the system, and the team would like more protection in front of rookie goalie Bernie Gow. There is a case, though, for taking Faux and waiting until later to take someone like Supa Hot Fire with one of the team’s other picks. Faux’s brother, Bronson Faux, is already on the team, likely for the long-term. As the 30’s Quebec team showed (and the 30’s Seattle team failed to show), having brothers on the same team could be a strong impetus to keeping practice activity high. Plus, it never hurts to build a core around two strong offensive threats. Scenario 3: New York wins lottery : D Kekko Hyvarienen : LW Edwin Reincarnacion : LW Marcel Faux : RW Simon Valmont Analysis: Is there a scenario where Edwin Reincarnacion is not the first pick? I think it could very well happen if the Americans end up with the No. 1 pick for the second straight season. New York has a number of younger offensive prospects, including last year’s first overall pick E’Twaun Delicious, fellow Season 43 pick Jorma Ruutu, Season 41 studs Nicolas Caprivi and Mario De Rossi, and center Benjamin Dupont waiting in the wings. Meanwhile, on defense, the team has Golden Jedtsson in the VHLM and… that’s about it. Especially given the past relationship between New York GM Chris Miller and Hyvarienen’s agent, I would be surprised if Hyvarienen did not go first. (I could also see New York shopping the pick to a team looking to take Reincarnacion.)

I AM THE SHOOTOUT GOD.

I like to think that I was just sitting there reading a book while Davos continued to miss shots, then after McJustice scored I thought "Oh I should probably do something now."

EASTERN CONFERENCE (A2) Tampa Bay vs (M1) New York Rangers Winner: New York # of Games: 6 WESTERN CONFERENCE (C3) Chicago vs (P1) Anaheim Winner: Chicago # of Games: 6

Added approximately where I grew up, not where I am now. All one of us from Delaware, represent!

It's a Abbotsbury Garland Day miracle!

I'm gonna bitch about my fantasy team then, because Thomassen is killing me

... Wingated?

My favorite is still Gendry, the now three-seasons long Olympic rowing champion.

3-2 Dynamo

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Thanks, Putin.

All these Calgary/Seattle games have been surprisingly close (2-1 here before an empty netter), but the Wranglers just can't break through.

Although rookie goaltender Hans Wingate has personally had a strong start for the Calgary Wranglers, sitting third among qualified goaltenders with a .922 save percentage, there remains one key part of the stat sheet that he hasn't yet been able to fill up: wins. In 10 games, Wingate has just 2 wins, and Calgary's 5 points have them last in the standings. "Of course I'd like to win a few more games; it just feels good," Wingate says. "I know this is a rebuilding year for us, but that doesn't mean I'm going to play my heart out every night." However, could the Wranglers' fortunes soon change? The team plays Helsinki in each of its next two games, and after trading Mike Szatkowski Jr., the Titans could be reeling. Then, the Wranglers play two games against Seattle, which would seem like a bad time on its face. However, Calgary has played Seattle close in two games this season, losing just 3-1 and then 2-1 in a shootout. We'll know soon enough whether Calgary can climb out of the cellar, but the prospect has him excited. "We have some kick ass players on this team; I know we'll turn it around," Wingate says. "It's just a matter of when."

Davos 3-2

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Well done to everyone getting back to Kendrick! More optimistic about this draft than previously. Another good edition.

To be fair, I got damn close to beating Brookside in save percentage...