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Totem Paws on the move in the FHL Season 3 Veteran Draft
12 years ago
Continuing
Victoria welcome back the Didjeri Roo, F Brodie Hampton (26G, 30A in 46 games), for a second season with the Totem Paws. As our first pick (1st round, 12th overall) in the veteran draft, he'll be continue to be a regular on the squad, along with our "draft protected" mainstays D
Ricky Thicke, G 
PichuPal, C 
Coutzy and F 
Paskhowl.
Additions
With the Totem Paws second pick (3rd round, 40th overall), we selected versatile F/D Sable Manumala (7G, 16A in 17 games with Jacksonville last season). Manumala's balanced and well-rounded game should help steady Victoria.
After being redrafted by Victoria with their third pick (3rd round, 42nd overall), F Nathan Tamurello (13G, 14A in 24 games) has been traded to Helena for D Antero Ansikorpi (11G, 23A in 31 games last season) and an exchange of 3rd round rookie draft picks (VCT getting 38th, HVG receiving 46th).
Ansikorpi had been drafted by Helena in the third round, 35th overall, before making a transfer request after the draft. Victoria have long valued the offensive exploits of the big Finnish defender, singling him out as "one to watch" (see http://www.furaffinity.net/journals.....s/#jid:3013184) after he was selected as the #2 overall pick in the first ever FHL draft. Ansikorpi even made it a condition of the trade that he keep his #10 on his jersey, a request which Victoria happily obliged. The stadium announcers at the Victoria WigWam will surely be calling it out this season!
Another lion joins the Totems ranks in F/C Simba Sefu, Victoria's fourth pick (4th round, 53rd overall) of the veteran draft. A former FHL runner-up with Portland in season 1, Sefu's 3 goals and 5 assists from 25 games last season for Houston were a steep drop from his first season stats. Sefu's experience and faceoff specialty will be important for the Totem Paws as the league introduces more secondary line playing time this season.
Having gambled - and lost - that G Fin Aurelius would fall to free agency, Victoria fought hard to secure the signature of free agent G
Jonathan Sparks (9W, 18L in 31 games) to backup Lord Pichupal. By the time Colorado Springs had made their run for the cup in FHL season 1, Sparks had beat out Rowan DeKatherine for the starting job, posting 11 wins, 7 losses and a shutout and continued to lead the Pioneers in net in season 2.
Departures
The organisation would like to thank some of our big contributors, G
Fin Aurelius and C 
Rain (19G, 23A in 43 games), who have been with us since the Victoria franchise started two seasons ago. Rain was drafted by Bridgeport and Fin by the St. Louis Spirits. Alfonz Jakopin (14G, 17A, 5PPG in 36 games) will be taking his powerplay heroics to Baltimore after being snapped up in the second round of the draft. Good luck next year fellas, and thanks for not giving us any divisional headaches!
Manny LeLis (13G, 22A in 29 games) announced his retirement after enforcing the blueline for the Totem Paws last year.
Victoria welcome back the Didjeri Roo, F Brodie Hampton (26G, 30A in 46 games), for a second season with the Totem Paws. As our first pick (1st round, 12th overall) in the veteran draft, he'll be continue to be a regular on the squad, along with our "draft protected" mainstays D
Ricky Thicke, G 
PichuPal, C 
Coutzy and F 
Paskhowl.Additions
With the Totem Paws second pick (3rd round, 40th overall), we selected versatile F/D Sable Manumala (7G, 16A in 17 games with Jacksonville last season). Manumala's balanced and well-rounded game should help steady Victoria.
After being redrafted by Victoria with their third pick (3rd round, 42nd overall), F Nathan Tamurello (13G, 14A in 24 games) has been traded to Helena for D Antero Ansikorpi (11G, 23A in 31 games last season) and an exchange of 3rd round rookie draft picks (VCT getting 38th, HVG receiving 46th).
Ansikorpi had been drafted by Helena in the third round, 35th overall, before making a transfer request after the draft. Victoria have long valued the offensive exploits of the big Finnish defender, singling him out as "one to watch" (see http://www.furaffinity.net/journals.....s/#jid:3013184) after he was selected as the #2 overall pick in the first ever FHL draft. Ansikorpi even made it a condition of the trade that he keep his #10 on his jersey, a request which Victoria happily obliged. The stadium announcers at the Victoria WigWam will surely be calling it out this season!
Another lion joins the Totems ranks in F/C Simba Sefu, Victoria's fourth pick (4th round, 53rd overall) of the veteran draft. A former FHL runner-up with Portland in season 1, Sefu's 3 goals and 5 assists from 25 games last season for Houston were a steep drop from his first season stats. Sefu's experience and faceoff specialty will be important for the Totem Paws as the league introduces more secondary line playing time this season.
Having gambled - and lost - that G Fin Aurelius would fall to free agency, Victoria fought hard to secure the signature of free agent G
Jonathan Sparks (9W, 18L in 31 games) to backup Lord Pichupal. By the time Colorado Springs had made their run for the cup in FHL season 1, Sparks had beat out Rowan DeKatherine for the starting job, posting 11 wins, 7 losses and a shutout and continued to lead the Pioneers in net in season 2.Departures
The organisation would like to thank some of our big contributors, G
Fin Aurelius and C 
Rain (19G, 23A in 43 games), who have been with us since the Victoria franchise started two seasons ago. Rain was drafted by Bridgeport and Fin by the St. Louis Spirits. Alfonz Jakopin (14G, 17A, 5PPG in 36 games) will be taking his powerplay heroics to Baltimore after being snapped up in the second round of the draft. Good luck next year fellas, and thanks for not giving us any divisional headaches!Manny LeLis (13G, 22A in 29 games) announced his retirement after enforcing the blueline for the Totem Paws last year.
I also had the pleasure of coaching the league's only other Raichu, rookie F