The C.G.Y. Janser Story, Part XXXVI: A post-season review and outlook

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(graphic courtesy of Leandrofg)

 

 

So the fat lady sang and unfortunately, it was not a winning hymn for the New York Americans. Except for maybe the last ten games, the Big Apple franchise has had one if not the best defence in the league. But they had offensive woes for the majority of the season, which could never entirely be solved, despite Vince Wong's best efforts. One could argue, that having two of the most penalized players with Kadachi and Janser on the roster sheet, who only had Sleeves ahead of them, did not help. And that would not be an entirely wrong assumption. However, NYA's penalty killing unit was third in the league, only behind Moscow and Malmo, and the Empire State team even managed to score the second most shorthanded goals league wide. The power play was insanely efficient with 0.09% behind the primus Vancouver.

 

36xW's goaltending may not have been best in class and probably does not warrant any silverware, however, a save percentage of .923 is nothing to be sneezed at and was 5th for all starting goaltender (for this article's purpose, we did not consider Lovstrom as a starting goaltender as the Malmo net was almost tended on a 50/50 basis by him and Herzlich). So the misery cannot be pinned to the Americans' netminder either.

 

The devil lies in the mediocre goal production. The highest scoring player in a blue-red-and-white Jersey is Jeb Amish, a defenceman of all things, which as the only player on the roster eclipsed a point per game (73). From the forwards, aggressive leader Kadachi was the closest to get to the ppg benchmark with 71 points to his name. Of course that does not mean that the forwards are bad per se. It just means they did not have the puck luck they needed to push further. It also needs to be considered that there is something like a salary cap (even though some NHL franchises successfully dodged that in the past, the VHL does not tolerate such shenanigans) and if you spend money on the netminder and the D, one has to make compromises in the forward section. At the end of the season the strikers looked like a motley crew of young talents and veteran depth players. It deed not help that Janser took a step back in production from last season, however scored four game winners doing so.

 

Now with the past dealt with, what will the future look like? The Americans have three potential callups. First, winger French, who just had a 100 point campaign for Bratislava and has scored two points in the one playoff game his team played in. So there is hope that he may be part of the answer to New York's scoring woe, given time.

 

There are also two backs in the pipeline who potentially are VHL ready, come season start. Cheese and Toland both have scored 60+ points for Vasteras and Cologne respectively and promise to be solid defense men.

 

There you have it: An inconclusive attempt to analyze 'Wtf is wrong with the Americans?'

 

For good order's sake here are Janser's stats for this past season:

72gp, 13g, 55a, 68pts, +7, 241 PIM, 274 hits, 132sb, 6ppg, 4gwg, 2 First Star Awards and a 2-0-1 (W-L-T) fighting record

 

 

https://vhlforum.com/topic/149403-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxii-fighting-for-the-playoffs/

https://vhlforum.com/topic/149543-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxiii-wildcard-games-sail-ho/

CIA’s Long, Undoubtedly Wrong S95 VHL Mock Draft - Media Spots - Victory Hockey League (vhlforum.com)

https://vhlforum.com/topic/149784-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxiv-a-season-summary/

https://vhlforum.com/topic/150926-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxv-a-meet-up-with-family/

 

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5 hours ago, Daniel Janser said:

(graphic courtesy of Leandrofg)

 

 

So the fat lady sang and unfortunately, it was not a winning hymn for the New York Americans. Except for maybe the last ten games, the Big Apple franchise has had one if not the best defence in the league. But they had offensive woes for the majority of the season, which could never entirely be solved, despite Vince Wong's best efforts. One could argue, that having two of the most penalized players with Kadachi and Janser on the roster sheet, who only had Sleeves ahead of them, did not help. And that would not be an entirely wrong assumption. However, NYA's penalty killing unit was third in the league, only behind Moscow and Malmo, and the Empire State team even managed to score the second most shorthanded goals league wide. The power play was insanely efficient with 0.09% behind the primus Vancouver.

 

36xW's goaltending may not have been best in class and probably does not warrant any silverware, however, a save percentage of .923 is nothing to be sneezed at and was 5th for all starting goaltender (for this article's purpose, we did not consider Lovstrom as a starting goaltender as the Malmo net was almost tended on a 50/50 basis by him and Herzlich). So the misery cannot be pinned to the Americans' netminder either.

 

The devil lies in the mediocre goal production. The highest scoring player in a blue-red-and-white Jersey is Jeb Amish, a defenceman of all things, which as the only player on the roster eclipsed a point per game (73). From the forwards, aggressive leader Kadachi was the closest to get to the ppg benchmark with 71 points to his name. Of course that does not mean that the forwards are bad per se. It just means they did not have the puck luck they needed to push further. It also needs to be considered that there is something like a salary cap (even though some NHL franchises successfully dodged that in the past, the VHL does not tolerate such shenanigans) and if you spend money on the netminder and the D, one has to make compromises in the forward section. At the end of the season the strikers looked like a motley crew of young talents and veteran depth players. It deed not help that Janser took a step back in production from last season, however scored four game winners doing so.

 

Now with the past dealt with, what will the future look like? The Americans have three potential callups. First, winger French, who just had a 100 point campaign for Bratislava and has scored two points in the one playoff game his team played in. So there is hope that he may be part of the answer to New York's scoring woe, given time.

 

There are also two backs in the pipeline who potentially are VHL ready, come season start. Cheese and Toland both have scored 60+ points for Vasteras and Cologne respectively and promise to be solid defense men.

 

There you have it: An inconclusive attempt to analyze 'Wtf is wrong with the Americans?'

 

For good order's sake here are Janser's stats for this past season:

72gp, 13g, 55a, 68pts, +7, 241 PIM, 274 hits, 132sb, 6ppg, 4gwg, 2 First Star Awards and a 2-0-1 (W-L-T) fighting record

 

 

https://vhlforum.com/topic/149403-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxii-fighting-for-the-playoffs/

https://vhlforum.com/topic/149543-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxiii-wildcard-games-sail-ho/

CIA’s Long, Undoubtedly Wrong S95 VHL Mock Draft - Media Spots - Victory Hockey League (vhlforum.com)

https://vhlforum.com/topic/149784-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxiv-a-season-summary/

https://vhlforum.com/topic/150926-the-cgy-janser-story-part-xxxv-a-meet-up-with-family/

 

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It was actually a 60/40 split but I'll let this slander slide this time bc I like you. Good arty!

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