Axemen First Half Questions Answered – Secondary Scoring
The fourth question, on AUS enthusiasts minds regarding the 2014-15 Axemen, was who they would rely on for secondary scoring? As every team knows, when the season goes down to the wire, and throughout the playoffs, teams can’t only rely on their big guns to produce on the scoreboard, there needs to be secondary scoring for a team to succeed.
For the Axemen, gone from last year’s squad are a couple of power forwards in Joe Gaynor and Dustin Ekelman; couple that with forward Dylan Anderson suffering a high ankle sprain early on, a nagging injury to Michael Clarke that would sideline him for most of the first half of the season, and as we mentioned in our first post in this series, Tyler Ferry and Travis Randell had been moved from forwards back to the blue line. So given these departures, injuries, and positional moves, where would the secondary scoring come from after Heelis, Cazzola, and Thompson?
Cue the recruits… The Axemen loaded up with a number of high end offensively gifted forwards through recruiting in the off-season, landing Zach Franko & Boston Leier from the WHL, and Sam Fioretti & Remy Giftopoulos from the OHL. This looked good on paper for the Axemen, but could the first year players step in and make an immediate impact in the tough grind of the AUS?
Well the stats speak for themselves.Read more »