Now that the voting is over, I can use this for a point

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Is this a hockey team or an MMA promotional squad? No one can really be sure, and no one is about to ask them to find out. The inaugural season of the Stockholm Vikings reads like something out of a Rocky movie. Edwin Encarnacion, the terrible-turned-half-decent defenseman who just recently had been suiting up for the Calgary Wranglers, left in free agency to become the Vikings’ first free agent signing in their short history. Hindsight makes this signing look spot on, as Jack Kowalski, a recent draftee, looks to file in alongside Encarnacion and form a Bash Brothers type defensive pairing. This is the type of pairing that no opposing forwards really want to go out against, lest they incur a season-ending injury. 

As though Encarnacion and Kowalski weren’t enough, the Vikings just traded for Sam Keeler, until recently of the New York Americans. Keeler was the Americans’ resident goon, not particularly skilled at hockey but skilled at scaring and humbling the opposition with physical superiority. The Vikings already had one of these as a carryover from the Vasteras days, that being Keeler’s draft day rival, Tyrone Williams. Keeler and Williams were not fond of each other at the time, but throughout the season the Vikings’ staff will look to heal the animosity between the two, or at least channel it against the opposition.