VSN Presents: VHL Power Rankings S70'S part 1

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Greetings readers, I am back with a new series and something I've never done before, power rankings! And not just any power rankings, a decade of it. In this series I went through the records of all the VHL teams to find out who was the overall best team of the S70's and vice versa, find out who was the worst. Due to the expansion that happened in season 73 I also will have a side ranking showing where the team placed in that metric, to give a better idea of how the expansion teams did. As this is my first time tackling a power ranking style content I want to keep things fairly simple. I want to break down the system I used to rank the teams; I'm sure not everyone will agree with my system but I'm open to feedback. If you think there's a way I can improve it, share it with me!

 

 

First of all I am using the points team's accumulated over the decade as a baseline, I added them all up and then awarded bonus points based on different criteria. First off the teams in the top three of goals for, goals against and goals differential are awarded 5 points, the team that wins the Victory Cup or in other words has the most points at the end of the season gets 15 points. The playoffs is where it really matters though, a team gets 15 points for winning the first round, 20 for winning in the semi-finals and 35 points for winning the Continental Cup. Remember these points stack so if a team wins the Cup they get a total of 70 points, making it to the finals gives you 35 points. In total a team can get 100 bonus points, 30 from regular season and 70 from playoffs. As a final note ties will resort to extra bonus points; if two teams ended at the top of the league with the same amount of points, they'll both get the 15 point bonus, same goes for if a team is tied third and fourth in say goals for, both teams will get 5 points.

 

 

London United

Record: 228-234-42

Rank: 16th with 513 points

                                                     Goals for: x0                    Conference finals: x0

                                                     Goals against: x2               Cup finals: x0

                                                     Goal differential: x1      Continental Cup: x0

                                                     Victory Cup: x0              Points: 498+15

 Expansion ranking: 13th with 513 points

Our last place team was part of that season 73 expansion, due to that they've had three less seasons to earn points in. Looking at the expansion ranking though they do move up three spots showing they overall were better than a few other teams. London was just never able to really do anything in the playoffs which hurt them a lot, even looking at their regular season they only ended in the top three of goals for, goals against or goal differential three times which earned them a grand total of 15 bonus points. They earned 498 points over the seven seasons they played which is third best out of their expansion brothers. They're best record put them in second place in the league in season 77 with 45-24-3, and they were top three in both goals against and goal differential. They're worst was they're expansion year with a record of 23-47-2 putting them second last in the league that year. I don't have much to say for London as they simply "existed" through the S70's and didn't do anything noteworthy, no long playoff run or 50 win season. The two times they had 40 or more wins they flamed out in the postseason.

Los Angeles Stars

Record: 219-237-48

Rank: 15th with 521 points

                                                     Goals for: x0                     Conference finals: x2

                                                     Goals against: x1                 Cup finals: x0

                                                     Goal differential: x0      Continental Cup: x0

                                                     Victory Cup: x0               Points: 486+35

Expansion ranking: 12th with 521 points

Once again another expansion team, shouldn't be too surprising again due to the three less seasons played factor. They're regular season record is worse that the United but thanks to having some playoff success they earned enough points to not be bottom of the ranking. They managed to win two playoff series which is something London can't say but they were only top three once in any of the tracked stats for this list. Both post season runs saw the Bears put them to rest, S77 was a sweep and S79 saw them fall in a game 7. Being one spot above London also means in the expansion ranking they are 12th overall. They earned 486 points from their regular season record which is lower than any other team and the 35 bonus points is better than five other teams but still very low. The Stars have hit 40 wins twice, the very last season of the decade was their best with a 42-25-5 record which put them fifth overall that season. For LA they're expansion year wasn't they're worst, instead it was they're third year of existence, a record of 20-39-13 left them second last in the league. Much like the London United there's nothing to write home about, talking about the bottom teams is more difficult because most if not all of them lack a special season to really look into.

 

HC Davos Dynamo

Record: 299-360-61

                                           Rank: 14th with 664 points                                           

                                                     Goals for: x0                     Conference finals: x0

                                                     Goals against: x1                 Cup finals: x0

                                                     Goal differential: x0      Continental Cup: x0

                                                     Victory Cup: x0               Points: 659+5                                  

Expansion ranking: 16th with 482 points

If you wanna talk about a team that coasted through the decade, look no further than the Dynamo, the only team that played the full decade and failed to record 300 wins. They're record earned them a paltry 659 points and with only five bonus points from the one time they were top three in goals against in season 74, a season in which they failed to make the playoffs. If we are to keep with the poor trend of the team they failed to hit 40 wins once, coming the closest in season 74 when they had a record of 38-30-4, again they didn't make the playoffs that year, they were ninth overall. Two seasons later saw them bottom out when they went 20-48-4, they were dead last in the league. I think their expansion ranking really speaks for just how bad this team has been. 80 points was the high mark for this team, and they hit 70 points five total times. The United managed to beat the 80 point mark by they're third season! To borrow a term I've heard from THG before, this team is a doormat dynasty.

 

Toronto Legion

Record: 315-333-72

Rank: 13th with 717 points

                                                     Goals for: x0                     Conference finals: x1

                                                     Goals against: x0                Cup finals: x0

                                                     Goal differential: x0       Continental Cup: x0

                                                     Victory Cup: x0                Points: 702+15

Expansion ranking: 14th with 511 points

It does greatly pain me to see Toronto down this low, I dedicated all of Hextall's career to the franchise yet there was next to no success. Toronto mostly sat in that 30 win range, a fringe playoff contender. They're best season was Hextall's swan song in season 77 with a record of 40-25-7, the only time they achieved 40 wins and finished fifth overall. They're worst was at the end of the decade when the team went 21-46-5 and was rock bottom of the league. The one round they won during the decade was in season 74 when they beat the Seattle Bears 4-1 but lost to the Wolves in game seven. They're decade record gives them 702 points plus the 15 bonus from actually winning a round in the playoffs. Once again I think the expansion ranking speaks some volume here. They finished two points back of the Stars who managed to win two playoff series and, at least according to my ranking system, had more success in that time frame. It's hard to say anything bad about a team I played for for so long and with my first player no less but yes, the Toronto Legion were pretty garbage during the S70's.

 

That will do it for part one of this series, this will be four parts in total covering four teams in each part, the teams here were..... well the worst of the worst, regardless of what ranking you're looking at there in the bottom five, none of these teams dominated in goals for, goals against or goal differential for more than two seasons, and adding it all up only three rounds were won in total in the playoffs. I hope this is a fun read and look forward to typing up the next part where, hopefully, we have some more interesting seasons or a deep playoff run to look at. Ciao for now.

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Edited July 10, 2022 by ROOKIE745

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Second claim June 26th

 

also claiming for doubles from donation

 

Edited June 20, 2022 by ROOKIE745

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Really excited for this wink

 

Looks like we picked you up right in time!