S70 Rookie of the Year Race

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Summers' Award to Lose?

Erik Summers has been a key addition to Helsinki's offense

 

HELSINKI, Finland - We are are nearly a quarter of the way through the S70 campaign, and there already appears to be a clear frontrunner for the Rookie of the Year Award: Helsinki defenseman Erik Summers. Summers, a S69 draftee, spent S69 playing for the VHLM's Mexico City Kings in an overage season, and boy did it do wonders for him. He didn't exactly light the world on fire with his S69 performance, but he has continued his steady play on the blueline into the S70 VHL season, and he currently leads all rookies with 11 points in 15 games. Helsinki currently is just barely outside of a playoff spot, and if they want to get into the postseason this year they'll need Summers to keep up his stellar play. He has a 4-point lead over the next highest scoring rookie, Chad Magnum, so at this point it appears that RoTY is Summers' to lose. Barring any other rookies going on a tear at some point during the season, there really only appears to be four other candidates at the moment who could possibly unseat the German-born defender; Toronto's Chad Magnum (2-5-7), Davos' Milos Slavik (1-5-6), and Calgary's Ondrej Ohradka (2-4-6) & Kris Rice (3-3-6).