This rivalry we will be taking in a look at one of my fun and biggest rivalries I was apart of in the minor leagues. We will take you back to s10 where my very first player named Dave Smith was drafted to the Vancouver Whalers when life was different in the SHL. At this time, we had affiliates with a major team and that is how you got your players that the big club sent down to the minor leagues. This meant a lot of movement for some between clubs.

One club that was really hated at this time was the Vancouver Whalers they had some high hopes the season before with a great group of members but some got called up to their big squad. So youngster and newbie Power Forward Dave Smith being the first pick this season for the Whalers was named captain. A big bold move for a young user who had never been apart of the league and the minute he got there he embraced the big rivalry. This rivalry was like no other as this was a Rivalry of the decade. The Vancouver Whalers vs. The whole SHL. No, that is no joke, everyone in the SHL that was not a past Vancouver Whaler OR a current one pretty much hated on the Whalers so it made sense as Dave Smith had high expectations for himself and was deemed very egotistical by the league.

The man was so egotistical that he pulled the ultimate captain's move and told the league before the very first puck had dropped that season that in fact his Vancouver Whalers would indeed win the S10 Challenge Cup. The bold move while many laughed at him and fueled their hate for the Vancouver Whalers went about and he in fact delivered as the Vancouver Whalers hung their first Championship in team history then.

That is why this rivalry week Dave Smith will be in Vancouver as he vacationed in Canada before the pandemic started and he will be joining the team this week for a celebration to kick of Rivalry Week of Vancouver vs. The Rest.