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Watchmen Avoid Monumental Meltdown; Win Founder's Cup

 

Well, the VHLM season has concluded and your Season 47 Founder's Cup Champions are the Bratislava Watchmen. With the win, Bratislava captured their fourth championship, and first in six seasons. It was one hell of a roller-coaster ride throughout the season for the Watchmen to say the least, and they were able to cap it off in pure ecstasy, on top of the VHLM world.

 

The first twelve games of the 47th VHLM Season were not too terrible for the Watchmen who had a record of 7-3-2 up to that point in the season. The following set of games were not so kind to the Bratislava franchise, who played a dreadful stretch of hockey that seen them play to the tune of a 10-16-3 record. Watchmen management had seen enough and knew some changed needed to be made, and changes were made. In three separate trades, the Watchmen brought in forwards Bobby Boucher, Pavel Ovechkin,Mikhail Gribov, and Adam Holmstrom as well as defensemen Sam Weaver, Benjamin Tumack, Zach Voss, Saul Hackett, and Tanner Hynes. They were also the recipients of a VHL free agent signing by the Cologne Express who then sent forward Alexander Davidson down to Bratislava.

 

These changes gave the Watchmen a lot more depth at both forward and defense as well as more top-end talent, and it showed on the ice as Zhumbayev had a lot less shots to deal with. Bratislava responded by catching fire, winning seventeen of their next eighteen games, including a nine game and eight game winning streak respectively. They then concluded the regular season, winning three of their final games and that propelled them from third place in the European Conference to top spot and a first-round bye in the opening round of the playoffs.

 

Bratislava's first playoff opponent would be the Oslo Storm, who took care of the Bern Royals in four straight games in the opening round of the playoffs. The Watchmen dropped a thrilling game one by the score of 4-3 in overtime, but delivered their own thrilling overtime win in game two by the score of 3-2 in double overtime to knot the series at one game a piece. Bratislava then won a 3-2 decision in game three, followed by the Oslo Storm taking game four in triple overtime in a 4-3 thriller. Bratislava took game five in another close one, winning 5-4 and then wrapped the series up in game six with a 4-1 win, punching their ticket to the Founder's Cup Finals.

 

In the cup finals, the Ottawa Lynx, a team that defeated the Watchmen in eight of their nine head-to-head meetings during the regular season would be the opponent, following a grueling seven game series with the Yukon Rush. Bratislava jumped out to a qyuick 3-0 series lead with a 3-2 win in game one and 4-2 wins in games two and three. They thought they had it made and the series won and much to Ottawa's credit, that was not the case as they fought back to tie the series and force a game seven with a 3-0 win in game four and 2-1 wins in games five and six. Bratislava refused to allow Ottawa to come all the way back from 0-3 and avoided a monumental meltdown when they won game seven 2-0 on an 18 save shutout from Zhumbayev and a two-point night from Alexander Davidson.

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Great job with this.  Very easy to read. Saw no grammar issues here.  Congratulations on the cup win.  My only critique is that I don't like the whole thing center aligned but that's more personal preference than anything else. 

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