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In this way there is other half life, as said.
For two years, fans of the Cachela Valley Firebirds saw the lines packed with veterans to fill the target. This year, he saw lines full of 20-saomethings struggling to score.
For two years, it was a team that mostly avoided injury, or was enough to win even without a prominent player. This year’s team was nervous of the injury bug several times, including the leading players at the worst time.
For two years, every time the firebirds took ice, the across the across the Arena was felt, “I know we are going to win, it doesn’t matter.” This year it was “I think we can win, if things go well.”
This is the reason that a season firebirds ending on 9 May instead of 21 June or 24, like the first two years, have been slightly shelved.
This is a reality investigation. And even if it was your brain and could see your eyes coming for months, then it is not less difficult to take it.
“Sobrings” is a good word to describe it. This is the same as a routing for an American Hockey League team, not we enjoyed the first two years. Back-to-back Calder Cup Final Trip? He was an outsider. This was not normal, even though it was our normal.
And now we know how lucky we had. Remember that “Silver Spoon” other teams labeled us with last season, causing Andrew Poturalski to have fun by bringing a big silver spoon in a press conference? Now we understand our good fortune more clearly.
I go back to a statistical after last season. Of the current AHL teams, only 10 have made it in the two Calder Cup finals anytime. Firebirds are one in 10, and they did it in two years. We caught electricity in a bottle, it was fun and it was electric, but it was not normal.
This year was our first “real” AHL season. The AHL teams are made up of most of the young players prepared by the organization, in which a handful of veterans are mixed. Not in other ways.
2024-25 Firebirds worked hard. I can tell you after talking to the players and coaches and from among the games, they wanted to win, they had a desire to win. Do not look forward to his impressive penalty Kill, one of the best in the league, sacrifice his body every night in front of a talented but young goalkeeper in Nikke Cocoa with people.
“Want” was there, they could not just overwhelm the opposing team with talent as they were capable in previous years. It seemed that every night he had to play almost the right game to come to the top.
And while every AHL team has injuries and players agitations from the NHL club, this year’s firebirds had more than their proper part. Captain Max McCormic last played in January. Calle Flery, Lilton Rowed and Eduard Cell all recalled significant times. And then when a man warms up at the right time like Mitchell Stephens with three goals in the first two playoff games, he gets injured and remembers the Abbotsford series – a crushing blow.
The new head coach Derek Laxman did a difficult job this year. Moving parts. Inauspicious breaks. The team was not really able to achieve continuity, and it is not a good recipe for success. He was cutting inside and out of the lineup during the playoffs, such as a man playing speed chess in New York City Park.
So we look forward for the next season. There will be a lot of changes, as always. Free agent players will leave. New free agents will come. When the new head coach of Seattle Crackon is named, will there be a trickle-down effect on the firebirds? We have got a long time to find a long time to find out.
But another change that needs to happen will come from fans on the way to expectations. It was unreal to think that the team would be in the Calder Cup finals every year. Apparently, fans knew that, but now they have lived it. Now this crystal is clear.
This is not to say that the firebirds would never return to a Calder Cup final, but what we saw that the first two years were special, not durable.
I also hesitate to say that this year’s team failed to live up to expectations. This team felt that it should be a Middle-Pacific Division Team rightly with the roster and well-written injuries and attractions, and that was that. He finished fourth in the division, made an impressive first round sweep in 4-5 matches with Calgary and then lost to the number 2 Abbotsford team which is now 21–4 in their last 25 matches.
This is not an epic fail. This is a completely acceptable, respectable weather. They were still a top-half team in AHL, even with their struggles to score on power play, and sometimes changing lineups. He traveled another playoff and won another playoff series.
Therefore, count 2024-25 seasons as reality checks. This is what Ahl Phantom really likes. It is not considered easy.
The power is out of the bottle. The silver spoon is safely returned to the drawer. Although you want to say it, it is normal, even if it is a new normal here. And you know what the firebirds flock is? There is nothing wrong in this.
And yes, it is still in early May, but October is not far away.
Shad Powers is a columnist for desert sun. Is there a question about firebirds? Reach her at shad.powers@desertsun.com.