10th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S75

[DMaximus 1,046]

10th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards – S75

Another exciting regular season has come to a close. That means we can dole out some regular season awards! Welcome everyone to the 10^th Annual Unofficial VHL Regular Season Awards honoring S75! 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) – Pistil Stamen @DMaximus 

 

Not really the best way to kick off these awards. Pistil went lone wolf on this one too. Normally we’ll see a bunch of players from the same team at the top of this list, for example Riga players occupy 5 out of the top 10 spots this season. Not the case for Stamen, the next closest Los Angeles Star was in 14^th place. I won this award with a -35.

 

Previous Pylon Award Winners:

Season	Player	+ / -
S74	Jay Jones	-38
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) – Jonas Stormsson @Kyle 

 

Normally there’s a tie and we need to use a tiebreaker of most minutes played. Not this season, Jonas won this one outright with 4 PIM in 1700 Minutes Played.

 

Previous Gandhi Award Winners:

Season	Player	PIM	Minutes Played
S74	Uhtred	2	2132
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 

 

Our first repeat champion of the night. Gary committed 12 major penalties this season, setting the award record and beating his previous best of 10 majors. Tarantino must have felt like his contributions in this category were enough to hang his hat on because he retired. I agree, you’re not going to get much better than claiming this award twice and setting the top mark so far. Good way to go out.

 

 

Previous Major² Award Winners:

Season	Player	Major Penalties
S74	Gary Tarantino	10
S73	Mickey Dickson	7
S72	Mikko Lahtinen	9

 

 

 

 

The Timex Award (received most hits) – John Merrick @Steve 

 

In the VHL you have to take your licks in order to perform. Merrick proved that true this season as our top point scorer also received the most hits. John was hit 311 times.

 

Previous Timex Award Winners:

Season	Player	Hits Taken
S74	Mikko Lahtinen	321
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) - Mikko Lahtinen @Beketov 

 

Mikko keeps the streak of the winner having 500+ shots with his league leading 510 shots on goal.

 

Previous John Wayne Award Winners:

Season	Player	Shots on Goal
S74	Patrik Tallinder	532
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) - Mikko Lahtinen @Beketov 

 

Mikko led this category by getting 146 of his shots blocked.

 

Previous HtBotB Award Winners:

Season	Player	Own Shots Blocked
S74	Ray Sheilds	157
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) – Mikko Lahtinen @Beketov 

 

And there it is! The shooting trifecta! Mikko is the first player to claim all three shooting awards in the same season since Rylan Peace did it in S68! Congratulations! I think?

 

Previous CHtBotB Award Winners:

Season	Player	Shots Missed
S74	Brock Louth	429
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) – Fernando Jokinen @Ahma 

 

Fernando had one of the best seasons for this award by blocking exactly 200 shots.

 

Previous New Shin Pads Award Winners:

Season	Player	Shots Blocked
S74	Matty Socks	181
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) - Alek Andreshnikov @PuckPushers

 

Nothing like joining the league and getting the most minutes played out of everyone in the league. Riga thew their rookie, Andreshnikov into the deep end with 2,303 minutes played. Welcome to the big leagues!

 

Previous Tired Legs Award Winners:

Season	Player	Minutes Played
S74	Guy Lesieur	2279
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) - Micah Adrienne @Poptart  

 

Micah won this one by a long shot. They spent 414 minutes on the power play, over 30 more than 2^nd place and almost 100 more than 5^th place.

 

Previous Snap! Award Winners:

Season	Player	PP Minutes
S74	Micheal Gary Scott	378
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) - Dakota Lamb @dlamb 

 

Dakota cleared all competitors by at least 30 minutes with 369 total minutes killing penalties.

               

Previous 1 vs. 100 Award Winners:

Season	Player	PK Minutes
S74	Edwin THE Encarnacion	344
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 %, min 1,000 faceoffs) - Benny Graves @STZ 

 

Benny took advantage of the fact @Beaviss no longer has a center. Benny’s 60.14% winning percentage on 3,038 faceoffs wins the award.

               

Previous Sean Archer Award Winners:

Season	Player	Face Off Pct
S74	Brock Louth	63.72%
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) - Jeff Odinson @GoldGear88 

 

Just like last season, a winger was thrust into the center position leading to disastrous results. Odinson won a paltry 32.74% of his 1,906 faceoffs.

               

Previous Castor Troy Award Winners:

 

Season	Player	Face Off Pct
S74	Kefka Palazzo	32.26%
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) - Ola Vikingstad @Dil 

 

We had a three way tie with Vikingstad, Patrik Tallinder @Patrik Tallinder, and Patrik Laine @PatrikLaine all getting 6 penalty shot goals. Vikingstad wins on the tiebreaker with only 10 attempts compared to 14 (Tallinder) and 12 (Laine).

               

Previous Triple Deke Award Winners:

Season	Player	Penalty Shot Goals
S74	Benny Graves	7
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) – Vin Calia @VinCal 

 

Three-time winner Kristopher McDagg’s surprise early retirement made this category wide open this season. Vin Calia stepped up and won this award outright with 4 wins.

               

Previous Rocky Award Winners:

Season	Player	Fights Won
S74	Kristopher McDagg	6
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) – Jared Willis @BlueMaple 

 

Jared might have had better luck going to Subway. He won the award with 3 fights lost.

               

Previous Glass Joe Award Winners:

 

Season	Player	Fights Lost
S74	Lee Xin	5
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 

 

The race for this year’s award couldn’t get any closer. Mikko wins the award with 24 total stars. That is only a single 3^rd star more than runner up, Timothy Brown @a_Ferk. Congratulations to Mikko for back to back Stars awards wins.

Special shout out to Jacques Lafontaine @SlapshotDragon for leading all goalies with 21 total stars this season.

               

Previous Stars Award Winners:

Season	Player	Total Stars
S74	Mikko Lahtinen	32
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) – Jacob Perry @Liberty_Cabbage 

 

Perry ends his career winning the Bridesmaid award. He claimed 7 total stars without winning the 1^st star this season.

               

Previous Bridesmaid Award Winners:

Season	Player	Stars
S74	Richard Penisson	12
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) - Dagmar Havlova @diamond_ace  

 

Dagmar scored 22 more points (97) than the closest teammate, Latrell Mitchell @dasboot(75).

           

Previous Backpack Award Winners:

Season	Player	Point Difference from nearest teammate
S74	Patrik Tallinder	27
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) - Seabass Perrin @Seabass 

 

Not a tough award to figure out here, Seabass concludes his career by finishing this season scoring 62 points. Good enough for 75^th in total points, matching this season number, 75.

 

Previous Anniversary Award Winners:

Season	Player	Points
S74	Pengu	64
S73	Charlie Paddywagon	63
S72	Ondrej Ohradka	51
S71	Elasmobranch Fish	46
S70	Orion Slade	44

 

 

 

 

The Egghshell Award (goalie with most overtime losses) - Doug Dimmadome @Esso2264 

 

Doug Dimmadome lost 11 games in overtime this season. That matches the highest total since the creation of this award.

 

Previous Eggshell Award Winners:

 

Season	Player	Overtime Games Lost
S74	Greg Eagles	10
S73	Raymond Bernard	9
S72	Michael Johnson	9
S71	Jaxx Hextall	11

 

 

 

The Jason Voorhees Award (most PIM by a Goalie) - Jaxx Hextall @ROOKIE745 

 

Hextall finally lived up to the family name and won this award with 12 PIM this season, besting last year’s winner Ajay Krishna @Hooperorama by 2 PIM.

 

Previous Jason Voorhees Award Winners:

Season	Player	PIM
S74	Ajay Krishna	21
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) - Grekkark Gyrfalcon @Sharkstrong 

 

Grekkark Gyrfalcon unusual presence in goal helped them win this award. They stopped 88.9% of the penalty shots they faced.

 

Previous Poke Check Award Winners:

Season	Player	Penalty Shots Stopped
S74	Jacques Lafontaine	85.7%
S73	Stone Wolski	87.0%
S72	Virgil Ligriv	83.3%
S71	Greg Eagles	79.3%

 

 

 

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!

 

 

2,111 words will claim for 4 weeks, 1st week will be week ending 1/3.

[ROOKIE745 604]

Lmao it's only fitting right? Hexy had a lot to be frustrated with this season XD

 

Also congrats on tying my record Esso.

[Beketov 9,025]

36 minutes ago, DMaximus said:

And there it is! The shooting trifecta! Mikko is the first player to claim all three shooting awards in the same season since Rylan Peace did it in S68! Congratulations! I think?

Looking at my shooting percentage this is not remotely surprising haha

[Callahan 39]

Really great write up Dmax! This was thoroughly thought out and adding in the other players from other seasons really made this a great read. I hope you keep doing this!

10/10

[Gooningitup 1,290]

Very fun idea, i think as a goalie i had the best win percentage but overall a very fun idea. Well put together and enjoyable read that takes a decent amount of work

 

10/10

[a_Ferk 766]

I always look forward to these unofficial award articles. My personal favorite is the new shin pads award. I like the graphics showing previous winners and it's cool that you tagged the people involved so they can be apart of it. Best part of the article is how your own player got the pylon award haha. 10/10 article

[Jubis 1,348]

I also always look forward to this 

[youloser1337 1,106]

Review: Oh wow. This is a beast of a media spot. The hard work that must have been put in to make. Personally, I hope I make a category next season if I make the VHL . The use of the tables makes it easy and clear to see past winners compared to the current winner. The small writeups for each award is fantastic too. No problems that I can see. Perfection. Keep up the great work! 10/10!

[Hogan 1,423]

Im sorry, most fight wins wont be very interesting in the upcoming seasons

[DMaximus 1,046]

Week 2 Claim

[Mr_Hatter 1,608]

On 12/30/2020 at 9:39 PM, TXC said:

Im sorry, most fight wins wont be very interesting in the upcoming seasons

TANKY

[Spence King 387]

NOOOO two seasons straight not making Dmaxs list....  Elsby's coming back hard next season, much bigger and stronger

[DMaximus 1,046]

Week 3 claim

[Doomsday 4,130]

Yes, always love reading these! Maybe one of these seasons I'll make it into the running for one of the awards.

[DMaximus 1,046]

The 4th and final claim.