Official Training Camp - More bad news

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The season gets that much closer with official training camp opening for VHL teams across the league. Most players and fans across the league start to feel the excitement of the start of the season.

In LA thought it was anything but excitement to start day as as another piece of bombshell news dropped. Just like at the beginning of un-official training camp when I-Smellz announced his retirement before playing a single GHL game, the team got hit with some more bad news. It seems like the LA Stars cannot catch a break this season with their rebuild progress.

The team and management found out through a social media post that their newly acquired player, Gustav Mattias, will not be reporting to training camp and will be leaving the league. Mattias was a recent acquisition in where LA gave up a 1st round pick for his services. The team was hoping Mattias would have been a good replacement for recently lost Pombo but that will now not be the case. In the span of a week it seems like LA has lost 2 great players for nothing at all with the sudden retirement of Samsays I-Smell and now the post Mattias will be leaving. Mattias will still play this season but has refused to attend any training, camp or team meetings. He will just show up for the games and that is all.

 

"Usually training camp is supposed to be fun and getting back on the ice with our team-mates but we're just getting hit after hit of bad news" Roger said "That is life sometimes but I think it would have been better to know Mattias wasn't committed to playing before sending out 1st overall assets in a trade. I know the management is doing what they can to improve the team but 3 player losses in such a short time is never great for morale. We will do our best and we know this was out of managements hands. No one could have predicted that any of this would of happened"

 

LA was hoping to get back into the playoffs this season, even just the wildcard spot but now with the loss of Pombo and 2 sudden departures, thinks may look bleak on that side unless additional help arrives.

 

"We still have hope as a team but I know it will be tough for Management to make moves, we just lost a 1st overall that could have been used for a player that could help, but instead we got a player who is no longer interested in the league. This definitely is a set back for the goal I set at the end of last year that we were going to make the playoffs. "Roger said "throughout all these bombshell news, the team is in pretty good spirits. No one could have predicted this as it caught management and the players off guard but the current team has been able to build a stronger chemistry. We will see how it plays out on the ice for us but maybe that playoff goal will have to wait another season or two"