The Legend of Eaglesfan

[Alex 3,306]

Good Morning Everyone, after some brief contract talks earlier this week, we’ll be discussing and taking a dive into the legendary careers of @eaglesfan036's players since the portal era started. Eaglesfan joined the VHL on September 28^th, 2013 and while their first player’s career didn’t last long they have had some great careers mixed in.

 

Their first post-portal player Chat would only reach 90 TPE, and would go onto play 216 games in the VHLM. Starting their M career in S60 with Ottawa, Chat would put up 9 goals and 37 assists over the course of the 72 games. Their best season would come in their third and final season with Yukon as they were just shy of a point per game as they had 24 goals and 41 assists for a total of 65 points. Chat would retire with a total of 39 goals and 95 assts for 134 points.

 

Chat would be followed by the even briefer career of King Gow who would reach 70 TPE and would only play 2 seasons in the VHLM after being drafted 21^st overall in the M draft. They would retire with a total of 27 goals and 78 points in 142 career games.

 

After two fairly underwhelming careers, we were introduced to Gritty! Part of the S65 draft class, Gritty would play a total of 85 games in the VHLM (38 goals, 86 points) before being drafted 4^th overall by the Quebec City Meute. Following the teams relocation to the city of Vancouver, Gritty would play a crucial depth role for three seasons putting up a total of exactly 100 points in 3 seasons and would win their first Continental Cup in S67. Following season 67, Gritty would be traded to Davos along with a 2^nd round pick (Blacker Velvet @Higgins) for Aston Martin @Sullvino and a 3^rd round pick (Sade Taika). Gritty would only play 1 season with Davos before going to free agency in that season they had 24 goals and 29 assists for a total of 53 points. In free agency, Gritty would make a great decision and sign with the Moscow Menace. With Moscow Gritty became a key piece and would consistently produce at a high level over the course of their 3 seasons where they would have 90 goals and 121 for a grand total of 211 points in 216 games. Most importantly in S70 Gritty would play a major role in winning both the Victory Cup and Continental Cup with 11 points in the 15 games on route to their 2^nd cup win! In season 72, the final of their career, their rights would be traded to Prague where they wouldn’t sign and instead choose to return to Vancouver via free agency for the final season of their career. Gritty would retire following a 39 point season with the Wolves.

 

Then came Kevin Malone, the only goalie in today’s deep dive, and another high-earning player with a total of 724 TPE. Malone would be a VHLM star winning both the Mitch Higgins and Benoit Devereux trophies. They would be drafted 18^th overall to the London United where they would spend their first 2 VHL seasons. They would then be traded to Moscow, where they would have a very solid 2 seasons posting a 0.918 SV%. They would then be traded again to the D.C. Dragons where they would have the best season of their career with a 0.921 SV%. Malone would retire with a record of 174-158-35, a 0.913 SV% and 15 shutouts.

 

Following Malone, we witnessed the birth of Trade Me, who would join the Saskatoon Wild, play 9 games (5 goals, 3 assists), would never be traded, and would then retire.

 

Then came Free Gorlab, a career VHLM player, who would have a very successful 5 season career with the Mexico City Kings. Free Gorlab would play a total of 291 games for the VHLM team, in which they produced at a high level for most their career, having a total of 70 goals, 178 assists, for a total of 248 points.

 

Lastly, we are at the current player, Blaze Thunderstrike, the 56^th overall pick in the S93 draft. Thunderstrike has bounced around the VHLM a fair bit and played one season in the VHLE on route to their upcoming VHL debut. In the VHLE they were above a point per game with 77 points in S95 for Bratislava. After returning to the VHLM they have been extremely solid and have amassed a grand total of 257 points in 326 games. For Thunderstrike, the next stop is the VHL as they will be making their debut with Davos in season 98!

Edited Saturday at 07:20 PM by Alex

[Victor 11,143]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

Their first player Chat would only reach 90 TPE

The moment you know this is not gonna be a good article

[CowboyinAmerica 2,968]

Yeah, you might have wanted to do some pre-portal sluthing on this one. @Corco has the full list: 

 

 

TebowGow is my favorite for sentimental S44 Calgary reasons, but also an S-tier name.

[Alex 3,306]

21 minutes ago, CowboyinAmerica said:

Yeah, you might have wanted to do some pre-portal sluthing on this one. @Corco has the full list: 

 

 

TebowGow is my favorite for sentimental S44 Calgary reasons, but also an S-tier name.

Shh, I definitely didn’t just edit it to be post-portal only.

 

 Thank you though, it is worth noting that they were here before the portal and had good careers!

[eaglesfan036 4,615]

Thanks @AlexI had forgotten about some of the poop players I made lol.

 

And yes, like others have said I had much better players before the portal. I was way more active a decade ago. Scary it has been that long