Tuomas Tukio, Record Career

[Devise 4,475]

I recently updated several of the Top 10 and Top 25 VHL records sections. Other than with shots blocked, the majority of "modern era" players did not find their way onto any of the lists. Some of the recently retired players like Alexander Chershenko, Ethan Osbourne, Ryan Sullivan had homes on a few of the lists. But for the most part players who are currently in the league still have a lot of ground to make up.

 

That wasn't the case however with goalies. The current era of VHL goalies is an absolutely dominating one. It isn't just a matter of one or two goalies playing good, it's a matter of nearly every VHL team having a consistent starter planned for the future. It has lead to several modern VHL goalies cracking the top 25 lists for goalie records. One name that stands out time and time again among those goalies is Tuomas Tukio.

 

Tukio was thought to be the "lesser" goalie when compared to rivals Remy LeBeau and Skylar Rift. Remy won several top goalie awards before the other two, and Rift won a Cup before Tukio and then a Shaw and a playoff MVP before him. It was assumed that Tukio wasn't having that great of a career. His save percentage would constantly be solid, but never stellar. That was until Rift retired, Tukio joined the Muete and over the past season and a half solidified himself as the best goalie in the league.

 

However even during his perceived, "lesser" seasons with Helsinki Tukio was adding his names to the records list. Now in the last season of his career, Tukio currently has a tied spot for third of the VHL record for shutouts in a season with 13, and finds himself with 4 different spots in the records for goals against average in a season; with the highest spot a tie for 8th and his best 1.73 in Season 33. With only nine games left for Tukio to be allowed to play this season, if he hangs onto his current stats his save percentage this season will have only been topped by 12 others in league history, putting him in a tie for 13th at .935. Meanwhile his goals against this year would put him on that top 25 an amazingly fifth time, this time in a tie for 5th with his current 1.66 average. 

 

Tukio may of started off with less attention on him but he is having a record like goalie career. While his save percentage stats may have taken some of a hit early on in his career, his goals against average history shows us that he was always a goalie who would let in very few goals, regardless of the shots he faced. In what is likely to be another season of a Shaw trophy, as well as chances for another Slobodzian as most outstanding player and another Campbell as MVP, he is surely a first ballot Hall of Famer. 

[sterling 1,996]

None of you could compare to Labatte

[Higgins 3,618]

None of you could compare to Labatte

 

lol k

[Devise 4,475]

Your right Sterling, not all of us goalies could only win just one Continental Cup.  

[sterling 1,996]

I would've had more if it wasn't for you pesky rigging kids