Veteran Corner

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Veteran Corner 

 

Although most of the readers of the VHL magazine might now notice, but Veteran Corner is slowing approaching it’s twenty-eighth appearance in the weekly magazine. I have enjoyed writing these articles for the most part, trying to go out of my way to expose some of the older players around the league. More than not these players have been written about before in their careers, but I don’t want us to push them aside when the new stupid sexy Flanders of the VHL appears each year from the VHLM. Without any more bullcrap, I’ll now dive into my usual banter about players around the league.

 

Bobby Digital (New York):

I believe this is the first time Digital has found himself in an edition of Veteran Corner and I feel terrible it’s taken this long to give this man his rightful recognition. After being drafted Third Overall by the HC Davos Dynamo back in the Season Forty-Nine VHL Entry Draft, the Digital camp asked for a trade shortly after and that’s how the Digital story got started in the VHL. After a bit of a slow first three years to his careers, Digital has been a rock for the Americans Continental Cup wins the past two seasons. Digital was never brought in to be an offensive powerhouse for the Americans, but over the past two seasons Digital has been putting up the assists like they have been going out of style. With the Americans still in the thick of things in terms of challenging for the right to head back to the Continental Cup Finals as the North American representative, Digital will be looked upon even more heavily this season as he is and will be the only defenseman the team will dress this season.

 

Tyson Kohler (Stockholm): 

Kohler has been such a reliable player since being selected by the Cologne Express in the Season Forty-Eight VHL Entry Draft. It wasn’t until Kohler left Cologne and joined the Calgary Wranglers that the league knew of the carnage that Kohler could unleash on the ice. In the past three seasons, two with Calgary and the past season with Stockholm, Kohler has put up an amazing 369 points. Compared to the 205 he put up in his time in Cologne, it’s safe to say that Kohler finally broke out from behind whatever was holding him back during him time in Germany. Now thirty-four games into Season Fifty-Four Kohler has continued on the torrid pace he has been on the past three seasons. Kohler has twenty-six goals and twenty-five assists in the Vikings thirty-four games, good enough numbers to put him second on the Vikings roster in points. With Stockholm being considered a top threat in Europe, Kohler will need to help the team offensively if they wish to make a return trip to the finals.

 

Guntis Pentis (Riga): 

Some of you that actually make it this far down the magazine will wonder why I am writing about Pentis, but as an old timer hockey lover I just am amazed with the play of Pentis this season. Pentis leads the VHL in fighting majors this season with seven in Riga’s thirty-four games, but the most amazing part of this is that Pentis has knocked the opponent down and won the fight five out of those seven times. Pentis is proving this season is more than knocking you out though as he currently sits second on the roster in points with fifteen goals and twenty-eight assists. Riga is currently in the third and final playoff spot in the European conference, something they may not be greatly pleased about in this stage of the rebuild, but Pentis and the men are more than happy to be looking at playoff hockey in a few weeks.