d3vilsfire 132 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 What can be said about Season 38 for the Moscow Red Wolves? Did they achieve their goal that the ambitious GM Bruce Wayne set for his team? Well it depends on what you consider their goal was and if it was actually achieved. Going into this season, Wayne said that Moscow would be a contender. Was this achieved? Hell yeah it was! Battling for first in their conference, Moscow was giving Turku a run for their money until the final few games. Then, Moscow fought their way through the playoffs to the conference finals. Here they faced the Turku Outlaws again who though had beaten Moscow during the regular season, may falter during the playoffs. In the first game of the series, Moscow had a decisive victory, 5-3, over Turku. The Red Wolves outshot the Outlaws 42 – 34. Moscow goalie Jose Canseco played brilliantly for the Red Wolves in this game saving 31 of 34 shots (.912 sv %) and adding another win to his playoff record (5-0-0). Though the 1st star went to Devin Sundberg of Turku (2g, 1a, -1), Dale Kent (1g, 0a, +1) and Roland Brice (1g, 1a, 0) of the Moscow Red Wolves took 2nd and 3rd star, respectively. It was a good showing for Moscow and was a good tempo setter for the rest of the series. Then the second game of the series took place, and everyone was absolutely shocked by the result. Fans of both teams were very disappointed in this game, though Turku fans were happy their team got the win, this was not a fun game to watch at all. Red Wolves: 3; Outlaws: 11. Canesco was pulled in the 2nd period after giving up 6 goals on 17 shots, and Alfie Forever was put in net. Forever did not do much better than Canesco in his playoff debut allowing 5 goals on 22 shots. After the game, GM Bruce Wayne was visibly shocked and only gave a few words to the press before asking to be excused. Their current coach, Anton Kudryashov, who has been relatively unheard from during the season, shared some sentiments with the press about how he and his players did not show up for the game that day and were looking to put this game past them and looking forward to game 3 to extract revenge on Turku for this embarrassment. Coach Kudryashov must have given his team one hell of a pre-game talk as his team came back in game 3 seeking revenge. The Moscow Red Wolves 7-5 won game 3, but Moscow was outshot badly (31 – 52) by Turku. Moscow swept the 3 stars with Steve Tremblay (2g, 2a, +1) taking first star, Moe Mills (1g, 1a, +1) taking second star, and Jackson Miller (0g, 4a, +1) taking third star. Moscow goalie, Jose Canseco, returned to form stopping 47 shots out of 52 shots (.904 sv %) giving him another win in his playoff campaign (6-1-0). Both Wayne and Kudryashov both looked better after the win in game 3 and were more cheerful in talks about the game and game 4. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/9668-claimedmoscow-playoff-overview-part-i/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3vilsfire 132 Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 Part II: http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/9669-moscow-playoff-overview-part-ii/ Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/9668-claimedmoscow-playoff-overview-part-i/#findComment-89742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molholt 2,185 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Content: 3/3 - Holy cow the second game was 11-3?? That's ridiculous lol. Good article!Grammar: 2/2 - Looked pretty good to me.Appearance: 1/1 - Red. Red Wolves. I see what you did there.Overall: 6/6 Final: 6 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/9668-claimedmoscow-playoff-overview-part-i/#findComment-89760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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