Looking back at Su in VAN

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It's been a hell of an offseason for Andrew Su. After being knocked out of the wildcard round by LA in 4 games, Su has had a turbulent offseason. 

 

The biggest change is that Su is no longer a Vancouver Wolf and is now an official member of the Calgary Wranglers. This trade was a blockbuster move for VAN as Su was their star player for the last few seasons. It also marks an end of an era in VAN. With Su being traded and Greg Stallion signing with the Warsaw Predators this free agency, VAN has officially gotten rid of every S72 draft pick they had. To recap VAN's S72 draft, they picked Gino DiGiannantonio 4th OA, Jungkok at 7th OA, Andrew Su at 13th OA, and Greg Stallion at 15th OA. Gino was traded to MOS in S74, Jungkok was traded to MAL in S73, and we have already covered Su and Stallion leaving this offseason. Despite Su being a VHL star, due to the cap situation of most teams, not many teams wanted to take on the ageing forward. [NOTE this was before the change in VHL CAP which happened literally 3 days after the trade :(]. As a result, CGY was able to get a solid deal for Su. They only had to swap 1st rounders with VAN, give up a 3rd round pick and Sheldon Juniper. Also huge shoutout to Fonzi for making the trade happen and getting my input every step along the way.

 

Durning Su's career with the Wolves he played 6 full seasons, totalling 432 games. Durning an atrocious rookie season where scoring was down, and Su should've most likely stayed in the minors, he only totalled a measly 19 points with 10 assists and 9 goals. Su was also only playing 3rd line minutes behind both HHH and Louth during his rookie campaign. It was looking like Su was going on the pathway of being a bust. In his sophomore season, Su was finally getting some more minutes and was able to massively improve his on-ice contributions with 77 points from 43 assists and 34 goals. Su was even nominated for the Dustin-Funk trophy (most improved) that season but was beat out by an impressive campaign by Ray Shields. In S74, Su just kept on improving. With both Louth and HHH gone from VAN, Su found himself as the #1 center of the team. With that, Su had an explosive season where he finally got to 100 points with 56 assists and 44 goals. VAN even won the cup that year, and Su had 22 points in 19 games, good enough to get nominated for the Daisuke Kanou Trophy (playoff MVP). The following 3 seasons are when Su was at his peak. 106, 121, and 120 points. 63, 74, 73 assists and 43, 47, 47 goals. In this timeframe, Su won 2 Mike Szatkowski's (S76, S77), 2 Scotty Campbell's (S76, S77), and 1 Alexander Beketov Trophy (S77). He was also only 1 point away in S75 from claiming a 3rd Szatkowski in a row.

 

At the end of the day, Su is the points and goals leader of VAN and is second-most in assists as well. Only time will tell if he will be as good in CGY.

[dlamb 1,326]

SUUUUUUU

[Prout 373]

SUUUUUUUU

[Renomitsu 934]

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Review

Lovely work. This is a good summary of the sequence of events surrounding Su's draft, the efflux of talent from Vancouver due to extenuating circumstances (i.e. the cap), as well as his exceptional adventure in Vancouver. There are a couple of unnecessary commas and a spelling error here or there, e.g. "Durning an atrocious rookie season where scoring was down, and Su should've most likely stayed in the minors." But this is otherwise well-written and packs a good amount of information in an organized fashion.

Also, gotta be honest - I thought you'd misspelled DiGiannantonio's name incorrectly, but I was the incorrect one all along!

[Banackock 8,044]

Dominant career. Future HoF! Good luck this season.