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14th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S79
Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 14th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards honoring the highs and lows of S79! Thank you to everyone that reads this.
These awards have been created by me. There is no voting process and they are not officially recognized by the VHL Board of Governors. I wrote descriptions for most of these award names in the original award post.
For each award, I list the winners from the last 5 seasons. If you want to check out the award winners from every season, use this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sAZtX3bxVpPTIsKe1rSRVOenH1-iyWzbQEdR9ZvYOdU/edit?usp=sharing
I also document the “all-time” record for each category. Of course, by that I mean all-time for the existence of these awards, not all-time, all-time. Clear? Ok, good. Let’s get things underway!
The Pylon Award (worst +/- rating) – Jared Carter @jaredc7
Toronto and Helsinki both battled to win this one, claiming the bottom 13 spots in the league for plus/minus. Spots 2-13 were relatively close, only separated by 8 points. Carter must have really wanted this award because they were 10 points worse than 2nd place. They win it with a -49 on the season.
All-time record: S73 - Balentine Kidd - -74
Last 5 Pylon Award Winners:
Season
Player
+ / -
S79
Jared Carter
-49
S78
David Tavau
-40
S77
Ove Dyrdahl
-43
S76
Tyler Walker
-35
S75
Pistil Stamen
-35
The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes, min 1,000 minutes played) – The Terrible Trivium @der meister
The Terrible Trivium keeps the award in London for the third consecutive season, reclaiming the award they won in S77. They were 8 minutes short of claiming the all-time record. They had 0 PIM in 2,084 minutes played.
Last 5 Gandhi Award Winners:
Season
Player
PIM
Minutes Played
S79
The Terrible Trivium
0
2084
S78
Sven Reikkinen
0
2007
S77
The Terrible Trivium
4
2136
S76
John Brewitt
0
1320
S75
Jonas Stormsson
4
1700
The Major2 Award (most major penalties) - Henry Tucker @NSG88
Someone must have upset Tucker in the offseason because they went from sub 100PIM seasons to leading the league in PIM this season. Their league leading 11 majors helped their total PIM and win them this award.
All-time Record: S77 – Randy Marsh - 14 Majors
Previous Major2 Award Winners:
Season
Player
Major Penalties
S79
Henry Tucker
11
S78
Bob Tristan
11
S77
Randy Marsh
14
S76
Riley Knight Gee
9
S75
Gary Tarantino
12
The Timex Award (received most hits) – Dakota Lamb @dlamb
Lamb watched teammate Aloe Dear win this award last season and thought to themselves, buy it must be fun to get hit a lot. I’m going to try that out. Not sure how fun it was, but they win the award by getting hit 310 times this season.
All-time Record: S69 - John Madden - 357 Hits taken
Last 5 Timex Award Winners:
Season
Player
Hits Taken
S79
Dakota Lamb
310
S78
Aloe Dear
312
S77
Taro Tsujimoto
307
S76
Thomas Landry II
329
S75
John Merrick
311
The John Wayne Award (most shots on goal) - Gunnar Odinsson @BOOM
Well there’s record setting seasons and then there’s record shattering seasons. This was a record shattering season for Odinsson. The beat Lexi Glass’s all-time record from S77 by 44 shots! Their 614 shots were over 200 more shots than the S71 winning total (Scott Greene 402 shots)!
All-time record: S79 – Gunnar Odinsson - 614 Shots on goal
Last 5 John Wayne Award Winners:
Season
Player
Shots on Goal
S79
Gunnar Odinsson
614
S78
Muffbeav
531
S77
Lexi Glass
570
S76
Andrew Su
483
S75
Mikko Lahtinen
510
The “Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots blocked) - Groovy Dood @bigAL
It takes a special talent to win one of the shots awards in a season when the all-time shot record is shattered by someone else. I have no idea how Dood did it, but they have one more shot blocked than Gunnar Odinsson, a total of 165. That ties the all-time record!
All-time record: S76 - Chris Hylands and S79 – Groovy Dood - 165 Own shots blocked
Last 5 HtBotB Award Winners:
Season
Player
Own Shots Blocked
S79
Groovy Dood
165
S78
Aloe Dear
161
S77
Patrik Laine
150
S76
Chris Hylands
165
S75
Mikko Lahtinen
146
The “Can’t Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots missed) – Gunnar Odinsson @BOOM
I don’t think it’s much of a surprise that Odinsson won this award after smashing the shots on goal award. What is surprising is they barely set the all-time record, recording just 4 more shots missed than the previous record set by Brock Louth in S74 (429).
All-time record: S79 – Gunnar Odinsson - 433 Shots missed
Last 5 CHtBotB Award Winners:
Season
Player
Shots Missed
S79
Gunnar Odinsson
433
S78
Aloe Dear
407
S77
Lexi Glass
424
S76
Andrew Su
373
S75
Mikko Lahtinen
375
The New Shin Pads Award (most blocked shots) – Han Jae Kuk @Dtayl
Han Jae Kuk ran away with this one, beating the next closest player by 26 shots blocked. They also set the all-time mark for the third consecutive season. A great way to end their career. Congratulations!
Last 5 New Shin Pads Award Winners:
Season
Player
Shots Blocked
S79
Han Jae Kuk
242
S78
Robin Galante Nilsson
229
S77
Viktor Alexei Kamenov
223
S76
Hulk Hogan Jr
188
S75
Fernando Jokinen
200
The Tired Legs Award (most minutes played) - Han Jae Kuk @Dtayl
Just like last season the Shin Pads winner also win the Tired Legs award. Toronto occupied the top 3 spots for minutes played. Han takes home the award with 2,343 minutes played
All-time record: S73 - Alex Bridges - 2401 Minutes played
Last 5 Tired Legs Award Winners:
Season
Player
Minutes Played
S79
Han Jae Kuk
2343
S78
Robin Galante Nilsson
2398
S77
Andrew Su
2248
S76
Chicken Wing
2213
S75
Alek Andreshnikov
2303
The Snap! Award (most power play minutes) - Muffbeav @.sniffuM
I wonder how much diving Muffbeav did to get so much time on the powerplay? Our first repeat winner since Juilius Freeman @rjfryman in S70 and S71. Muffbeav set the all-time mark with 454 minutes on the powerplay, breaking the 12 season old mark set by Beau Louth @Beaviss
All-time record: S79 - Muffbeav - 454 power play minutes
Last 5 Snap! Award Winners:
Season
Player
PP Minutes
S79
Muffbeav
454
S78
Muffbeav
412
S77
Onde Sandstrom
422
S76
Alex Letang
351
S75
Micah Adrienne
414
The 1 vs. 100 Award (most time on penalty kill) - Gustislav Nasherov @Vat
This must have been a season filled with penalties. We had the all-time mark set for powerplay minutes. We also have the penalty kill minutes all-time record set. Nasherov spent 447 minutes on the ice killing penalties.
Last 5 1 vs. 100 Award Winners:
Season
Player
PK Minutes
S79
Gustislav Nasherov
447
S78
Kevin Wu
368
S77
Viktor Alexei Kamenov
418
S76
Mikeal Keef
359
S75
Dakota Lamb
369
The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) – Pistil Stamen @DMaximus
Woo hoo! I get an award. Stamen won 59.00% of their faceoffs, just beating out last year’s winner Aloe Dear @Renomitsu, who won a tantalizingly close 58.93% of their faceoffs.
All-time record: S74 - Brock Louth - 63.72% face-offs won
Last 5 Sean Archer Award Winners:
Season
Player
Face Off Pct
S79
Pistil Stamen
59.00%
S78
Aloe Dear
57.89%
S77
Christian Mingle
58.42%
S76
Benny Graves
59.91%
S75
Benny Graves
60.14%
The Castor Troy Award (lowest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) - Gustislav Nasherov @Vat
Maybe because they spent so much time killing penalties, they were sapped of the strength required to win faceoffs. Whatever the reason, Gustislav set the all-time low mark for faceoffs won with 29.60%
Last 5 Castor Troy Award Winners:
Season
Player
Face Off Pct
S79
Gustislav Nasherov
29.60%
S78
Luc Tessier
42.80%
S77
Pietro Angellini
44.71%
S76
Nero Endrizzi
43.87%
S75
Jeff Odinson
32.74%
The Triple Deke Award (most penalty shot goals) - Nathan Perry @tinafrombobsburgers
There was a three-way tie between Cabe McJake @Red, Taro Tsujimoto @GustavMattias, and Nathan Perry. Perry won with 5 goals on the least number of attempts, 6.
All-time record: S67 - Veran Dragomir and S78 - Thomas Landry II - 8 penalty shot goals
Last 5 Triple Deke Award Winners:
Season
Player
Penalty Shot Goals
S79
Nathan Perry
5
S78
Thomas Landry II
8
S77
Arthur Dayne
5
S76
Kris Rice
5
S75
Ola Vikingstad
6
The Rocky Award (most fights won) – Calvin Hobbes @2hawk
Hobbes burst onto the fight scene with an impressive 5 fights won, going 5-2-2 in their fights this season. More surprising was that the previous back-to-back winner Riley Knight Gee @KnightRiley didn’t even get into a fight this season!
All-time record: S77,S78 - Riley Knight Gee, S74 - Kristopher McDagg, and S67 ACL TEAR - 6 fights won
Last 5 Rocky Award Winners:
Season
Player
Fights Won
S79
Calvin Hobbes
5
S78
Riley Knight Gee
6
S77
Riley Knight Gee
6
S76
Cabe McJake and Randy Marsh
3
S75
Vin Calia
4
The Glass Joe Award (most fights lost) – Rusty Knale @HatrickRoy
Rusty could use some oil to loosen up a little. They won the award outright by losing 3 fights this season.
All-time record: S74 - Lee Xin and S69 Rusty Shackleford - 5 fights lost
Last 5 Glass Joe Award Winners:
Season
Player
Fights Lost
S79
Rusty Knale
3
S78
Matt thunder
3
S77
Randy Marsh
4
S76
Riley Knight Gee
4
S75
Jared Willis
3
The Stars Award (most stars won) – Gunnar Odinsson @BOOM
This one should come as no surprise. Odinsson dominated all season. That includes winning the most stars in the league with 32 total stars. They also led the league with 14 1st stars. Special recognition to Zamboni Driver @Tape-to-Tape and Sirkants Klamasteris @hedgehog337 for leading the goalies with 15 total stars.
All-time record: S76 - Mikko Lahtinen – 34 total stars
Last 5 Stars Award Winners:
Season
Player
Total Stars
S79
Gunnar Odinsson
32
S78
Robin Winter
26
S77
Jim Bob
26
S76
Mikko Lahtinen
34
S75
Mikko Lahtinen
24
The “Always a Bridesmaid” Award (most stars without winning 1st star) – Tim Waters @Siddhus
Water won 11 stars this season without winning a single 1st star. An impressive feat for the retiring Predator.
All-time record: S72 - Lewis Dawson and S67 Dan Baillie - 13 stars
Last 5 Bridesmaid Award Winners:
Season
Player
Stars
S79
Tim Waters
11
S78
Jim Bob
8
S77
Mikeal Keef
9
S76
Dan Baillie Jr
12
S75
Jacob Perry
7
The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - Red Lite @Tate
Red Lite showed how dominant they are by setting a new all-time record by scoring 40 points more than their closest teammate.
All-time record: S79 – Red Lite - 40 points more than nearest teammate
Last 5 Backpack Award Winners:
Season
Player
Point Difference from nearest teammate
S79
Red Lite
40
S78
Taro Tsujimoto
22
S77
Groovy Dood
26
S76
Chris Hylands
36
S75
Dagmar Havlova
22
The Anniversary Award (rank in total points matches season number) - Tim Waters @Siddhus
This is season 79, so the award goes to the player in 79th place in total points. Congratulations to the retiring Tim Waters with their second award of the evening!
Last 5 Anniversary Award Winners:
Season
Player
Points
S79
Tim Waters
64
S78
Erik Killinger
63
S77
Vin Calia
62
S76
Jonas Stormsson
59
S75
Seabass Perrin
62
The Eggshell Award (goalie with most overtime losses) - Kevin Malone @WentzKneeFan036
A career best season for Malone except for their career worst 8 overtime losses.
All-time record: S78 – Calvin Harvey, S75 - Doug Dimmadome, and S71 Jaxx Hextall - 11 OT games lost
Previous Eggshell Award Winners:
Season
Player
Overtime Games Lost
S79
Kevin Malone
8
S78
Calvin Harvey
11
S77
Thadius Sales
7
S76
Doug Dimmadome
9
S75
Doug Dimmadome
11
The Jason Voorhees Award (most PIM by a Goalie) - Jean Pierre Camus @solas
A strong showing from Camus getting 23 penalty minutes this season. I always like it when it’s an odd number because you know there was a major penalty in there. Something serious must have gone down.
All-time record: S76 - Doug Dimmadome - 29 PIM
Previous Jason Voorhees Award Winners:
Season
Player
PIM
S79
Jean Pierre Camus
23
S78
Michael Olson
15
S77
Rara Rasputin
10
S76
Doug Dimmadome
29
S75
Jaxx Hextall
12
The Poke Check Award (highest % of penalty shots stopped, min 10 penalty shots against) - Zamboni Driver @Tape-to-Tape
This will always be a tough award to win with the legendary, three-time winner, Grekkark Gyrfalcon @Sharkstrong in the game. But Driver had a fantastic season stopping 85.7% of the penalty shots they faced and took home the award.
Previous Poke Check Award Winners:
Season
Player
Penalty Shots Stopped
S79
Zamboni Driver
85.7%
S78
Grekkark Gyrfalcon
78.3%
S77
Jacob Carson
80.0%
S76
Grekkark Gyrfalcon
79.5%
S75
Grekkark Gyrfalcon
88.9%
That wraps it up for this season! Another year, another successful award ceremony! Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! As always, please provide any suggestions, insights, or thoughts in the comments. Thank you all for reading and continuing to make this a successful column!
Obviously jumping back into this discussion too late to really affect anything as the vote has already gone up and everything, but if said S1 forward with 1.50 points per game didn't get in because they were, say, 7th in their era in PPG, but enough time passes to show them maintaining a top 10 position all time, I'd be 100% fine with them getting in. Even if they weren't one of the most absolutely dominant players of their era, if their performance was still head and shoulders above the vast majority of their contemporaries and holds up strongly from an overall historical standpoint, imo you can make an exception and put them in.
Not that that really applies here as Holik's performance from a save percentage standpoint isn't really up there with the HOF goalies from the era, and after seeing the single season shutouts leaderboard littered with seasons from S50 to S58 I'm more inclined to not feel as strongly about Holik's case. I'm not saying shutouts is the end all be all by any means, but it still feels weird to not have a player in that is second all time in a statistic like that. But I fully get why the rest of his case wouldn't be as strong, I haven't done nearly as much of a deep dive into Kellinger but my first look didn't really feel like anything crazily HOF worthy so my second vote stood at Holik for this weaker class.
who said it ft. my thoughts
- “If i disappear in the middle of the podcast, you know where i am… i’m going to get cookies”
- “If my name was dorian audi, i would have to become an f1 driver”
- “Any more gags? Gotta go look in my kink drawer, one second”
- bring back the ad reads
- looking forward of episode 90 where the vhl gets a new sim engine
- “Spartan has 91 apples dude”
- “I need to do some more controversial shit because i’ve only had one person view my profile all month”
- “I swear some of these hockey player names are not real. They are just sounds”
- Whines “jooooosh”
- RE: fall guys rounds “it’s good tier list content, but not very engaging for the fans”
okay and disc golf and flag rating is exceptionally more engaging??????? WHERE?
- you are welcome for linking tier list
- “We want 3PPAO to be a nice family-friendly, a VHL-family-friendly experience”
- “There was a meme that i saw on facebook like 9 years ago that always stuck with me”
- I don’t need need you to give me full credit for the tier list tier list, i’ll take it anyway
- I was going to suggest US states but then remembered that ⅔ of 3PPAO are canadian. I should have just put it on my list
- “I’m not hip with the new porn star… meta”
- Tier list > draft
- “Classic, i’m so funny”
- beans deserved A tier. B at worst. thanks muff, now i know who my real friends are.
- “I know like two and a half vegetables”
- For the record: muff, you were stanning the beans tier list but shit on the vegetable tier list. Beans are vegetables.
I am here to announce some jersey retirement for the New York Americans, one legendary defenseman and one of the best goalies in NY history. im sorry im bad at writing stuff.
Joseph McWolf @McWolf S63-S70
GP: 576 G: 114 A: 433 P: 547 HIT: 1887 SB: 1130
McWolf didnt play his whole career in NY but he was one of the best defenseman of his era, hitting 60 points, 200 hits and 100 shot blocks in every season he played.
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