Toronto's latest chance for HOF representation?

[Peace 1,562]

TORONTO, CANADA -- So it's theme week -- finally -- and for this particular bonus week it is all about future hall of fame players within the Victory Hockey League. Unfortunately, while Oyorra Arroyo's fantastic hall of fame worthy career would have been an amazing piece to write about, the theme week clearly states that it is intended for any active VHL or VHLM players. Sadly, this immediately disqualifies writing about Arroyo's five individual awards, three continental cups, and a victory cup during his five hundred seventy six game career with three hundred thirty three goals, three hundred sixty one assists and six hundred ninety four points. 

More accurately this is about predicting the next hall of fame player, and obviously I'm going to write about current Toronto players. There's not much to be said about the current 'graduated' roster, we're mostly an inactive team with no sure-fire hall of fame players. No, no, clearly our best chance lies in the crop of prospects we've acquired since the start of the rebuild. I could choose Chad Magnum, who is aiming at multiple Scott Boulet trophies during his career. I could also choose Jaxx Hextall, who I hope -- predicted after the club of elite goalies who all have HOF articles -- reaches three hundred career wins with some individual awards. In essence a Pepper-like career and he'd practically be a shoe-in for a HoF spot. 

While I would like to mention Kristopher McDagg, he honestly fall into the same category as Magnum, and if we compare TPE totals with the glance of an eye we can reasonably see that -- aside from TPA in faceoffs rather than passing - Magnum has the stronger build and is a season younger. 

That leaves Erik Killinger but I think I've written about myself far too much. 

With that being said... I'm optimistic so I'm going to talk about both Magnum and Hextall as future hall of fame players. 

In regards to Magnum it is difficult, but possible - right? He's a player who's career clock has officially started, but eight seasons is quite a bit of time. I know from my own history with Peace that a line with good chemistry produces results even with less TPA compared to the lines they are facing. See Dahlberg and Peace's 100 point campaigns with Davos before being split up the following season. If Killinger and Magnum have similar chemistry, I can absolutely see both of them gaining traction in a hall of fame race. If Magnum's goal is to win Scott Boulet trophies, and Killinger's goal is to win Kevin Brooks trophies, then both of them can mutually assist each other in that task. 

Now it's up to Hextall, and here is the trick: All I have to do is build a competitive Toronto team for his full eight season career, and if we can push him to three hundred career wins, you have to assume that Hextall will win a few Aidan Shaw and Greg Clegane trophies during his career. Think Kallis Kriketers or -- to a lesser comparative degree since I'm not a Hedge level GM yet -- Alexander Pepper's career with Helsinki would suffice, I'd hope.

Thanks for reading! 

 

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