Claimed:Zamora a Function of... Consistency?

[frescoelmo 1,227]

Zamora a Function of…  Consistency?

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Not to be mistaken for anyone of great value, Felix Zamora has bounced around the Victory Hockey League over the past seven seasons tasked with being nothing more than a glorified journeyman.  Can you play two-way?  Yes.  Can you shoot?  Of course.  Can you bully the other team tonight?  Certainly.  Zamora’s role on the HC Davos Dynamo can hardly be defined; the jack-of-all-trades does a little bit of everything well, but nothing great.  Was it the glamorous hall of fame career he envisioned after being selected in the first round of the Season 33 Draft?  The veteran winger isn't even in the realm below that realm.

 

Felix likes it that way.

 

Call it lack of interest, call it attitude, call it what you may.  Felix has heard it all, from being a quitter to selfish and everything in between.  What came of the young forward who posted a career-high 96 points in his rookie season?  Simply put, he found himself struggling to find an identity on a top-heavy team.  ”After Season 35, I went off to play for Quebec and their young franchise.  Having come off of back-to-back 96-point seasons, it seemed like a no-brainer that I would finally eclipse the century mark,” Zamora explained.  ”I started to get sluggish, I started to party a lot more.  I took for granted that I been a function of an incredible offense in Calgary, and it showed.”  Zamora would soon find himself struggling for playing time on a saturated Meute team, regressing down to a 67-point campaign.  ”I didn't see myself the same way I did back in Calgary.  It was a gigantic blow to my ego, to see myself vanish so quickly when I had every opportunity to build upon two incredible seasons with the Wranglers.  It was a low point, for sure.  I could never be in that position again,” Zamora vented to the media.

 

 

Felix knew that he off-season after Season 36 was his last real shot to make it in the VHL.  He knew he would not survive in the VHL as a play-maker on offense; the league had too many of those.  Felix’s best chance to revive his quickly declining career was to fit a niche, to find a void and fill it.  He had to do something different.  Zamora would soon find that opportunity in Davos, as an old friend from Calgary would recruit him to join the Dynamo.  ”[Alexander] Chershenko came up to me one night at a bar in Switzerland and told me about this colorful team that had all of these wonderful pieces in place.  He proclaimed, “we are one player away from a title run!  You could be that guy!”  I went to visit their facilities and practice with the team the following weekend.  I’m still in Davos,” Zamora described.

 

The Spaniard was never asked to be ‘the guy’; they already had 3-4 of those, if not more.  Davos needed Felix to fill in all of the blanks, they needed him to do all of the little things.  ”I viewed it as an opportunity to finally grow as a player, not just live off of other players and their success,” Felix continued.  ”For the first time in my VHL career, there was a tangible objective that I could reach.”

 

 

Since joining the Dynamo, Felix has been to the Continental Cup Finals in back-to-back years and a cup to show for it in Season 38.  As the regular season comes to a close in Season 39, Felix is looking to keep that trend consistent for a third year.  Speaking of consistency, over the last four seasons, Zamora has not been one to deviate from the top of the bell curve.  Statistically speaking.

GP  G   A   P  +/- PIM PM5 HIT HTT SHT OSB OSM  SHT %  SB   MP  AMG   PPG PPA PPP
72  43  53  96  23  37   5  79 176 475   0   0  9.05%  61 2025 28.12   9  12  21 
72  41  55  96  46  21   5  61 180 382   0   0 10.73%  52 2068 28.72   6  13  19 
72  29  38  67  42  11   5  50 143 335   0   0  8.66%  46 2133 29.62   7   9  16
72  31  36  67  30 133   5 202 109 313   0   0  9.90%  16 1975 27.44   7  14  21
72  29  43  72  30  65   5 177 124 358   0   0  8.10%  24 2149 29.85   7  11  18
70  29  37  66  43  66   0 126  98 296   0   0  9.80%  26 2004 28.62   5   8  13

Edited September 4, 2014 by frescoelmo

[Kesler 1,514]

Zamora an underrated second liner, reminds of a Brody Hodgson or a Tyler Owens.

[Guest Svoboda_3]

Content: 3/3

759 words. Good to see you settle in somewhere. This was a great written article about your ventures and your successes. You had excellent word formation and everything tied together nicely here. Great job also on the stats you incorporated.

Grammar: 2/2

he off-season = the off-season

blanks, they = blanks; they

Appearance: 1/1

Looks good! Like the purple accents with the quotes.

Overall: 6/6

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