The biggest storyline for me personally is how well my player has been performing in their rookie season. I know there's major shakeups with Toronto playing out of their mind and the overcrowded skill in that division in general but playing in the West it's not something I'm really looking at that closely. Coming in as a rookie with around 800 TPE I wasn't expecting any point production and mediocre defensive play even with focusing on that to start with. I think it helped a lot I tried to round out my build to be responsibly defensively in the SMJHL as that made the moves needed to get up my attributes moving into the SHL much smoother. What makes me feel like my rookie campaign is a story worth following is how my play compares to my rookie peers. Looking over it and I'm near the top of the class in points, but I'm also miles ahead in my +/- rating then anyone else I could see and my play defensively is arguably the best rounded against my rookie defensemen peers. I'm working with a .5 PPG average, +28 rating along with 29 hits, 27 blocked shots and 11 takeaways to 4 giveaways. If I can keep up that kind of play or even improve on it at all I feel it's completely warranted that I'll be in the running for ROTY and considering where I fell in the SMJHL draft and being a later first round pick into the SHL it would be a surprising entry on that ballot considering how little fanfare I generated coming up through the leagues.

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