Garden Grove Still Rules the Roost in ‘95
At just three months into the 94/95 WIHL campaign, the league has settled itself into shape, and a handful of heavy hitters have planted their flags atop the table.
Garden Grove is still steering the sled with that cool, methodical
Swans tempo - stingy defense, disciplined structure, and just enough scoring pop to keep everyone chasing.
Inglewood and
Scottsdale, though, are the real deal too: the Sentinels torching teams with a vicious
24.6% power play, and the Geckos playing a rip-roaring brand of hockey, leading the entire WIHL at
3.85 goals a night while pestering goalies with more than
40 shots per game.
Spokane and
Thornton lurk just below, both riding strong possession games and top-tier special teams, while
Lethbridge remains the league’s chaos engine -
endlessly physical, usually scoring, always fun.
The trends are unmistakable: offense is up across the board, shot volumes are inflating like Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons, and the teams that can push pace without blowing their defensive doors off are thriving.
Boulder’s power play has turned nuclear at
27.6%,
Victoria quietly keeps climbing the standings behind a brutally efficient PK, and dark horses like
Provo and
Reno are hanging around thanks to opportunistic scoring and late-game grit. Down at the bottom,
Boise,
Walnut Creek, and
Roswell are drowning in goals against - but even there, the effort is gritty, desperate, and solidly entertaining. As the season tips into its colder half, the WIHL feels wide-open and ripe for a monster run from anyone bold enough to make it.
Our scoring race has turned into a full-on stampede, and the league’s elite are carving out identities in the WIHL.
Boulder boasts a twin-engine monster at the top of the leaderboard:
Robert Monette has hit 51 points with that quiet, efficient menace of his -
13 power-play strikes, tons of shots, and the kind of late-game poise that secures their fortune. Right beside him is
Benedikt Richter, all impossible angles and ruthless timing, sitting at an even
50 with one of the best finishing touches in the league. Scottsdale isn’t far behind with its bruising, electric duo of
Alyaksandr Tarlowski and
Alvin Fabbri, both punishing defenders with their blend of muscle and vision;
Tarlowski’s +30, 71 hits, and relentless motor feels downright superheroic in stretches.
Thornton’s Roman Sevcik and
Billings’ Vinzent Weiher keep grinding out point-per-game seasons while doing the dirty work -
Sevcik with grit in front of the net,
Weiher with slick feeds and a sneaky physical bent.
Eugene has also crashed the party with a trio of clever play-drivers -
Pierre-Luc Martel torching the league with a ridiculous
20% shooting clip and
five game-winners,
Andreas Griffin creating non-stop chaos, and
Frederik Kofod quietly threading needles. Meanwhile, Spokane’s
Manuel Robles, Winnipeg’s
Fred Ferguson, and Roswell’s
David Posejpal are dragging their clubs forward through sheer willpower. Offense is erupting everywhere, power-play assassins are defining the scoring race, and the players who blend creativity with bite -
hits, takeaways, timely goals - are the ones rising to the surface as the WIHL barrels toward the season’s hard winter stretch.
