Thirty-nine wins. That’s how many games the Vancouver Whalers had this season. Let’s analyse the season of the Vancouver Whalers. It’s an impressive amount of games to win in only 50 games. They had 8 more wins than the second-best team in the league, the Carolina Kraken. One impressive fact about this is that four of those losses came in the first 10 games of the season. This includes a 3 loses streak at the end of it. After that, they didn’t have a back to back loss for the rest of the season.

To summarize all of that in a more readable fashion, the Vancouver Whalers lost the following amount per team:
Carolina Krakens: 2 times, once at home, once away
Nevada Battleborn: 1 time, away
Anchorage Armada: 1 time, away
Newfoundland Berserkers: 3 times, once at home, twice away
Colorado Raptors: 2 times, once at home, twice away
Kelowna Knights: 1 time, at home
Anaheim Outlaws: 1 time, at home

We can see that the Whalers had a slight advantage at home, but that the score was close, with a 6-7 split for their losses. The data above also reveals that the Vancouver Whalers won all of their matches against the Maine Timber, the Quebec City Citadelles, the St. Louis Scarecrows, and the Detroit Falcons. Interestingly, this means that the Vancouver Whalers dismantled the eastern conference, winning almost all of the points that they could win there. Only a total of ten points, six to Newfoundland and four to Carolina, were lost there.

Let’s take a deeper dive into the three game losing streak that they went through. It was the end of a long road game stretch. They had a day off, right after a back to back, before entering on another back to back, where both games were away. First, they faced the Nevada Battleborn. The game started well, with Rikki Petrov scoring the first goal, and they even managed to keep the lead for most of the game. However, things took a twisted turn when both Grandmaster Funk and James Kimanje scored short-handed goals in the last period. From what I understand, that’s a pretty rare thing to happen. A few minutes before the end of the game, the Whalers pulled their goaltender, Jon St. Ark, in order to try to tie the game, but Leonids Balzams closed the door to this idea, scoring in the empty net. This was a heartbreaking defeat, and to add insult to injury, they had to get on the road right away to face the Anchorage Armada the next day. The game was given to Name Redacted, but it wasn’t even a contest. After a penalty ridden period, the Armada were up 3-0, scoring 2 power play goals. After this, the game was moving pretty slowly. where Chris de Siren’s goal in the second was the only other thing in the scoresheet, putting Anchorage up to a dominant 4-0 score. They returned home to host the Newfoundland Berserkers, and while this game resulted in a loss, it was a hard-fought battle to the last minute. They started the game down a goal really fast, when Mattias Birdstrom scored less than 2 minutes into the game, but Luffy Richard tied the game before the end of the period. However, in the middle of the second, Niccolo Livius scored, and this time, the whalers didn’t reply. It would have been easy to give up when Vaseline Podcalzone scored in the middle of the third, but Lonnie O’Donoghue had another idea, when he scored to close up the game soon after. Cale Admundsen, however, closed the door to the Whalers. This is how the losing streak that the Whalers suffered through this season was concluded.

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