Midseason Review New York Americans

[Rhynex Entertainment 487]

Midseason Review New York Americans

 

A lot has gone wrong once again for the New York Americans in Season 76 of the VHL. Similar to Season 75, the New York Americans find themselves at the bottom of the league standings with a record of 12 wins, 23 regulation losses, along with 6 post-regulation losses. With just 30 points, New York find themselves sitting in last place in the North American Conference and second worse in the VHL. To make matters worse, the Americans also hold the fewest ROWs so far this season; being the only team left to have a single digit in the ROW column with 9.

 

New York Americans

41GP

12W

23L

6OTL

30Pts

9ROW

138GF

175GA

-37

As mentioned earlier, the New York Americans is a very young team, with most of the players being in the first or second year. The Americans are above average when it comes to scoring, but the lack of defense or perhaps goaltending has been the Achilles for the young team. The New York Americans currently holds the league worse Goals Against with 175 goals let in by the opposition, which is 16 more goals allowed than the Riga Reigns, whom has played one more game than New York.  The eye catching statistic is the above 4.00 GAA for both goaltenders in Thadius Sales @thadthrasher  (4.01 GAA) and Bacon @Bacon  (4.30GAA), which means the team is allowing more than 4 goals on average per game. A team stat that holds true, as the New York Americans have an average team GAA of 4.27 (175 / 41). This is not a kicker toward the team's goaltenders, but the team's defence and play in the defensive zone as a whole. In fact, the young netminders actually have a pretty decent statline considering what they have to deal with in front of them. For example, Thadius Sales have faced 1305 shots in 34 games played, which is 7th most by all goaltenders so far this season in the VHL. However, the six goaltenders whom have face more shots have also at least played three, and up to five, more games than Thadius Sales. In fact, Thadius Sales has faced on average more shots per game than all of the six netminders.
While the bad definitely outweighs the good so far this season for the New York Americans, there are still some positives that could be seen from the very, very young team out of the Big Apple. But before we talk about the good, let's discuss the eye catching bads that's been lingering all season!

In addition to being the worse defensive team in the VHL so far in Season 76, another eye catching Bad would the lack of consistency and losing streaks the young New York team faced all season long. The longest winning streak lasted a mere 3 games compared to the season long losing streak of 9 straight games. But, like I've mentioned earlier, not everything went wrong for the New York Americans. There are some very intriguing stats that cannot be overlooked.

New York has a very good track record against some pretty good teams so far this season. Of the 12 wins the Americans have so far in Season 76, halve of the wins came against two teams. The Calgary Wranglers (4 wins out of 6 games played) and the Helsinki Titans (2 wins of 4 games played) respectively. Both teams are considered good teams, although Calgary has been unprecedented, doing worse than expectations so far this season.

In addition to those big wins against the two tough opponents, another very interesting stat that should not be overlooked is the +/- of the players on the New York Americans. While +/- does not tell the whole story, but it is quite interesting to see that the Americans have two lines from different worlds. One line is all negative, each being -20 or worse, while the other line is all positive, with the worse being Even at Zero. Truly an interesting picture.

With this being said, the season is far from over! Let's have another look at what the team will be like at season's end!

 

Player Name	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	HIT	SHT%	SB	GW
(74) C - Rhynex Entertainment	41	26	35	61	2	13	62	9.59%	22	1
(73) RW - Gary Rush	41	21	36	57	3	90	164	7.64%	19	3
(74) C - Brian Strong Jr	41	21	27	48	-21	21	85	9.91%	20	2
(74) D - Markus Schauer	41	9	33	42	-20	0	4	7.5%	82	1
(76) RW - Red Lite	41	19	23	42	6	14	39	8.8%	20	1
(75) D - Chicken Wing	41	6	29	35	2	46	70	4.48%	109	0
(75) D - Cowboy Prout	41	8	21	29	0	76	92	6.96%	97	0
(75) RW - RJ Thatcher	41	9	17	26	-22	23	54	5.42%	17	0
(74) RW - Peter Louis II	41	13	11	24	-22	56	89	8.9%	6	0
(75) D - Shawn Andrei Zyuzin	41	3	10	13	-20	130	168	5.0%	91	1

Goalie Name	GP	W	L	OTL	SV%	GAA	SO	GA	SA	ST
(75) G - Thadius Sales	34	8	19	5	0.9	4.01	1	131	1305	33
(72) G - Bacon	10	4	4	1	0.898	4.3	0	38	372	8

 

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[Matt thunder 444]

wow mate, you did a great job, i like how you added some photos and you don't just left some text that can be find boring if too long.

in the end i give this a solid 8 out of a 10, keep it up mate.