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Dateline- North Hollywood
This morning the North Hollywood Neurosis announced that left winger Gunnar Jollie will miss the season finale tomorrow night against Seattle and the entire playoffs following a head injury suffered in last night's 4-2 win over Phucking Phucks. Jollie was injured on a hip check thrown by Phucking defenseman Connie Clipp during the first period of the Neurosis WIP League record-setting 31st win of Season 5.
This is the second season-ending injury to fell the 23 year-old sniper in his three seasons since joining the Neurosis as their 1st round draft choice following Season 2.
Jollie established himself as a rising star in the WIP League his rookie season, scoring 15 goals and 27 points in 26 games before going down with a back injury that caused him to miss the Neurosis run to the WIP Cup in Season3.
Jollie remained healthy and productive in Season 4, firing in 15 goals and 25 points, then following the regular season with six goals in five playoff games as the Neurosis was ousted in the semis by eventual champ Steel City.
Jollie was fourth on the team's scoring table with a career-high 16 goals and 24 points this season.
"We're a long way from being fucked" said Brain, the Neurosis GM. "It's disappointing in that Jollie, through our outstanding training program, had improved his stamina nine points this season, and we thought was ready to play increased minutes." But Jon Iseli led us in playoff scoring the year we won it all, and we were able to reacquire him. Even without Jollie, we have seven guys rated 80 overall or better. We can't use losing Jollie as an excuse for falling short of the ultimate goal of winning it all."
6/21/2010 11:09 AM (edited)