The session today was planned with Sam “The Grapefruit” Lam in mind, as the following day he would be moving out to the isolated town of Squamish to pursue classes in women’s studies. In any case, we were guaranteed to have decent numbers and fair weather on that day. After a little half-hour hiccup when Andy got a nutshot during warm-up, the game was on. Game 1 saw Andy, Rob and Ollie fire a ton of shots and eke out a 5-3 win against Tony, Jordan and Bernie. Game 2 wasn’t much different, but Rob had a point-out hat-trick game. Ryan showed up for game 3 and joined the weaker team, but Andy countered with a team-building assist-filled point-out again. At this point, Sam had already won 3 games and was pretty happy with having shown up today for his final session of the summer. Another attempt at tossing sticks in the middle, and we saw a dominating performance from Andy again. In game 5, Ollie came out strong and led the team to a satisfying 5-3 win. Dom played hard to fight off double-digit shots from all opposing players. That game, however, was the end of the day for three of the players. The session was finished with some 2-on-2 action, and Sam ended up losing his only game that day, going 5-1 for a solid session. VRH might see some tough weekends coming up this summer, as a goalie is now moving, Stef is off to some European jungle (as evidenced by his recent Facebook upload), and people are taking vacations left and right. Though it will not be the last session of the summer, it may prove to have been the hottest.

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Thanks, Tony! It’s been a long and bumpy road for Sam in his first year as a full-time goaltender in VRH, but he ends his 2011 campaign in goal on a triumphant note, posting a career-best .861 and notching a shutout along the way. Dom actually outsaved Sam 99-87, but only finished at .780 on the day. Just as Sam dominated the crease, Andy dominated the scoresheet, with 9G-15A-25P in just six games. Despite missing the final game, Oliver put up 18 points to tie Rob, who played all six, for second. These three were well ahead in the boxscore at the end of the day

Game Scores:
Andrew Rob Oliver Sam def. Tony Jordan Bernie Dom *Ryan (*Game 3 only) 5-3 5-2 5-0
Andrew Oliver Ryan Sam def. Tony Rob Jordan Bernie Dom 5-1
Oliver Tony Andrew Sam def. Rob Jordan Ryan Bernie Dom 5-3
Andrew Ryan Dom def Tony Rob Sam 5-3

Season Stats: Andrew needs four points for 450 while Oliver becomes the second player this year to score 300, giving him four career 300-point seasons... Rob now trails tony by just four points for third, 258-254... Jordan trails Bernie for seventh, 179-176... Ryan ties Mitch Detta for 11th at 136... Andrew becomes the first player to break the 200-goal barrier while second-place Tony needs one for 150... Marcus leads Oliver for third, 133-128, while Rob passes Lee for fifth at 118... Bernie enters the top ten in goals with 73... Ryan ties Stefan for 11th in assists with 65... Sam becomes the 17th player with 50 assists this year... Bernie becomes the ninth player with 400 shots on goal... Jordan almost hands back the lead in shooting percentage back to Kyle...dom becomes the only goaltender with two 2,000-save seasons... Dom slightly extends his games played lead over the Koth-Kappi to four games, 162-158-158... Rob becomes the sixth player with more than 100 games this year; Tony needs one; Jordan needs five... Sam becomes the second player to goaltend 100 games this year... Sam joins Dom, Alex and Ryan Bateman as goalies with multiple shutouts in 2011... Rob passes Marcus for second in three-star points, 100-90; Oliver ties Tony for fourth at 85... Sam reaches 100 goalie star points on the year... Dom hits 200 total star points on the year; Sam passes 100... Andrew passes Terryn for second in PPG and trails Kyle for the lead, 3.18-3.14.

SDF/GDF: Now on top for ten straight rankings, Kyle’s lead over second-place Andrew remains commanding but could go away next week as Day 2 of the SuperSession drops off the chart... Kyle passes Lee for fourth in rakings led with 22... Tony plummets from fourth to seventh while rob jumps up two to eighth... Mitchell drops from the top dozen due to inactivity... Lots of big hits overall due to the loss of the big points from Day 1 of the SuperSession... Almost nothing moves on the GDF with Alex still way ahead, but history is made as Alex has now been on top for 12 consecutive rankings, beating Seamus’s record of 11 set last summer.

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

On the All-Time Front: Oliver becomes the second player to score 2,500 points in Burton Hockey, and suddenly finds himself only 158 points behind Lee for the all-time lead... Bernie is 18 points behind Seamus for fourth all-time... Andrew passes Mitch Detta for 16th all-time... Oliver needs 21 goals to become the second player to score 1,000... Tony is 20 goals behind Mitch for 12th... Rob passes Sam for 15th and is just one goal behind Joern for 14th... Jordan and Ryan need 11 goals for 300; Andrew 17... Rob becomes the 12th player to score 400 assists; Jordan needs 14... Tony needs seven assists for 300... Dom reaches 100 assists... Oliver needs 46 shots on goal for 5,000... Rob passes Mitch for 11th in shots... Jordan falls behind Jason Leung to fifth in shooting percentage... Sam needs six saves for 1,500... Dom needs four games to become the first VRH original to hit 500 games played; he’d tie K.J. for 11th on the all-time list... Tony becomes the 31st player to play 300 games... Sam records his third career shutout... Oliver passes Lorne for third in three-star points and trails Kyle for second, 785-770... Sam reaches 100 goalie star points... Andrew becomes the first player to push his career APG over 1.60... Rob and Andrew tie Pat for ninth in 15-pointers with 25 each... Tony’s 15-pointer streak ends at nine... Rob and Andrew each have three straight 15-pointers... Andrew also has three straight 20-pointers and back-to-back 25-pointers (his eight 25-pointers rank seventh all-time)... Andrew has three straight ten-assisters... Dom’s streaks of .800, .810, and .820 sessions end at six... Sam goes over .830 for just the second time... Dom and Sam each have five straight 80-savers; Dom also has five straight 90-savers, but his streaks over 100 saves all end at two... Sam’s consecutive session streak will end here at 15; Andrew’s goes to 11; Dom’s goes to eight; the Koth-Kappi’s to six each... Andrew’s 244 assists this season rank sixth all-time for a single year... Dom’s 2,098 saves rank third-highest in a single season... Andrew now has the most three-star points in a single season by anyone not named Grenier or Orr.