Ori skating with new teammates, readying for season 82

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Next season is soon to be underway, and the Titans have had some changes during the offseason, gone is Gustislav Nasherov, the teams leading scorer from last season, Gary Rush, Micah Adrienne, Zarek Kaczka, Trevor Wallace, Creed and Carter Bellamy. The team has signed free agents and brought up prospects, Alex Johnston, Mikey Markov, Alessandro Nano, Javad Kamkar and Xavier Booberry. You can expect more of the older players to be let go next season or the season after, most of the core should be players from the season 80 and 81 draft, Ori will be an outlier here being from season 79.

 

Going back to Mikey Markov, it seems it might have been influenced by Ori to some regard. Apparently back in season 78, when both were in the VHLM and two made a bit of a friendship despite being on different teams. Ori in Minnesota and Markov in Miami. Markov is a good player, in his rookie campaign last season he scored 28 goals and 38 assists for 66 points, that's really good, only six points back of being a point per game. It is important to note though that he was playing for Moscow, a very good team that went to the finals last season, so his numbers could have been inflated from playing with other really good players. Him and Ori have been skating on the same line in pre season games and warm ups, they could be a very deadly duo if Markov keeps improving his goal scoring and Ori his passing.

 

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