Seattle's Strong Prospect Pool

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CHANGES LOOMING IN SEATTLE? 

 

Phoenix Dawson is one of the VHLM prospects in the Seattle system set to graduate following this season

SEATTLE, WA — The Bears seem to be on a cusp of another solid run as they are currently sitting fourth in the North American conference and have plenty of future looking to graduate to the Bears in the upcoming season. The question facing the team is what are they going to do in terms of roster space? 

In the S76 VHL Entry Draft the Seattle Bears were busy in the first round alone. They acquired Hex Rose and Phil the Rock Johnson who are currently playing limited minutes with the Bears as well as Miami center Phoenix Dawson. Seattle also saw some luck in the second round being able to draft MacGruber with the 24th selection and Alexander the Great at 30th.

Currently in the Miami, Dawson and Alexander have found chemistry on the ice and are leading their team in scoring with Dawson in the top 10 of the league overall at the moment. The prospect pool are thriving right now and will be hungry to crack the Seattle roster. 

The problem facing Seattle is who will be the players that are determined to be the ones that can be set free? Majority of the roster is younger players from S74 on and now the S75/S76 prospects will be wanting time on the ice as well. Seattle also flipped their pick in the S77 draft to acquire Leo Strauss from Toronto. With all of this depth at center, it will not be surprising when Seattle’s hand is forced to move a couple of these younger players to competitors simply because there won’t be room on the roster.

The only aging players in Seattle’s offense are center Vin Calia, who has already been switched over to wing to make room for the younger core and captain Jim Bob who will likely be sticking around in Seattle as one of their consistent scorers. This means that Seattle will likely be assessing their prospect pool over the season to determine which prospects are most likely to pan out while others may be moved to bring back picks that are further down the road so Seattle can focus on the development of their current crop of players.

As things stand it seems that Dawson and Logan Moore are the two prospects guaranteed to make the jump to the pros next season while MacGruber, Alexander and a handful of other prospects could be very close behind them. 

While there is room to wiggle with the prospects on defense, there is definitely a log-jam at offense at Seattle and teams must already be well aware of this possible problem looming for the team. This will definitely be something to follow as the trade deadline looms and over the off-season as Seattle will continue to build towards a force in the league. The only question for the team is which young stars will be on board for the journey?

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No Bana has had enough success we dont need anymore. He needs his Ken Hitchcock decline now haha.

 

However, good article could have used more color, and pictures. But well done

 

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