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Not in mood for 2000 word articles so let's just talk about perhaps the most underwhelming team so far. HC Davos Dynamo. Since Tyler stepped down this team was constantly under pressure by the rest of the league. They were meme'd hard and their GM by that time, Shawn Glade was under the fire for most of the time. Rightfully or not, that's for others to judge. Anyways, he stepped down from this job, but left lots of S72 picks for the next chief in charge, @GustavMattias. Things were going great. First two picks in S72 and a good draft overall made people think that Davos is about to return to it's glory. Except it didn't happen. Gus was making so many trades for being a legit contender, but Simon was just disliking their forward lineup. Getting swept by a perennial playoff clients in Riga, then being upset by an upcoming Malmo team in the wild card a season later. And how about the missing the playoffs altogether last season. I mean...oof. Fast forward to last offseason. Before making any moves I was reaching up to couple of GM's to know their plans. Gustav told me he is set to contend again. It made the sense; despite not making the playoffs last season their roster was still looking decent, even without Roque Davis. Fast forward once again, let's look what's happening in the EU conference after 1/3 of the season is gone: I mean, a whopping 47 games left and they're only 6 points behind the 5th place Moscow. But something tells me it may not change at all and Davos is on the danger on missing the post season once again. Just look at these stats. Least regulation wins from all Europeans teams. Worst offense in this league. Third worst shots for (only ahead of Riga and LA). Worst goal differental in the league. And that's with four 700+ TPE forwards. THEY ARE EVEN WORSE OFFENSIVELY THAN RIGA!!! At least they beat us twice, I guess that's good. It still wasn't enough to life them from the last spot though. Let's see what the fuck is wrong with this team. First off, forwards. Despite having a bunch of TPE applied, neither Hornet or Winter could find any chemistry between each other. Then we have Jensen who was traded from New York before S73. The player who is constantly underachieving despite being another big TPE guy. It never changed in Davos. Owen Nolan who was traded...khe khem...from New York. A decent player, but never managed to reach the stardom and never elevated this team's offense to even a decent level this season. Also, three more depth level guys, only one of them is showing a promise. Defense. Oh well. The best of them is the guy who is trying oh so hard being a Condor to Davos, but he is still too young for that. Always loyal Ahma is there as well, I guess there is nothing much more to ask from him given his current build. And also two 300 TPE defs. Seems kinda meh to me. Goaltending? Bruden is like McPine for Prague, decent at earning TPE, but never being a true saviour to Davos. Plus a backup from Berocka. In conclusion, it doesn't look very good so far for this team. The main offensive weapons are doing very little, the defense is just average, even on paper. The same is for goaltending. Seems like the standing isn't that surprising anymore eh? Although I still was expecting more from them. Anyways, let's looks at their future and see what Gustav might do. I'd say they are in weird position right now. Owen Nolan is retiting following this season and Jensen is going to bid his farewell a season after. Lefebvre stopped developing altogether and Vlad Imir is just a depth tier forward, nothing more. On the bright side, both S72 first picks are locked for 2 more seasons after this one and Tsujimoto is a GM player so that automatically makes him a very promising center. Moving to defense: situation there is worse in my opinion. Tyler Walker may legit pull Condor in Davos, but it's very muddy after that. Ahma has only 1.5 seasons left with not much TPE left, Wyman never earned lots of TPE in the first place and he is on the prime already. Shawty is a future second pair defenseman at most. That's tough. Goaltending is an odd one. Bruden is set to regress after this season. They do have a way younger goalie in Berocka, but it may take 2-3 seasons before he becomes a good netminder. In conclusion about their near future...tough telling. Their possible roster for the next season without any signings or drafting: F - Jensen, Hornet, Winter, Tsujimoto D - Walker, Jokinen, Shawty G - Bruden, UnGuri Honestly, I'm not sure about others. Vlad is not a fast TPE earner and he may be not needed in Davos. The same for Lefebvre who is just inactive. Wyman might be extended, but not sure about that. Now, they do have a couple of prospects coming up following this season, but I don't see them doing big. They would need a couple of seasons before becoming solid to star level players. So basically they need more big TPE players. The current lineup wasn't just not doing enough in S73, they weren't doing enough in S74, they are not doing enough now and they won't do much next season either. They just never meshed up together and it doesn't seem it's going to change anytime. Maybe more stars going to help them? Maybe rebuid? Retool? The star player swap? I'm not sure about the next offseason's trade market yet, still to early. But I could see one or two teams trying to change things in their respective teams so maybe Gustav may take an Advantage of that if he's still set on competing. One thing is for sure though - don't trade for New York players. Most likely they are aleady have the underachieving mentality, just like the NY itself. That's it and I'm out. 23/11 - 29/11 30/11 - 5/12

@RedSus had enough of Hello's heroics. @SimmerDown99 and @Domino Draws once again with 3 out of 4 Vegas goals. What a duo @coochiman starting to to feeling it! that's your answer to if the pass first build is good enough. @linsangeles is the best third liner in this league @youloser1337 adds to 2 goals to this massacre. @jaredc7 with his casual 7 hits. @Eddie Dams with another shutout winning goal! we have a SO specialist right here. @Hoopydog tried. Also, @Matt thunder here are your points too. Eddie with another 2 points for today! he has something cooking in this sim. 2 more goals for Lose. Nice going.

Zyrok12 ejected from game at 12:57 of 2nd period @Zyrok said this is the boring sim and I agree with that.

I think we all know who is the best power forward and a player in this league is, right? @tcookie25 @Hello just completely shuts down the Dolant crew. oof, this was too close. @SimmerDown99 and @Domino Draws collective effort brings them to a winning SO series. @linsangeles, @youloser1337 and even @monttu involved in a massacre of Yukon! @Dolant was not happy about Hello's performance so Houston had to suffer. @Nikdandrea34 also scoring his goals consistently, nice going! also, @Eynhallow enjoys his points along with McLaren.

ready to be your last place holder

Mercer Island Knights > also, F

Calvin Harvey hype train is back! @cartoes once again came back to haunt his old team with his GWG. @emidas and @Rocket with the 2 point games vs NY and Prague, respectively.

So it's not only Riga talking about Leafs

Also, our guys are enjoying a great time here, especially @SimmerDown99

@Dolant coming for the top scorer spot! ...if only he could carry his team here, but @tcookie25 has none of that! @Hello stealing a game from Miami again!

Boring sim. Nothing really to say much besides @Rocket with 2 assists and a fight sim.

oh yeah, nice Ottawa spanking by @SimmerDown99

you damn right, this is a big sim! soon you with Bouchard will leave the rest of the league high and dry... ...wait, who is this? oh yeah right, that's the Halifax carrying machine @Dolant speaking. shame they couldn't get 2-0 against Yukon, but hey he is very close to the top scorer spot nonetheless. I mean that's Ottawa, but @jaredc7 collects points again on the top of 6 hits in previous game!

You know that Riga had a slam dunk draft when our three draftees went to the first team.

@Tyler took it to another level with a 4 goal sim! @Mrpenguin30 awesome effort against DC! Stole that game for us. @emidas congratulations on your first goal of your VHL career!

@linsangeles went off! great play for a third liner. @Domino Draws game winning goal! stat padding went right for @tcookie25 AND @Eynhallow DaMoose on Sovick crime nice contribution with a SO goal from @youloser1337 This is some unusual result, even for current Ottawa. Hey, Fischl back at it again!

Hands off our Riga alumni you uncultured swine!

@cartoes with another big game! Shame Kelly couldn't score against Molholt goalie but we'll take the win nontheless.

Ola Vikingstad @fishy

also, how tf Ottawa managed to get an early win? Hi Hello (MIN), 11 saves from 11 shots - (1.000), 30:35 minutes Tater Tot (MIN), 15 saves from 19 shots - (0.789), L, 1-3-0, 29:25 minutes oh yeah that's right, Hello wasn't in start.

I like the fact that despite the very physical defensive build, @jaredc7 manages to find himself to a scoreboard. He even scored a goal today! @Dolant woke up!

they got mad after McGirr show Glad to helps members to play their careers till the end.

@cartoes with a revenge on his former team and 3 point sim!

well there's one reason to not hate rory