Breaking down and taking a closer look at the VHL Finals

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The Bears shocked the league and all the forgotten fans that gave up on them, winning their fourth cup in 9 seasons playing an outstanding series against the Titans but how well did they actually perform? Today I'm going to take a deeper look into the final series to see how both teams performed under the spotlight

 

Spoiler

Goals Scored
SEA 4, 2, 3, 5, 6 = 20 
HEL 3, 1, 5, 4, 2 = 15 

 

Shots Taken
SEA 62, 33, 22, 45, 37 = 199
HEL 37, 27, 39, 36, 42 = 181

 

Total Hits
SEA 25, 22, 19, 23, 21 = 110
HEL 20, 18, 10, 29, 15 = 92

 

Faceoff Wins
SEA 60, 42, 37, 53, 39 = 231
HEL 51, 47, 46, 57, 61 = 262

 

Blocked Shots
SEA 13, 10, 17, 11, 9 = 60
HEL 22, 5, 3, 20, 7 = 57

 

Power Play
SEA 7 on 28 = 25%
HEL 3 on 16 = 18.8%

 

Penalty Kill
SEA 13 of 16 = 81%
HEL 21 of 28 = 75%

 

Calls during the game

Hooking x12

Roughing x9

Holding x5

Interference x3
Slashing x3
Cross-checking x2

High Sticking x2

Tripping x2
Holding Stick
Unsportsmanlike
Goalie Interference
Diving
Boarding
Elbowing

 

 

Players who went to the box

HEL James Rose x8

HEL Emi Rune x5
SEA Frank Funk Jr. x5

SEA General Zod x4

HEL Austin Moreau x3
SEA Jim Bob x3

HEL Venus Thightrap x3

HEL Valtteri Vaakanainen x2
SEA Leo Strauss
HEL Dan Dan
HEL Ola Vikingstad
HEL Bob Helminen 
HEL Gustav Hjalmarsson
HEL Vick Fairchild
SEA Lucifer Oliver Leveque 
SEA Michael James Frostbeard
HEL Zamboni Driver

 

1. First thing I noticed was the pure dominance Seattle had in all areas of the ice, outshooting, defending and shutting down any chance of a comeback throughout the whole series, shift after shift

 

2. Another thing I noticed was that forward Jim Bob had a star in every game except for Game 5, he was very close though after seeing one of his teammates get the 2nd with the exact same stats

 

3. All ten players on the Bears got a point during the series, Helsinki was only 2 players away from doing the same

 

4. There was only 4 shorthanded goals all playoffs, 2 of them from Seattle and 1 from Helsinki in the final game

 

5. Eight different players had a power player goal in the 10 that were scored, 2 from Timothy Brown and General Zod during the last game

 

6. Every period we saw a player go to the box and sometimes a flurry of them were in there at once, just not in the second period during Game 3. 6 times Helsinki gave up the momentum in periods having the only man in the box and Seattle only gave up a period once with a player serving time for a penalty

 

7. Every game Seattle scored first they won, Helsinki as well. Timothy Brown and Isabella Campbell both had a goal in the first minute of a period, Brown also had 2 goals in the final minute of the period

 

8. We saw fourteen different penalties called during the game and 17 players went to the box, 10 came from Helsinki including their goaltender Zamboni Driver. 12 out of 34 calls were hooking, Rose lead the way with 8 of his own but only once was called for hooking. That's 68 total minutes, little over half a game wasted for both teams on average

 

9. In the 117 shots blocked and 202 hits made during this series we saw General Zod lead the way with 18 hits and 10 shot blocks alongside James Rose who had 7 hits and the most shot blocked at 21, Jim Bob had the most hits with 19

 

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Edited May 10, 2021 by 16z

[Banackock 8,044]

Awesome write up.  
 

Players who went to the box

SEA James Rose x8

 

Don’t put this bum on our team though @MattyIce