-Glorious sunshine scale: 8/10 (our hopes for clouds were dashed)
-Temperature scale: 2/10 (an average warm summer day, not unbearable but far from ideal)
-Perfect number of players scale: 6/10 (one sub on one team)
-New players scale: 0/10
-Return of long absent regulars scale: 0/10
-Evenness of teams/series scale: 7/10 (perhaps not always shown on the score-sheet, the teams were remarkably even today)
-Session intensity scale: 6.5/10
-Session openness / offensiveness scale: 4/10 (a bit of a defensive grind-fest today)
-Domination by one player scale: 5/10 (Darrel and Andy were both pretty instrumental to their teams today)
-Redemptions Achieved Scale: 5/10 (Bron's team achieves redemption winning the second game of the second series)
-Epicness of Games Scale: 6/10 (some long defensive games, and a 5-4 nail bitter in the second game)
-Exceptional goaltending performance scale: 7/10 (It took a little time for the goalies to shake the rust off but some great goaltending was witnessed in the latter half of the session)
-Length of session scale: 4/10 (only 3 games but still about 2.5 hours of hockey in the grueling heat)
-Fun of session scale: 8/10 (great to finally get out there again after a month & a half absense)
-Chance of future sessions in coming weeks scale: 3/10 (doesn't look too good with many people out of town over the following few weeks)

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Thanks, Bern! With July wiped out thanks to oppressive heat and the upcoming retreat to Taie Creek taking players out of town, it was good to get a session in to keep 2015 swinging. Leading the way today was Darrel, who pointed out the first the two games en route to 9G-3A. Pointing out those first two allowed him to finish one point ahead of the returning Andy Smart, who finished with 4G-7A. Jordan has a huge 8A to finish third at 10P. In goal, things started out slow but the final game brought the goalies back to their usual excellence. Stu made 35 saves in Game 3 en route to .831 on 59 saves, just edging out Bron with .821 on 55 saves.

Game Scores:
Jordan Darrel Dom Stu def. Oliver Andrew Thom Bernie Bron 5-3
Team Switzerland (Thom Darrel Dom Stu) vs. Austro-Hungarian Empire (Oliver Andrew Jordan Bernie Bron) 5-4 2-5

Length of session: 2h 30 min

Elo Ratings
Andrew Smart 2208 (-5)
Darrel Voser 2026 (+29)
Jordan Barlow 1918 (+9)
Oliver Koth-Kappus 1860 (-1)
Dominik Voser 1812 (-11)
Thom Gysler 1658 (-26)
Bernie Koth-Kappus 1488 (+6)

Season Stats: Darrel extends his scoring lead over still-absent Stefan to 93-78, while Andrew jumps up to third from fifth at 72... Darrel is the first player to pass 50 goals in 2015; Andrew passes Neil Spencer for fifth, 26-25... Andy jumps from fifth to second in shots-on-goal behind Darrel, 298-212... Darrel passes Tony Hajdu for fourth in shooting percentage... The goaltending race is now very tight between Bron and Stu, .843-.839... Bernie and Stu have played in all 44 VRH games this year... Andy passes Tom Slivinski for second in three-star points, 50-40... Darrel ties Dom for second in total star points with 70; Andy passes Tom for fourth in total star points, 50-40... Andy passes Tom for the lead in PPG, 2.88-2.84; Darrel passes Stefan Klopp for fourth, 2.58-2.54... Jordan jumps into second in PPG, right behind Andrew (1.84-1.82)... Darrel's nine goals today tie for the fourth-highest session mark of the year

SDF/GDF: Neil Spencer leads the SDF for the fifth straight ranking while Andy slips behnd Tom to second and Darrel passes Stefan for fourth... After two session atop the GDF, Stu hands first place back to the returning Bron, who crosses back over the session minimum to take first by just .8434-.8402. It's Bron's 39th career ranking led.

All-Time Session Milestones & Streaks:
Oliver is just 40 points away from the unfathomable 3,000 mark... Bernie is 21 points away from 1,800... Andy becomes the tenth player to score 1,200 points.... Jordan passes Tony Hajdu for 14th in all-time scoring and passes 900 points... Darrel passes Eric Coutinho for 23rd and also passes 500 points... Bernie is still four goals away from 750... Andy is two goals behind Ryan for 12th... Oliver needs 15 assists for 1,800... Andrew needs seven assists for 700... Andrew needs 84 shots on goal for 3,000... Andy needs nine games for 400... Stu becomes the tenth goalie with 250 career goalie star points... Bron passes Seamus O'Connor for second in .800s with 35 and extends his record streak to 15 (the streak is 5 1/2 years old now)... Stu notches his 25th career .800 and now has the second-longest streak of .800s in history at 13... Bron ties Seamus for second in .810s with 33 and extends his record streak to 14... Stu has three straight .810s... Bron is one .820 behind Seamus for second all-time with 27; Stu is at 18... Bron has five straight .820s and Stu has three... Bron's .850 streak ends at three, while Stu's .830 streak goes to three... Bernie now has the tenth-longest consecutive session streak of all time at 27, tying Nathan Robson's 2009-10 streak... Stu plays 15 consecutive sessions for the first time in his career... Ryan Disterheft's consecutive session streak ends at six.