Air Quality Scale: 2/10 (thick smoke from an overzealous BBQ for much of the first game)
Hungoverness Scale: 9/10 (most were hungover, some extremely)
Glorious sunshine scale: 10/10
Temperature scale: 3/10 (too hot, breeze off the water made it just bearable)
Perfect number of players scale: 5/10 (perhaps a little too many but the extra subs were welcomed on this day)
New players scale: 0/10
Return of long absent regulars scale: 6/10 (Nick & Ian hadn't been out in a while)
Evenness of teams/series scale: 5/10 (some very close, some not so much)
Session intensity scale: 4/10 (the level of exhaustion was definitely evident today)
Session openness / offensiveness scale: 7/10
Redemptions achieved scale: 4/10
Exceptional goaltending performance scale: 8/10 (both goalies very good, Bron otherwordly at times)
Domination by one player scale: 5/10 (Andy and Rhino's extra jump was evident today)
Length of session scale: 5/10 (only 4 games but a grueling close to 3 hours of hockey in the heat)
Fun of session scale: 4/10 (more fun for some than others)
Chance of future sessions in coming weeks scale: 3/10 (with more people out of town in the coming weeks the prospects for session don't look great)

Further notes from Stefan:
Hungover Scale 10/10
Air Quality Scale 2/10
Nick Rubbing Sweat on Darrel Scale 9/10

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Thanks, Bern! It's ben weeks in the making, but we finally have Burton Hockey in action again, even if it's just for the weekend (although who knows what will happen come August when the VRH crew goes camping on the Arrow Lakes and your humble statistician is in Vancouver for two weeks). In the meantime, today was another goaltending battle between Stu and Bron, and this time Stuart came out on top with a career-best .871. Bron had to deal with more volume, outsaving Stu 116-88, but finishing behind him with .853, which is still pretty freaking great, and is way more than good enough to ensure that Bron sets a new record for most consecutive .800-plus sessions with 13 (a record previously shared by Alex Elischer and Dom). It's been more than 4 1/2 years since Bron's been below .800. Scoring-wise, it was Andrew's day today, as he notched 7G-8A in the four matches. Dom looked poised to snatch second star with 9P heading into the final game, but was edged out by Rob (7G-4A) and brother Darrel (6G-5A). Still, Dom did lead the session in assists with 9A.

Game Scores:
Dom Darrel Andy Rob Ian Stu def. Bernie Oliver Stefan Ryan Nick Bron 5-3 5-2
Dom Darrel Ryan Oliver* Rob Stu def. Andy Stefan Nick Ian Bernie Brom 5-4 5-4 (*no Game 3)

Length of session: 3h 00min

Elo Ratings
Andrew Smart 2244 (+19)
Rob Hajdu 2007 (+34)
Darrel Voser 1993 (+37)
Nick Jornitz 1964 (-21)
Stefan Klopp 1961 (-38)
Oliver Koth-Kappus 1896 (-51)
Ryan Disterheft 1892 (+14)
Dominik Voser 1823 (+46)
Ian Fraser (-27)
Bernie Koth-Kappus 1512 (-15)

Season Stats: With BUSH in limbo at the moment, Darrel and Rob get the opportunity to pull away a little bit from Seamus O'Connor in the scoring race, as Darrel breaks the 100-point mark at 103 while Rob sits ar 88. Seamus actually gives up third place to Oliver now by a point, 66-65, while Andrew jumps from eighth to fifth at 60 followed by Ryan Disterheft at 55. Kellan Nishida and Ryan Bateman are displaced from the top six... Darrel looks hard to catch in goals with 60, 16 ahead of Rob, while Ryno moves ahead of Kellan into fourth... Seamus still retains his assists lead, although Andrew, Rob, and Darrel have cut it down to 50-44-44-43. Meanwhile, Dom is now in the top ten for assists... Rob leads Darrel in shots on goal, 294-277, while Stefan enters the top six... With Neil Spencer no longer eligible at the moment for the shooting percentage race as we get deeper into the season, the lead now passes to Darrel at 21.66%... Bron falls one point behind Terryn in the raace for the save percentage lead, .877-.876, while Stu passes Dom for sixth... Stu trails Dom for the lead in saves, 547-414, while Bron is fifth at 183... Neither Bernie nor Dom have missed a game yet this year (that's 37 so far)... Stu trails Dom in games goaltended, 29-22; Bron is fifth with eight... Rob and Darrel continue to share the three-star points lead at 65 apiece, while Andy moved from fifth to third at 45... Stu ties K.J. for second in goalie star points with 45 (15 behind Dom), while Bron ties Sam Lam for fourth at 30... Darrel, Dom, and Rob are now in a three-way tie for the lead in total star points with 65... Rob passes Andrew Likness for fifth in GPG with 1.42... Dom enters the APG list in third at 1.63... Darrel passes Tony Hajdu and Stefan to go to third in shots-per-game at 8.15... Bron debuts on the saves-per-game list in second at 22.88... Stuart's .871 is the fifth-best goaltending mark set this year, while Bron's 116 saves rank fifth in that category as well.

SDF/GDF: With big points from a high-quality session victory, Andrew Smart has erased nearly all of the gap between himself and SDF Ryan Bateman. Darrel moves up three spots to fourth, while Oliver drops three spots to eighth and Stefan drops six spots to tenth. A big day as well for Dom, who jumps up 13 spots into the top 15... For the second straight ranking, no one changes positions on the GDF. K.J. stays first ahead of Bron for the fourth straight ranking and 24th time overall.

All-Time Session Milestones & Streaks

On the All-Time Front: Stefan still needs one more point to become the third player in history to score 2,000 points... Rob needs 15 points for 1,200... Andy passes Justin Gordon to enter the top ten in all-time scoring... Ryan becomes the 13th player with 900 points... Darrel needs 16 points for 400... Rob is one goal behind Justin for ninth... Andrew needs 17 goals for 500; Ryan 22... Darrel passes Troy Waldron for 26th in goals... Stefan passes Seamus O'Connor for fourth in assists... Andrew trails Rob by just two assists for seventh... Dom passes Troyt for 27th in assists... Nick plummets out of the top five in shooting percentage, bringing Dylan Stevens back into the top five... Stuart is 58 saves behind K.J. O'Connor for 14th... With Oliver sitting out Game 3, Bernie closes to within 19 games of his older brother's all-time games played lead, 1,531-1,512... Stuart passes K.J. for 14th in games goaltended... Nick falls from fourth in seventh in GPG... Andrew is now third all-time in sessions led in scoring with 34, moving ahead of Lorne Bilinski... Stefan leads Oliver in VRH scoring, 1,495-1,488... Stuat passes Bron to move to second in all-time VRH save percentage, .814-.812... Andrew ties K.J. for seventh in 15-pointers with 45, but his record-setting ten-assister streak ends at nine... Andy's 15 pointer streak goes to four, while Nick's ends at four (the first non-15-plus mark of his career)... Bron sets a new record for consecutive .800s with 13... Bron also ties Alex Elischer's record of 12 consecutive .810s with 12... Bron passes Alex for third in .820s with 25; he has three in a row... Bron and Stu both have back-to-back .850s... It's Stu's fifth career .840, second .850, and first .860 and .870... Bron passes Alex for second in .850s at 16... Bron ties Seamus for second in .800s with 33... Bron records his 35th 80-saver... Dom's consecutive session streak goes to 23 and is now the 13th longest streak in history. Meanwhile, Bernie's streak goes to 15, Darrel's to seven, and Ryan's and Rob's to six each.