Time's Running A Little Short

[Renomitsu 934]

Riga, Latvia - Another season down, another season into regression.

 

With now six VHL regular seasons under his belt, Apollo Hackett (and the rest of the Season 66 class) have the end in sight. At maximum, this class with dozens more members than most others in VHL history have two seasons remaining - and that's with another round or two of increasingly severe regression. Most players in this class don't have the banked TPE/earning potential to make it through the second instance of regression; that doesn't apply completely to the top ten or fifteen members, but surely even the likes of HHH and Jet Jaguar understand that 1,200-1,300 TPE builds probably aren't realistic anymore. The largest beneficiaries of the S66 draft - Vancouver with HHH and Freeman; Moscow with Jaguar, Tocco, and Clarke; and Calgary with Barabash Jr. and Paddywagon - must see the writing on the wall.

 

It's now, next season, or never for these teams that feature S66 with ~800-1,000 TPE players. And as the Riga Reign get a little bit younger with their recent choices in trading partners, Hackett might just be a casualty they're willing to deal with.