Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys

[Smarch 2,995]

Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys

 

With the final games of the Victory Hockey Leagues Seventy-Second season taking place yesterday, the league will not enter the most exciting time of the hockey season, playoffs. As we creep closer to the end of Season Seventy-Two in the VHL, we will of course see the normal retirements filled with the league. While some of these retirements have been known for a while, others will come in the coming weeks that will surprise the league. In today’s media spot we would like to look further into some of the VHLers that have played their final regular season games in the league, giving them the recognition they have deserved over the course of their VHL career.

 

Guillaume Fontenette: Fontenette shows up first on our list after being drafted by the Titans Thirteenth Overall in the Season Sixty-Six VHL Entry Draft.  The Helsinki Titans were coming off a playoff berth in Season Sixty-Five, that saw them go the distance with the Toronto Legion in the Continental Cup finals, before losing in heartbreaking fashion in game seven. With the Titans making noise in the season, they didn’t enter the draft with high end draft picks, with their highest pick fifteenth overall in round two. While the three Titan draft choices before Fontenette had serviceable VHL careers, none of them had the impact Fontenette had on the Titans blue line. Fontenette played in his final VHL regular season game, a 3-1 loss to the Legion, which also happened to be his 432 game in the league and with the Titans organization. In those 432 games played as a Titan, Fontenette put up sixty-six goals and 230 assists, to go along with a plus forty-one rating and 807 shots blocked.  Before the defensive defenseman heads off into the sunset Fontenette will get one final chance at a Continental Cup, as Helsinki will enter the playoffs as the Second Seed in the European Conference.

 

Roll Fizzlebeef: After joining the Ottawa Lynx in Season Sixty-Four through the VHLM Dispersal Draft, Fizzlebeef showcased to the VHL what he was capable of doing on the ice. Although his forty-nine points in sixty-seven isn’t groundbreaking numbers, it was his consistent growth and commitment that caught the eyes of the Calgary Wranglers management and scouting team. Calgary would go on to take Fizzlebeef with the first of two First Rounds picks, Fifth Overall. Fizzlebeef would make the jump straight from the draft into the big leagues right away in Season Sixty-Five, putting up forty-one points in his seventy-two game rookie season. Fizzlebeef would go on to play five seasons in total with the Wranglers, putting up 109 goals and 131 goals in his 360 games played with Calgary. This next three seasons would be with the expansion Prague Phantoms, where Fizzlebeef would put together his best years of his professional hockey career, while also sliding back into one of the top power forwards in the VHL. Fizzlebeef would put up 79 goals and 114 assists, including a career best 50 assists this past season. Fizzlebeef and the Wranglers now enter the playoffs looking to kick their game into high gear, as the Wranglers enter the playoffs as the team to beat with 105 points in the regular season.

Edited June 26, 2020 by Smarch

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1 hour ago, diamond_ace said:

@TacticalHammer

Re-Create?

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Thanks for the write-up @Smarch! Appreciate it. 

 

Unfortunately I'm with Prague right now, not Calgary, so no playoffs to send Roll off into the sunset.