Glorious sunshine scale: 2/10 (mostly solid cloud cover)
Temperature scale: 8/10
Perfect number of players scale: 9/10 (one sub on each team for most of the session)
New players scale: 0/10
Return of long absent regulars scale: 10/10 (the return of long absent Melvin and Justin's non-super session VRH debut)
Evenness of teams/series scale: 9/10 (a combination of quite close games and extremely close games)
Session intensity scale: 8/10 (witnessed by many collisions / spills and numerous cuts / bruises, Johanna bearing a fair brunt of them)
Session openness / offensiveness scale: 4/10
Redemptions achieved scale: 4/10 (one or two in game comebacks but no series level redemptions)
Exceptional goaltending performance scale: 8/10 (another day of mind boggling goaltending, Bron again was spectacular while Justin was no slouch in the other net)
Domination by one player scale: 3/10 (very even point spread today with Stefan & Tony having a slight edge)
Length of session scale: 6/10 (only 4 games but very long grueling games indeed)
Fun of session scale: 7/10
Chance of future sessions in coming weeks scale: 3/10 (not too likely with a number of people out of town the next couple weekends)
First Vancouver-born player to score 1000 points scale: 10/10 (Robert Hajdu achieved this mark today)

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Thanks, Bern. Once again, the day’s action belonged to the goaltenders. Even in losing three of the four games, Bron was simply phenomenal with 117 saves in just four games en route to .867 (that’s back-to-back sessions over .865 this week for Mr. Mach). Justin made his long-threatened VRH goaltending debut and was back to his old ways with an excellent .845. On the scoresheet, Stefan was the only skater over 3.00 PPG with 7G-6A. Tony finished two points behind at 5G-6A, and Sam snagged third star with 6G-3A. The shot counts from Rob and Sam were insane tonight (50 and 46, respectively).

Game Scores:
Johanna Tony Stefan Rob Justin def. Dom Ian Sam Bernie Bron 5-4
Johanna Tony Stefan Rob Justin def. Dom Ian Sam Bernie Bron Melvin 5-4
Stefan Tony Bernie Melvin Bron def. Rob Dom Sam Johanna Ian Justin 5-3
Melvin Dom Rob Tony Bernie Justin def. Johanna Sam Stefan Ian Bron 5-3

Elo Ratings
Sam Lam 2075 (-4)
Tony Hajdu 2040 (+18)
Rob Hajdu 1995 (-26)
Stefan Klopp 1986 (+45)
Dominik Voser 1799 (+27)
Melvin Ong 1759 (-19)
Ian Bock 1713 (-11)
Bernie Koth-Kappus 1536 (+14)

Provisional Elo Ratings (less than three sessions skated):
Johanna Goodyear 1703 (-44)

Season Stats: With none of the other leading scorers in action, Rob moves back ahead of Andrew for the lead, 83-79... Stefan still has some work to do to get into the top five but he does jump from ninth to sixth at 34 followed by Sam at 31 and Tony and Bernie at 28... Rob also takes the goal scoring lead over Andrew, 41-35; Sam moves up to sixth at 17... Andy still holds a share of the assist lead with Rob at 44 apiece... Tony and Dom falls from first and second to fourth and fifth in shooting percentage, giving the lead back to Darrel... Bon solidifies his goaltending lead at .869 while Justin jumps up to fifth at .821... Bron passes Stuart for third in saves, 253-219, with Justin fifth at 142... Rob leads Bernie in games played, 33-30, followed by Dom (29), Ryan (25), and Sam (24)... Still not shutouts this year... Stefan, Tony, and Sam all join the cluster of people at 20 three-star points, which ties them all for third... Bron ties Stuart for third in goalie star points at 30; Justin is fifth at 15... Sam passes Dom for second in total star points and now trails Andrew for the lead, 60-55... Dom enters the top five in GPG... Sam and Rob fall out of the top five in APG, replaced by Tony and Ryan... Sam jumps to second in shots-per-game at 9.50... Bron passes Justin for the lead in saves-per-game at a stunning 28.11... Bron’s .867 is tied for third-best session of the season in goal, while Justin’s .845 ranks fifth... Bron’s 117 saves are the second-highest total of the year, while his 984 PPS ranks third.

SDF/GDF: Big changes on the rankings this week... Sam’s third-place finish today was enough to drop him behind Andy, who takes the top position for the 27th time... Tony crosses over the session minimum and jumps up eight spots to third, while enters the top 12... If you’re wondering why Stefan didn’t rocket up toward the top, that’s because the session that fell off from last September has pretty much the same result for him, so winning today was all he could do to stay even... Two sessions after handing the GDF lead to Dom, Bron takes it back with force, and his lead is commanding (.8694-.8390 over Dom). Justin also jumps up to fifth place; five goalies are over the .8200 mark, which is a testament to the strong goaltending of VRH.

All-Time Session Milestones & Streaks

On the All-Time Front: Stefan becomes the third player to score 1,900 points in Burton Hockey and the first to score 1,400 in VRH... Justin becomes the ninth player with 1,100 points... Rob becomes the first VRH-bred player to reach the 1,000 point plateau... Tony passes Ryan Disterheft to move in to 15th all-time in points... Sam passes Mitch Detta to move into 18th... Stefan needs seven assists for 900... Justin actually kept pace with Rob in terms of assists today, meaning he stays five ahead of Rob for eighth... Bernie is now within 30 games of brother Oliver for the all-time games played lead... Dom is eight games behind Joern Hornhardt for seventh... Sam passes Graeme for 14th in games and is two away from 500... Bron becomes the 23rd player with 300 games... Justin is three points behind Laird Bilinski for second in points from goal... Justin is ten total star points behind Dom for seventh, 780-770... Tony’s 15-pointer streak ends at four and his ten-assister steak ends at three... Bron ties Alex for fourth in .800s with 29; Justin is next at 25... Bron’s .800 streak of 9 is the fourth-longest streak ever, tied with Stuart Hall’s active streak and three behind Alex Elischer’s record of 12... Justin ties Nathan Robson for fifth in .810s at 24... Bron has the second-longest .810 streak ever at nine, three behind Alex’s record of 12... Justin passes Seamus O’Connor for third in .830s with 18; Bron has 16... Justin becomes the third goalie with 15 .840s; Bron is tied with Seamus for fourth with 13... Bron records back-to-back .860s for the first time in his illustrious career and is one behind Seamus and Dom for the all-time lead with nine... Justin pots his 20th career 80-saver and fourth in a row (not counting the half-session at Nakusp this March); Bron has five in a row... Justin’s 100-save streak ends at two... Bron has back-to-back 100-savers... Rob pushes his consecutive session streak to 15; Bernie’s goes to seven; Dom’s goes to six.