NYA Competitive? What year is it!?

[Renomitsu 934]

One of the serendipitous constants of the VHL is, despite how much things change with player turnover - inactivity, retirement, free agency, trades, changes in philosophy with new management - there are a tremendous number of constants. And, for better or for worse, since returning to the league in S65, the New York Americans have been consistent. It's not 'normal' for me, at least in this run, to have an even semi-competitive Americans team because of GM Esso's dreadful luck in STHS.

 

But this season (or at least for the first 40 games or so), the New York Americans are in the thick of the playoff race. They're competitive enough, in fact, to do a trade close to the deadline to bolster a last-gasp playoff push, obtaining Kosmo Kramerev in exchange for a couple of picks and Shawn Andrei Zyuzin. This is a weird phenomenon, and it scares me. NYA as a basement team is one of those few, precious constants, and it makes me uncomfortable that this is changing as I'm more deliberately planning a step away from the league (in the future obviously, not now). The VHL world is upside down and I don't like it.

 

The next thing you'll tell me is that New York actually made the playoffs, and that would send me in a wild spiral to insanity.

 

Or it might be a little weird for a week or two. I dunno.