RLV: S93 in Review

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Live from Juan Ceson Arena, this is Radio Las Vegas, with your host, Marcus Svedberg. With Season 93's regular season officially wrapped up, let's dive into a review!

 

The regular season has ended, and what a season it has been for your Las Vegas Aces! Let's start this review from the beginning, and take a look at how the boys from Vegas managed to get to this point. We start from the heartbreaking ending of last season. Multiple career long Aces moved onto the E, including Piston Maicupp @MandyManiac, Caesar Monterrey @CaptainGatsby, and Bric Sheithaus @Oldhead91 to name a few. The retirement of Stinky @taylorherd after the historic and record breaking season he had, plus the aforementioned call ups had the Aces written off by every analysist and VSN writer & podcaster as a serious playoff contender, and that a long and grueling rebuild was upon the Aces. The Aces started last seasons offseason by hanging up the jersey of Stinky in the rafters of Juan Ceson arena, and prepared the fans for a difficult and painstaking process to get back into Cup contention. As fate would have it, however, they didn't need to wait long. 

During the draft, GM Hafkey made multiple moves, including picking up Pombo @samx, Finneas Finnegan O Cleirigh @Gorth & the three musketeers in Eugene Ryanheart @jesse115, Nikita Yolishev @Joel Main, and Trevon Rider @bjackson54. These pickups would turn out to be masterclass moves, as all of them became essential pieces of the Aces lineup in S93. The Aces also traded for goaltender Kendra Cavill @Firekiss in a trade with Halifax, to improve upon their goaltending woes that ended up costing them the Founder's Cup in S92. With all the pieces in place, Las Vegas prepared for impact and a rough season ahead. What ended up happening, however, nobody could've predicted. The Aces were actually somehow good still.

 

With the season officially underway, now the newly named captain of the Aces, Pombo put the team on his back, and in the 72 contests he played for Las Vegas, logged over 100 points, 20 more than the second highest scorer on the Aces! With this level of offensive firepower at the helm, the Aces were able to maintain their status from last season as one of the leagues best offenses, ending the season with 222 goals for, the second highest of the entire league, second only to the Halifax 21st. Additionally, the team managed to scrape up 40 wins on the season, with an official record of 40-26-6 by the conclusion of today's games, a very respectable season indeed. With the playoffs underway in a few days, and the recent hiring of AGM @mattyIceman, the Aces look reinvigorated to return to the final and finish what they started last season. A few players from that team are still here, so expect players like O Cleirigh especially to really fight with all they have to make sure a repeat of last season is farfetched. 

 

That will do it for this edition of Radio Las Vegas! I've been your host, Marcus Svedberg. With the playoffs around the corner, we hope the players will do right by us and bring home that title. Here's Peggy Lee, with "Why Don't You Do Right?"