12th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S77

[DMaximus 1,046]

12th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S77

Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 12^th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards honoring the highs and lows of S77! 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.

 

I’m reducing the list of the previous winners to 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 added 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) – Ove Dyrdahl @GRZ 

 

Despite Tyler Walker @Advantage and HC Davos’ best efforts (Davos had 7 of the top 10 players in this category), Ove was able to walk away with this award with a -43 on the season. Walker did his best to keep the streak of -35 being the winning total by getting that exact value for a 2^nd straight season, but Ove had other plans.

 

All-time record: S73 - Balentine Kidd -  -74

 

Last 5 Pylon Award Winners:

Season	Player	+ / -
S76	Tyler Walker	-35
S75	Pistil Stamen	-35
S74	Jay Jones	-38
S73	Balentine Kidd	-74
S72	Jack Feriancek	-59

 

 

 

The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes, min 1,000 minutes played) – The Terrible Trivium @der meister 

 

Last year’s winner, John Brewitt @JBrew42 had 0 PIM this season as well. Unfortunately, they didn’t qualify to win this award because they only had 918 minutes played. Part of me said “oh who cares about the rules for this award”, just give it to them. But the other part of me said “if these awards don’t follow the rules, then all integrity is lost. If integrity is lost, then what do you have? Nothing.” But then another part of me said “Hey DMax, you created these rules out of thin air and you run this whole thing. Do what you want.” But then another part of me said “I think we have too many conversations going on with ourself, let’s all quiet down.” That last part ended the self-conversation. The rule stays in place. Our winner, The Terrible Trivium, recorded 4 PIM in 2,136 minutes played. They won the award on a tie-breaker over Ziarie Anigbogu @ngine4 (4 PIM, 1,399 minutes played) and Paul Webber @WebberP (4 PIM, 1,274 minutes played). Special recognition to Isabella Campbell @Banackock who only recorded 1 penalty this season, it just happened to be a major penalty. That 5 PIM cost them this award.

 

All-time record: S67 - Diljodh Starload - 0 PIM, 2091 Minutes Played

 

Last 5 Gandhi Award Winners:

Season	Player	PIM	Minutes Played
S76	John Brewitt	0	1320
S75	Jonas Stormsson	4	1700
S74	Uhtred	2	2132
S73	Joseph Gainer	2	2106
S72	Jared Spaz	2	1106

 

 

 

The Major² Award (most major penalties) - Randy Marsh @oilmandan

 

Randy Marsh winning this award seemed inevitable. Not only did he win, he set the all-time record with 14 major penalties this season. Amazingly enough for each one of those majors, Randy could be heard saying “Oh I’m sorry I thought this was America.” That may have worked while he was on Seattle, but clearly didn’t help him in Malmo, which, in fact, is not America.

 

All-time Record: S77 – Randy Marsh - 14 Majors

 

Previous Major² Award Winners:

Season	Player	Major Penalties
S76	Riley Knight Gee	9
S75	Gary Tarantino	12
S74	Gary Tarantino	10
S73	Mickey Dickson	7
S72	Mikko Lahtinen	9

 

 

 

 

The Timex Award (received most hits) – Taro Tsujimoto @GustavMattias

 

Some question if Taro is even a real person, or if they were just made up as a joke. Taro winning this award should assure everyone that he is not only real, he gets hit a lot. Taro led the league in hits received with 307.

 

All-time Record: S69 - John Madden - 357 Hits taken

 

Last 5 Timex Award Winners:

Season	Player	Hits Taken
S76	Thomas Landry II	329
S75	John Merrick	311
S74	Mikko Lahtinen	321
S73	Hunter Hearst Helmsley	310
S72	Anthony Matthews	274

 

 

 

The John Wayne Award (most shots on goal) - Lexi Glass @AW13

 

Lexi came in and took this award to a whole new level. Their 570 shots on goal not only cleared the next closest player, teammate Aloe Dear @Renomitsu , by 49 shots, but they smashed the previous all-time record of 533 shots as well.

 

All-time record: S77 - Lexi Glass - 570 Shots on goal

 

Last 5 John Wayne Award Winners:

Season	Player	Shots on Goal
S76	Andrew Su	483
S75	Mikko Lahtinen	510
S74	Patrik Tallinder	532
S73	Sigard Gunnar	531
S72	Jet Jaguar	425

 

 

 

The “Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots blocked) - Patrik Laine @PatrikLaine 

 

If you would have told me at the beginning of the season that someone would smash the all-time shot record like Lexi did, I would have bet a lot of money they would sweep all the shot categories then. I’m glad that conversation did happen, because Patrik Laine put a cold stop to any change Lexi had of sweeping the shot categories. They won the award with 150 of their own shots blocked. For those wondering, Lexi finished 6^th in this category with 141 OSB.

 

All-time record:  S76 - Chris Hylands - 165 Own shots blocked

 

Last 5 HtBotB Award Winners:

Season	Player	Own Shots Blocked
S76	Chris Hylands	165
S75	Mikko Lahtinen	146
S74	Ray Sheilds	157
S73	Brock Louth	164
S72	Henrik Zoiderberg	122

 

 

 

The “Can’t Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots missed) – Lexi Glass @AW13 

 

Glass owed this category even more than the shots on goal one. They missed 424 shots this season. Next closest player was again teammate Aloe Dear with 59 less missed shots.

 

All-time record: S74 - Brock Louth - 429 Shots missed

 

Last 5 CHtBotB Award Winners:

Season	Player	Shots Missed
S76	Andrew Su	373
S75	Mikko Lahtinen	375
S74	Brock Louth	429
S73	Brock Louth	425
S72	RJ Jubis	299

 

 

 

The New Shin Pads Award (most blocked shots) – Viktor Alexei Kamenov @BigTittySmitty 

 

If these awards are telling us anything, it’s that this was a fantastic season. Another all-time record falls in dramatic fashion! Kamenov’s 223 shots blocked soundly beat the previous all-time record of 207.

 

All-time record: S77 - Viktor Alexei Kamenov - 223 Shots blocked

 

Last 5 New Shin Pads Award Winners:

Season	Player	Shots Blocked
S76	Hulk Hogan Jr	188
S75	Fernando Jokinen	200
S74	Matty Socks	181
S73	Alex Bridges	194
S72	Condor Adrienne	188

 

 

The Tired Legs Award (most minutes played) - Andrew Su @Da_Berr 

 

It’s surprising this hall-of-famer hasn’t already won this award. Su adds to their collection of hardware by topping the league with 2,248 minutes played.

 

All-time record: S73 - Alex Bridges - 2401 Minutes played

 

Last 5 Tired Legs Award Winners:

Season	Player	Minutes Played
S76	Chicken Wing	2213
S75	Alek Andreshnikov	2303
S74	Guy Lesieur	2279
S73	Alex Bridges	2401
S72	Condor Adrienne and Zyrok12	2227

 

 

 

The Snap! Award (most power play minutes) - Onde Sandstrom @fonziGG

 

Sandstrom spent 422 minutes on the powerplay, besting 2^nd place finisher and teammate Andrew Su by 29 minutes.

 

All-time record: S67 - Beau Louth - 437 power play minutes

 

Last 5 Snap! Award Winners:

Season	Player	PP Minutes
S76	Alex Letang	351
S75	Micah Adrienne	414
S74	Micheal Gary Scott	378
S73	Hulk Hogan	356
S72	Micheal Gary Scott	340

 

 

 

The 1 vs. 100 Award (most time on penalty kill) - Viktor Alexei Kamenov @BigTittySmitty 

 

Now it’s a little more clear how Kamenov smashed the all-time blocked shots record, they spent an all-time high 418 minutes killing penalties. The runner up this season had 67 less minutes killing penalties.

 

All-time record: S77 - Viktor Alexei Kamenov - 418 penalty kill minutes

               

Last 5 1 vs. 100 Award Winners:

Season	Player	PK Minutes
S76	Mikeal Keef	359
S75	Dakota Lamb	369
S74	Edwin THE Encarnacion	344
S73	Tyler Walker	390
S72	Cody Smith	356

 

 

 

The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) - Christian Mingle @Quik

 

Rumor has it that Mingle learned how to take faceoffs by making sure there was at least a bible worth of space between him and the other player. It looks like it worked. Mingle led the league winning 58.42% of the 3,309 faceoffs they took. A down year for this award as that is the lowest percentage to ever win the award.

 

All-time record: S74 - Brock Louth - 63.72% face-offs won

               

Last 5 Sean Archer Award Winners:

Season	Player	Face Off Pct
S76	Benny Graves	59.91%
S75	Benny Graves	60.14%
S74	Brock Louth	63.72%
S73	Brock Louth	62.14%
S72	Hunter Hearst Helmsley	62.35%

 

 

 

The Castor Troy Award (lowest face-off win %, min 1,000 faceoffs) - Pietro Angellini @okifenoki

 

Look, this isn’t a good award to win. But at least Angellini won with award with the highest face-off win % of all-time. The won a not terrible, but still worst in the league, 44.71% of their face-offs.

 

All-time record: S66 - Bryce Zhields - 30% face-offs won.

               

Last 5 Castor Troy Award Winners:

Season	Player	Face Off Pct
S76	Nero Endrizzi	43.87%
S75	Jeff Odinson	32.74%
S74	Kefka Palazzo	32.26%
S73	Thorny Underyew	35.48%
S72	Richard Penisson	38.13%

 

 

 

The Triple Deke Award (most penalty shot goals) - Arthur Dayne @Infernal

 

Dayne tied Christian Mingle with 5 penalty shot goals but Dayne gets the award because they only took 6 penalty shots compared to Mingle’s 8.

 

All-time record: S67 - Veran Dragomir - 8 penalty shot goals

               

Last 5 Triple Deke Award Winners:

Season	Player	Penalty Shot Goals
S76	Kris Rice	5
S75	Ola Vikingstad	6
S74	Benny Graves	7
S73	Codrick Past	5
S72	Sigard Gunnar	6

 

 

 

The Rocky Award (most fights won) – Riley Knight Gee @KnightRiley

 

What a difference a year makes. Gee won the Glass Joe award last season. They got up off the ground, dusted themselves off, and came out swinging this season. Gee had a great fight record of 6-1-3. The 6 fight wins gets them this award and their name on the all-time list.

 

All-time record: S77 - Riley Knight Gee, S74 - Kristopher McDagg, and S67 ACL TEAR - 6 fights won

               

Last 5 Rocky Award Winners:

Season	Player	Fights Won
S76	Cabe McJake and Randy Marsh	3
S75	Vin Calia	4
S74	Kristopher McDagg	6
S73	Kristopher McDagg	4
S72	Kristopher McDagg	2

 

 

 

The Glass Joe Award (most fights lost) – Randy Marsh @oilmandan

 

Marsh likes to fight. We know this already. Apparently he doesn’t like to win those fights all that much. His fight record was 1-4-9 this season. The 4 fight loses wins him the glass joe award.

 

All-time record: S74 - Lee Xin and S69 Rusty Shackleford - 5 fights lost

               

Last 5 Glass Joe Award Winners:

Season	Player	Fights Lost
S76	Riley Knight Gee	4
S75	Jared Willis	3
S74	Lee Xin	5
S73	Mickey Dickson	3
S72	Roll Fizzlebeef	3

 

 

 

The Stars Award (most stars won) – Jim Bob @jRuutu

 

Jim Bob done won this here award with 26 total stars this season.

 

Honorable mention to Groovy Dood @bigAL who led the league with 14 first stars but fell 1 short of this award with 25 total stars.

 

All-time record: S76 - Mikko Lahtinen – 34 total stars

               

Last 5 Stars Award Winners:

Season	Player	Total Stars
S76	Mikko Lahtinen	34
S75	Mikko Lahtinen	24
S74	Mikko Lahtinen	32
S73	Sigard Gunnar	30
S72	Julius Freeman	25

 

 

 

The “Always a Bridesmaid” Award (most stars without winning 1^st star) – Mikeal Keef @RStar 

 

Keef is the bouquet holder, winning this award with 9 stars, but no 1^st stars. It’s ok, there’s a lot of stars in the sky. Your time will come. You have a great personality.

 

All-time record: S72 - Lewis Dawson and S67 Dan Baillie - 13 stars

               

Last 5 Bridesmaid Award Winners:

Season	Player	Stars
S76	Dan Baillie Jr	12
S75	Jacob Perry	7
S74	Richard Penisson	12
S73	Spencer Elsby	8
S72	Lewis Dawson	13

 

 

The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - Groovy Dood @bigAL

 

Dood had a great year for D.C. with 106 points. The next closest teammate was Alex Letang @Spartan with 80 points. That 26 point difference was the largest in the league.

 

All-time record: S76 – Chris Hylands - 36 points more than next teammate

           

Last 5 Backpack Award Winners:

Season	Player	Point Difference from nearest teammate
S76	Chris Hylands	36
S75	Dagmar Havlova	22
S74	Patrik Tallinder	27
S73	Hunter Hearst Helmsley	27
S72	Benny Graves	13

 

 

 

The Anniversary Award (rank in total points matches season number) - Vin Calia @VinCal 

 

Vin wins with being 77^th overall in points. Since this is the 77^th season, you get the award. 62 points is a great total for this award. Congratulations!

 

Last 5 Anniversary Award Winners:

Season	Player	Points
S76	Jonas Stormsson	59
S75	Seabass Perrin	62
S74	Pengu	64
S73	Charlie Paddywagon	63
S72	Ondrej Ohradka	51

 

 

 

 

The Egghshell Award (goalie with most overtime losses) - Thadius Sales @thadthrasher

 

There were 3 goalies tied with 7 OTL. For the tie-breaker I went with the goalie who played the least number of games out of the 3, meaning their Overtime losses were a larger % of their total games. Sales wins it with 7 OTL in 59 games played.

 

All-time record: S75 - Doug Dimmadome and S71 Jaxx Hextall - 11 OT games lost

 

Previous Eggshell Award Winners:

Season	Player	Overtime Games Lost
S76	Doug Dimmadome	9
S75	Doug Dimmadome	11
S74	Greg Eagles	10
S73	Raymond Bernard	9
S72	Michael Johnson	9

 

 

 

The Jason Voorhees Award (most PIM by a Goalie) - Rara Rasputin @Victor

 

There was another tie for this award and I used the same criteria as above. Rasputin had 10 PIM in 68 games played compared to Stone Wolski @DollarAndADream 10 PIM in 70 games played.

 

All-time record: S76 - Doug Dimmadome - 29 PIM

 

Previous Jason Voorhees Award Winners:

Season	Player	PIM
S76	Doug Dimmadome	29
S75	Jaxx Hextall	12
S74	Ajay Krishna	21
S73	Rayz Funk	27
S72	A Red Guy	12

 

 

 

The Poke Check Award (highest % of penalty shots stopped, min 10 penalty shots against) - Jacob Carson @jacobcarson877

 

Carson stayed up late at night to work on their penalty shot game. They stopped a league high 80% of the penalty shots they faced.

 

All-time record: S75 - Grekkark Gyrfalcon – 88.9% penalty shots stopped.

 

Previous Poke Check Award Winners:

Season	Player	Penalty Shots Stopped
S76	Grekkark Gyrfalcon	79.5%
S75	Grekkark Gyrfalcon	88.9%
S74	Jacques Lafontaine	85.7%
S73	Stone Wolski	87.0%
S72	Virgil Ligriv	83.3%

 

 

 

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!

 

Over 2,000 words. Will claim for 4 weeks.

[oilmandan 688]

My reaction to setting the record for fights 

My reaction to seeing Randy lost the most fights too

My reaction remembering Randy Marsh is the greatest player in VHL history 

[Victor 10,946]

I learned from the best in @jRuutu

[Banackock 8,053]

28 minutes ago, Victor said:

I learned from the best in @jRuutu

LMAO.. loved seeing this article... @jRuutu @oilmandan and even our goalie racking up the penalties.. 

[Banackock 8,053]

Also, wicked work as always DMAX!

[bigAL 2,176]

1 hour ago, DMaximus said:

The Pylon Award (worst +/- rating) – Ove Dyrdahl @GRZ 

 

1 hour ago, DMaximus said:

The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - Groovy Dood @bigAL

I feel like these awards are very related. Go DC?

[Beketov 9,026]

1 hour ago, DMaximus said:

The Stars Award (most stars won) – Jim Bob

My reign has ended

[der meister 3,197]

Claim 20 tpe. Thanks!

[GRZ 179]

First award for Ove in the bag!

[Seabass 593]

Nice work. This obviously takes a lot of research and work to get this done every year and I enjoy reading this segment every year. It shines light on stats that people don't necessarily notice. I've always liked how you've included previous winners and the all time record in your notes. Keep up the good work 

 

10/10

 

Congratulations @BigTittySmitty on breaking my shot blocking record from S68 I was actually surprised 207 was a league record and I'm not at all surprised to see it broken this soon.  I hope to see it broken again! Looking back it's the only career accomplishment I had with Seabass.

[Laine 1,361]

It ain't much, but it's honest work. Well done @DMaximus

[jRuutu 2,464]

10 hours ago, Victor said:

I learned from the best in @jRuutu

I'm here to help!

 

10 hours ago, Banackock said:

LMAO.. loved seeing this article... @jRuutu @oilmandan and even our goalie racking up the penalties.. 

We are Bears after all

[DMaximus 1,046]

Week 2 Claim

[animal74 1,819]

Fantastic as usual @DMaximus! Always a fun read. Congrats to my Malmo teammates @Infernal and @oilmandan!

[jacobcarson877 2,540]

hey look i won something mom!

[BigTittySmitty 172]

Thank you @DMaximusand everyone else, you are all so wonderful.. Now if this does not translate into defencemen of the year especially for defence.. I don't know what will.

 

 

We get medical care here right... My back, and body are sore from carrying said team. @Banackock

 

 

[AW13 198]

Glad to be doing my part :D haha...oops

[DMaximus 1,046]

Back to claiming this,  3 of 4 claims.

[DMaximus 1,046]

Fourth and final claim.