Top 10

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With three games underway in the S61 VHL season, Evan R. Lawson, former CFO of Hank Med, is top 10 in points in the league. Granted, there have only been three games, so it's a bit of an inaccurate reading, but Lawson opened the season with a hat trick and an assist against the Seattle Bears, in a game his team (Calgary Wranglers) won 5-3. In that game, Lawson also went 3-3 on faceoffs and played a few shifts of power play, which was in effect for his assist and first goal. Perhaps it could be said, then, that the real stars were actually SEA LW2 and SEA RW3 for committing the penalties that allowed Lawson to shine in the first period of that game, although his goals in both the other periods were at even strength. Special notice must also be given to Michael Kinkaid, who assisted on all three Lawson goals as well as contributing a goal of his own. In fact, because of that one game, Kinkaid is in the top 5 in points as well as Lawson in the top 10 (Kinkaid is in a four way tie for 2nd through 5th, Lawson is in a 6 way tie for 6th through 11th). Kinkaid and Lawson are the only two Wranglers within the top 10 on the points list at the current time. In theory, the best tiebreaker for total points should be the P/20 stat (it's not what the game uses, I'm just putting my own preference onto it) and had that been used, Kinkaid would be sitting third as he has the second highest P/20 of the people he's tied with (behind Veran Dragomir, and ahead of Lavar Ball and Mathieu Bourdon). Lawson also relatively outperforms most of his peers in the P/20 stat among those involved in the tie, placing only behind Aleksei Federov, while also ahead of Noel Roux, Beau Louth, Jake Scheel, and Chase Keller.

 

In addition to that single game that helped out Lawson and Kinkaid's personal stat's greatly while also giving the team a vital win, Lawson also picked up an assist in the other Wranglers-Bears game, setting up Oyorra Arroyo for his first goal of the game and of the season (he would later score again in the same game, sandwiching a Mats Johnsson goal in a busy Wranglers second period). Kinkaid, meanwhile, assisted both of the other goals scored besides the one Lawson assisted on, the one extra assist of course being the difference between the two so far in points. To this point in the season, the Wranglers are 2-1-0, for 4 points and a 3 way tie for third place in the league. The interesting part is that of the teams involved in the 3 way tie, all of them also have the same goal difference, plus 3. The Wranglers have the fewest goals scored and conceded of the teams involved in the tie, partially because of a 1-0 loss to Toronto. Quebec have also won twice and lost once, but their loss was in overtime so they're a point up on the three in the tie.