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Team MVP Brent Burns celebrates the Wild Ducks league record 9th FHL Cup championship - the ageless 34 year-old defenseman and second overall draft pick leading the Ducks to the Promised Land by recording a career-best 83 points (16 goals, 67 assists) in 82 games.

The Wild Ducks started slowly, blew open the middle months, and then successfully held down the fort to capture the 2018-19 FHL Cup.

With the win, the Original Six franchise has won 9 of the 25 Cups awarded in the 26 year history of the league; a ridiculous title-winning success rate of 36%.

Renowned for his love of trading, GM Collard followed suit in 2018-19; the Wild Ducks boss engineering trades in Weeks 5, 7, 9, 15 and 21. In all, Collard moved 11 players, including the likes of Cam Atkinson, Nicklas Backstrom, Evgenii Dadonov, Carey Price, Claude Giroux and John Klingberg, among others. In return, the Ducks secured the services of Aretmi Panarin, Roman Josi, Vladimir Tarasenko, Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews, among others.

Given GM Collard’s success rate, leaning wholly on the team you drafted is not the key to winning the FHL Cup (anyone taking notes).

And here’s when it gets interesting (and somewhat ironic).

While the trades GM Collard made no doubt bolstered his team, the Wild Ducks championship season was strongly influenced by a trade Collard didn’t make.

In mid-December the Wild Ducks trailed by 63.2 points; the team mired in 8th place. GM Collard begrudgingly confided to one FHL member, “I have, at best, a 6th or 7th place team.”

Looking to shake things up, the greased-elbow trader went shopping; GM Collard offering Patrick Kane, Vladimir Tarasenko and Roman Josi in lopsided 3 player for 2 player swaps. At the time, Kane and Tarasenko were struggling; Josi wasn’t much better. The Ducks couldn’t find any takers. The Ducks were stuck with the trio.

Cue late-December and the debut of a new FHL reality show: Patrick Kane Gone Wild.

From December 20th through February 20th - 25 games in all - Patrick Kane scored 23 goals and collected 30 assists (2.12 PPG); a lot of those numbers resulting in competition-crushing bonus points. No longer trade-bait, Tarasenko and Josi also elevated their game.

When the points-storm finally dispersed in late February, the Wild Ducks 8th place deficit of 63.2 points had morphed into a 1st place 99.2 point lead - a swing of 162.4 points(!)

GM Collard never looked back.

While the Ducks forwards and defenseman were wreaking havoc around the league, their goaltenders were doing what they were employed to do - get just enough points to keep the team afloat. Nothing more.

Throughout the season, the goaltending position was a revolving door - GM Collard acquiring the goalie of the week and then dumping him soon after; when their services had run their course or a better option became available.

At one point during the season - Week 14 specifically - the Wild Ducks had seven goalies on their roster; two starting goalies, four bench goalies and one goalie on injured reserve.

Yeah, that strategy worked too.

For his 2018-19 championship-winning effort, GM Collard was awarded $500.00 and will once again have his name inscribed on the coveted FHL Cup - the phrase “Scott Collard, Wild Ducks,” by now, very familiar to the league’s longtime engraver.



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Robin Lehner backstopped a crucial 29 save, 5.8 point shutout on Saturday as his Boulder Flyers team deflected the aggressive advances of the Vegas Vipers.

The Boulder Flyers successfully protected their 9.7 point last-day lead, surviving the Saturday onslaught of the Vegas Vipers - the Flyers finishing in 2nd place overall; GM Morgan $325.00 richer for his runner-up effort.

Scary during the season, the Vipers were especially frightening during the waning weeks of 2018-19, the 4th year franchise making a serious run at 2nd place. Ultimately, their effort would fall 8.2 points short of second-best status - the Vipers finishing in 3rd place; GM Miller receiving a well-deserved $175.00 for his work during the season.

It was a disappointing conclusion for GM Smalley and his Misconducts, the FHL H2H champion landing­­ just outside of the money, the team departing the 2018-19 campaign in 4th place.



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The best and the worst of the league - the FHL Cup and the Laughing Bag; both trophies now bearing the name "Badger Bob."

One year after winning the league’s top prize, Badger Bob has been saddled with the Laughing Bag; the FHL booby prize for finishing in last place. With the designation, Badger Bob becomes only the third franchise in the 26-year history of the league to have won both the FHL Cup and the Laughing Bag.


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