The Vancouver Whalers are coming into this season without a lot of pressure or huge expectations. Though they may be in a position to pleasantly surprise fans along with even themselves. A fairly young team, which struggled heavily last season is improving every week. A lot of positive voices in the room make sure that everyone is also enjoying themselves. The hope being that positivity in the room will lead to the same thing on the ice. Though the team isn't expected to contend just yet, there are some pieces of the team that are necessary if the team is going to have success this season. B Jobin is the most important player on the team. Standing guard of the net, he hopes that his third season will be his strongest one yet as he puts forth enough effort in his offseason training to make significant leaps athletically. Edge Rocks is a player who is going to have to punch above his weight class. His second full season starting, he is thrown into a top line scoring role. If he can keep up with the veterans of the league, Vancouver's top line will be an effective one. Center depth is something the team was lacking going into the draft, but with Meta Knight, they believe they may have found a huge piece moving forward. Another player who will need to go above and beyond in his rookie season if the team wants to swim. Rookies such as Gaston LeGume and Nichael Fitted will be expected to pitch and and provide decent depth. Antonio Flusso and Sven Panda have been brought in to shore up the right side on defense, providing offensive support and physicality, respectively.

The established players on this team are still young, everyone will need to pitch in what they can as they use this season to develop into what they hope to be a very strong team in the next couple seasons.