What just a day prior looked like a session with only one goalie and 5 skaters turned out to be one of our largest sessions in some time, due in part to ‘Lammer’ deciding to fight through the pain of a hurt wrist and manning the pipes for us once again. Add a few maybe's showing up and a surprise appearance by Ian and Beener “Rocco 'Gooch' Gretzmaldi” Garcia and we'd have a full complement.

The first teams of the day pitted Bernie-Eric-Ian-Marcus-Dom(G) versus Tony-Beener-Ollie-Rob-Sam(G). Despite Team Sam totally outplaying their competition and firing 45 shots on goal, Dom absolutely stood on his head and earned his team the 5-4 victory. Having Marcus for a full game helped Team Dom even out the play during the next game and resulted in them breezing to a 5-2 victory. Having tasted bitter defeat twice, Team Sam was in no mood for an attempt at further redemption and the sticks were thrown once again.

This time Eric-Andy-Tony-Beener-Sam(G) would take on the five man team of Ian-Bernie-Marcus-Ollie-Rob-Dom(G). Team Dom would capitalize on many of their chances in the first game and squeak through to a 5-4 victory. However, Team Sam would get redemption on a strong goaltending effort and balanced scoring. The series rubber match would see Team Dom get outplayed significantly which would also show on the scoreboard.

Now at this point, we'd normally hear of Team Dom wanting one last shot at redemption but this would not necessarily be the case. The fact that a number of players (and a goalie) had to leave very soon resulted in another immediate game with the same teams (there simply wasn't time to make new teams). So despite Team Dom not necessarily wanting redemption, in the end redemption they would have, defeating Team Sam in a stunning and drawn out sudden-death OT game.

A great session today despite the heat wearing everyone down a little. Scoring was quite balanced with no absolutely amazing standout performance like we saw from Rocco Gretzmaldi last week. Look for more hockey as the summer weather continues in the Lower Mainland.

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Danke, Bern. Today’s session was indeed quite balanced, with the top four scorers all within in two points of each other. Tony’s 11G on 50 shots helped him take the day with 16 points, edging out Marcus by one. Despite missing the first two games, Andrew came all the way back to tie Eric for third at 14. In goal, it was another all-star performance from the Animation of Domination, as Dom threw up 128 saves in six games en route to .842, beating out Sam’s .770.

Game Scores:
Bernie Eric Ian Marcus Dom def. Tony Vincent Oliver Rob Dam 5-4 5-2
Eric Andrew Tony Vincent Sam vs. Ian Bernie Marcus Oliver Rob Dom 4-5 5-2 5-3 4-5

And now, a big stats wrap-up following another BUSH/VRH doubleheader:

Season Stats: Andrew Smart’s lead over Oliver closes in on 100 points, 372-275... Rob needs three points for 200 in sixth... Kyle moves up two spots to twelfth with 120... K.J. becomes the 14th member of the 100-point brigade... Bernie passes Ryno for tenth in goals... smart becomes the first player with 200 assists... Tony passes Bernie for fourth in assists, 99-97, with Marcus right there at 95... Lee passes Barlow for seventh in assists at 84... Rob is the fifth player with 500 shots on goal this year... Kyle takes the shooting percentage lead from Barlow at 25.83% while K.J. now sits third at 24.39... Marcus is now fifth in shooting pe3rcentage while Ryan Bateman falls from third to eighth... Ryan also plummets in goaltending, giving Alex back the lead at .857 while he drops to second at .832... Dom takes the saves lead from Alex with 1,836... Ryan passes Lyle for fourth in saves, 283-275... BUSH has employed 16 different goalies in 2011 compared to just six for VRH... Sam is one game goaltended behind Alex for second with 80; Ryan passes Carter to enter the top five at 18... Marcus passes Rob for second in three-star points, 85-80, and Tony ties Rob... Dom takes the goalie star point lead from Alex, 165-155... Dom passes Alex for second in total star points, 170-155. While Marcus passes Rob for fifth, 85-80... Terryn opens up a small lead in PPG with 3.13 while Kyle ties Andrew for second at 3.05; K.J. follows closely at 3.03... K.J. gets his Burton-leading GPG to 2.00; Kyle enters the top five in fourth at 1.59... Goal-heavy Terryn drops behind Ryan into sixth in APG... Terryn jumps to fourth in shots-per-game at 7.29... Dom passes Ryan for second in saves-per-game... K.J.’s 18 goals today rank third-most in a session this year...

SDF/GDF: While the top five positions on the SDF don’t change, things are certainly more interesting, as Kyle and K.J. come back down a bit to the rising VRH threesome behind them (Andy, Marcus and Tony), with all of them over a 110 rating. Vaulting up 14 spots to sixth is Terryn. All of this drops Rob from the top ten... On the GDF, a bad session for Ryan moves Dom ahead of him into second, but it’s still a long way to Alex.

All-Time Records, Awards and Honours
All-Time Session Scoring Milestones & Streaks
All-Time Session Goaltending Milestones & Streaks

On the All-Time Front: Bernie becomes the fifth player to score 1,500 points... Kyle is 27 points behind Lorne for sixth... Graeme becomes the tenth player to score 900 points... Rob needs 37 points for 700... Tony ties Mitchell for 15th in points and is 15 behind Barlow for 14th... Andrew Smart is eight behind Nathan for 17th... Eric becomes the 24th player with 400 points and is three behind Ben for 23rd... Terryn needs three points for 300... Kyle is 24 goals behind Stefan for fourth... K.J. needs twelve goals for 700... Rob needs ten goals for 300... Andrew becomes the 19th player with 250 goals... Terryn needs six goals for 150... Oliver becomes the first player to score 1,500 assists... Kyle becomes the sixth player to score 600 assists... Andrew passes Pat for 15th in assists and passes the 300 mark... Tony needs 17 assists for 300... Eric becomes the 25th player with 200 assists... Kyle needs 71 shots on goal for 4,000... Ryan falls from first to third in all-time goaltending, giving the lead back to Taylor at .852... K.J. needs seven games for 500... Tony needs eight games for 300... Andrew Smart needs six games for 200... Andrew Watson passes 100 games... Sam needs to goaltend eleven games for 100 in net... Andrew Smart becomes the tenth player with 300 three-star points... Dom becomes the first goalie with 500 goalie star points... Ryan plummets from the saves-per-game leaderboard, bringing Alex into fifth at 17.27... Tony has eight consecutive 15-pointers; Marcus and K.J. have five... Rob’s 15-pointer streak ends at four; Andrew’s at three... K.J. has four straight 20-pointers and three straight 25-pointers... Kyle passes Lorne for second in ten-goal sessions with 47; Tony ties Mitchell for ninth with 14... Marcus’ ten-goal streak ends at three... K.J. has back-to-back 150goal sessions... Dominik ties Seamus and Nathan for the all-time lead in .800s with 31; he’s got four in a row... Dom passes Alex for second in .820s with 23 including five in a row... Ryan’s streak of .810 sessions comes crashing to a halt at four and his .820 streak ends at two... Kyle has his second career .830... Dom ties Justin and Seamus for second in .830s with 17... Dom passes Alex for the lead in .840s with 16... Sam pots his tenth 80-saver... Dom has three straight 80-savers... Dom ties Alex for the all-time lead in 100-savers with 30... Lee has back-to-back 100-savers for the first time (his two career 100-savers to boot)... Dom passes Alex for the lead in 110-saves with 24, and is one behind him for the lead in 120-savers with 19... Sam has played in twelve consecutive sessions; Andrew and James eight each; Dom five... Dom’s 1,836 saves this year is the fifth-highest single season mark ever, while his 111 games goaltended tie for fourth and his 165 goalie star points rank fifth.