Calgary Wranglers: Season 36

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GM: Jason Glasser (720/404/268/48/856)

Former GM(s): Jardy Bunclewirth (504/172/307/25/369)

Record (after S20): 1,224 GP | 576 W | 575 L | 73 OTL | 1,225 P | 3,668 GF | 4,162 GA

Playoff Record (after S20): 95 GP | 49 W | 35 L | 11 OTL | 3-1 vs TOR, 1-1 SEA, 1-1 vs HEL, 1-1 vs QUE, 1-0 vs DAV, 1-3 vs NYA

 

 

Season 36 VHL Entry Draft

Round 2, Pick 16: Kaspars Tzsling

 

Trades (season):

None

 

Season 36 Regular Season - 72 GP | 6 W | 65 L | 1 OTL | 13 P | 88 GF | 357 GA

After multiple seasons of going for it, the Calgary Wranglers were finally forced to rebuild. Well, rebuild as best they could with no assets left to trade off and no draft picks, the team was what you would expect. This probably looks like how the Toronto Legion of current times will look in the future (S64 to present S68). Calgary was only able to secure Kaspars Tzsling in the S36 draft via a 2nd round draft pick.

 

The Wranglers season was a write off right from the start and finished as one of the ugliest season in the history of the VHL. The team finished with a 6-65-1 record for 13 points. Henrik Larsson came back to the team after a small hiatus to post a 33 goal 58 point output. Hashtag Manning came in to score 17 goals and 40 points. That was it for players of note for the Wranglers. Well I guess we can mention goaltender Rock Star who had a 6-57-1 record with a 0.912 save percentage and a 4.90 G.A.A. plus 3 assists and even 1 shutout. His save percentage was actually not too horrible so consider that without Rock Star the Wranglers might have not even won 6 games.

 

Season 36 Playoffs N/A

The Calgary Wranglers did not qualify for the Season 36 Playoffs.

 

Trades (off-season):

To 
S37 QUE 1st (C Travis Boychuk)
S37 RIG 2nd (D Ron World Peace)

To 
S37 SEA 1st (C Konstantin Azhishchenkov)

 

Looking at this trade, makes you wonder what GM Mike Szatkowski was thinking. The Wranglers saw a player they wanted in Boychuk and figured he would be available at a later position so pulled the trigger and got Riga's 2nd round pick in the process. Boychuk was indeed taken with the pick bu the Riga 2nd was traded away at a later time.

 

To 
S37 SEA 2nd (D Jack Ryan)
S38 TOR 2nd (D Spud Murphy)

To 
S37 RIG 2nd (D Ron World Peace)
S37 DAV 2nd (C Kez Kincaid)

The Wranglers then moved that Riga 2nd with Davos' 2nd for Seattle 2nd and a Season 38 Toronto 2nd. Just looking at the names in the trade, I would say the Wranglers lost because Ron World Peace was a solid VHL defender in his career and was easily the best player in the trade.

 

To 
(S30) D - Lars Lessio

To 
S38 CGY 4th (Forfeited)

The Wranglers reacquired Lars Lessio for the small price of a Season 38 Calgary 4th which was later forfeited. So this would go down as a win for Calgary albeit slightly.

 

Awards:

None

 

Overall:

The Wranglers are now in the midst of a long long long rebuild. Years of going for the Championship, culminating in a Season 30 championship plus a few close calls. The Wranglers now face a tall task of coming out of this hole. Henrik Larsson becomes the 27th player in Wranglers history to reach 100 points with the team with his 104 points in 144 games. Hashtag Manning comes in at tied for 46th with his 40 points. Rock Star is last on the goalie list with 6 wins but is 6th with his .912 save percentage. Overall, it was a write off season and one the fans don't like to talk about.

 

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