“Being a younger guy and going through some tough times, I know it wasn’t fun. Going through this with a lot of the younger guys now, it gives a taste of what winning is.”
Just two seasons ago, Dylan Plouffe, Owen Hardy and Dawson Holt were regulars with a Vancouver Giants team with the fewest wins in franchise history, not counting the club’s 2001-02 expansion season.
“Three of us in that locker-room have been through a lot of tough times here, so it’s definitely a refreshing feeling to win,” Plouffe, a 19-year-old defenceman, said before a team practice this week. “And you never want to lose that feeling.
That’s how badly they have struggled. Before this season, you could sum up the Giants’ playoffs for eight seasons in four paragraphs. Last year’s Giants team made a 35-point improvement in the standings, coming in at 36-27-6-3. This current squad made another 20-point jump despite the league cutting teams’ schedules from 72 to 68 games. These Giants finished the regular season atop the Western Conference at 48-15-3-2.
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