Wayne Shotzky, Prodigy or Average?

[Kenamatic 7]

Wayne Shotzky, possible prodigy or average player?

 

We begin our look into Wayne from before his time in the VHL hierarchy of leagues; He was just a simple farm boy from the prairie regions of Canada, helping his parents run the farm each and every day whenever school let out with his older brother. But on one fateful day, he had heard from some of his schoolmates that there were going to be hockey tryouts during the winter months as his school was finally getting a hockey team, he raced home to ask his parents what exactly “hockey” was. His parents explained what the sport was to him and from that point on Wayne knew that it was what he wanted to do, he begged his parents for the equipment needed to attend the tryout, but they constantly rebuked him with promises of getting him the equipment if he finished all of his tasks when he came to helping out on the farm, but little did they know that their eldest son was secretly keeping money aside so that he could purchase the equipment for his dear younger brother.

 

Eventually the time came for the tryouts and as farm season was over for the year, Wayne’s older brother bought him the equipment needed to partake in the tryouts, at the tryout the coaches were amazed with his speed and power, and he made the team, starting his young hockey career.

 

Flash forward to Season 91 of VHLM, this was Shotzky’s debut in the VHL hierarchy. He was picked up just over halfway through the season by the Mississauga Hounds in the VHLM who he’d go on to play 34 games with securing a statline of 16-24-40 before getting his first taste of the VHLM playoffs where he played 6 games with a statline of 2-2-4. Now due to entering the league at such a late point in the season, he was removed from Mississauga and placed into the VHLM draft where he was drafted 7th overall by the Ottawa Lynx where he went on to have a remarkable season; putting up 111 points across the entire season with a statline of 48-63-111 helping lead Ottawa to a playoff spot and being co-winner of the Ethan Osborne Trophy with teammate Ivan Ivanov, but unfortunately they fell in 6 games as Shotzky wasn’t much help in the playoffs as he ended up with a statline of 1-3-4.

 

During that same off-season that he was drafted by the Ottawa Lynx of the VHLM, Wayne Shotzky was drafted in both the VHL(Toronto Legion) and VHLE(Stockholm Vikings), he’s currently played two full seasons with Stockholm putting up a total statline of 39-88-127 combined in the two seasons there. While being able to maintain an above PPG during his first season(20-55-75 in 72 Games) with Stockholm, we did see Shotzky drop somewhat in production during his second season(19-33-52 in 72 Games) as possibly nerves caught up to him.

 

Who knows what the future holds for Wayne Shotzky though, he’s expected to be able to make the Toronto Legion lineup going into Season 95, but GM Moon might want his young player to have another season in the VHLE to try and see if he can rekindle the fire that led him to being a player that was above a PPG in his first three seasons in the minors and bring that success to an already thriving Toronto Legion franchise.

 

(573 words)