Couple of Wrangler Dubs

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The VHL season is currently underway in full swing, with all teams playing 26 games. Teams have established themselves so far as top dogs and bottom feeders, with plenty of wiggle room to change that. The Calgary Wranglers are 15-7-4, and holding down the 3rd spot in the North American Conference. Their 34 points are respectable, but in no way are they safe in holding down that 3rd spot forever. It's going to take some consistency heading forward, with the Seattle Bears surging on a 5 game win streak and the Toronto Legion on their tail as well.

 

Let's take a look at their last couple of games.

 

Calgary Wranglers vs. Prague Phantoms 6-4 W

This matchup against Prague is between a couple of teams with similar records, but in different conferences. The Phantoms are 15-9-2, only 2 points behind Calgary. In the 1st Period, Calgary's Reylynn Reinhart got this game off to a quick start with her 22nd goal of the season. It wasn't until 10:37 that Prague's Darth Kaprizov tied the game up with his milestone 20th of the season. This game stayed tied until the final minute of the period, where Prague's JaredN Jr took a holding penalty. Calgary would capitalize quickly, with Frank Funk Jr scoring on the powerplay with his 9th goal of the season. The period would end 2-1 CGY. In the 2nd Period, the game exploded. Prague's Luc Tessier tied the game up just 22 seconds into the period. Halfway through the period, Erlantz Jokinen took a penalty and the Prague Phantoms made him pay at the end of the powerplay. Right before Calgary could kill off the penalty, Darth Kaprizov scored to make the game 3-2. Then with under 5 minutes left in the period, Saku Kotkakoivu scored his 5th of the season to tie this one at 3-3. Under a minute later, Gustislav Nasherov scored his 15th of the season, giving the Wranglers a 4-3 lead. Only seconds later, JaredN Jr took a hooking penalty, and sent Calgary to the PP at a very inopportune time for Prague. Reylynn Reinhart scored her 23rd of the season while on the PP, and Calgary took a 5-3 lead into the 3rd. In the 3rd Period, Prague tied their best to fight back. Baby Bob scored his 16th at 6:14, giving the Phantoms some hope just down 1 goal with over a period left to go. This is where the Calgary Wranglers delivered a dagger, when Reylynn Reinhart scored her hat trick goal just 15 seconds later and put the Wranglers up 6-4. Sirkants Klamasteris held the door shut the rest of the way, while saving 60 of 64. You would think that the 6-4 offensive outburst of Calgary was the story of the game, but Klamasteris took that accolade. Prague outshot Calgary 64-39 in a losing effort.

 

Calgary Wranglers vs. Malmo Nighthawks 4-3 SOW

This game was another competitive battle against similar teams. In the 1st Period, Gustislav Nasherov got this game started with his 16th goal of the season, giving Calgary the 1-0 lead. Chances would go both ways but it wasn't until the last 5 minutes of the period where the action would come. Malmo's Addison McLaren would score her 7th of the season, then in the final minute, Taylor Mourning scored to give Malmo the 2-1 lead heading into the 2nd. In the 2nd Period, Malmo would continue their scoring trend with Steve Eso getting his 5th of the season for a 3-1 Malmo lead. Calgary did not quit, however. Saku Kotkakoivu scored his 6th of the season at 8:05, bringing his team within 1. At the end of the period, Malmo's Druss Deathwalker took a double minor and Calgary capitalized quickly, when Tom Eagles scored a PP and tied this one 3-3 heading into the 3rd Period. In the 3rd Period, Malmo would outshoot Calgary 10-7, but it was a goaltending showdown and this game went all the way until the shootout. Nathan Perry's lone goal in the shootout was enough for Calgary to take this one 4-3.

 

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Review time: Good game reviews and very well detailed. The detail including time stamps, power plays, and number of goals a player as scored so far shows you did your research. Using different font sizes and bold are great and I love that you used the team banners. If you wanted to go a step further you could have color coded the team names but I don't mind that you didn't. My only gripe here is where you put the match score, putting to the right after the team banners just feels so weird and it doesn't look right, I feel it should have been placed under the team names and banner and made in larger font size. Overall very good 9.5/10