DMaximus 1,046 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) 6th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S71 Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 6th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards for S71. Thanks to a comment in last season’s post, I’m including some goalie awards this year! Please keep the award suggestions coming! 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) – John Madden @Thranduil HC Davos claims this award for a 2nd straight season. They occupied the bottom 5 spots on this list. John Madden led the way with -43. Previous Pylon Award Winners: Season Player + / - S70 Bert Meyers -45 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, min 1,000 minutes played) – Soren Jensen @Velevra Jensen won this award with 4 PIM in 2,016 minutes played. Teemu Lehtinen Jr @Sixersfan549 also had 4 PIM, but lost the tiebreaker with only 1,112 minutes played. Previous Gandhi Award Winners: Season Player PIM Minutes Played S70 Denver Wolfe 2 1988 S69 Hugh Chan 4 2050 S68 Jack Lynch 0 1473 S67 Diljodh Starload 0 2091 S66 Beau Buefordsson 0 1939 The Timex Award (received most hits) – Hunter Hearst Helmsley @Beaviss Claiming the award for the 2nd year in a row, HHH was hit 274 times the season. That’s 8 less than last season but still enough to claim the award. Previous Timex Award Winners: Season Player Hits Taken S70 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 282 S69 John Madden 357 S68 Mikko Aaltonen 297 S67 Rauno Palo 302 S66 Beau Louth 300 The John Wayne Award (most shots on goal) - Scott Greene @DoktorFunk Greene was the only player to break the 400-shot barrier this season. He led the league with 402 shots on frame. Previous John Wayne Award Winners: Season Player Shots Taken S70 Juilius Freeman 453 S69 Juilius Freeman 452 S68 Rylan Peace 466 S67 Matt Thompson 495 S66 Shane Mars 533 The “Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots blocked) - Guy LeGrande @Steve LeGrande had a chance of winning the John Wayne Award, but it looks like he had too many shots blocked, He had a league-leading 122 shots blocked. Previous HtBotB Award Winners: Season Player Own Shots Blocked S70 Shawnomir Jagr 129 S69 Julian Borwinn 136 S68 Rylan Peace 144 S67 Beau Louth 153 S66 Oyorra Arroyo 142 The “Can’t Hit the Broadside of the Barn” Award (most own shots missed) – Guy LeGrande @Steve Or maybe it was the number of shots missed that kept him from winning the John Wayne Award. LeGrande missed 299 shots this season. Previous CHtBotB Award Winners: Player Season Shots Missed S70 Juilius Freeman 343 S69 Elias Dahlberg 320 S68 Rylan Peace 351 S67 Beau Louth 364 S66 Roctrion King 372 The New Shin Pads Award (most blocked shots) – Aron Nielsen @solas Was Nielsen forced into early retirement because of all the shots he blocked this season? We may never know. He ends his career on a high note, leading the league with 153 shots blocked. Previous New Shin Pads Award Winners: Season Player Shots Blocked S70 Guillaume Fontenette 145 S69 Guillaume Fontenette 166 S68 Seabass Perrin 207 S67 Piotr Jerwa 170 S66 Lando Baxter 189 The Tired Legs Award (most minutes played) - Julius Freeman @rjfryman Freeman takes home the award for a second straight season with 2,189 minutes played, an average of 30.41 minutes per game. Previous Tired Legs Award Winners: Season Player Minutes Played S70 Juilius Freeman 2164 S69 John Madden 2259 S68 Mikko Aaltonen 2290 S67 Shawn Glade 2226 S66 Robert Malenko 2324 The Snap! Award (most power play minutes) - Julius Freeman @rjfryman And he claims this award for the 2nd consecutive year as well with 364 minutes on the power play. Vancouver was the only team with players recording over 300 power play minutes. Previous Snap! Award Winners: Season Player PP Minutes S70 Juilius Freeman 372 S69 Elias Dahlberg 368 S68 Joseph McWolf 351 S67 Beau Louth 437 S66 Jake Davis 412 The 1 vs. 100 Award (most time on penalty kill) - Jacob Perry @Liberty_Cabbage Perry wins this award for the 2nd year in a row. He bested 2 of his teammates the lead the league with 344 minutes on the ice killing penalties. Previous 1 vs. 100 Award Winners: Season Player PK Minutes S70 Jacob Perry 380 S69 Wolf Stansson Jr 328 S68 Jack Lynch 353 S67 Aron Nielsen 374 S66 Lew Bronstein 352 The Sean Archer Award (highest face-off win %) - Jet Jaguar @gorlab Jaguar won 61.84% of the 2,998 faceoffs he took. Last year’s winner, HHH, finished 2nd with 59.98%. Previous Sean Archer Award Winners: Season Player Face Off Pct S70 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 60.78% 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 %, min 1,000 faceoffs) - Zeno Miniti @Zeno Well we might have to rename this award at this point. Zeno takes it home again with a league low 42.07% on 2,337. Amazingly enough he got the exact same face off percentage in consecutive seasons. Previous Castor Troy Award Winners: Season Player Face Off Pct S70 Zeno Miniti 42.07% 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) - Sigard Gunnar @Big Mac Gunnar scored an impressive 6 penalty shot goals on 9 attempts. Chad Magnum @Corco also scored 6 goals but on 16 attempts, so the award goes to Gunnar. Previous Triple Deke Award Winners: Season Player Penalty Shot Goals S70 Owen Nolan 6 S69 Owen Nolan 6 S68 Jorgon Weyed 6 S67 Veran Dragomir 8 S66 Leph Twinger 5 The Rocky Award (most fights won) – Owen Nolan @studentized Nolan went undefeated this season going 3-0-8. That’s enough to not only get him the Rocky award but also the VHL World Heavyweight Champion title belt. Previous Rocky Award Winners: Season Player Fights Won S70 RJ Jubis and Ambrose Stark 2 S69 Edward Vigneault 4 S68 Tyler Barabash Jr 2 S67 ACL TEAR 6 S66 Ryuu Crimson 4 The Glass Joe Award (most fights lost) – We have a tie! Benny Graves @STZ and John Madden @Thranduil Both had an equally poor showing this season. Their records were both 0-3-3. Previous Glass Joe Award Winners: Season Player Fights Lost S70 Walter Clements 3 S69 Rusty Shackleford 5 S68 Podrick Cast and Jordan Tonn 2 S67 Kronos Bailey and Hunter Hearst Helmsley 4 S66 Rauno Palo 3 The Stars Award (most stars won) – Hunter Hearst Helmsley @Beaviss HHH lead the league in both 1st stars (13) and total stars (28). For the first time I also included goalies in this evaluation. Jaxx Hextall @ROOKIE745 deserves special recognition for tying HHH with 13 first stars. Previous Stars Award Winners: Season Player Total Stars S70 Randoms 25 S69 Julian Borwinn 27 S68 Matt Thompson 32 S67 Rauno Palo 25 S66 Matt Thompson 28 The “Always a Bridesmaid” Award (most stars without winning 1st star) – Condor Adrienne @OrbitingDeath Condor had 12 stars this season without every winning the 1st star. Previous Bridesmaid Award Winners: Season Player Stars S70 Luciano Valentino 6 S69 Tzuyu 12 S68 Zeno Miniti 9 S67 Dan Baillie 13 S66 Mikka Pajari 7 The Biggest Backpack Award (player with the largest difference in points from the rest of their team) - Roque Davis @Josh What’s crazier? The fact that a rookie defenseman scored 20 more points than his next closest teammate or that the next highest point getter also on Davos was also a defenseman Andrej Petrovic @Tyler Previous Backpack Award Winners: Season Player Point Difference from nearest teammate S70 Julian Borwinn 22 S69 John Madden 28 S68 Mikko Aaltonen 28 S67 Podrick Cast 23 The Anniversary Award This award goes to the player whose total points rank matches the season number. This season was season 71. That means this award goes to the player who finished 71st in total points. The winner of this year’s Anniversary Award is… Elasmobranch Fish @Sharkstrong Fish ended his career with a 46 point season, placing him exactly in 71st spot in the league. That’s how you win this award. Previous Anniversary Award Winners: Season Player Points S70 Orion Slade 44 Now for the much anticipated and long-awaited goalie awards! The Egghshell Award Overtime hockey is a pressure filled situation. You either stand up to the pressure or crack like an egg. The winner of the Eggshell Award is the goalie who lost the most number of overtime games. The winner is: Jaxx Hextall @ROOKIE745 Jaxx lost a league worst 11 overtime games. The <Insert best slasher movie of all time title> Award Ok I’ll admit it. I don’t really like scary movies. All I know is that I wanted to name this award after the best slasher movie of all time and a quick google search yielded way too many results for me to figure it out. Can someone please suggest the proper movie title for this award? This award goes to the best “slasher”, I mean the goalie who had the most penalty minutes. The winner is: Greg Eagles @Greg_Di Greg took home the award with 10 PIM. The Poke Check Award There might not be anything more beautiful than a well-timed poke check to stop a penalty shot. I like to think the winner of this award used a poke check to make a majority of their penalty shot saves. This award goes to the goalie who stopped the highest percentage of penalty shots (min 10 penalty shots against). The winner is: Jacques Lafontaine @SlapshotDragon Jacques stopped 79.3% of the penalty shots taken against him. Some would argue that is an All-Star level performance. Phew that is a lot of hardware! Thank you to everyone reading. Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! Have a good night! 1,700ish words. Will claim for 3 weeks. Edited May 6, 2020 by DMaximus gorlab, SlapshotWrangler, Da_Berr and 16 others 15 4 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mac 310 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, DMaximus said: Gunnar scored an impressive 6 penalty shot goals on 9 attempts. Chad Magnum @Corco also scored 6 goals but on 16 attempts, so the award goes to Gunnar. Nice Ricer13 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mac 310 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 3 minutes ago, DMaximus said: The winner is: Jacques Lafontaine @SlapshotDragon Jacques stopped 79.3% of the penalty shots taken against him. Some would argue that is an All-Star level performance. Phew that is a lot of hardware! Thank you to everyone reading. Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! Have a good night! Hehe @Rayzor_7 Ricer13 and Jubis 1 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoktorFunk 810 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I am so honored Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorlab 4,321 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Might be the best yearly article series in the VHL... Or, at least, right up there with Bust or Lick. Rayzor_7, DMaximus and Mr_Hatter 2 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROOKIE745 604 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 (edited) You can look look at my OT losses and say I cracked under pressure but the way I look at is I dragged a pretty bad team to OT for at least 11 extra points. So TBH i'm happy to win the eggshell award XD Edited May 6, 2020 by ROOKIE745 DMaximus and SlapshotWrangler 2 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banackock 8,048 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 52 minutes ago, Big Mac said: Hehe @Rayzor_7 Hehe Rayzor_7 and Big Mac 1 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustav 6,407 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Hehe Big Mac 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Hatter 1,608 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Always love these @DMaximus Good stuff! Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740133 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,940 Posted May 6, 2020 Admin Share Posted May 6, 2020 6 hours ago, DMaximus said: The Gandhi Award (least penalty minutes, min 1,000 minutes played) Just realised this is basically the old Virkkunen Trophy. It lives! Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkstrong 166 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 10 hours ago, DMaximus said: The Anniversary Award This award goes to the player whose total points rank matches the season number. This season was season 71. That means this award goes to the player who finished 71st in total points. The winner of this year’s Anniversary Award is… Elasmobranch Fish @Sharkstrong Fish ended his career with a 46 point season, placing him exactly in 71st spot in the league. GOAT Mr_Hatter and Banackock 2 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mac 310 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 9 hours ago, Banackock said: Hehe I did score 2 points Banackock 1 Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-740157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMaximus 1,046 Posted May 13, 2020 Author Share Posted May 13, 2020 2nd week claim Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-742361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMaximus 1,046 Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 3rd and final claim. Link to comment https://vhlforum.com/topic/81933-6th-annual-unofficial-vhl-regular-season-awards-%E2%80%93-s71/#findComment-744181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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