Calgary Wranglers: Season 42

[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

GM: Austin Gow (72/18/49/5/41)

Former GM(s):

Jardy Bunclewirth (504/172/307/25/369)

Jason Glasser (1080/547/456/67/1,181)

Record (after S20): 1,656 GP | 737 W | 812 L | 97 OTL | 1,591 P | 4,797 GF | 5,629 GA

Playoff Record (after S20): 118 GP | 57 W | 47 L | 14 OTL | 3-1 vs TOR, 2-2 vs QUE, 1-1 vs HEL, 1-0 vs DAV, 1-2 SEA, 1-4 vs NYA

 

Season 42 VHL Entry Draft

Round 2, Pick 15: Artemis Fowll @Fowll

Round 3, Pick 25: Hashtag Jeffership @JeffD

Round 4, Pick 31: Joe Moore @steezo

 

The Gow drafting didn't start out strong but the Season 42 class wasn't that strong anyway outside Bismarck Koenig, Callum Sinclair, Wolfgang Strauss, Blake Campbell and Benjamin Zeptenbergs. So by the time 15th overall came around it was slim pickings. Interesting pick in Round 3 though as we know how active he can be and how often he goes inactive. The Wranglers were unfortunate enough to get him in an inactive phase.

 

Trades (Regular Season):

To 
(S40) D - King Czar III

To 
S44 CGY 3rd (Forfeited)

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow @eaglesfan036
Helsinki Titans GM: William Shaw @Will

 

To 
S43 RIG 2nd (D Golden Jedtsson)

To 
(S41) G - Coca Cola

Stockholm Vikings GM: Benoit Prévost @boubabi
Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow

 

To 
(S36) RW - Robert Gow III

To 
S44 HSK 2nd (C Jefferson Jackson)
S43 COL 3rd (D Dennis Saad)
S43 HSK 3rd (Forfeited)

 

Helsinki Titans GM: William Shaw
Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow
 

Some minor trades throughout the season for the Wranglers. The return for RG3 seemed kind of low and looking back, it still seems that way, a 2nd and 2 3rds? The 2nd for Coca Cola looks bad looking back and the Czar III trade looks like a cap dump which got traded back to them anyway.

 

Season 42 Regular Season - 72 GP | 18 W | 49 L | 5 OTL | 41 P | 176 GF | 299 GA

The Wranglers entered another rebuild which I think is the 3rd rebuild since Season 20, which is not bad if you think about it. They got 2 cups out of the last two rebuilds so why not tear down to the studs and try once more. The Wranglers finished last in the NA Conference with 41 points. It was a dismal season for the Wranglers who looked to trade anyone for anything they could get. If you're going to be bad, you need to really be bad to secure 1st OA.

 

Marcus Hurley led the team in scoring with 74 points in 72 games. In reality, RG3 led the team in scoring with 80 points but he was traded to the Titans at the deadline. Jarome Iginla continued to pull double duty and he had a fairly decent season with 71 points on the year. CGY G1 played all 72 games which is against the rules but since he should have technically been a backup, the VHL didn't give a shit. Human goalie, Zack Gagnon Jr was trash in 3 games in mop up duty with a 0.809 save percentage and a 6.72 G.A.A. Edwin Encarnacion can't seem to stay away from the Wranglers as hes back for a third tour of duty. It ended with a 59 point effort.

 

Season 42 Playoffs - N/A

The Wranglers did not qualify for the Playoffs in Season 42.

 

Trades (off-season):

To 
(S40) D - Jaime Hill

To 
S43 COL 1st (D Theo Matsikas)
S44 CGY 2nd (D Supa Hot Fire)

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow
Toronto Legion GM: Tyler Edgar @Edgar

 

To 
(S40) LW - Rami Jakobssen
S44 QUE 2nd (RW Ash Stevens)

To 
S44 HSK 2nd (C Jefferson Jackson)
S45 CGY 2nd (LW Danger Van der Merwe)

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow
Quebec City Meute GM: Clinton Chevy @Kesler

 

Some more trades by Gow that were interesting. Bringing in Jamie Hill who is going to be halfway through her career by the time she starts next season with the Wranglers for a 1st and a 2nd was eye brow raising for the rebuilding team. Then trading 2 2nds for Rami Jakobssen and a 2nd was also interesting. I guess in Season 43, we will see how these moves pan out.

 

Awards:

N/A

 

Overall:

Edwin Encarnacion @Tagger is the highest scoring active player on the Wranglers with 167 points in 195 points which makes him around the 23rd player and 10th highest scoring defenseman. Marcus Hurley isn't that far behind with 159 points in 144 games. Jarome Iginla and Kez Kincaid are the two other players to break 100 career points in a Wrangler uniform. Overall, there was not much to write about this season. Just a plain old rebuilding year.

[eaglesfan036 4,585]

To add some context to this era, id say early 2nds hit 25 percent of the time and everything mid 2nd round and later was just worthless

 

The RGIII trade was his last season as a rental, and for whatever reason there was just no buyers looking for a rental so thats all i could get unfortunately 

 

The Rami trade was more than interesting, i traded a bag of chips for a solid 2nd line player