Claimed: Anderson hospitalized due to irregular heartbeat; Team World ramblings

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Anderson hospitalized due to irregular heartbeat; Team World ramblings

 

Infamous player agent Scott Anderson was hospitalized overnight due to an irregular heartbeat as he was sent by ambulance from Vancouver International Airport yesterday. Anderson, who in addition to being Rudi Ying's player agent and being on the league committee that ensures the player base practices correctly, has recently had to deal with a full plate being recently named the general manager of Team World in the upcoming S54 World Cup after already stepping up to co-GM the Las Vegas Aces since Robbie Zimmers' personal leave.

 

Returning from an overseas trip that included stops in Russia and Singapore to meet the player agents of Aleksei Federov and Takashi Fujimoto, Anderson was scheduled to fly onwards to Las Vegas to see the Aces host the Ottawa Lynx in game 5 of the VHLM playoff semi-finals. The Aces, who will now meet the Saskatoon Wild in the finals for bragging rights to the Four Star Cup, would eventually go on to beat the Lynx 3-2 in overtime courtesy of a Takashi Fujimoto hat trick. Anderson has since been released from hospital after undergoing intensive medical testing, which included, but was not limited to, blood tests, electrocardiogram tests, and x-rays of the chest. Although he is now back in his temporary residency of Las Vegas to watch the Las Vegas Aces go for their final four wins this year, he is scheduled to return to hospital early next week for further testing such as stress tests and echocardiogram ultrasounds.

 

Rumours have been swirling lately over the final compliment of players that Anderson will take with him to the World Cup, as Team World looks to continue their medal streak after winning gold in S50 and bronze in S52. Anderson named six players - Jakab Holik, Bobby Digital, Pietro Maximoff, Franchise Cornerstone, Fook Yu, and the aforementioned Fujimoto - to the roster at the start of the week, and added a further three defensemen - Guntis Petenis, Maksym Barnyashev, and Seattle Bears' rookie Federov - a couple of days later. This leaves three open spots on the roster, one of which must be used to name a second goaltender in addition to Holik.

 

While defensemen such as Pavel Komarov, Alexander Thrower, and Roman Sokolov are expected to be omitted, there are notable names up front such as Felipe Rodriguez, Fredinamijs Krigars, and Conrad Jenkins who one could make a solid case for being included, as well as a trio of VHLM forwards in Luigi De Rossi, Slava Aleksei, and Rudi Ying, who have all had varying degrees of success this year in the minors. Anderson has also made public comments in the past few days voicing his displeasure and frustration with the excessive number of snipers Team World has at its disposal this year. "While I would love to have a top six of Locke-Unassisted-Maxwell and Maximoff-Krigars-Kohler, I'm not sure how that would work as they are all shoot-first players," said Anderson. "That's a similar scenario I'm currently facing having to choose between a group of talented forwards such as Maximoff, Cornerstone, Fujimoto, Krigars, De Rossi, and Jenkins to name a few." Despite being named to the preliminary roster, Federov and Fujimoto were rumoured to be possible omissions from the final roster after Anderson met overseas with their player agents, however it will be tough to drop Fujimoto after his hat trick tonight single-handedly propelled the Aces to the playoff finals. It will be interesting to see how this plays out as Anderson is expected to meet the roster selection deadline and finalize his roster tonight.

Edited May 21, 2017 by punkhippie

[BOOM 8,449]

I really enjoy reading your articles. Great work.

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5 minutes ago, BOOM said:

I really enjoy reading your articles. Great work.

 thank you Boom and appreciate the support. The irregular heartbeat thing sadly is true, and I don't know why a generally healthy 23-year-old is having to deal with this crap.

[BOOM 8,449]

Well that sucks. Sorry.