9th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S74

[DMaximus 1,046]

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 9^th 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 1^st 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 1^st 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 74^th 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!

 

[Blazzer 759]

Rude, u ain't allowed to call me out like that DMax! I'm gonna fight u even though I might lose

[Viper 530]

@Garrett well played... 

[Viper 530]

Back to Back to Back Rocky Award Winner

[Beketov 9,025]

Always great to win a few unofficial awards

[Zetterberg 863]

If I could hit the net imagine the amount of points I'd have

[diamond_ace 3,112]

Kefka is too busy destroying the world to learn how to faceoff.

[DoktorFunk 810]

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".

[Quik 4,113]

Should add a most disappointing rookie, Mingle would have destroyed that one

[STZ 5,360]

I’m honored

[DMaximus 1,046]

Week 2 claim

[DMaximus 1,046]

Week 3 claim

[DMaximus 1,046]

4th and final claim

[Xflexz 179]

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