Victor

Not until everyone has forgotten about this thread and 6 years have passed.

3rd longest in the VHL but the longest ever finals game

I went on an adventure after Game 1 of Riga vs Seattle and found that it was the 3rd longest playoff game in recorded VHL history (and the longest ever cup final game since apparently all the longest games have to happen in the first round). Longest playoff games The overall VHL record was set in S47 when Stockholm knocked out Riga in a first round sweep. It is however some way off the VHLM records, with some fun tidbits below: - Here's Higgins scoring the OT winner in the VHLM in what was at the time (in S23), the longest game ever @Higgins - Here's future Helsinki starter Jakob Kjeldsen facing 129 shots in just 3 overtime periods - And here's Yukon setting the overall record with a 7th overtime winner in S34, and 6th overtime in S50 (I was GM, I had no recollection) - S21 was the only cup-winning game to make the list

Doubt it but you've got me intrigued.

Funkeh

Lmao the portal game view can't handle 4 overtimes @Will

Art.

Not that it helps much, but it's actually everything before S18. S1-S17 all the indexes were hosted by webs.come (first by Scotty then sterling used the same). Sterling swapped to freeoda for S18 and S19 (you can still see those links here) and then swapped from 3rd party hosting to being hosted by vhlsim.net, which eventually became vhlportal.com. If I had to guess, only the ones hosted by the VHL can be uploaded onto the portal, unless S18 and S19 missing is just an oversight by @Will. Webs took down the old links due to inactivity/lack of space or whatever excuse it was. Neither Scotty nor sterling by that point had access to their old sim computers (I asked), so those first 17 indexes can't be retrieved. He stepped down as simmer and commish after S14 but he's been back in 3 different stints since and some people like @Beketov have him on Facebook.

Terrible, I expected better from you @hedgehog337

Very hard to compete against so many good forwards so deserved win for the best team in Europe. And Riga was overdue a finals appearance lol. Despite the Davison trade, the main target was next season so we'll see how that works out. However, shootout to two players who wont be with us next season, @leafsman and @Joubo. It's not quite a fairytale ending but still Moscow's best season yet, so thank you both for sticking out from the start or nearly from the start.

ON THE TENTH OF WHAT?? If I found Quik, I'd keep him.

Well at least we weren't swept.

Lol so their top line just played against our 2nd for the bants? Cool, lines are futile.

So I was a bit bored and didn't have any short article ideas so I made this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12xp3wd8OWG_NB9JKJ4KjAVzusY8K6lzjMR1GSnaG_OM/edit?usp=sharing Based on the thing I did at the start of 2019: https://vhlforum.com/forum/505-greatest-players-of-all-time-s64/ I was curious to see whether there was any one era when it was easier to be good and if the current generation was at a disadvantage. Keep in mind these are S64 articles so don't include the 4 likeliest players to join the ranking (Thompson, Cast, Stopko, Johnsson), although realistically they're likelier to join the top playoff performers list than any other. Anyway, looks like the sweet spot was playing between S20 and S40. I'm not really sure why, the 20s had a fair amount of parity, enough for expansion. It kinda makes sense that the 30s were nice to the top players as there were more bad teams for a bit. Hence, you have 4 players drafted in S27 (Chershenko, Rafter, Incognito, Smalling), and then a few players around the same time (Rybak, Sullivan). It doesn't really help to be from the high-scoring early days because there's now a bias against that so only the very best made the cut (Campbell, Labatte, Boulet, the real legends). It helped to be from the late 40s and 50s when things got so polarised you could put up the best stats AND have less competition - hence McAllister, Cornerstone, Wingate, the Cleganes, Velvet. But right now we're in the equivalent of the early 40s when there was a similar amount of contenders. And you can see there's a bit of a gap there but then we got O'Malley, the 2nd best forward ever. Are we about to get an O'Malley? It does feel like someone is on the verge of exploding and dominating the league and all the chatter about how to adjust HOF discussions will become redundant. Anyway, this was a bit of a pointless exercise but I wanted to do it back when I made the list, my brain just couldn't figure out how to best present it. And now I have. Happy 2020! Hope some of you nerds enjoy this x.

Well that's unfortunate.

Randoms tried, he hates Riga.

Should be a good one.

Yeah, like you taking me calling you an arrogant prick ?

NY lost one game in regulation, that's rough.

From fourth round to OT winner, the Mat Tocco story. Good series Helsinki, even if you're back next season feels like a slight end of an era but you've had an unreal run tbf.

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Lower scoring league wide so probably not a reflection on rookies alone. That said, is harder than ever to produce as a young player in the league.

You're threatening to tone it down?

Live stream your heart attack pls

Good to see Devise's black magic isn't done just yet.