The Rookie Experience of Jillian Woods

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The VHL Draft is over, and now it’s time to look forward at my VHL career. While the VHLE will be taking up some of that time, a lot of my time this season will be spent trying to plan how I can be the greatest offensive defender the league will see in this era. I’d say that they’ve ever seen, but eras are so distinctly different, and not many stand unanimously as the best of their era, let alone all time. The starting destination is set, assuming no spontaneous moves. Jillian will be making her way East once more to Moscow.

 

Moscow has been home to some of the greatest VHL defenders of the last 20 seasons. And home to some of the best forwards and goaltenders as well. A lot of that can be attributed to Spartan and the environment he creates, the inspiration he gives, and it all comes back to the success he has. Moscow has been a powerhouse 95% of the time that I’ve been in the league, and the other 5% they were rebuilding with such deadly prospects and ambitious moves that I knew they would be back to powerhouse status in no time.

The new powerhouse will be driven by me, Jillian Woods. The goaltender is obviously the most important position on any hockey team, being a game of inches, the fraction of a percentage of shots you let in less than your opponents becomes your saving grace, pun intended. But once you have the puck out of your net, what happens next? Breakouts and Zone Entries. That’s where I come in. I will retrieve the puck from whatever poor soul goes against me, I’ll move it to the best place on the ice, or I’ll take it for a skate myself. The blueline and it’s defenders don’t worry me. I sneak around them with ease, and I find my mark. We’ve got huge forwards out front, cannons from the wings and point, and big bodies in front. My pucks will find their way to the back of the net, that I’m not worried about.

 

The real goal though is to win those 4 pesky games in the Continental Cup Finals. Something that Moscow hasn’t been able to do, in a handful of attempts in recent memory. They’ve had the team to do it a dozen times. But they didn’t have Jillian Woods, and now they do.