VHL.com Intern interviews Tord Yvel Of the Americans

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Tord Yvels first ~25 games in the VHL has come and gone

Let's stop by and talk to Tord about how the first ¼ of the season has looked.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Leading the Americans in scoring is certainly a surprise that no one had on their Bingo-card for S90.

How did that happen and how does it feel?

 

Tord:

It feels absolutely fantastic! I couldn’t dream of a better start to the season.

To be honest I had hoped for maybe 0,25 points per game for the season which i already hit.

So everything from now on is just a bonus.

As to how?

Man i don’t know, i just stick to my training, try to eat right and listen to what my coaches have to say, They are pretty smart people.

 I must send a thank you to the coaches and management for believing in me and giving me the minutes and their trust

 

In your path getting here you have been profiled more as a defensive-type of defenseman

Are you skipping those plans and just gonna be a wild rover from now on? 

What can we expect in the future?

 

Tord:

I will be the first to tell you Defense is my main focus.

I Believe everything starts in the defensive zone and if you do things right the points will follow.

Now I'm a -10 on the season and that is something I really want to change

But this team isn’t ready to compete yet and to be + on a team in the lower half is hard so i just gotta keep trying. 

In the future I believe my points might drop a bit. Next season I think we have some prospects ready to come in and take over that part of the game.

I will try to be their safetynet on the backend, spreading calm and insulating them from mistakes being too costly. 

 

All eyes in the media are on the Rookie Race

some of them are believing that you have a shot as rookie of the year.

Do you think so and do you keep track of your fellow noobs?

 

Tord:

That would be insane, I don’t even dare to dream about such a coveted prize.

I have no clue how the winner is being selected. But i think this far i think i atleast have forced the people to take a look at me

Probably not a winner but who knows right?

 yeah i look at the rookie-race first thing in the mornings and to say i’m proud of sharing third place with high end players like Mark Callaway and Jeff Lewis would be an understatement. 

Second Defender behind Bobby Bob, Yes please and thank you.

Sometimes I think this is all a dream. 

 

Lastly, Americans have bounced back after an awful start to the season (Something like 1-10-1)

Do you have a shot at sneaking into the playoffs?

Where do you believe you are as a team this season?

 

Tord:

I sadly don’t think we will get all the way there, I don’t think we will be as bad as we showed thus far but playoffs this year feels kinda far away.

We will certainly try and the teams facing us won’t get anything without a fight. 

I Think we will be better next year.

As I said before, We got some real good guys coming up next season and some good guys already in place.

 Getting a high draft pick this season to come in and boost us in a few seasons when we are ready to compete or sell to fasttrack the rebuild is paramount this season.

I think we will reach the playoffs as soon as next year.

 

 

 Watch out for The Americans in the future

I believe this leadership-group  is building something special.