Unexpected Rival

[Mr Bohannan 114]

After the VHLM draft when Matt was still back in Mexico City, playing for Mexico City Kings, he was not happy about his draft pick. He was happy he got drafted at all, but he felt like he was better than a lot of the players that went before him and the worst part was that he had no idea what caused it. Why did these weaker players went before him? Was it some sort of potential that the coaches saw in others that they did not see in Matt? Was it that those players better fit in into the teams dynamics and personalities? No matter what it was, Matt promised himself that he will destroy the VHLM and show other teams why they should have picked him up while they could. The season started and Matt was doing exactly what he promised to do, but in first few weeks he never reached that top 1 spot. He was in top5 and top3, but never the top1. At first he did not pay much attention on who he was being beaten by as he focused on his own results, but then on week 3 of the season he looked at the statistics and who was in front of him. He saw this name of the Swedish player - Kyosti Karjalainen. Doing a little bit more research about this player as Matt never heard about him before, it turned out that Kyosti has been beating Matt all this time. On S80 VHLM draft Kyosti was drafted 25th, while Matt was drafted 33rd overall. In VHLE Kyosti was drafted quite low as well, same as Matt, but still bit quicker - Kyosti 73rd, Matt 78th. And finally the VHL, Matt thought, no way he beat him there as Matt went first round, but what did you know, even there...In S80 VHL draft Kyosti was drafted with the overall 7th pick while Matt was picked up with overall 9th pick. Suddenly it wasn't about just proving VHLE that he should have been a better pick, but now he also had a rival that he was not aware of before and the situation was not in favour for Matt as yet again he was being beaten by a small margin as in all the other cases.

 

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