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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Pre-Season Tourney

With my four pre-NHL Hall of Fame teams -- the Bulldogs, Comets, Thistles, and Victorias -- set with their initial rosters, I wanted to get a few games under my belt before I started keeping track of stats. As such, I ran a mini tournament, and the Thistles came out as the winners. Top-line center Tommy Dunderdale tied the Vics' Marty Walsh with a tournament-leading three goals and earned MVP honors. In all, the Thistles scored 11 and surrendered only 5; despite having just the third-ranked goalie (Paddy Moran), they seemed a lot more powerful than the other teams. Granted, it's a very small sample size (each team played only two games), but I'll probably dig into the numbers a bit and see if it makes sense to transfer a good player from the Thistles to the lowly Bulldogs, who scored 3 and gave up 8 in losing both of their games. 

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