Will the Stars align?

[AJW 2,190]

The S97 VHL Draft should be taking place sometime in the next week, potentially even this upcoming weekend. Ricky @DarkSpyro and Bubbles LaFleur are extremely excited to see which team(s) will be their forever homes. They have been training hard by smoking extra cigarettes a day for cardio, and drinking more liquor to work on their cores. The two brothers are still hovering around the top 10 list of prospects and it seems one team may have the best chance of drafting the two together.

 

I do think the first five picks of the draft will go in order of current listed players:

 

1. London - (D) Hugh Neutron - 347 TPE

2. Moscow - (D) Kazuma Satou - 213 TPE

3. Helsinki - (RW) Cash Carti - 307 TPE

4. D.C. - (D) Taavetti Jokinen - 304 TPE

5. Prague - (D) Albin Aldgard - 296 TPE

 

The only thing that confuses me is that Davos does not have a top 5 pick since Ahma is notoriously known to only player for Davos. Maybe Davos will make a trade for them in the future? Maybe Jokinen will drop to 5th overall since Prague is only a few borders on the map away?

 

Now to the 6th overall pick, a strategy pick for the Los Angeles Stars. In order to make Ricky and Bubbles dreams come true this pick will be massive. If Los Angeles were to select Bubbles LaFleur at 6th overall, the next two teams to follow, London at 7th overall and Chicago at 8th overall, do not need a goaltender. Chicago does have S90 Ryan Artyomov closing in on retirement as well as no true future franchise goalie down their depth list. At 9th overall if Ricky LaFleur is passed on by these two teams, Los Angeles would be able to select him and unite the brothers for the long run. 

 

The best case scenario in my eyes is that neither Ricky or Bubbles are selected in the top 5. One is to be selected 6th overall to LA, and then the other is passed at 7th and 8th overall, in order to be selected 9th overall as well by LA. So will the Stars align? Or will there be future trades demanded by the brothers? We will know the truth soon enough but for now it's back to the cigarettes and liquor.