DMaximus 1,045 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 9th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S74 Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 9th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards honoring S74! Thank you to everyone that reads this. I’m always looking for new award ideas. 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) – Jay Jones @TTtheT What a difference a year makes. With all the expansion teams, last season was a disaster for this category. Things were much more normalized this season. Our winner, Jay Jones took home the award with a -38, an improvement on his -44 from a season ago and a massive improvement from the winning total of -74 from last season. Previous Pylon Award Winners: Season Player + / - S73 Balentine Kidd -74 S72 Jack Feriancek -59 S71 John Madden -43 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) – Uhtred @leafsman Uhtred lost this award last season thanks to a tiebreaker. Never one to be denied, Uhtred came roaring back to record only 2 PIM in 2,132 minutes played. He won in a tie-breaker over Tyler Walker @Advantage, who had 2 PIM in 1,943 minutes played. Previous Gandhi Award Winners: Season Player PIM Minutes Played S73 Joseph Gainer 2 2106 S72 Jared Spaz 2 1106 S71 Soren Jensen 4 2016 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 Major2 Award (most major penalties) - Gary Tarantino @Garrett I feel like every award show will face a crisis at some point. This award show encountered it here. Sure, it sounds like a great idea to make an award for the player who gets the most major penalties. And sure, it might work great for a season or two when there’s a clear-cut winner. But how do you handle a situation when there’s a tie? Of course we’ve encountered ties in many other categories, sometimes there’s a reasonable tiebreaker, other times we give it to co-winners. I struggled with the tie breaker in this category. Should the tie breaker be most penalty minutes because they like penalties or should it be least penalty minutes, meaning a greater % of their penalties were major penalties? I went with the later. Congrats to Gary Tarantino who took home the award over Kristopher McDagg @Viperxhawks19. Tarantino recorded 10 major penalties but only had 74 total penalty minutes. McDagg lost the tie breaker with 118 PIM. Previous Major2 Award Winners: Season Player Major Penalties S73 Mickey Dickson 7 S72 Mikko Lahtinen 9 The Timex Award (received most hits) – Mikko Lahtinen @Beketov Mikko was hit 321 times this season, topping perennial favorite @Beaviss’s player Brock Louth by 17 hits. Previous Timex Award Winners: Season Player Hits Taken S73 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 310 S72 Anthony Matthews 274 S71 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 274 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) - Patrik Tallinder @Patrik Tallinder I think Tallinder had the number 532 circled on his dream board. He was the runner up to this award last season and watched Sigard Gunnar take it home with 531 shots. Tallinder hit his goal of 532 shot on the nose and wins the award! Previous John Wayne Award Winners: Season Player Shots Taken S73 Sigard Gunnar 531 S72 Jet Jaguar 425 S71 Scott Greene 402 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) - Ray Sheilds @Zetterberg You don’t need to look much beyond Ray’s sub 8% shooting percentage to understand how he could win this award. Sheilds took home the award getting 157 of his shots blocked. Previous HtBotB Award Winners: Season Player Own Shots Blocked S73 Brock Louth 164 S72 Henrik Zoiderberg 122 S71 Guy LeGrande 122 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) – Brock Louth @Beaviss Brock concludes his career with back-to-back overwhelming victories in this category. He set the new all-time record with 429 shots missed. Last season he won this award by 50 shots, this season was a slightly less, but still massive 46 shots. Previous CHtBotB Award Winners: Player Season Shots Missed S73 Brock Louth 425 S72 RJ Jubis 299 S71 Guy LeGrande 299 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) – Matty Socks @fishy Rookie Matty Socks burst onto the scene this season and wins this award with 181 shots blocked, 3 more than last season’s winner, Alex Bridges @Alex Bridges and London United’s James Rose @MattyIce Previous New Shin Pads Award Winners: Season Player Shots Blocked S73 Alex Bridges 194 S72 Condor Adrienne 188 S71 Aron Nielsen 153 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) - Guy Lesieur @KC15 Guy played a total of 2,279 minutes this season averaging 31.67 minutes per game. Previous Tired Legs Award Winners: Season Player Minutes Played S73 Alex Bridges 2401 S72 Condor Adrienne and Zyrok12 2227 S71 Juilius Freeman 2189 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) - Micheal Gary Scott @Motzaburger There’s been some recent debate in Discord on how to pronounce Micheal when it’s spelled like that. I’ll let the scholars debate and decide that one. Regardless, Micheal reclaims this award with 378 minutes on the powerplay. Previous Snap! Award Winners: Season Player PP Minutes S73 Hulk Hogan 356 S72 Micheal Gary Scott 340 S71 Juilius Freeman 364 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) - Edwin THE Encarnacion @Tagger Edwin wins this award over a trio of Prague players. His 344 penalty kill minutes is enough to earn him the trophy. Previous 1 vs. 100 Award Winners: Season Player PK Minutes S73 Tyler Walker 390 S72 Cody Smith 356 S71 Jacob Perry 344 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 %) - Brock Louth @Beaviss A Beaviss favorite, Brock wins him the award with an all-time high 63.72 faceoff winning percentage. Amazing! Previous Sean Archer Award Winners: Season Player Face Off Pct S73 Brock Louth 62.14% S72 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 62.35% S71 Jet Jaguar 61.84% 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) - Kefka Palazzo @diamond_ace Kefka is listed as a right winger. They probably should have stayed that way. They only won 32.26% of their 1,370 faceoffs. Previous Castor Troy Award Winners: Season Player Face Off Pct S73 Thorny Underyew 35.48% S72 Richard Penisson 38.13% S71 Zeno Miniti 42.07% 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) - Benny Graves @STZ 6 was the magic number for this category for a while. Benny did it one better this season and won the award with 7 penalty shot goals. Previous Triple Deke Award Winners: Season Player Penalty Shot Goals S73 Codrick Past 5 S72 Sigard Gunnar 6 S71 Sigard Gunnar 6 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) – Kristopher McDagg @Viperxhawks19 The threepeat for McDagg has to put him in the conversation for best fighter in the history of the VHL. McDagg went 6-0-4 in fights this season. Previous Rocky Award Winners: Season Player Fights Won S73 Kristopher McDagg 4 S72 Kristopher McDagg 2 S71 Owen Nolan 3 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) – Lee Xin @Blazzer Xin lost 5 fights this season. On the plus side, they did win one fight. I hope that win helps them in the future. Previous Glass Joe Award Winners: Season Player Fights Lost S73 Mickey Dickson 3 S72 Roll Fizzlebeef 3 S71 Benny Graves and John Madden 3 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) – Mikko Lahtinen @Beketov Mikko’s award win with 32 total stars is impressive. What’s more impressive is that 20 of those 32 stars were 1st stars. The 32 stars ties the all-time high mark set by another player Beketov might be familiar with, Matt Thompson. Previous Stars Award Winners: Season Player Total Stars S73 Sigard Gunnar 30 S72 Julius Freeman 25 S71 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 28 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) – Richard Penisson @bluesfan55 Dick won 12 stars without ever winning the top star. Previous Bridesmaid Award Winners: Season Player Stars S73 Spencer Elsby 8 S72 Lewis Dawson 13 S71 Condor Adrienne 12 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) - Patrik Tallinder @Patrik Tallinder Tallinder’s sensational season was enough to win him this award as well. His 127 points was 27 more than his closest teammate, Kyl Oferson @Nykonax . Previous Backpack Award Winners: Season Player Point Difference from nearest teammate S73 Hunter Hearst Helmsley 27 S72 Benny Graves 13 S71 Roque Davis 20 S70 Julian Borwinn 22 S69 John Madden 28 S68 Mikko Aaltonen 28 S67 Podrick Cast 23 The Anniversary Award (rank in total points matches season number) - Pengu @Pengu Pengu finished 74th in total points with 64 points. Congratulations! Previous Anniversary Award Winners: Season Player Points S73 Charlie Paddywagon 63 S72 Ondrej Ohradka 51 S71 Elasmobranch Fish 46 S70 Orion Slade 44 The Egghshell Award (goalie with most overtime losses) - Greg Eagles @Greg_Di Greg led the league with 10 overtime games lost. Previous Eggshell Award Winners: Season Player Overtime Games Lost S73 Raymond Bernard 9 S72 Michael Johnson 9 S71 Jaxx Hextall 11 The Jason Voorhees Award (most PIM by a Goalie) - Ajay Krishna @Hooperorama Shortly after creating this category, I thought it was going to be a bust. Basically all the goalies get a couple of penalties each year, but nothing exciting. I’m so glad I was wrong, we now have back-to-back seasons with goalies getting game misconducts! I will happily reward them for their efforts. Last season Rayz Funk @Rayzor_7 won the award with a game misconduct for abuse of official. Ajay decided to one up him with an attempt to injure game misconduct penalty in this game against London. Previous Jason Voorhees Award Winners: Season Player PIM S73 Rayz Funk 27 S72 A Red Guy 12 S71 Greg Eagles 10 The Poke Check Award (highest % of penalty shots stopped, min 10 penalty shots against) - Jacques Lafontaine @SlapshotDragon Jacques stopped all but 2 of the 14 penalty shots against him which is 85.70%. Shout out to Jean Pierre Camus @solas who had a higher percentage but faced less than 10 shots, disqualifying him from eligibility. Previous Poke Check Award Winners: Season Player Penalty Shots Stopped S73 Stone Wolski 87.00% S72 Virgil Ligriv 83.30% S71 Greg Eagles 79.30% That wraps it up for this season! Another year, another successful award ceremony! Congratulations and/or condolences to all the winners! As always, please provide any suggestions, insights, or thoughts in the comments. Thank you all for reading and continuing to make this a successful column! Spence King, Rayzor_7, JigglyGumballs and 12 others 7 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blazzer 759 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Rude, u ain't allowed to call me out like that DMax! I'm gonna fight u even though I might lose DMaximus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper 528 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 @Garrett well played... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper 528 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Back to Back to Back Rocky Award Winner DMaximus and Spence King 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissioner Beketov 8,646 Posted October 27, 2020 Commissioner Share Posted October 27, 2020 Always great to win a few unofficial awards Spence King 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterberg 859 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 If I could hit the net imagine the amount of points I'd have Spence King 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond_ace 3,106 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Kefka is too busy destroying the world to learn how to faceoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoktorFunk 810 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 14 hours ago, DMaximus said: There’s been some recent debate in Discord on how to pronounce Micheal when it’s spelled like that. I’ll let the scholars debate and decide that one. Regardless, Micheal reclaims this award with 378 minutes on the powerplay. I have a friend IRL who's parents misspelled it this way and it is pronounced like "Michael". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quik 4,113 Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Should add a most disappointing rookie, Mingle would have destroyed that one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STZ 5,286 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 I’m honored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMaximus 1,045 Posted November 2, 2020 Author Share Posted November 2, 2020 Week 2 claim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMaximus 1,045 Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Week 3 claim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMaximus 1,045 Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 4th and final claim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xflexz 158 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 As someone who uses dark mode I had to change to the cursed light mode to read this lol. Jokes aside you laid this out very well. Including the past winners was a great touch. 10/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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