Blue Collar Veteran - Jake Thunder

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Jake Thunder jumped into the VHL skates first, with no clue how to contribute nor what to expect from his career.  A slow start in the VHLM and rocketing through the VHLE, changed Thunder’s approach to his game on the ice.  Joining the HC Davos Dynamo was one of the highlights of his career, and Thunder was excited more than a kid jumping on a new trampoline.

 

It was no surprise to anyone that Jake Thunder slowly adapted to the faster pace, harder hitting, and more demanding VHL, but luckily he was teamed up with some other players from the same draft year, Siyan Yasilievich and Pete Mitchell.  GM Alex and the other Davos players welcomed Thunder onto the team and with high expectations to be successful in his rookie season, Thunder was mediocre at best as the numbers posted did not meet Thunder’s expectations.  Thunder had hoped to be a better contributor to help Davos win.

 

Nevertheless, Jake Thunder sticks with a training regiment to try to earn max TPE each week and develop quickly so that he can someday be a valuable contributor for Davos to help them to multiple championships.  Thanks to Alex, Thunder is surrounded by quality players that give him the opportunity to help the team win games and compete.  Thunder is a blue collar worker and as a veteran, blocking shots will continue to be Jake Thunder’s favorite stat and he checks those numbers each game.  Even though his blocked shots numbers aren’t impressive, Thunder hopes to improve each season so that someday he will lead the league.

 

Jake Thunder also likes to stick up for his teammates by engaging in fights, especially against Brian Payne, the Warsaw Predator star defenseman.  Off the ice, Payne and Thunder are good friends and Payne actually recruited Thunder to the league.  Although friends off the ice, on the ice they are sworn rivalries, and it has been this personal rivalry of Thunder for bragging rights, which adds to the entertainment of being in the VHL.

 

Jake Thunder enjoys the locker room, and although he’s not an every day contributor with words or GIF’s, he checks the locker room every day and enjoys the conversations that go on.  Once in a while, Thunder will stop trolling and comment here and there, and then go back to trolling.  Believe it or not, Thunder learns quite a bit from reading the discord posts.  And, if the discussion doesn’t continue to answer Thunder’s question, he will often times reach out to Shindigs to learn the answer.

 

Thunder is not a fan of getting accolades on discord over his stats, mostly because it’s usually after being noticed for having a good game that Thunder will go into a funk and not help his team for the next few days.   That might be why he likes to be a leader of shots blocked because he can do damage to the other teams without getting too much attention.  Thunder likes his teammates and enjoys games when multiple players get points.  As a veteran, Thunder is not one to expect to provide a whole lot of advice to newcomers, because he won’t have the answers.  He will be able to guide newcomers to others who have that knowledge, such as Alex, Cole, Shindigs, and others.

 

No doubt Thunder will continue to get his skates dirty and keep on digging in to better himself.  It’s that blue collar mentality that keeps him focused.  Thunder’s goal is to continue towards bringing home a few trophies for Davos.  Until then, its a work in progress!

 

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