Winning a Cup

[Anthique 220]

It's fun to end a season with a Cup in your hand and that's exactly the situation Alphonse Desjardins is in.

 

I will come back later with another article about the VHLM season of Desjardins, but we will start this one with how it goes in the summer for him.

 

After the last game of the season with a 6-2 win against Halifax, the Wild won the Founder's Cup.
The party after that win was amazing, all young players celebrating the championship with big smile on their face! The owner of the team invited all the players in his home to celebrate in a safe environment. Don't want people making the front line of the new paper, the headline on the news or on social media.

 

Winning a championship is an experience that everyone will remember for the rest of their lives and bond the members of the team together. You heard stories about members of the winning team that become best friends are experiencing so much together. We will see in the future if some teammates of Alponse Desjardins will be in the same team as him. Being in a team with a former teammate always helps chemistry, especially if they won something significant together. It's almost like people coming from the same country or region, they have something in common to talk about and to ground them to reality. At the party, there was some famous local band «The Prairie Dogz» that can play popular songs that everybody will be able to sing (at the best of their capacity lol) and dance to. Even if there were some underage players, a lot of alcool was available to everyone. You heard stories about how drunk Alex Ovechkin was when he (finally) won it, it's not close to that, but it's a good thing the party was not public. Nothing bad happened, but when there are some minor you need to be extra cautious about how you do things. 

In a back to back championship,it's even more fun because you show the entire league that you are the best two seasons in a row and it was not just a fluke. Consistency is important, but it's way harder in that league where player comes and go. There is some player that doesn't improve much and stay two, three or four seasons (more even?) in the minor league. So it's not like the big league where you can keep your players longer.

 

For the rest of the summer, Desjardins will train to be ready for his VHLE season. He will know in a couple of days/weeks where he will play next season. That doesn't impact his training as he will try to continue on being an offensive threat on the powerplay and in the offensive zone while still being responsible in his zone.

 

The VHL draft is also in the next days/weeks so he will know more about his future and where he will try to make a difference. Already some teams have reached out in both leagues so hopefully he will not have to wait long at the draft before hearing his name.