What If games, Jaxx Hextall Edition

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What if Jaxx Hextall didn’t get traded

 

With the annual trade deadline and subsequent theme week has hit the Victory Hockey League once again. This year the league has asked media around the league to took at “what if” situation. In this weeks media spot our focus will be on “What if Jaxx Hextall didn’t get traded to the Legion?”

 

Back in Season Seventy, Jaxx Hextall was drafted Ninth Overall by the HC Davos Dynamo. Hextall signed a standard three-year entry deal with the club. Then on January 15th, 2020, Hextall along with three others were shipped to the Legion for one player and six draft picks. Now if we rewind the tapes and keep this trade from happening, what exactly would be the spin-off? Well first thing that comes to mind, is Hall of Fame goalie Alex Gegeny would still be in fourth place all-time in wins in Legion history. Yes, you heard us correctly, just recently Hextall pulled ahead of Gegeny in wins by a Legion netminder, where he currently sits in fourth with 202 wins. Now during the time that Hextall won 200 games with the Legion, the Dynamo as a franchise have only won 209 games, so its really a toss up if the trade to the Legion increase or decrease the number of wins Hextall has.

 

Another eventual spin-off from Jaxx Hextall not being traded to the Dynamo in Season Seventy, would be the possibility that Joakim Bruden isn’t taken by the Dynamo, Fifteen Overall in the Season Seventy-One VHL Entry Draft. One season after selecting their franchise goalie in Hextall, the Dynamo wouldn’t have to go out and get another top notch goalie in Bruden. In turn for Bruden, he doesn’t have to then sit as as the backup goalie in Davos for three of his five seasons with the club. With Hextall still on the club in Season Seventy-One the Dynamo would go a different route with their selection, selecting Xavier leFlamnt, who was selected in that draft just five selections later.

 

A third spin-off from a hypothetical situation from Hextall not being dealt in Season Seventy-One, would be Sirkanta Klamasteris would likely be the starting goalie for Toronto this past few seasons, instead of being a back-up for the Legion at close to 650 TPA. After being dealt to the Legion in the Season Seventy-Six off-season, Klamasteris has played a combined thirty-six games for the Legion in just under two seasons. With Hextall not in the mix in Toronto, there would be nothing standing in the way or Sirkanta starting and being more vocal in the locker-room about his poor play when it happened on the ice. Thankfully for the Legions players in the locker-room and the Legion fans, the Hextall trade saved them from hearing from Klamasteris each day.

 

As you can see from the information above, the hypothetical situation of Hextall not being dealt in Season Seventy would have quite the trick down effect for both the Legion and Dynamo, but one thing for sure is Hexall now sits alongside some of the best in Legion goalie history.