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This is how the other half lives, as the proverb says.
For two years, Coachella Valley Firebirds has seen lines full of old warriors filled with target. Watch this year lines full of youth 20-Somethers struggling to register.
For two years, it was a team that often avoiding injury, or was deep enough to win even without a main player. This year’s team won the cause of injury several times, including the main players as soon as possible.
For two years, every time Firebirds took the ice, the feeling of Acrisure Arena had led to “I know we will win, regardless of what.” This year, “I think we could win, if things go well.”
That is why a season ends on May 9 instead of June 21 or June 24, like the first two years has left Firebirds a little jump.
It is a realistic examination. Even if your mind and eyes can see coming for several months, it does not make it difficult to take.
“Rusin” is a good word to describe. This is what is supposed to be like the root of the American Hockey League, and not what we enjoyed in the first two years. Detailing the Calder Cup in a row? This was strange. This was not normal, although it was normal.
Now we know how lucky our luck. Remember that “Silver Spoon”, the other teams described us last season, which led to Andreleski enjoying it by bringing a large silver spoon to a press conference? Now we understand our good wealth more clearly.
I return to a statistic discovered after last season. Of the 32 AHL teams, only 10 reached the Caldr Cup. Firebirds is one of these ten, and they did it within two years. We flared up in a bottle, and it was fun and was electric, but it was not normal.
This year was the first “real” season. The AHL teams are often made up of young players formulated by the organization, with a handful of mixed warriors. Not the opposite.
Firebirds 2024-25 played hard. I can tell you who talk to the players and coaches after the matches and between them, they wanted to win, and they had the desire to win. Do not look further than their impressive killing, and he is one of the best players in the league, as men sacrifice their bodies every night in front of a talented goalkeeper but a young man in Nickk Coco.
“Want”, they were unable to overcome the opposing team with talent as they were able to do so in the past years. I felt like every night they had to play a perfect game to go out in the foreground.
Although each AHL team suffers from injuries and movement of players up and returning from NHL, this year Firebirds was more than its fair share. Captain Max McC Corc Chamic last time in January. CALE Flerance, Lleyton Roed and Eduard missed all the important time. And only after that when the man becomes hot in time like Mitchell Stephens with three goals in the first two games in the Play of, he gets wounds and misses the Abbotsford series – a overwhelming blow.
The new coach Derek Lakdal had a difficult job this year. Animated parts. Bad breaks. The team was never able to get any continuity, and this is not a good recipe for success. The pieces were moving inside and outside the squad during the qualifiers like a man who plays the speed game in the New York City Park.
So we look forward to next season. There will be a lot of changes, as always. The players of the free agent will leave. New free agents will arrive. When the new coach in Seattle Krakin is called, will he have a hanging effect on fire birds? We have a longer summer than usual in the future to find out.
But there is another change that must happen from the masses in the way of expectations. It was unrealistic that the team would be in the Caldr Durd Cup every year. It is clear that the fans knew that, but now they lived. Now it is clear my crystal.
This does not mean that Firebirds will never return to the Caldrd Cup final, but what we witnessed in the first two years was special, not sustainable.
I hesitate to say that this year’s team failed to raise the level of expectations. With the menu they suffered, well -documented injuries and attrition, this team felt that it should be a team in the middle of the package in the middle of the package and this is what they were. They ranked fourth in the section, and they got an impressive scan in the 4-5 match with Calgary and then lost to the ABBOTSFORD team, which is 21-4 in the last 25 games.
This is not an epic failure. This is a completely acceptable and respectable season. They were still a team in the first half in the AHL, even with their struggles to score in Power Play, and the constantly variable squad. They made another decisive trip and won another victory in a separate match.
So count the 2024-25 season as checking reality. This is really similar to the people of Vandum. It is not supposed to be easy.
Lightning outside the bottle. The silver spoon is safely returning in the stairs. However, you want to say that, this is normal even if it is a new natural here. And you know what is Firebirds? There is nothing wrong with that.
Yes, it is still early in May, but October is not too far.
Shad Powers is a column writer in the desert of the sun. Do you have a question about Firebirds? You reach it in Shad.powers@desrtsun.com.
