The Wolves dynasty in the early 80s

[Baby Boomer 679]

Hello everyone, 

 

This week is theme week and we need to talk about the VHL at 15. I am only a member of the VHL since S77, so I don’t have a lot of memories of important members, significant change or things that we should remember. However, I think that I have one thing that marked everyone in the early 80’s. You remember when the Vancouver Wolves won three Continental Cup in a row in S80, S81 and S82. Well, in this article I will go over these three incredible seasons the Vancouver Wolves had. 

 

S80 

 

In S80, the Wolves won the Vicory Cup with 57 wins and 118 points in 72 games and also won the Continental Cup against the Moscow Menace in 7 games. Vancouver started the S80 by acquiring Hari Singh Nalwa @Dil, who was going to be an important piece in the S81 and S82 in a three teams trade with the D.C. Dragons and the Riga Reign. The Wolves gave Ryan Vidot @Enoramain this trade. In the middle of the season, Vancouver acquired Jeffrey Pines @rory  from Los Angeles, who was going to retire at the end of S80, in exchange of L  @gorlaband a 2nd round pick in S81. Finally, at the trade deadline, they got the legend Dakota Lamb @dlamb from Warsaw in exchange of a 1st, a 3rd and Sheldon Juniper @fyrefly. During the entire season, the first line was Jerome Reinhart @MexicanCow123, Jivere Zolnek @Sixersfan594 and Tyler Reinhart @Zetterberg and recorded 156 goals, 217 assists and 373 points in 72 games. Zolnek and T. Reinhart finished first and second in the league for the amount of points and for J. Reinhart, he finished seventh. As you can see this line just dominated the league, but they are not the only players on the team who did. In fact, nines players on the team had more than a point per game including three defensemen, R @Kylrad, Robin Galante Nilsson @RomanesEuntDomus and Jeffrey Pines. The starting goalie, Markus Emerson Jr @Xflexz completed the season with a record of 54 wins in 64 games with a save pourcentage of 0.928% and a goal against average of 2.87. The Captain of this S80 team was Emerson Jr and the two assistants were Jerome and Tyler Reinhart. 

 

S81 

 

In S81, the Vancouver Wolves won the Victory Cup with 58 wins and 118 points in 72 games and the Continental Cup in 6 games again against the Moscow Menace. Now that their goalie and also their captain, Markus Emerson Jr retired, the Wolves needed to find another goalie and a new captain. Vancouver’s GM Nyko Nax @Nykonax only did one trade this season and traded a 2nd, a 3rd and a 4th in exchange of the goaltender Thadius Sales @thadthrasher who was going to play for the team unitl he retired in S82. The new goalie was found, but they still needed a captain and the team decided to name Henry Tucker @NSG as their new captain. Henry played his entire career with Vancouver from S77 to S83. Jerome and Tyler Reinhart remained as the two assistants captain. During the off-season, Vancouver signed an all-star player in Aloe Dear @Renomitsu for one year and 5,5M. With the addition of Dear, the second line was now also a very competitive one with Aberg @osens, Dear and Tucker. The line with the two Reinhart and Zolnek stayed untouched. Jeffrey Pines retired and Javad Kamkar @Parriyah9374 signed with the Helsinki Titans, so the Wolves needed a defenceman and Hari Singh Nalwa was ready to play in the big league. R, Robin Galante Nilsson and Corey Kitson who were all with the team in S80 were completing the defensive core. Again, the Vancouver Wolves dominated the regular season with eight of the ten players on the team had more than a point per game and six of them had more than a hundred points. Dear, Tucker, Jerome and Tyler Reinhart were all in the top ten for the most points in the regular season. 

 

S82 

 

In S82, the Wolves won the Vicory Cup with 53 wins and 110 points in 72 games and again won the Continental Cup against the Moscow Menace and this time in only four little games. We can easily say that Moscow is the big loser of these three seasons as they made it to the final during all three of them, but lost them all. Vancouver wanted to upgrade their defense and they went to get Joe Madison @samx from Los Angeles in exchange of R, a 1st in S84 and a 2nd in S84. The three other defensemen stayed with the team. For the forwards core, other then Aloe Dear who retired after the S81 Cup and Ryan Li @Ryan Li who signed with the Wolves for S82 and S83, did not change. Just like the two previous season, the first line stayed together and Li completed the second line with Aberg and Tucker. The leadership group stayed the same, so Tucker kept the “C” and the Reinhart brothers kept the “A”s on their jerseys. Again, eight of the ten players on the team finished with more than a point per game and seven of them with more than ninety points. For the third season in a row, the line of Zolnek and the two Reinhart finished with more than 130 goals and 300 points. Thadius Sales, who stopped the pucks for the Wolves for the last two seasons, had an incredible season of 49 wins, a save pourcentage of 0.926% and a goal against average under 3.00 which is very good in this high scoring league. 

 

Fun fact : in the trade sending @samx's player (Joe Madison) to Los Angeles against R, a 1st and a 2nd, Los Angeles selected the next @samx’s player (Velociraptor Greg) with the 2nd round pick in S84, so both team gave @samx’s player and received an other one at the same time. Pretty cool right? 

 

Even if some people are saying that these three seasons are the worst the league ever saw and that we should just forget about it, but we can easily call this period of time the Wolves dynasty. 

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[Baby Boomer 679]

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