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5th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S70

Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 5th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards for S70.

 

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. Let’s get things underway!

 

The Pylon Award (worst +/- rating) – Bert Meyers @RunnerBert11 :dav:

HC Davos players occupied the top, or really bottom, 6 spots in this list. Bert led the way with -45.

 

Previous Pylon Award Winners:

S69 - Basaraba Moose (-57)

S68 – Sven Hitz (-58)

S67 - Piotr Jerwa and Nethila Dissanayake (-34)

S66 - Bryce Zhields (-49)

 

The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes) – Denver Wolfe @InstantRockstar :que:

Denver had 2 PIM in his 1,988 minutes played.

 

Previous Gandhi Award Winners:

S69 – Hugh Chan (4 PIM, 2050 Minutes Played)

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) – Hunter Hearst Helmsley @Beaviss :que:

HHH was hit 282 times, 36 more than the next closest player, Roll Fizzlebeef @TacticalHammer

 

Previous Timex Award Winners:

S69 – John Madden (357 hits taken)

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 :que:

Julius claims the award for the 2nd straight season. He took 453 shots this season, 1 more than his winning total from last season and 29 more than the next closest player, Randoms @hedgehog337.

 

Previous John Wayne Award Winners:

S69 – Juilius Freeman (452 shots)

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) - Shawnomir Jagr @TheLastOlympian07 :que:

Vancouver is really taking home the shot awards. Shawnomir lands this award by having 129 of his shots blocked.

 

Previous HtBotB Award Winners:

S69 – Julian Borwinn (136 shots blocked)

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) – Julius Freeman @rjfryman :que:

Julius completes the Vancouver sweep of the shooting awards by leading the league with 343 shots missed.

 

Previous CHtBotB Award Winners:

S69 – Elias Dahlberg (320 shots missed)

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 :hel:

Guillaume wins this award in back-to-back seasons. He topped the league by blocking 145 shots, barely beating Apollo Hackett @Renomitsu and Sydney Crosby @SidTheKid87 who each had 144 blocked shots.

 

Previous New Shin Pads Award Winners:

S69 – Guillaume Fontenette (166 shots blocked)

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) - Julius Freeman @rjfryman :que:

Normally we see this award go to a star player on a struggling team. Not this year. Julius was all over the ice, taking and missing shots in his league leading 2,164 minutes played, just over 30 minutes per game.

 

Previous Tired Legs Award Winners:

S69 – John Madden (2,259 minutes)

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) - Julius Freeman @rjfryman :que:

Freeman is really raking in the awards this season. He led the league with 372 minutes on the power play. That’s 68 minutes more than the next closest players, Cody Smith @cody73 and RJ Jubis @Jubis from Calgary.

 

Previous Snap! Award Winners:

S69 – Elias Dahlberg (368 power play minutes)

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) - Jacob Perry @Liberty_Cabbage :PRA:

Prague must have taken a lot of penalties as their players occupied 7 of the top 8 slots for Penalty Kill minutes. Jacob lead the team and the league with 380 minutes spent killing penalties.

               

Previous 1 vs. 100 Award Winners:

S69 – Wolf Stansson Jr (328 minutes)

S68 – Jack Lynch (353 minutes)  

S67 - Aron Nielsen (374 minutes)

S66 - Lew Bronstein (352 minutes)

 

The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %) - Hunter Hearst Helmsley @Beaviss :que:

HHH claims this award by winning 60.78% of the 3,001 faceoffs he took.

               

Previous Sean Archer Award Winners:

S69 – Rauno Palo (59.45%)

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 :tor:

Zeno claims this award again. To his credit he was much improved from last season, but still had a league worst 42.07% of faceoffs won.

               

Previous Castor Troy Award Winners:

S69 – Zeno Miniti (32.27%)

S68 – Gritty (36.31%)  

S67 - Gucci Garrop (35.07%)

S66 - Bryce Zhields (30%)

 

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

Owen wins this award in consecutive seasons. He once again led the league with 6 penalty shot goals. Milos Slovik @Frank also had 6 PS goals, but Nolan gets the award because he scored his 6 on 10 attempts, one less than Slovik.

               

Previous Triple Deke Award Winners:

S69 – Owen Nolan (6 penalty shot goals)

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) – 

We have co-winners! RJ Jubis @Jubis :cal: and Ambrose Stark @Banackock :sea:

There were actually 7 players with 2 fights won this season. Jubis (2-0-0) and Stark (2-0-4) share the award because they both did not lose a fight.

               

Previous Rocky Award Winners:

S69 – Edward Vigneault (4 fights won)

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) – Walter Clements @cpetrella :nya:

Walter went 0-3-3 in his fights which is bad enough to claim this award. Nethila Dissanayake @nethi99 also lost 3 fights, but their record was 2-3-5. Those 2 wins are more than enough to keep Nethila from winning this award.

               

Previous Glass Joe Award Winners:

S69 – Rusty Shackleford (5 fights lost)

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) – Randoms @hedgehog337 :mos:

Randoms won a league leading 25 total stars this season. Honorable mention to last year’s winner Julian Borwinn @Jubo07 who topped the league with 14 1st stars, a fine way to end a career.

               

Previous Stars Award Winners:

S69 – Julian Borwinn (27 total stars)

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 1st star) – Luciano Valentino @Kekzkrieg :dcd:

Luciano got 6 stars this season, but never received a 1st star. Call out to Hugh Chan @HughJas_who managed to win 5 3rd stars without ever winning a 1st or 2nd star.

               

Previous Bridesmaid Award Winners:

S69 – Tzuyu (12 stars)

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) - Julian Borwinn @Jubo07 :hel:

Borwinn led the Titans with 95 points. That’s 22 more than the next closest teammate, Ben Hafkey @McLovin

           

Previous Backpack Award Winners:

S69 - John Madden (28 points more than teammate)

S68 – Mikko Aaltonen (28 points more than teammate)      

S67 - Podrick Cast (23 points more than teammate)

 

 

This concludes the unofficial award ceremony… Oh wait, sorry we have a new award making its debut this season! The award is:

 

The Anniversary Award! 

 

This award goes to the player whose total points rank matches the season number. This season was season 70. That means this award goes to the player who finished 70th in total points. The winner of this year’s Anniversary Award is…

 

Orion Slade @BluObieZ :sea:

Orion’s 44 points put him in 70th place overall. That’s all that’s needed to win the Anniversary Award!

 

Ok that’s it now! Thank you to everyone reading. Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! Have a good night!

 

1,469 words. Will claim for 2 weeks.

 

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