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Patya Perevalov: A Star Is Born (2x Draft Media)
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Figured I should just say before starting, just in case, that I would like to claim the 2x draft media bonus and delay my 2x bonus for a first time media post. And now, without further ado...

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PATYA PEREVALOV: A STAR IS BORN


It is a rather mild day in Omsk. The sun is shining, and the birds are singing their songs. ‘Tis the end of April in the year 2000, and May is beginning to show her face. The young couple, Vitali and Nadia, are perusing their way through the city center. Vitali is a strapping, former minor league hockey player, and an intelligent fellow, who now works in Omsk’s budding industrial sector. Nadia is his opposite, a delicate beauty, humble florist, and the flower to which Vitali buzzes for to taste her sweet nectar. They are inseparable, as lovers often are, breaking apart only to fulfill the most necessary of tasks that uphold their everyday lives. It is here that the legend begins.
 
A few weeks go by, the days as normal as they often are, when Nadia exclaims that she has an announcement to make to the love of her life, her dearest Vitali. She is glowing, beaming, like an angel come down from the heavens. You see, during a routine appointment with her OBGYN, Nadia has found out she is pregnant with their first child…a boy. Vitali is ecstatic, as is his wife, exuding radiance with the smile upon her face.

Over the coming months, Vitali continues to work to support the beginnings of their small family, whilst Nadia cuts her hours back at the flower shop, to care for herself and the life growing inside of her. She grows bigger and bigger as the days go by, her feet and back crying out for aid, the pain of her burden weighing heavier with each passing moment. Soon enough, she has all her shifts covered, and Vitali takes paid leave to care for her in these moments of distress.

And then it happens. During a bitter cold winter on the 1st day of February 2001, Nadia gives birth to her and Vitali’s first child. They name him “Patya”, the meaning behind which is the word “supreme,” and supreme he is. From the moment Patya enters the world, his parent’s motivations shift, and he is now the light of their life. When Patya is just 1-week old, his father takes him out to the frozen pond on the outskirts of Omsk, and walks him across the ice, gently holding him up by his tiny hands. This was the day that Patya’s destiny was sealed, he just did not know it yet.
 
Vitali will often come home from work to greet his sweet Nadia, now a stay-at-home mother, with a kiss, and sit down to NHL highlights and reruns of games with his baby boy. Fedorov, Mogilny, Bure, Zubov, Gonchar a young Datsyuk…his father is showing him the greats in hopes that one day, little Patya will surpass them all. Perhaps Vitali is living vicariously through his son, and wanting, for him, the opportunities that he never had himself. Vitali would argue that he could see that greatness engrained in Patya from the day he was born.

Over the following years, Patya is engrossed in the world of hockey, with his father continuously showing him highlight reels and games from both the NHL and KHL, instilling determination and a will to win from an early age. His mother’s love and support form the basis of importance of kindness and love to young Patya – the foundation upon which he learns to appreciate the game. On his 3rd birthday, Vitali gifts his son his first pair of skates, and the magic truly begins. After a brief training stint, Patya finds himself able to skate on his own without aid. Even at such a young age, the speed and acceleration on display is the stuff of legends. Shortly thereafter, a stick comes into the equation, and it is very apparent that this kid is the real deal.

Like clockwork, at age 5, Patya joins his first hockey league with the blessing of Vitali and Nadia. The very first game he ever plays, he scores 5 goals and adds 2 assists for good measure. They can truly see, then, that their son is destined for absolute greatness. Throughout the season, he is an absolute nightmare for opposing coaches to try and solve, seemingly able to score at will with the combination of speed and his wicked shot. He is drawing the attention of scouts from all over the world, as they make their trips brave the Russian weather to witness a future superstar. By the time it is all said and done, Patya is a 1st-team All-Star, or at least he would be if they had All-Stars in this age bracket, and probably would have worn the ‘C’. He finished the season at a blistering 4.8 points per game, the highest ever record in the Omsk Russian Peewee League.

People are already comparing him to the legends he grew up watching, saying that he has the potential to make Bure look like a KHL burnout that never stepped foot on ice outside of the motherland. There are whispers around the city of Omsk, such as “I bet Datsyuk wishes he was half as good as this 5-year-old”. They even go so far as to say, “Sergei Fedorov who?” You heard that correctly…this kid makes Sergei Fedorov irrelevant to the people of his city, and perhaps even to the greater part of Russia as a whole.

As unlikely as it may seem, Patya continues to improve season after season, only growing into more of a force. Within the next few years, Vitali and Nadia are taking phone calls and home visits from scouts, hoping that by getting in early, they will one day be able to sway the great Patya Perevalov to come play for them, and with him bring a dynasty for the ages. What they do not know is that Patya has a dream, and that dream is to one day be a player in the greatest league on the planet, and that league is the SHL.

In his teenage years, Patya is perhaps the most dominant Russian player the world has ever seen. At 16, he joined the Russian juniors league, and over the course of a full season, he averaged 5.3 points per game. He signs a 1-year deal to play in the KHL with Vanguard Omsk, his hometown team. Bob Hartley, the current coach of the KHL team, looks forward to having such a dominant player to bring under his wing. Hartley has an impressive resume: a Memorial Cup with the Laval Titan of the CHL, a Calder Cup with the Hershey Bears of the AHL, a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, and a Swiss championship with the ZSC Lions of the NLA. This Patya kid could be his shot at claiming another stone for his Infinity Gauntlet, that being the Gagarin Cup of the KHL.

After a full season, and obviously leading the team in points next to his new friend and former star of the NHL, Ilya Kovalchuk, Patya Perevalov and Avangard Omsk find themselves first in their division, and in second place in the Eastern Conference. Putting the team on his back, Patya carries Avangard Omsk through the brackets, making quick work of teams like Avtomobilist, and Metallurg. Their next challenge is Ak Bars, a team for which superstar Artemi Panarin used to play. The series is hard fought, which momentum constantly shifting back and forth between the two teams. It is overtime, and Avangard Omsk needs a lift from their best player. Patya, a man who knows what it takes to win, opens his mouth, and simply exclaims (in Russian) “IT IS PATYA TIME!” The energy of the team picks up, as their hearts are lifted. Off a defensive zone faceoff win by Kovalchuk, Patya Perevalov takes the puck and flies down the ice. He is at the top of the circle when he toe drags the defender, metaphorically breaking his ankles as he falls over his skates in a feeble attempt to stop the Russian powerhouse. He dekes and the goalie bites, dropping to his knees, only for Patya to deke again past the pads, and roof the puck top shelf. SERIES WIN: AVANGARD OMSK. The home crowd is electric, as Patya Perevalov and Avangard Omsk are headed to the finals against CSKA.

Thriving off the momentum built in their series against Ak Bars, Avangard Omsk easily handle CSKA in game 1, with a 4-1 victory in which Patya records 1 goal and 2 assists. However, the next 2 games would test their mettle, as CSKA dismantles Avangard Omsk, shutting them out while scoring 3 goals in game 2, and winning a tight game by one goal in game 3. Now, game 4 is here, and it is brutal. The hitting is taken up a notch, and both teams are flying around the ice. At the end of 3 periods of play, the game is tied 3-3. Knowing that they can ill afford to lose a third game in a row, Patya Perevalov decides to take manners into his owns hands. He takes a pass from the defense and works it up the ice with his linemates. Like his game-winning drive against Ak Bars, he dangles around a player on CSKA, a two-way forward who is backchecking to stop the star player. It is no use, and Payta makes him look a fool, before approaching the defender just outside the crease. He fakes the shot, as the defenseman goes down to block it, and catches the goalie out of position with a slick pass across the ice to Kovalchuk, he goes stick side. “GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! ILYA KOVALCHUUUUUUUUUUUUK!!!!!” The announcers go bananas as Avangard Omsk tie the series 2-2. This moment shifts the momentum back in their favor, and this time, they would keep it. CSKA would be shutout in the next 2 games, 2-0 and 1-0 Avangard Omsk, and a Gagarin Cup for Coach Bob Hartley and Patya Perevalov.

It is off the back of this that the SMJHL shows interest in Patya, who knows this is the step he needs to one day play in the SHL. They invite him over to play in a prospect showcase, in which all the prospects of the SMJHL’s 60th draft class will be participating. He accepts last minute and is placed on the San Diego Sand Lions. He has a strong tournament, and leads all right wingers by scoring 13 points, with 4 goals and 9 assists, including a 2-goal game early on in day 1 against the Tokyo Yoshi, and a 1-goal and 1-assist effort against the Tokyo Yoshi in a different game. On day 1.5, he has a 1-goal and 2-assist game against the Tokyo Yoshi, against whom he feasts, and a 2-assist effort late in day against the Phoenix Screaming Cacti. He falls just short of leading the tournament in points, which is the 14 points of Tokyo’s Jan Henzell. Still, it is a brilliant display of his potential to pass the puck and distribute the wealth, much like he did in the overtime game against CSKA in game 4 of the Gagarin Cup Finals.

With the prospect showcase concluded, during which he played well, and the draft lingering not far off in the distance, Patya Perevalov is finally seeing his dream become a reality; The dream that he has worked tirelessly for over the span of his short, but successful life. He waits with bated breath, anxiously anticipating the words on draft day that will seal his fate as a player in the SMJHL, and hopefully as a top 10 pick. I mean, GMs would be foolish to not draft this kid when he is available, and he knows it! That is not being cocky, that is being confident, and he knows the difference. Regardless though, it is about more than that for Patya. For him, this is the place he knew he would one day reach, the place where finally he could show his talent to the entire world, where he could become the greatest player in the SHL, and where he will eventually come to be known as the greatest Russian-born hockey player to ever step foot on the ice. Hold on to your butts, because its Patya time!

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I have graded your post just using the double media week! Save that bonus for another week! @natedoeshockey

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