Around the League

[Scurvy 1,542]

The dreaded off-season is upon us but since I have just won a Continental Cup I don’t have many complaints about it yet.  Congrats to my club for the win, a very deserving and fun group.  It’s my second Continental Cup (1 with each of my players) and I tell you what, it feels good to win and hope I can hoist a few more with Ninefingers.  I do want to send a huge shoutout to Davos for a great run to the finals.  A very good team with quality people.   

 

As I start this Around the League, I find myself struggling a bit to get motivated to write something and Its times like this I wish I could do a damn graphic or knew how to do a podcast.  But I digress and despite this being a meandering post I will press on.   

 

VHLM Champs: Mississauga Hounds

Huge congrats to the Hounds for a Founder’s Cup title.  GM @ace_five_ put together a great club in faced a gauntlet of quality teams in Miami, Philly, and Ottawa.  Led in scoring by Filip Zinek @FiZi and Nikita Yolishev @Joel Mainwith 22 points each.  The real star of the team though was goalie, Deadpanda @AlexAlex.  He was absolutely dominant in each series and went 12-4 with a .917 Save percentage, a brilliant 1.96 GAA, and two shutouts.  VHLM clubs will be happy to see him move up to the pros next season and not have to face him anymore.  I expect some additional trophies coming his way in the near future.  79 total wins for Deadpanda and 16 career shutouts is pretty impressive VHL career.  

 

Congrats to the Hounds! 

 

Now that the two leagues are officially in off-season the off-season tourneys are here with Pro-Am and World Juniors (I think).  It will be interesting to see how the off-season works in VHLM now with some returning players, draft, etc.  

 

My favorite part of the off-season is approaching too which is the draft.  London has the first overall pick and after a tough season the storied franchise can continue the build into a contender again. The highest TPE player in the draft right now and probable #1 pick is Hugh Nutron @Corco.  London currently has rugged stay at home dman, Alagsantere Groenvold @VattghernCZ.  AG is a high earning Dman and their back end could be pretty solid with the addition of Nutron.  There are currently 6 defensive players in top 10 (highest TPE) available in draft and 2 goalies.  That leaves right winger, Cash Carti @v.2  as best available forward in top 10, TPE wise.  Another solid player that any club would be happy to have as a piece to re-build on.  Only time will tell where London will go and there is no shortage of guaranteed pics in the draft. 

 

Well, that’s about all I can handled for today.  A little all over the place and not a lot of substance but I need that TPE for Ninefingers to try and fight for another cup.  I hope all of you are having a great weekend.  

 

[VattghernCZ 1,052]

10 hours ago, Scurvy said:

stay at home dman, Alagsantere Groenvold

 

True that, he never shows up to play when it matters