Calgary Wranglers: Season 52

[TheLastOlympian07 2,388]

GM: Austin Gow (792/390/339/63/843)

Former GM(s):

Jardy Bunclewirth (504/172/307/25/369)

Jason Glasser (1080/547/456/67/1,161)

Record (after S20): 2,376 GP | 1,109 W | 1,102 L | 155 OTL | 2,393 P | 6,643 GF | 7,414 GA

Playoff Record (after S20): 192 GP | 100 W | 74 L | 18 OTL | 4-2 vs TOR, 4-3 vs QUE, 4-6 vs NYA, 2-2 vs SEA, 1-0 vs DAV, 1-0 vs COL, 1-3 vs HEL

 

 

Season 52 VHL Entry Draft:

3rd Round, Pick 28: LW Kyle Kasper

 

 

Trades (Regular Season):

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(S49) D - Jim Lahey

 

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S53 NYA 3rd (Forfeited)

 

Helsinki Titans GM: Mitch Higgins @Higgins

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow @chatfan036

 

I am assuming this trade happened for cap reasons, I know eagles loved Jim Lahey and the user whos name escapes me right now.

 

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(S49) D - Shayne Gow

 

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S53 CGY 2nd (G Chet Manley)

 

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow

Quebec City Meute GM: Frank Chadwick @Frank

 

And there we have it, Lahey was a cap dump so the Wranglers can pick up real life brother @flyersfan1453. Interesting that a 2nd round pick got such a serviceable player. 

 

 

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(S50) LW - Asher Donovan

S53 HSK 3rd (D Teli Briadora)

 

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S54 CGY 2nd (C Rask Rowe)

 

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow

Helsinki Titans GM: Mitch Higgins

 

More depth moves by the Wranglers as they had their core set in place.

 

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(S45) LW - Lucas Zhukenov

(S46) D - Benjamin Tumack

 

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S53 HSK 3rd (D Teli Briadora)

 

Calgary Wranglers GM: Austin Gow

Helsinki Titans GM: Mitch Higgins

 

How is that for management, the Season 53 Helsinki 3rd Round pick acquired in a trade a day or two before this one, was traded back to Helsinki for even more assets. Not bad.

 

Season 52 Regular Season - 72 GP | 50 W | 16 L | 6 OTL | 106 P | 228 GF | 126 GA

With a season ending total like this you would expect maybe a 1st round place in the conference, but at least a 2nd place finish. Unfortunately, this was only good enough for 3rd in the North American Conference. The team was unable to keep last years team together because of the cap so Unassisted left for New York but the rest had stayed including a last minute decision by Black Velvet. Tyson Kohler stepped up in Unassisted's absence with a team leading 103 points. Travis Gowecny and Aleksi Koponen chipped in with 90 of their own. Ariel Weinstein's play dropped just a little bit falling from 0.929 save percentage to a 0.919. Overall, it was cutthroat in the NA this season as a 98 point team missed the playoffs.

 

Season 52 Playoffs - 7 GP | 3 W | 4 L

After getting the bye last season, the Wranglers now have to play old friend Unassisted in the Conference Semi-Final. This is the 10 meeting in the playoffs for Calgary and New York making it 3 more than Calgary vs Quebec and 4 more than Calgary vs Toronto. This didn't start out to good for the Wranglers as they fell behind 2 games to none after a 4-2 loss and a 1-0 squeaker after 2 games in New York. The Wranglers powered back with a 3-0 shutout of their own and a 3-2 win in games 3 and 4 respectively. The Americans took a 3-2 series lead with a commanding 7-4 win. Game 6 came back to Calgary and saw Aleksi Koponen be the OT hero. The Game 6 win also proved to be Calgary's 100th playoff win since Season 20, which is not bad. Game 7 though, would not be the 101st win, New York just flat out dominated Calgary 4-1 to skate away with a victory and the 6th series win vs Calgary. Aleksi Koponen and Theo Axelsson had a good playoff with 12 and 10 points respectively. Tyson Kohler and Black Velvet both had 7 and the rest of the team had less than 1 point per game. Ariel Weinstein who was magnificent last season was not good this year. He went 3-4 with a 0.891 save percentage. He did however get 1 shutout.

 

Awards:

Sterling Labatte Trophy - Black Velvet

 

Overall:

The team took a minor step back after a 132 point season last year, they were able to get 106 this season and make the playoffs. 5 players broke 200 career points with the Wranglers: Aleksi Koponen, Tyson Kohler, Travis Gowecny, Black Velvet and Theo Axelsson. Koponen breaks into the top 20 all time in scoring while the rest are as follows: 21st, 23rd, T-26th and T-27th. Tobias Klingberg broke into the top 40 with his 154 points. He is one of 50 players to break 100 points. Weinstein moves to 3rd in wins with 133, tied for 1st in save percentage with 0.925 and 1st in shutouts with 38. It was a good season with a hard fought 7 game series in the playoffs. Unfortunately, it wasn't the result the Wranglers brass had wanted when they brought back most of this core.

 

 Calgary Wranglers Stats

[eaglesfan036 4,605]

Lahey was @Cuffy i believe

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Lahey was Cuffy and the trade involving Shayne was a pre-determined trade since free agency. I signed with Quebec to join Calgary at the deadline at a reduced cap hit and Quebec got a 2nd rounder for holding on to me for the first half of the season.