Seattle Bears Season Review

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The Seattle Bears were eliminated by the Chicago Phoenix in the conference semi-finals 4-2, and they are already looking forward to next season. The core of the team will still remain and the Bears will be looking to do some damage next season. This offseason, the Bears have no free agents although Soren Jensen is retiring and Phoenix Dawson will be coming up to replace him. Dawson had a successful season with the VHLM’s Miami Marauders, leading them with 97 points and bringing them to the playoffs. They lost in the first round to the Yukon Rush in 6 games, however. Minnesota’s Logan Moore will be a welcome addition to the blueline if the Bears don’t decide to move him, as he will be the 5th man. Moore also has an excellent season on a stacked Minnesota Storm roster, putting up 64 points and finishing 9th overall in defenseman’s scoring. The Storm swept the Ottawa Lynx in the first round, and currently sit at 0-2 against the Mexico City Kings. Aksu Maronen capped and is looking to come up to the VHL as Seattle’s new backup goaltender. He finished second in save percentage for VHLM with a 0.898%, and backstopped the Las Vegas Aces. The Aces were swept in the first round by Mexico, effectively ending their season.

 

A few players will likely be hit pretty hard by depreciation this offseason. Odin Omdahl, Jim Bob and Vin Calia will all likely see a pretty significant drop in TPA from this season. Timothy Brown and Randy Marsh will be entering their first seasons of depreciation, but it likely won’t be enough to have too much of an impact yet. A few players had a bit of a down year this season, but that is true for the team as a whole. 

 

Marsh, Bob and Brown finished with less points than they did last season. Randy Marsh especially did much worse, finishing with a -22 in comparison to his +22 last season. He also had 15 fewer points than he did the previous season, with 56. Despite finishing with less points, Timothy Brown still led the Bears in points and actually set a career record for goals with 43. Jim Bob took on a much more defensive role this season, finishing with a career high in blocked shots and hits with 309 and 44, respectively. He had a -13 however, and this is likely due to his high PIM. Bob also set a career high in goals with 34, despite getting 68 points when he had 84 last season. Lucifer Olivier Leveque had a breakout season in S76, showing a glimpse of what he was capable of doing in the VHL. He finished with 13 goals again and 64 points. He only scored 6 more points that he did in S75, but he led all Bears defensemen by 8 points while maintaining the second best +/- on the team, showing he was also good defensively. He set career highs in assists, points, hits and blocked shots. Han Jae Kuk is another player that stepped up his game quite a bit in S76. Kuk finished the season with 8 goals, and he only had 1 career goal prior to the season. He also had 53 points, which blew his previous career high of 45 out of the water. He was a -8, but he was nowhere near the worst on the team defensively.

[Hank 67]

Overall good article Ferk, maybe add a little bit of bolding or italics here and there. Great way explaining how the season went, and what next season may look like. Next time, would recommend at least one picture.

7/10!

[Banackock 7,634]

Great season DA BEARZ 

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