14th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S79

[DMaximus 1,045]

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 14^th 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 2^nd 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.

 

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

 

All-time record: S79 – Han Jae Kuk - 242 Shots blocked

 

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.

 

All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov - 447 penalty kill minutes

               

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%

 

All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov – 29.60% face-offs won.

               

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 1^st 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 1^st star) – Tim Waters @Siddhus

 

Water won 11 stars this season without winning a single 1^st 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 79^th 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.

 

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

 

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!

 

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

[Beaviss 4,949]

at least if I have a record broken its by muffy

[tinafrombobsburgers 367]

Great work!

[Dtayl 104]

Great way to close out a career! Thanks to all the organizations I've had the pleasure to call home!!!

[dlamb 1,299]

WOOO UNOFFICIAL AWARDS SZN!!!!

 

Get these on the portal, unofficially of course. Great work as always, finally some hardware

[UnknownMinion 726]

3 hours ago, DMaximus said:

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 14^th 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 2^nd 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.

 

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

 

All-time record: S79 – Han Jae Kuk - 242 Shots blocked

 

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.

 

All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov - 447 penalty kill minutes

               

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%

 

All-time record: S79 - Gustislav Nasherov – 29.60% face-offs won.

               

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 1^st 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 1^st star) – Tim Waters @Siddhus

 

Water won 11 stars this season without winning a single 1^st 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 79^th 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.

 

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

 

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!

 

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is their a VHLM version 

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Still the highlight of my career.

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Let’s go @tinafrombobsburgers!!!!

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2 VHL awards in 1 season  

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Now I have something to brag about let’s goooooooo

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Seems like no goalie can get more than 11 OT looses in a season lol, fine with me because than Jaxx Hextall will be on the list forever.

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Shots = Stars. 

 

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Woah two awards

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Great read as usual @DMaximus ! Thanks for providing some entertaining entertainment.

 

Unofficial congrats to all the unofficial winners! Esp my Malmo bros @.sniffuM and @BOOM!

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