Glorious sunshine scale: 8/10 (a few clouds towards the end of the session)
Temperature scale: 9.5/10 (12-13 degrees on a mostly sunny day = near perfect)
Perfect number of players scale: 7/10 (one sub)
New players scale: 0/10
Return of long absent regulars scale: 5/10 (Ian hadn't played in a while)
Evenness of teams/series scale: 3/10 (a number of blowouts today)
Session intensity scale: 7/10
Session openness / offensiveness scale: 5/10
Redemptions achieved scale: 7/10 (redemption by Sam's team to win the second game of the second series, double reverse redemption by Dom's team to win the final game/series)
Exceptional goaltending performance scale: 8/10 (Dom was other-wordly again today, and was very tough to beat on in-close shots)
Domination by one player scale: 4/10
Length of session scale: 7/10 (6 games in about 3.5 hours)
Fun of session scale: 8/10
Chance of future sessions in coming weeks scale: 6/10 (look for a mini-supersession on May 4th when Lee's in town)

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Thanks, Bern! It was a very close session scoring-wise between Andy and Ollie, but Smart’s massive 18A carried him to 21P on the day, placing him one point ahead of Oliver (11G-9A). The only other player to break 15 points was last week’s leader Darrel at 8G-7A. It was a stellar day in goal for Dom and Sam. Dom finished with a stellar .859 including a season-best 122 saves and a shutout, while Sam was pretty damn solid as well with .824 and 98 saves. And there’s more good news: it looks as though there may be some BUSH action coming up this Sunday with some strong names in the mix. Hopefully the fellows in red and black won’t let us down!

Game Scores:
Andrew Ryan Oliver Bernie Dom def. Darrel Ian Rob Sam 5-1
Andrew Oliver Ryan Sam def. Bernie Ian Darrel Rob Dom 5-3 5-1
Andrew Darrel Bernie Ian Dom def. Ryan Oliver Rob Sam 5-0 2-5 5-4

Elo Ratings
Andrew Smart 2225 (+10)
Darrel Voser 1946 (+7)
Rob Hajdu 1938 (-26)
Oliver Koth-Kappus 1921 (+28)
Ryan Disterheft 1891 (-2)
Ian Bock 1663 (-8)
Bernie Koth-Kappus 1509 (-10)

Season Stats: The scoring race heats up as Darrel (52) leads Oliver (51) by just points, with Andrew passing Rob to move to third at 45... Ryno jumps up to fifth to tie the absent Stefan Klopp at 22... Darrel leads Oliver in goals, 30-26, with Rob at 22 and Ryan at 15... Bernie ties Tony Hajdu for fifth at 12... Rob narrowly maintains his shot lead over Oliver, 137-134... Today was a shooting percentage killer unless your name was Darrel or Oliver... Dom brings has season save percentage to .832, while Sam’s goes up to .820... Sam, Dom, and the Koth-Kappi have played all 21 games, with Darrel having played all but three... Dom joins Stu as goalies with shutouts in 2014... Andrew ties Darrel for the lead in three-star points with 30 each, while Oliver moves up to 20... Dom leads Sam in goalie star points, 45-30... Dom leads Sam in total star points, 45-35, with Andy and Darrel right behind at 30... Andy is now the only player above 3.00 PPG on the season... Darrel passes Rob for second in GPG, while Oliver moves to fifth... Andrew continues his stunning 3.00 APG pace... Ryan enters the top five in shots-per-game... Dom passes Sam for the lead in saves-per-game, 17.67-17.33... Andy’s 21 points rank second-best for session so far this year, while Oliver’s 20 rank third, as do Oliver’s 11 goals... Andy’s 18 assists tie his mark set back in January; they represent the only 15-plus assist sessions since 2010 in Burton Hockey... Oliver’s nine assists rank fourth on the year... Ryan’s 52 shots on goal and Rob and Oliver’s 45 apiece represent the top three shot totals on the year, while Andrew’s 45 rank fifth... Dom’s .859 is the third-best session of the year in net, while Sam’s .824 ranks fifth... Dom’s 122 saves are tops on the year, while Sam’s 98 are third... Dom’s 981 easily tops the 2014 PPS charts, while Sam’s 922 ranks fourth.

SDF/GDF: The outcome of the SDF and GDF all depend on whether or not the planned BUSH session takes place Sunday. If it doesn’t, then that would drop the remaining BUSH players below the session minimum and hand the lead of the SDF back to Andy (and we’ll update this section accordingly). If it does, well, absolutely anything could happen. Most crucially, it will come down to whether or not Seamus plays goal. What we DO know is that Dom will pass Bron to reclaim the top of the GDF unless Justin plays goal Sunday.

All-Time Session Milestones & Streaks

On the All-Time Front: Oliver becomes the first player in history to score 2,900 points and now has a lead of 106 over former all-time leader Lee Orr... Andy becomes the 11th player to score 1,100 point and just one point behind Justin Gordon for tenth... Ryan ties Jordan Barlow for 13th all-time... Darrel moves up two spots to 27th all-time... Rob is six goals behind Pat Elischer for tenth... Ryan now trails Andy by just 12 goals for 13th all-time... Ryno also becomes the 15th player with 400 assists and needs 42 shots on goals for 2,500... Sam is 44 saves behind Joern Hornhardt for ninth all-time... Bernie needs four games to become the second player with 1,500... Sam passes Kyle Grenier for 11th in games played; Rob is one behind Grenier... Ryno passes Barlow for 17th in games played and dominates the all-time games-played-without-having-gone-in-goal chart... Sam passes Justin for eighth in games goaltended... Dom becomes the first goalie to record 30 shutouts... Dom is six points behind Justin and Laird Bilinski for second in al-time points scored from goal... Oliver needs ten three star points to become the second with 900... Sam is 15 goalie star points behind Shem Hanna for eighth... Oliver passes Grenier for third in total star points, 890-885, with Dom now at 880 after passing Lorne Bilinski to move into fifth... Sam enters the top 12 in total star points with 475 (255 as a goalie, 225 as a skater)... Andy becomes the first multi-session player in history with a 1.75 APG... Andrew ties Lorne for third in sessions led in scoring with 33... Oliver trails Stefan Klopp by just seven now for the all-time VRH scoring lead, 1,480-1,453... Bernie becomes the fourth player to score 1,100 points in VRH; Andy needs 25 points to do the same... Dom passes Stu Hall for third in VRH goaltending, .809-.808, and is narrowly behind Bron Mach for second at .810... Oliver records his 80th 15-pointer... Andy ties K.J. for seventh in 15-pointers with 44... Darrel (his first-ever such streak) and Andrew each have three straight 15-pointers... Oliver and Andrew each records their 30th 20-pointers, tied for fourth all-time... Andrew has back-to-back 20-pointers... Andrew extends his record ten-assister streak to nine... Sam passes Chris Jackins for seventh in 80-savers with 24 and is one behind Nathan Robson and Seamus O’Connor... Dom has four 80-savers in a row... Dom becomes the first goalie with 60 90-savers... Sam is now fifth in 90-savers with 19... Sam ties Shem for eighth in .810s at 15... Dom has beck-to-back .830s and becomes the first goalie to post 20 .850s... Oliver and Dom increase their consecutive session streaks to 20 and 19, respectively... Bernie’s streak goes to 11.