Is Greg Santos The Best Player In The VHL Portal?

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Matthew Kai, Elfon Ashelf and Ian Smith

Jack Todaro and Haydyn

Chet Foreals and barry bigman

Dirty Caufield

 

Leaderboard:

1: Matthew Kai

2: barry bigman

3: Elfon Ashelf

4: Chet Foreals

5: Dirty Caufield

6: Jack Todaro

7: Ian Smith

8. Haydyn

 

Today, we’re looking at Greg Santos, the first example of a player I’ve come across who updated using both the old forum updating system and the current portal updating system. Santos was looking pretty promisingly active at first, getting his first VHLM waiver offer acceptance in two minutes after he was offered a contract by then Yukon Rush GM Smarch for Season 59, however it is unclear if Santos played as the Season 59 index only registered the first half of the season, which was prior to Santos’s creation. Santos did return to the Rush having been drafted 30^th overall in the VHLM Draft but unfortunately, the Season 60 VHLM index also seems bugged on the portal, so I  can’t compare Santos’ first season to the rest of the league, but I can presume it was a predictably rough one for a young VHL goalie on a rebuilding team, as they finished with a .87% and a Wildcard exit out of the playoffs at the first opportunity. However, Season 61 was significantly better as Santos shared starts with S62 third overall pick Johnny Havenk Carison and the pair had the two best save percentages in the league for goalies who played 30 games or more, with Santos having a .9% and helping a Rush team that had a full twenty player roster coast to the top spot in the VHLM regular season standings with 126 points, 33 points ahead of the second place Oslo Storm. However, the Storm would go on to have the last laugh as they would beat the Rush in the finals series 4-1, with Santos playing all five games and registering a .889%, 0.02% behind the Storm’s Ismond Kingfisher. In hindsight, it was pretty interesting that Santos got the starts over Carison as Santos had not updated for three weeks prior to the final series and Carison was the higher TPE goalie at that point. Prior to this season, Santos had been drafted 19^th overall (which at that time was the third pick of the third round) to the Toronto Legion, but ultimately their activity meant that they never saw game-time on the Legion and funnily enough, his goalie of the future spot was filled by his former teammate Carison a season later.

 

We can’t see how active Santos was in his earlier days as forum update threads are no longer accessible to regular users, but the portal as Santos being a decent enough earner, nabbing 115 TPE in total before retiring. The most interesting thing about Santos’ updates is just the reminder of how lax early portal updating used to be, with Santos somehow managing to claim and have approved 6 TPE from Press Conferences in one week! Interestingly, the user behind Santos (Barracuda) went on to recreate for the Season 66 draft with another goalie, Luke Derrion, but Derrion retired with 113 TPE, two short of Santos, so if Barracuda had continued their activity on Santos rather than transferring their activity to Derrion, they could well have made the VHL!

 

But what matters is where does Greg Santos rank among the league elites? Well unfortunately for Barracuda, he is not the best player in the VHL Portal as Matthew Kai has to be considered better due to their VHL experience and while it is looking less likely since I wrote about barry bigman that they will make the VHL too, they at least have graduated from the VHLM, which is more than could be said of Santos. While Santos did not have the “where were you when Elfon Ashelf conceded 0 goals from 0 shots in a 7-0 loss moment”, their impact on the VHLM as a whole along with their TPE earning was far superior, therefore it is the current truth that Greg Santos is the third best player in the VHL Portal.

 

Leaderboard:

1: Matthew Kai

2: barry bigman

3: Greg Santos

4: Elfon Ashelf

5: Chet Foreals

6: Dirty Caufield

7: Jack Todaro

8: Ian Smith

9. Haydyn

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What a legend