Calgary starts hot, Mitchell not so much

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S72 is well underway in the VHL and the Calgary Wranglers are showing that they are a top contender this year. They currently sit 2nd in the league, just 1 point behind Toronto, with a 10-5-1 record. This comes from sitting 2nd in the league in both goals for and goals against which leads to the best goal differential thus far. Strong performances from Mikko Lahtinen who is having a breakout season, Charlie Paddywagon, Kris Rice and RJ Jubis lead the skaters and the real star is Jacques Lafontaine in net who has started every game and is making a bid for top goaltender in the league. There are no signs of this team slowing down anytime soon. Latrell Mitchell had an exciting start to his season, getting an assist on the first Calgary goal of S72 but since then has not been able to find the score sheet until this last game where his teammates passed off to him to bury an empty netter and get the monkey off his back. He hasn't done too much statistically with just the 1 goal and 1 assist, 21 hits and 16 shots blocked. While he has found the box more often than he'd like, with 24 PIMs, he hasn't particularly been a liability out there either with a +10 rating thus far. So I'm sure fans and the team can be happy with his defensive performance out there, Mitchell would like to start finding the score sheet more. Maybe that can come now that he's got that first goal out of his system, but will definitely come with time as he gets comfortable out there. 

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Not having a flashy season yet but those secondary stats are good. Especially being a +10