Stockholm Rookie Richards

[John Cimarno 252]

Drafted into the VHLE by the Stockholm Vikings, Richards has once again started off slow. As of late, as usual, Richards has started to heat up. Richards has amassed 20 goals on the season after only having scored 12 in the first 50 games, nearly 40 points for the kid and he's still rolling. Stockholm may not be in the position we had all hoped to be in at the beginning of the season but, we're still not out of the race. Stockholm needs everyone to contribute and keep contributing to the teams success this means Richards has to continue to be the best version of himself and still be a reliable secondary scorer on this highly offensively minded Vikings squad. Players like Sadie St-Louis are go-to players for us when needed in big moments but that doesn't mean Richards isn't included. With his scoring attributes pretty high and his defensive attributes starting to get higher, one can only assume that Richards will be a dominant offensive threat come time for the playoffs. 

 

Although this hasn't been the season Richards had hoped it'd be, he's still happy to have scored 20+ goals in every league he's played in so far. When Richards ends up in the VHL playing for Davos, his goal will to ultimately score a 30+ goal season. John Richards has had an interesting and quite good career so far as a first gen. Richards has captained 2 teams and has lead one of the teams to the playoffs where unfortunately they didn't go far. That team was the Ottawa Lynx of the VHLM. This season, the players of Stockholm had voted rookie John Richards to captain their team. When the news broke out that I'd be the captain of this team I was surprised, not only was I a rookie but also I was very inconsistent at the time with communication. I couldn't even vote because of how busy I was. I thought for sure the captain was going to be Sadie but apparently I have natural leadership abilities and I won't complain. I like to captain teams as I love to keep people in a positive mindset. I may get mad at myself if I feel I'm underpreforming but, at least it isn't directed towards my teammates or management. I look forward to the rest of the season and it should be interesting to see how it all ends up. I will do my best to update as much as possible whenever I can but with hollidays coming up, I will be busy. 

 

My goals for the rest of the season is to finish it strong with a good push to make the playoffs and continue my offensive prowess. I hope to score about 25 goals and 60 points by the end of the season. I may not reach the capped TPE limit for the E during the season but, I should be able to during the offseason. Anyways this has been the update and a recap of Richards' first VHLE experience and it certainly won't be his last!