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Well, he told us he was gonna do it, didn't he?

Geno Esposito and Dante Terragni.

Closest game we've had in a while. gg helsinki

The Stockholm Five A review of the Vikings' fuzzy goalie history part 1 of 3 The approach that the Stockholm Vikings took to securing their franchise goalie was certainly a unique one, albeit quite a bit due to circumstance. While most teams simply draft a solid goalie (or the general manager creates one) with clear intent of making him their future starter, Stockholm's affinity for goalies became a relevant story in the VHL. Over the past two seasons, the Vikings have had five potential 'goalies of the future.' Whether it be goalie prospects under contract or draft picks that they realistically could have made, the options have been plentiful for the team in that short time period. Four of these five are in the VHL this season and on their way to a meaningful career, while the fifth will likely never make it out of the minor leagues. Here is a look at two of these goalies. Callum Sinclair Holding the second overall pick in the Season 42 draft, the Vikings were in position to draft Callum Sinclair as their goalie. Though the Dynamo, who were selecting first, was also looking for their future netminder, Bismarck Köenig was the obvious choice for them. Davos general manager Jack Reilly was intent on acquiring both Köenig and Sinclair, however, and he offered Benoit Prévost and the Vikings a deal that was too good to turn down: two first round picks, a second round pick, and two decent prospects. Two of the pieces acquired in this trade will come into play later in this series. So the Vikings passed on taking Sinclair in the hopes that they would have another opportunity to find a goalie. Sinclair is currently playing with the Dynamo in his second season, posting a 0.921 save percentage with six shutouts. After a very strong start to the season, Sinclair has struggled lately; he has given up at least three goals in his past six starts (all losses), including an eight-goal thrashing at the hands of the Vikings. Coca Cola In the deal for second overall, one of the prospects the Vikings added was Coca Cola. Though he was far from a sure thing, Prévost saw potential in Cola. He was not an essential piece in the deal, and the Vikings were never planning on putting all their eggs in the Cola basket. Cola did show some promise during Season 42 in terms of his training, but it also became apparent that he would not be in Stockholm's long-term plans. As they had been expecting to do, the Vikings traded him at a time when he had some value. They sent him to Calgary in exchange for Riga's Season 43 second round pick, which turned into 11th overall. Cola lost the Season 42 Founder's Cup Finals to the Brampton Blades, who were led by another one of the goalies featured in this series. Now playing for the Blades in Season 43, Cola is leading the league in save percentage by a wide margin, posting a 0.923 percentage to second-place Bernie Gow's 0.909. Cola has the potential to make a nice career for himself in the minor leagues. Next Week In part two of the series to come next week, I will take a look at two other goalies who could have potentially made a career in Stockholm.

Because things haven't been going poorly enough for Davos lately.

gg boiz

Munky Hockey League pls

what are we talking about?

And me!

didn't you quit?

you also never saw my typo

Should be the Drapery Hockey League imo. you can pretend I never saw this if you want ;-;

Last post-season, we saw the debut of the Victory Hockey Fantasy League. Won by Bushito, the first edition of the VHFL was enough of a success that it came back for Season 43, and it could very well become a permanent fixture in the league. Considering the reduction in fantasy leagues for the major sports leagues such as the MLB and NBA, the VHFL could be seen as somewhat of a replacement. I for one am entirely pleased with the change. We are over halfway through the season now, which is plenty of time to be doing fantasy analysis. With a team salary cap at $20 million, one key aspect to winning the league is getting the best value out of your millions. Before the season, Higgins wrote an article highlighting some of the players who he thought would give you such value. His picks were Brady Stropko (forward), Patrick Demko (defenseman), and Martin Brookside (goalie). Demko and Brookside have been very solid picks, though not the best; Stropko, however, has largely been a disappointment. Halfway through the season (through 37 games for each team), here are the positional leaders in terms of fantasy points per million. F - Marcus Hurley 18 G, 20 A, 14 SB, 10 PIM, 38 H Salary: $2 million FP/million: 34.1 Selected for just one fantasy squad, Wrangler Marcus Hurley gives great value for his $2 million salary. As one of Calgary's two forwards (Rami Jakobssen, the other, has a respectable 28.33 FP/million), Hurley has put up good offensive numbers with 18 goals thus far. His goals are generating over half of his fantasy points, with his assists accounting for a good chunk of the remainder. As is the case with several of the top forwards, Hurley stays out of the penalty box quite well. However, with cheap defensemen being highly efficient, Hurley ranks just 6th among skaters and 8th overall despite being the top forward. D - Prince Gigga-Bijou 5 G, 22 A, 52 SB, 26 PIM, 36 H Salary: $1 million FP/million: 55.3 For one-third of the cost of teammate Lloyd Light, you can get the same fantasy production in Prince Gigga-Bijou.Gigga-Bijou is playing his rookie season at a new position after being a forward during his time in the VHLM. His cheap contract makes him, dollar-for-dollar, the second best fantasy player and the top defenseman despite ranking 43rd among skaters in fantasy points. As noted earlier, cheap defensemen can give you a good value and allow you to spend more big bucks on a top forward or goaltender. This efficiency comes from the value of shots blocked, which even the younger, cheaper players can get a lot of. G - Blake Campbell 12 W, 5 SO, 0.927 SV% Salary: $1.5 million FP/million: 57.5 Fellow Viking rookie Blake Campbell is surprisingly the most valuable goalie for his cost. However, for Campbell, it's not entirely due to being a low-cost player; as Stockholm's backup goalie, Campbell is third in total fantasy points among goalies behind Martin Brookside and Callum Sinclair. With five shutouts, a strong save percentage, and a salary of just $1.5 million, Campbell gives the highest value among all players in the VHFL. Granted, his incredible stats come from him getting his starts against the bottom tier teams, but in fantasy play, that doesn't affect your score. Whether or not Campbell would actually get points from his save percentage, I am not sure of, as he has not played enough games to qualify for the leaderboard, but for the sake of getting to write about him, I went ahead and assumed he would.

Technically speaking, this article doesn't include answers to questions two and three.

http://www89.zippyshare.com/v/JnQfjn2E/file.html someone's in trouble

hey lets all look at the spreadsheet but not like his post lol fkers

Also if you notice any mistakes, please feel free to point them out (unless it is the "eaglesdan" and "flyersdan" thing... Higgins had one of them wrong in the rosters that he sent me so I changed the other one to match it).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PzX5K-58P9RkZkz3ry2wVUrhZRj4p9mzPHBpsIrr7zU/edit?usp=sharing I may edit the format of it to make the stats pages look less bad. Right now, the columns without headings are the number of fantasy points earned from the stat to the left of that cell. I may either just hide those columns while I'm not editing or put them somewhere else. But I'm not going to do that right now.

i am hero to saves the day

i can't fire you, you quit

you're fired

I lied that's not actually the best. Xin Xie Xiao Jody 3 Moons Christoph Klose Patrick Demko Dimothenis Vlasis Martin Brookside Still none of the most efficient players though.

Hits were extrapolated to season totals, and then (along with save percentage for goalies) the fantasy points were reduced for the fraction of the season. Xin Xie Xiao Bruno Wolf Thomas O'Malley Patrick Demko Dimothenis Vlasis Callum Sinclair None of these players are the most efficient at their respective position in terms of FP/million.

stay toon'd

3-1 Vikings