Next Player from Fresco Agency is... Vietnamese?

[frescoelmo 1,218]

With pending free agency, veteran Malum Maellard and his representative frescoelmo are excited to test the open market waters for the first time in the defenseman's career.  As Malum stated simply, "we have been looking forward to this for awhile now.  It's a little bittersweet to be honest; you'd like to see success wherever you land in the VHL Entry Draft, however it just didn't seem to work out."  As is with most players from the elmo group, they are more than willing to re-sign after the entry level contract ends.  Malum was traded in a blockbuster move just before the trade deadline with fellow teammate Vinny Detroit in hopes of springing Helsinki forward to new heights in the Season 88 playoffs.  It didn't happen.  "As a team, we were locked in from the day we ended up in Finland.  Hell, we flew the same plane.  It just didn't work out...  Europe is a different animal than North America," Maellard finished.  Points wise, the veteran defender saw his totals regress, albeit with a lesser roll on a better team and likely playing a more challenging schedule down the stretch.

 

With approximately four full seasons left to play (?), this is likely the blueliners last real opportunity to play meaningful minutes on a roster.