Brendan Marner: Lock for First Ballot HOF?

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BRENDAN MARNER: LOCK FOR FIRST BALLOT HOF?

 

Brendan Marner enters the VHL Board of Governors' attention for the first time when it comes to Hall of Fame consideration, as of this year.  After a career that saw him record 685 points in 504 games (remarkable total given seven seasons) and an impressive 1622 hits to go along with it; Marner was an impressive power forward for his excellent seven season career, spent entirely on Warsaw. 

 

This actually was a fairly interesting conversation in the Board of Governors and while I won't go too in detail, but it certainly wasn't a unanimous opinion on whether Marner deserved to be a first ballot Hall of Fame player ot not.  Once I started diving into it though, while he had a few award wins, it was his All-Star Team finishes that seemed most impressive to me on first notice.  To be considered a top-6 forward in the league in four of his seven seasons seemed like an absolutely ridiculous accomplishment.  Once I looked into it, it was even more impressive as he had four finishes in the Top-3 of the league in points, which is incredible company I would have to imagine (maybe I will look into that at some point).  This goes with two Top-5 finishes in goals and four Top-10 finishes in assists.  

 

To me that was the moment I had to say he deserved it 100% and while I am not sure how the vote will go, I hope this becomes the end result because that kind of elite statistic in a league full of as much parity as the VHL has, would deserve such a prestigious honour in my opinion.