It was the most of glorious days. The autumn air was crisp indeed, but with not a cloud to be seen in the blue midday sky, the sun in all its brilliance would bathe us in its holy warmth. The perfect day for hockey, some might say.

Numbers would be an issue again today, but with Lammer neglecting his homework for the sake of hockey (giving us 2 goalies) and The Shaylin Warrior gracing us with his presence once again (after a year-long absence), we would end up with just enough for some 3 on 3 action.

The manufactured teams of Marcus-Ollie-Bernie-Dom would take on Andy-Rob-Shay-Sam. The overall play in this series was quite even, but the combination of Dom’s exceptional back-stopping and Marcus’ scoring prowess lead team Dom to a 2-0 victory.

For the next series the teams were kept the same with the goalies switched. Dom’s solid netminding, combined with Andy’s superb all-round play, Rob’s energy & defensive play (particularly on Marcus) and Shay finding his scoring touch, lead 2-0 series victory for Team Dom.

Next, another set of manufactured teams saw Andy-Ollie-Bernie-Dom take on Marcus-Rob-Shay-Sam. Andy, Ollie and Bernie found instant chemistry completing a number of pretty tic-tac-toe plays, and would take the game. For the last game, teams were maintained with goalies switched. This all out war would feature some brilliant tending by Sam, eventually giving him his first victory on the day, after being ended by a gritty Landeskogian goal off a skate in sudden death overtime.

All in all, this was a great session today. Look for a possible mini-supersession coming up with two BUSH players in the lower mainland on Halloween weekend.

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Thanks, Bernie! I’m pretty certain a ‘mini-supersession’ is by definition just a ‘session’, but I’ll take it. In goal, Dom led the way with .847; a pretty impressive number considering he made all of seven saves combined in the second series. Sam finished at .773, but did lead Dom in saves, 99-88. It was a closely contested day on the scoresheet, with Andrew ultimately prevailing at 9G-12A, three points ahead of the returning Marcus (12G-6A). Oliver just edged out the remaining skaters for the final star points with 15 marks (5G-10A). Everyone was within eight points of each other at the end of six games.

Game Scores:
Bernie Oliver Marcus Dom def. Rob Shaylin Andrew Sam 5-1 5-4
Rob Shaylin Andrew Dom def. Bernie Oliver Marcus Sam 5-3 5-2
Oliver Andrew Bernie Dom def. Rob Marcus Shaylin Sam 5-1
Oliver Andrew Bernie Sam def. Rob Marcus Shaylin Dom 5-4

Elo Ratings

Andrew Smart 2235 (+11)
Marcus Keighron 2038 (+13)
Rob Hajdu 2026 (-19)
Oliver Koth-Kappus 1915 (+9)
Bernie Koth-Kappus 1580 (-2)
Shaylin Trotman 1702 (-22)

Season Stats: Andrew becomes the first, and likely only, player to reach the 500-point mark this season with 507... Marcus crosses the 250-point mark and sits 17 behind Tony for fourth... Bernie passes Barlow for seventh and needs two points for 200... Dom need two points to become the 16th player with 100 points this season... Marcus passes Oliver for third in goals, 145-142; Rob knocks Lee out of the top five at 130; Bernie enters the top ten at 81... Oliver becomes the second player this year with 200 assists; Rob passes 150 assists; Bernie passes Tony for fourth in assists, 117-113; Marcus passes Barlow for sixth, 107-106...Andrew takes the PPG lead from Kyle with 3.19.

SDF/GDF: Andrew stays strong on top of the SDF for a third straight ranking, with Lee and Marcus swapping fourth and fifth... The loss of a bad session pus Vince into a shocking 12th... Almost nothing changes on the GDF, with everyone still in the same positions. Alex remains number one for a 15th straight ranking and 31st overall.

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

On the All-Time Front: Bernie trails Seamus by 16 points for fourth all-time... Rob is 17 points behind Joern for 12th; Andrew is one point behind Barlow for 14th... Oliver is just seven goals away from 1,000... Andrew passes Sam for 16th in goals and is seven behind Joern for 15th... Bernie needs 14 assists for 900... Oliver becomes the second player with 5,000 shots on goal and Rob becomes the 11th with 2,000... Dom needs 118 saves for 7,000... Bernie needs six games for 1,300... Dom passes Nathan for ninth in games played with 513 and is two behind Stefan for third all-time in VRH, 492-490... Sam needs two games for 400; Marcus needs six for 200... Andrew’s career PPG rises to 2.99... Marcus has seven straight 15-pointers... Andy ties Mitch Detta for tenth in ten-goal sessions with 14... Dom ties Seamus for the lead in .810s with 30 and passes him for the lead in .820s with 26... Dom becomes the second goalie with 20 .830s and has two in a row... Sam posts his 15th career 80-saver and seventh in a row; he also has back-to-back 90-savers... Andrew plays his 14th straight session; Dom his tenth... Andrew’s 507 points this season is the sixth-highest mark of all-time; his 1,238 shots on goal rank fifth; his 305 three-star points rank fourth; and his 305 total star points rank fifth... Dom’s 141 games goaltended this year rank third in a season for goalies all-time.

Your humble statistician will be in Vancouver in two weeks. So will Lee Orr and Noel Ballard. Will more hockey ensue then? Stay tuned!