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Six Degrees: On To Dallas

Vancouver’s A team just beat our B team. Forgive me if I can’t get too worked up over this.

1) Going into the final game of the season, we knew Giovanni Savarese had a tough decision to make. Should he try for a home knockout game by starting his A team, trying to win, then hope for Dallas or Seattle to lose? Or should he play his B team, let the cards fall where they would, and have a fully-rested A team for the knockout game, wherever it might be?

Gio chose the second option, which gave us this Starting XI against Vancouver.