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- bbp - 11-17-2017
<div align="center">Best Personal Player Story Lines from Sim Leagues
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I’ve had a lot of sim league players. Here in the SHL I’m sitting on my fourth. In the SBA I’ve had two main players and a few side players (they have a different set up where you can make a capped NCAA player while you have a SBA player). Plus at least one on a ton of other sim leagues from the VHL and EFL to lord knows how many failed leagues. Here are the top four story lines from my players.
Note: These aren’t my favourite moments but my favourite “story lines” from these guys if they were real.
#4 - Daigle’s Return to Texas - SHL
Alexandre Daigle had been going through a rough patch. After leaving the Texas Renegades in his 3rd season (S18) he had two abysmal years where he put up 12 and 9 points respectively, after managing 23 in his sophomore season. He ended up returning to Texas in S20 the team he would later captain and end his career with.
Upon returning his game was completely rejuvenated putting up 21 points in S20 and 38 in S21. On top of that, those were also the years of Texas’s back to back championship wins. In the 33 playoff games played during those championship runs he scored 12 goals, a team high. Truly an incredible return and breakout from a player who in his brief time away from the club he loved played some miserable hockey. A victorious home coming story.
#3 – Salaminos Earns Championship after NCAA Failure – SBA
Themistocles Salaminos is by far my best sim league player. He won four straight center of the year, 3 best defensive player of the year awards, two championships a NCAA championship and lord only knows how many all-star appearances (plus he’s still playing). However Salaminos had to overcome some major disappointment early on.
At the time in the NCAA his UNC Tar Heels were utterly dominant. In Salaminos’s junior season they cruised through March Madness winning the championship with Salaminos as the 3rd star. The next season the team lost their two superstar seniors and it was Salaminos’s turn to lead the team. He started off well and was the MVP of the team absolutely dominant, breaking the 15 year old NCAA rebound record in the process to finishing #1 in the standings. However in the Championship game Salaminos caved. He fouled out early, barely making a mark on the game and the team was ran out of the building. This haunted Salaminos who found himself in a similar situation in the SBA.
In Salaminos’s second season he was playing off the bench as 6th man behind the eventual Center of the Year Jim Thuggin for the Mercer Island Knights. Salaminos would win the 6th Man of the Year Award and the team would win the SBA Championship but as a bench player, even the best bench player in the league, the credit mainly went to other players. The following season Mercer Island parted ways with the still elite Jim Thuggin to let their young prodigy Salaminos start. Echo’s of the past as Salaminos would win the Center of the Year award and be an elite force for his team throughout the season and they would find themselves in the finals once more. Despite his success throughout the season Salaminos was haunted by his NCAA championship game failure. Could he step up and be the star? This time the answer was yes. Putting up 42 points in game one and earning Player of the Game honors in game three after putting up 39 points, 11 rebounds and 10 blocks… Salaminos would help his team win the championship 4-2. Personal redemption for Salaminos.
#2 – Daigle’s Retirement Series/Season – SHL
Back to the SHL and back to Daigle. Daigle never won an individual award in his entire career. He without a doubt was a power forward to the core but offensively was known for his shooting (99 scoring from his rookie season haha). Despite this natural shooting level he’d had his entire career he heading into his last season, his first season of regression, Daigle had never tallied 20 goals or 40 points. Somehow despite regression Daigle had a career season posting 20 goals and 45 points along with 190 hits. Then in playoffs he played his heart out scoring 4 goals and recording 3 assists plus 28 hits in a hard fought 7 game series loss to Seattle. The first round loss may not have been what Daigle envisioned for his final game but it felt great to see Daigle finally break those barriers and play brilliantly in his final playoff series. A fulfilling end to a career.
#1 - Barlow’s Connect for Glory – SHL
Here is the event that gave me this idea. My current player is Tommy Barlow brother of Timmy Barlow. We play for the Detroit Falcons of the SMJHL on the fourth or third line, depends how you define that stuff. In the playoffs we were fighting to even break 10 minutes a night but that didn’t stop us from leaving our mark.
The Detroit Falcons were up 3-0 in the Challenge Cup final against the Montreal Militia so overall series victory was likely but Montreal came out hot in game four. By the end of the second period Montreal found themselves up 4 goals to 2. They’d never even had a lead this series so the Militia were feeling confidant. Then after a rousing speech from the Detroit coach the Falcons dominated the third period scoring three times while Montreal managed to save face and force over time with a fifth tally of their own. With the score 5-5 at the end of the third… it was time for extra innings.
Here the Barlow boys came out to play with an offensive zone faceoff win Tommy Barlow found the puck on his stick… pushing forward he created space… turned through the puck back to the point where a teammate blasted it on net then Timmy Barlow cuts out and tips the puck! IT IS GOOD! The Barlow’s connect for the overtime championship goal!
Yes it was a secondary assist but still! Having the brothers and fourth line grinding line mates connect on the over time championship goal is an awesome story line! Would have been an incredible feeling for them individually as well! Great shit.
So that’s that! Hope you enjoyed.
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- bbp - 11-17-2017
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- WannabeFinn - 11-17-2017
Barlow brothers are studs
- artermis - 11-17-2017
i'm gonna go bump my HHOF expansion thread now
- CFJ - 11-17-2017
This list is missing the Joe vs Durden Feud series that's happening currently.