Retirement and recreation.

[McWolf 3,115]

• One last milestone update for you: as of this afternoon's sim, Joseph McWolf has now scored 61 points, giving him a statline of 61 points, 227 hits and 115 shots blocked. This makes it the 8th and final time in his career that he has passed the 60-point, 200-hit and 100-shot blocked marks. He becomes the first defenseman to accomplish the feat 8 times. Ryan Sullivan was previously the player who had done it the most; 5 times. Then there were 7 more defensemen with 4 times. That puts McWolf in a class of his one, as one of the greater two-way, complete blueliners in the history of the VHL, I guess. Or maybe it doesn't really tell any story, I just made up these marks with numbers that made him look good.
• That being said, McWolf never had success in the playoffs. Missed them twice, then got kicked out in the first round 4 times. The deepest he went is the semi-finals. And it looks like New York might miss this season. It will come down to the wire between us and D.C. I'm starting to think that the trendy heavy hitting builds that we see often right now are not team-friendly builds. It's fun and flashy, but you're not helping your team if you spent 200+ minutes in the box every season.
• Which brings me to my plan build with SS Hornet. Let's go with the total opposite and make a sniping center with very high discipline. We'll see if he wins more Cups than McWolf. I wouldn't draw any drastic conclusions from one Cup, but if Hornet was to lead his teams to two or three, I'd say it might be too much of a coincidence to pass. We shall see. He has been doing pretty good right now, scoring 11 points in as many games. Maybe the Bulls can get it done come playoffs time.
• The Saskatoon Wild is mediocre at best. We got a fun crew though. Real shame I won't be able to bring more than a couple back through the draft.
• Who makes the Hall of Fame this offseason? Ironside, Kovalchuk, Arroyo, Canmore all seem like they might make it at some point. It'll be exciting to see, with my player potentially joining the ballot in the offseason after this next one. He's definitely not first-ballot material, so I expect him to probably stay on there for a bit, kind of in HoF-limbo.