S74 Toronto Legion Alternate Reality

[Peace 1,562]

Toronto... 

In season seventy four the Legion made a surprise appearance in the NA Conference Finals against the Vancouver Wolves after defeating the Seattle Bears 4-1 in the previous round. In our reality Toronto fell in a long seven game series to Vancouver, losing game six 3-2 and game seven 3-1 respectively, and actually lead the series 3-2 before those two games... obviously. Toronto's offense died at the most unfortunate time and that wound up guaranteeing Vancouver's spot in the Continental Finals, however it's fun to think about an alternate reality even if it is just a fun mind game. The sixth game between the two clubs was tied 2-2 in the third period for just under two minutes before Vancouver pulled ahead once again, and despite the Legion battling back from a 2-0 deficit with nearly all the momentum... the game was already over and no one realized it.  

But what if Toronto pulled ahead 3-2 before the Wolves' third goal? 

In reality Oh Sens shot the puck on net and Spyro made a save with no rebound, but in this scenario the solid Vancouver goalie couldn't control the puck and it bounces back towards the now evolving play. The rebound slides towards one of the faceoff dots and Raleigh Ritchie slaps the puck back to the blue line. Fredrik Elmebeck releases a snapshot towards the net and it's deflected in by Chad Magnum to give Toronto a 3-2 lead, the momentum swings even further in favor of the Legion and by the time the third period whistle blows the score ends 4-3 in favor of Toronto. The Legion register an empty net goal with Spyro pulled, and twenty seconds later -- also with Spyro pulled - Vancouver draws within one but it's not close enough. 

There is no game seven and the Toronto LR is going crazy. God I remember the actual disappointment of game six and seven we all experienced, it was a demoralizing event so I can only imagine how electrifying the LR would have been if we had made the finals that season. We've won game six and have taken the series 4-2, and now we're on our way to the finals and the club couldn't be more excited.  

It's the first finals appearance for Toronto under GM Peace and the team has a lot to prove.

As a club they took out Seattle 4-1, defeated Vancouver 4-2 and now face another challenge. 

Helsinki is a tough team and Toronto went 2-2 during the regular season with them.

 

Since STHS likes to just auto-generate numbers it seems I used the good old Google number generator for both SOG and scores... let's see how Google likes us! First number is home team and the second away for both goals and SOG.

Game one ends in a 5-3 Helsinki victory over Toronto despite the Legion outshooting the European team 47-39; game two is much closer, a 3-1 Titan victory with a goal on the empty net, and a stronger offensive effort as they outshoot Toronto 54-32; game three goes to Toronto as they skate away with a 5-1 victory over the Titans and dominate the shot clock 42-21; game four is a 5-4 back and forth affair for Helsinki, who climb ahead in the series 3-1 with this victory, although the shots are nearly even at 33-31 for Toronto; game five is a strong 3-0 shutout by Hextall who keeps his club alive despite Helsinki dominating the shot clock 47-19; game six is the dagger in Toronto's hopes as the Titans' win the championship off a 4-2 victory over Toronto, once again dominating the shot clock 44-27.  

Well it seems like the Google number generator has given the Titans' their cup but had this been the real finals... 

I wouldn't have been disappointed honestly. 

In my opinion this has been a fun little theme week, I've been thinking about S74 a lot with Toronto's S77 playoff implications and always wondered what would have happened if we had won game six. I don't know how the series against Helsinki would have gone, but I'm optimistic we would have fought them fairly well. We slayed Seattle and would have defeated a young Vancouver team, and while we would have absolutely been the underdogs in a matchup against the Titans... stranger things have happened in the playoffs.

As a VHL GM this is as close to the finals I have gotten and I am determined to get back there. I understand so are fifteen other VHL GMs so I'm hoping I've built Toronto well enough to contend long after S77 has concluded... and hopefully we see Toronto do well in the playoffs this season and into the future. 

[bigAL 2,176]

1 hour ago, Peace said:

Since STHS likes to just auto-generate numbers it seems I used the good old Google number generator for both SOG and scores

HAAAAA that's amazing. Let's just let Google's RNG run the lottery tournament this season.