Roque Davis Career Summary

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Roque Davis Career Summary

 

Preface

 

Roque Davis was the most recent introduction into the Victory Hockey League Hall Of Fame (HOF). Hailing from Portugal the defenseman would move to Canada at a young age where he would go on and excel in soccer. Roque would eventually move over to Hockey following the trend of the other students at his school where coaches took note of his talent. Potential for greatness was already being shown from the young Portuguese lad.

 

Career

 

During the VHL draft Roque would go on to be picked second by HC Davos, he was placed accordingly in the mock draft predictions. HC Davos, going through a rebuild, found the centerpiece in Davis and he performed under all the pressure well. Starting on Davos he was able to stand out with a team put together from nothing and got himself recognized. He would win himself the Most Outstanding Rookie and the Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy as a result of his successes. Most notably even as a rookie he took home the Alexander Valiq Trophy as the VHL’s top defensive player of the year. Davos jumped forward in Roques Second year, after pulling up only 55 points the previous year they would get 77 the next. Roque improved but possibly not on his usual point totals more in the locker room stepping up as a leader. He combined for 4 more points than season 1 and improved his plus/minus by 40 on a still average team. No awards were won this year but playoffs came around the corner where an inexperienced Davos team was swept by the Riga Reign who would go on to win the Continental Cup that year. In his 3rd season the VHL expanded with 4 more teams and Davos fell back once again. This caused Davis to have one of his worst seasons. With all this Davos still made the playoffs only to be swept in the first round once again. In season 4 Roque came back to form and Davos improved in the standings. We saw Roque roam the ice scoring freely turning into a player of many, many skills. Davos would still miss out on playoffs though as a stacked and competitive European Conference made for great action. No playoffs or awards for Davis this year but he was now becoming an established veteran in the league. After years of struggle in Davos he would move to Moscow as he wanted to prove that Davos was not failing at fault of his own. This season Moscow finished 4th and made the playoffs while Davos in 6th had missed the playoffs along with Roque having the best season of his career. That season is still top 10 and Davos’s worst years ever. The Moscow team was made for playoffs and is where many accolades came for Davis in his tenure at Moscow. In the first round of this season they would face London United and Davis would prove better against a rival, Erik Killenger. In the Conference semifinals they stood up against the Helsinki Titans as the series headed to 7. The Helsinki Titans led by Roque were pushed by the Titans, sending the Menace to the Conference Finals. Inspiration pushed Moscow forward after beating Helsinki. This wasn’t the greatest for the team as Malmo took hold of holes in Moscow's game and abused them leading to a 6 game defeat of Moscow. Malmo then went on to win the Continental Cup. The next year's playoffs were not as much of a looker, though the regular season for Moscow was a hit as they led the league with 112 points. In the first round they had unsuspected trouble getting past the Helsinki Titans taking them 7 games to get it done. They played the top tier Predators who amassed 110 points. Moscow was not able to stand up to the talent, they did pick up a fight taking it to 7 games but being defeated. The greatest parts of Roques career were coming up and massive decisions in the career of Roque Davis came up. The rule of moscow was on its way to an end so Roque started to search the market looking for a future team. Two years remained in his career and his previous season brought him awards such as the Alexander Valiq Trophy, the Alexander Beketov Trophy, and the Sterling Labatte Trophy. He would move conferences as he moved to the Los Angeles Stars getting himself in the burning ashes of his career closer to home. He would not perform on his average leading him to two of his worst seasons in his career. In Season 77 the Stars finished 4th and had the conference's best defense. Consistency issues in the regular season and the playoffs led to the downfall of this team. They started winning the wildcard in 4 games and managed themselves a good performance in the Conference semifinals defeating the number 1 Chicago, not only defeating but sweeping them. When they got caught in the mud things didn’t go well as in the Conference Finals they would be swept and kicked out of the playoffs by the Seattle Bears. The following season twinned with the previous season as the shooting star would not improve but fall. Having the worst season of Roque’s career on a low performing team as they missed out on the playoffs. This capped off his career as he had many accomplishments but always missed out on the biggest one, The Continental Cup.

 

Career Regular Season Stats

 

Games Played: 576

Goals: 144

Assists: 428

Points: 572

+/- : +100

Hits: 1185

Blocked Shots: 1133

 

Career Playoff Stats

 

Games Played: 52

Goals: 16

Assists: 48

Points: 64

+/- : +18

Hits: 108

Blocked Shots: 114

 

Career Awards

 

Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy (x1)

Alexander Valiq Trophy (x2)

Alexander Betekov Trophy (x1)

Sterling Labatte Trophy (x1)

Victory Cup (x1)

Summary

 

Roque Davis finished his playing career at the Los Angeles Stars but his best tenure on a team came with the Moscow Menace. He cannot forgot his roots and the the team that drafted him though as HC Davos kickstarted his career. He is the most recent hall of fame inductee

 

 

Edited December 27, 2022 by DC21