Gavilrovs Gearing Up

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Big Latvian defenseman Guntis Gavilrovs just completed his 2nd season in the VHL and is gearing up for a big 3rd season! Currently he is being extremely mean to his opponents in the S94 World Championships playing for Eastern Europe, he had 24 hits in the first 4 games and a fight. I can't tell what his final round robin stats were because it switched to the medal round index but he probably had 40+ hits in the round robin and at least a few points. He's a beast. Heading into his 3rd season experts are expecting a nice step in his offensive production as he will have a little more responsibility as the #2 Dman on Vancouver with Liv Slater moving to forward. Gavilrovs was on pair 1 last season with Mark Calaway and played a mean physical came as he chipped in 10 goals and 49 points. We expect that number to jump to over 60 points this season with his usual 250+ hits and hopefully he approaches 200 blocks. Looking ahead we believe in S96 Gavilrovs will have his major breakout offensively as the #1 Dman in Vancouver and be in the running for personal awards and of course help lead Vancouver to the Cup! The Wolves have a strong roster again this coming season and other teams should be very worried when playing against them.