Victor

All fun and games but at the end of the day no one is willing to seriously think about awards voting despite us having a designated awards committee to do exactly that. Multiple people didn’t even reply to every discussion topic in their forum which I feel should be a requirement.

Multis don’t count

1 and 2. Irrelevant 3. 163-109 = 54, Moscow's 250 goals - Vancouver's 233 = 17 so that's almost the same point as #5. 4. Addressed already, doesn't matter 5. 1% difference, next 6. Valid point, but still not as much as second-liner Palo

Week 4 of 4 for Cast.

So I would like to preface this with an overdue congratulations to Rauno Palo @jRuutu and Veran Dragomir @Velevra, two of the unluckiest players I have witnessed who finally got some well deserved awards at the end of the S67 regular season, splitting the Szatkowski, Brooks, and Beketov Trophies. It would have been great to grab another couple of those for Cast, but hey, I've had my share. That said, you two are now in the way of the big one – the Scotty Campbell Trophy. Cast has two of those already and it has come to my attention that a third one is not as clear-cut as I thought after a as-unbiased-as-possible assessment of the S67 stats. Here's what I found: Cast was by far his team's leader in points, ahead of anyone else in the league. It has already earned him the highly prestigious Biggest Backpack Award, which might as well be MVP in many seasons. Cast had a league-leading 1.18 points per game, a whopping 0.14 ahead of Palo, making by far the most of his ice time on a deep Moscow roster Palo spent his entire season on Vancouver's second line, playing against easier matchups. His top line center, Beau Louth, was third in league scoring, hardly a large enough gap to call either one of them MVP. So to me that's already enough arguments really. The one I've heard used against Cast so far is “lack of physicality”. Well first of all, I don't like hits being thrown into conversations outside of the Labatte/Boulet/Wylde at the best of times, let alone when it's being used against my own player. But more importantly, Palo isn't some checking god. 95 hits vs 19 is not the difference between MVP or not, unless you believe 1 extra hit per game is why Vancouver finished a whole two points ahead of Moscow at the end of the season. And of course, “lack of physicality” hasn't figured in the MVP conversation in the past. Thomas O'Malley won 3 Scotty Campbell Trophies and he had 50 hits in his whole career. I've actually tried my best to not push any Cast agenda throughout his career, largely because I wasn't even intending to be massively active when I came back. But I think it would be a gross injustice if he were not be named VHL MVP in S67, unless anyone has any other counter-arguments I'm missing. @Award Committee @Sonnet @Phil @DilIsPickle @Peace @Jubo07 @JeffD @Enorama

Fuck all these teams in equal measure.

Everyone had a go at commishing before they were like “k you can have it now Beks”

Olympus is falling, I repeat, Olympus is falling

So all that good stuff against Calgary, Kingfisher just forgot about?

I didn't ban him for the quality of the article, just its location. I believe in laissez-faire Fan 590 democracy.

It was actually VHL.com | XM Radio, with the Radio referring to podcasts, and then XM Radio was cut. I think that always annoyed me more, because VHL.com was the title from before you joined.

Worrying posts considering I'm going to Sydney for like 4 days in a month and in my mind thought that'd be the highlight as opposed to Melbourne (where I'm also going).

Random ass third liners popping up in Game 7 for Vancouver since S66. Great goaltending battle this series, you’ll both be going straight into that spreadsheet @BladeMaiden RIP Spade

Goaltending went to shit here after an unreal first five games.

Kriketers really came to play this series. Fair enough, good series Riga, we’ll be back next season.

At last you understand.

How many Louths does it take to get into the Hall of Fame?

That’s completely gay

Biggest bromance in VHL history. ?

Still gonna win a cup before Vancouver

Shit shit shit we got Kriketeered

Damn it

1. I quite liked when we had two lines very close to each other in points halfway through the season but yeah not gonna lie it’s a boost. Personally think Cast for MVP should be a no brainer but might be wrong. 2. Unlikely. Maybe if I didn’t protect Cast I’d have a chance but that’s not a risk I’m willing to take. 3. Nah I think he has a point to prove to Riga. 4. Definitely Toronto if they avoid facing Calgary and Moscow. Also Helsinki naturally, best roster on paper, barely changed since last year, maybe even better with Wilinsky. 5. This offseason won’t be the massive cull, but still a few bodies will be dropped which is always good fun. 6. It would be nice to face the Nighthawks in the playoffs at some point. But equally I’d love it if they were always a step behind us.

We’ll take it, all to play for.