Askarov VHLM career so far

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Russian playing in Canada

 

 

Drafted 48th overall, in season 73 the Russian goalie prospect. Is the first of his kind, for the gooningitup agency. Standing in at 6 foot 6 and 220 pounds he suited up for all 72 games for the Hounds in season 73. He is expected to once again, join the Hounds this season as they hope to be a much better team this upcoming season. 

 

He hopes to be a starting goalie for a team who can potentially win a cup. If the Hounds slip or falter at anyway, expect Askarov to ask to be moved. However, he has managements word that this season will be much better.  They own 3 firsts, 2 2nds, and multiple picks in basically every round. With smart drafting the team will be a much better roster, then the team he played for last season where he had to carry the team to the win colum almost every game.

 

In 72 games, Askarov was the goalie to face the second most shots on goal with 2366 shots against. He trails only Poremba who in my opinion was last years VHLM MVP. His work load was insane, but he never showed signs of slowing down. He only got better, as the season went on. He hopes, that with a lesser work load he will actually improve even more often goalies get worse when their work load drops off.

 

Combined with his work load came the 4th best sv% in the entire league an 895% and the 6th best GAA 3.46. If he can stop pucks at the same rate he did last season with lesser work load, likely means a drastic improvement in goals against. That just shows how impressive he has really been, and he hopes to be the top goalie next season. With the team improving in front of him, now is the time to shine an prove the teams who passed on him just how wrong a choice they made.

 

He is also angry an eager to prove to VHL GMs that it was a piss poor choice to pass on him. He was allowed to fall to 41st in the VHL draft despite coming in near the top half of the draft, an ready to cap first week of the season start. He is excited to continue his VHLM career next season which is his last. After that the big question is where is his role in the bigs. As Calgary still has their starter for a long time. 

Edited September 13, 2020 by Gooningitup