WSJ on Upcoming Regression, Expansion

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Wolf Stansson, Jr. has completed his fifth VHL season, all coming with the Prague Phantoms as their first ever draft pick in the S68 Entry Draft. Six seasons later, the VHL is expanding once again. Growth and recruitment has been tremendous for the league and they're finally starting to breathe once again. It's a nice sight to see and to be a part of. 

 

WSJ completed S72 by putting up career numbers all across the board, namely in goals, assists, points, shots, penalty minutes, hits, game-winning goals, and power-play goals. It's been a remarkable prime year for WSJ, who is scheduled to hit regression this offseason. Oof. A lot of this personal improvements has to do with Prague opening up their general scheme this year as they shifted from a defensive umbrella to a free-playing unit. Sure, it helped them score a lot of goals... but it also allowed them to be exposed to being scored upon. As a result, the team missed the playoffs this year after a two-season streak. So... I'm not quite sure if this is much to cheer about. Not to mention that WSJ finally posted a negative +/- rating, which was exactly what I was dreading. Can't win them all, I suppose. 

 

Anyways, expansion sounds really cool and all that. Four new teams coming into the league, damn! That's a huge jump from S67 when it was only 8 teams and we had just expanded to 10 in S68 with D.C. Dragons and Prague. Now we're up to 14, which is pretty cool. I'm not sure what is WSJ's status - is he staying on Prague or not. The management hasn't contacted WSJ yet in regards to the possibility of WSJ changing teams this offseason due to the Expansion Draft... so I'm assuming that is good news, as I'm hoping to become a career Phantom with WSJ. Try to set some career franchise records that'll become untouchable. And uhh... well, the VHL all-time records are probably out of the window. Three more seasons left for old WSJ. Let's get it done. 

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