4th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S69

[DMaximus 1,046]

4th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S69

Another regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 4^th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards for S69.

 

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. This year I'm cutting down on that junk and getting straight to business. Without further ado, away we go:

 

The Pylon Award (worst +/- rating) – Basaraba Moose @Toasty 

Basaraba came within 1 of tying Sven’s record from last season, but barely finished ahead with a -57 rating on the year. Basaraba had the lead in this award by a wide margin, the next closest players were at -38.

 

Previous Pylon Award Winners:

S68 – Sven Hitz (-58)

S67 - Piotr Jerwa and Nethila Dissanayake (-34)

S66 - Bryce Zhields (-49)

 

The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes) – Hugh Chan @HughJas_ 

There’s a little bit of controversy with this award this year. While there has never been an official requirement of minutes played to qualify for this award, I now recognize that we need to set it at 1,000 minutes. Because of that ruling, Hugh Chan wins the award with 4 PIM in 2050 minutes played. Honorable mention to Shane Mars who had 0 PIM, but only played 561 minutes.

 

Previous Gandhi Award Winners:

S68 – Jack Lynch (0 PIM, 1473 Minutes Played) 

S67 - Diljodh Starload (0 PIM, 2091 Minutes Played)

S66 - Beau Buefordsson (0 PIM, 1939 Minutes Played)

 

The Timex Award (received most hits) – John Madden @Thranduil 

John was hit an astounding 357 times this season, shattering the previous high of 302.

 

Previous Timex Award Winners:

S68 – Mikko Aaltonen (297 hits taken)

S67 – Rauno Palo (302 hits taken)

S66 - Beau Louth (300 hits taken)

 

The John Wayne Award (most shots on goal) - Julius Freeman @rjfryman 

Julius took another step and fired the puck on net 452 times. Barely beating Randoms (448) and Julian Borwinn (447).

 

Previous John Wayne Award Winners:

S68 – Rylan Peace (466 shots)

S67 – Matt Thompson (495 shots)

S66 – Shane Mars (533 shots)

 

The “Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots blocked) - Julian Borwinn @Jubo07 

Julian had 136 of his shots blocked.

 

Previous HtBotB Award Winners:

S68 – Rylan Peace (144 shots blocked)

S67 - Beau Louth (153 shots blocked)

S66 - Oyorra Arroyo (142 shots blocked)

 

The “Can’t Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots missed) - Elias Dahlberg @Nykonax 

Did the fact that Elias led the league with 320 missed shots factor in to his decision to retire?

 

Previous CHtBotB Award Winners:

S68 – Rylan Peace (351 shots missed)

S67 - Beau Louth (364 shots missed)

S66 – Roctrion King (372 shots missed)

 

The New Shin Pads Award (most blocked shots) – Guillaume Fontenette @okochastar 

Guillaume takes home fresh new shin pads after blocking 166 shots this season. Last year’s winner, Seabass Perrin finished 2^nd with 147 blocked shots.

 

Previous New Shin Pads Award Winners:

S68 – Seabass Perrin (207 shots blocked)

S67 - Piotr Jerwa (170 shots blocked)

S66 - Lando Baxter (189 shots blocked)

 

The Tired Legs Award (most minutes played) - John Madden @Thranduil 

In back to back years, the minutes played leader is also the most hit player. John averaged 31.38 minutes per game for a total of 2,259 minutes this season.

 

Previous Tired Legs Award Winners:

S68 – Mikko Aaltonen (2,290 minutes)

S67 - Shawn Glade (2,226 minutes)

S66 - Robert Malenko (2,324 minutes)

 

The Snap! Award (most power play minutes) - Elias Dahlberg @Nykonax 

Elias spent 368 minutes on the power play.

 

Previous Snap! Award Winners:

S68 – Joseph McWolf (351 power play minutes)  

S67 - Beau Louth (437 power play minutes)

S66 - Jake Davis (412 power play minutes)

 

The 1 vs. 100 Award (most time on penalty kill) - Wolf Stansson Jr @Cornholio

Prague occupied the top 4 spots for penalty kill minutes. Wolf led everyone with 328 minutes on the penalty kill.

               

Previous 1 vs. 100 Award Winners:

S68 – Jack Lynch (353 minutes)  

S67 - Aron Nielsen (374 minutes)

S66 - Lew Bronstein (352 minutes)

 

The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %) - Rauno Palo @jRuutu

Much like Podrick last year, Rauno ends his career on a high note, winning 59.45% of his face-offs. He barely beat out Joel Ylonen, who had 59.41%.

               

Previous Sean Archer Award Winners:

S68 – Podrick Cast (62.56%)

S67 - Beau Louth (63.09%)

S66 – Rauno Palo (63.10%)

 

The Castor Troy Award (lowest face-off win %) - Zeno Miniti @Zeno

Zeno had a league low 32.27% face-offs won.

               

Previous Castor Troy Award Winners:

S68 – Gritty (36.31%)  

S67 - Gucci Garrop (35.07%)

S66 - Bryce Zhields (30%)

 

The Triple Deke Award (most penalty shot goals) - Owen Nolan @studentized 

Owen scored 6 penalty shot goals out of 11 attempts.

               

Previous Triple Deke Award Winners:

S68 – Jorgon Weyed (6 penalty shot goals)  

S67 - Veran Dragomir (8 penalty shot goals)

S66 - Leph Twinger (5 penalty shot goals)

 

The Rocky Award (most fights won) - Edward Vigneault @Patpou22 

Edward won the award with 4 fights won. His fight record was 4-0-2 the season. That gave him the award nod over Hiroshi Okada (4-1-4).

               

Previous Rocky Award Winners:

S68 – Tyler Barabash Jr (2 fights won)  

S67 – ACL TEAR (6 fights won)

S66 - Ryuu Crimson (4 fights won)

 

The Glass Joe Award (most fights lost) – Rusty Shackleford @K1NG LINUS 

Rusty set a new low mark losing 5 fights this season.

               

Previous Glass Joe Award Winners:

S68 – Podrick Cast and Jordan Tonn (2 fights lost)  

S67 - Kronos Bailey and Hunter Hearst Helmsley (4 fights lost)

S66 - Rauno Palo (3 fights lost)

 

The Stars Award (most stars won) - Julian Borwinn @Jubo07 

Julian had 27 total stars awarded to him this season, including a league high 13 1^st stars!

               

Previous Stars Award Winners:

S68 – Matt Thompson (32 total stars)   

S67 - Rauno Palo (25 total stars)

S66 - Matt Thompson (28 total stars)

 

The “Always a Bridesmaid” Award (most stars without winning 1^st star) – Tzuyu @tfong  

Tzuyu won 12 stars without winning the 1^st star this season.

               

Previous Bridesmaid Award Winners:

S68 – Zeno Miniti (9 stars)  

S67 - Dan Baillie (13 stars)

S66 - Mikka Pajari (7 stars)

 

The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - John Madden @Thranduil 

Are we seeing a pattern here? Last season Mikko Aaltonen won the same 3 awards John Madden won this year. Madden scored 28 more points than his closest teammate, Basaraba Moose.

           

Previous Backpack Award Winners:

S68 – Mikko Aaltonen (28 points more than teammate)      

S67 - Podrick Cast (23 points more than teammate)

 

This concludes the unofficial award ceremony. Thank you to everyone reading. Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! Have a good night!

 

1,172 words, will claim for 2 weeks.

[jRuutu 2,483]

Beating the old rival Ylonen is fitting way to end a regular season!

[Baozi 1,664]

Lol dis was guud

[Esso2264 774]

18 hours ago, jRuutu said:

Beating the old rival Ylonen is fitting way to end a regular season!

difference is you're good, im garbage

[Thranduil 293]

Hell ya, quite the boatload of awards for Madden this season. 

[DMaximus 1,046]

claiming for 2nd week

[SlapshotWrangler 864]

lol call the Stars award the Super Mario 64 award