The Seabasstard Prospect Scouting Report

[Seabass 593]

 

 

Well it seems like The Seabasstard's has played his last game of his VHLM Career after the Saskatoon Wild have suffered a soul crushing defeat in the first round of the VHLM playoffs at the hands of the Las Vegas Aces. The Seabasstard crossed the 250 TPE VHLM cut off mark as of early April and sadly won't be eligible to return to the VHLM next year. Considering he's only the third player from his draft class to do so, The Seabasstard's odds of being drafted in the 1st round of the S78 VHL Draft seems pretty likely. The Seabasstard impressed VHL scouts during his 1.2 seasons tenure as a Wild, as he ended his VHLM career being at least a PPG player with the team.  

 

The Seabasstard originally joined the Wild after signing on with the team as a Free Agent after the trade deadline of S76. That year the Wild were already far from a playoff spot by the time The Seabasstard joined up and while they did play better at the tail end of the season it wasn't enough to make the playoffs.  The Seabasstard got to see some time centering one of the top 2 lines once the Wild were eliminated from playoff contention as GM, Doomsday decided to give younger stars a chance to play as they no longer had anything to lose at that point. Things looked promising for The Seabasstard in his 14 game introduction to the VHLM posting 10 points and being +2. The small forward showed the league that he was a solid player at both ends of the ice and excelled in the faceoff circle as he was winning almost 60% of his draws. However, he only managed to pot 2 goals as he always seemed to look for the pass first and barely used his shot, and when he did he often just missed the net.  

 

The next season The Seabasstard was officially submitted to the S77 VHLM Dispersal Draft to only then return to the Saskatoon Wild as they selected him with the 9th overall pick. The Seabasstard showed up to training camp driven and focused to carve out a role for himself on the team's top 2 lines. Not only did he earn himself a role in the team's top 6 but he was tasked with centering the team's top line between TheCHEESE and Craig Martin. The line didn't end up being the most explosive offensively but it did effectively shut down the opposing teams top lines and produce good secondary offense at the same time. The Wild had themselves a good season in S77 making the playoffs end finishing 2nd in the league standings and first in the Western Conference. The team had two 100+ point getters this season as the deadly duo of Griff Mackenzie and Duncan Montana exploded for a combined 217 points. The Seabasstard shot the puck more this year as he put up 34 goals for the year after having himself a pretty good year offensively scoring 81 points in 72 games. He displayed more confidence with the puck this year and continued showing the league that he was a good two way player. He proved to be an elite drawer on the faceoffs as he ended up leading the league all year in faceoff success percentage of 64.25 % and it proved to be a good skill set for the team's penalty kill which lead the league with a 88.92% success rate. 

 

The Wild sadly didn't make it very far in the playoffs as they failed to reproduce their regular season success and fell to the Las Vegas Aces 4 game to 1 in the opening round of the playoffs. The Seabasstard played well however scoring 5 points and was +5 in those 5 games played. He also won 66.67% of his 222 faceoffs as he continued to dominate at the faceoff circle. I figure The Seabasstard has earned enough TPE regularly throughout the season and had enough success on the ice to be considered in the first round of the VHL Draft. Which of course would be an amazing feat for me as it would make the first time any of my players go in the first round. 

 

Season 76 / 14 Games Played / 2 Goals / 8 Assists / 10 Points / +2 / 13 PIM / 15 Hits / 0 Blocked Shots

 

Season 77 / 72 Games Played / 34 Goals / 47 Assists / 81 Points / +21 / 28 PIM / 95 Hits / 26 Blocked Shots

 

S77 Playoffs / 5 Games Played / 3 Goals / 2 Assists / 5 Points / +5 / 8 PIM / 10 Hits / 2 Blocked Shots

 

Pros:

 

Elite faceoff man

Efficient two-way player

Good on the Penalty Kill

Doesn't take many penalties

 

 

Cons:

 

Could be more creative offensively

Needs to play with other good players to create offense, not able to drive offense by himself

Will need to get faster to make it at the VHL level

Not very physical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 1, 2021 by Seabass