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chetib · 08-29-2019, 04:21 PM

Esa Anrikkanen has a bunch of records that are going to be damn hard to beat. Mostly for the fact that the players played for so many seasons! I am going to say the most impossible feat is going to be beating the total number of games played. When you factor in SHL, IIHF, and SMJHL Esa has totalled 1,800 games played. What an unfathomable number, it today’s environment I find it hard to say that such a feat will ever be passed. In those 1,800 games Esa was also able to rack up a whopping 1,326 points. This is to say over a 29 season career Esa averaged 0.74 points per game these are solid numbers over such a long career. Drawing comparisons I think we can tell Esa Anrikkanen is easily the Finnish flash of the SHL. I don’t foresee any player in the league right that is going to have the stamina to beat a lot of the records set by Esa.

BrewskyBoy · 08-29-2019, 04:56 PM

Hardest Record To Break: Career Hits
I believe that the career hits record currently held by Taylor McDavid (3434) will never be broken. McDavid played in the league for a total of 22 seasons and averaged 154 hits per season. In today's era of the SHL, you're lucky to have 10 guys register 154 hits in a single season, with the league leaders each season peaking at about 200 hits. Even if you were banging on the 200 hit door for 10 seasons as a league leader, you'd still need to average 143 hits per season for another 10 seasons in order to match McDavid's totals. Only two other players in history have come remotely close to McDavid, and that's Willie Weber (3169) and Jonathan Lundberg (3173). Weber played in the exact same era as McDavid, but played one fewer season. Lundberg was our most recent and our best chance at ever breaking the record, and he retired two seasons ago. Lundberg only played 20 seasons and actually averaged more hits per season in his career (158) than McDavid, but just didn't have enough gas left in the tank to continue on for another two seasons to attempt to break the record.

**bk1689** · 08-29-2019, 05:02 PM

I think the next record most likely to be broken, will be the hits record by the "Augment", Mike Izzy. Currently sitting 8th all time at 2498, with 1st being occupied by Taylor McDavid at 3434. Izzy is averaging almost 200 hits a season during his career. Needing just under 900 to go and with how much of a TPE earner Izzy is, I can see this record likely being not only broken, but becoming untouchable as I can see Izzy going for 7-8 more seasons if need be just to cement himself as the best hitter of all time. Some of the current records seem untouchable by todays standards and the way the sim is, but to me this seems like the most likely record to fall and then become absolutely untouchable as Izzy will not only surpass this record but make it so that it will be a long time before someone comes close again.

Narconis · 08-29-2019, 05:27 PM

I might get some shit for this, but honestly, I think the hardest record to break would be Most Challenge Cups by a Player. You might think this is an absurd position considering the current “leader” is a 7-way tie between Esa Anrikkanen, Michael Boychuk, Alex Mack, Bubba Nuck, Nicholas Pedersen, Randy Randleman, and Reggie Williams at 5 cups a piece. The reason I say this is because of all the various records that can be broken, this one requires the most luck. To win a cup requires a LOT of skill, absolutely. A GM needs to be a fucking master at lineups and strategy. That can only get you so far though. You need to have an entire team, often with a strong core of home grown players. You can never be too sure how a drafted player will pan out, how active they will remain, ect. The main issue with this record is the 1 player is just a fraction of the team needed to win a cup. If you go bare minimum of 3 lines, you’re looking at one player being 1/16 of the winning combination. One player can potentially be the final missing piece, but they can’t be the only piece… so in that regard breaking the record requires a LOT of luck.

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***hotdog*** · 08-29-2019, 06:06 PM

PBE PT

ztevans · 08-29-2019, 06:20 PM

When I joined the SHL, many of Joe McKeil’s career tallies felt like unreachable stars, to use the term made famous by Chris Berman when discussing Lou Gehrig’s “Ironman” streak of 2,130 games played consecutively. Of course, Berman said this on the night Cal Ripken, Jr. “reached the unreachable star,” playing in his 2,131st consecutive MLB game.

Since then, three players have surpassed McKeil’s 927 career points, and two have reached an even more infathomable number of 1,000 career points. As it stands today, Esa Anrikkanen is the career points leader with 1,063 points over 29 seasons.

Still, I think not one but two players are in contention to surpass Anrikkanen and become the new king of SHL scoring. Entering Season 49, Terrance Nova boasted a bewildering 820 points in 800 games, averaging more than a point per game through the first 16 seasons of his career. Just ahead of him on the career tally is a player one season his senior, Jason Visser, with 846 points in 850 games.

Both players have proven they are in for the long haul, and have demonstrated inconceivable levels of durability against the throes of regression. They can’t stay point-per-game forever (although Visser is trying to disprove that this season once again, with 43 points in 45 games), but they will likely hang around long enough and with more than enough productivity to chase down Anrikkanen.

Nokazoa · 08-29-2019, 11:38 PM

I didn't explicitly put that he played for Edmonton, but hell, I did a jersey swap and have their logo in the bg. Gotta give it to me smalls! Unless this was when he played for the steelhawks... shit.

***goldenglutes*** · 08-30-2019, 03:17 AM

Quote:Which existing record (e.g., most goals, most wins, most hits, etc.) do you think will be broken by a currently active player? Explain yourself?

This one's pretty easy. The current career +/- record of 275 is going to get smashed by either Perry Morgan (@Flareon) or Guy Zheng. The pair are sitting pretty at +17 right now, so if we extrapolate that to another 20 or so seasons, they'll each be +340. This is obviously a conservative estimate -- the pair are only getting better from here, and they'll most likely play for more than another 20 seasons. However, I'm not sure which player will be the holder of the record come the end of his career -- these two stud defensemen are going to be sharing the blue line for likely their entire careers, so it'll be hard for one to gain +/- without the other also receiving the same point. It's probably slightly more likely that Zheng will be the one breaking the record since he seems to play slightly more minutes per game than Morgan for whatever reason, and since New England are quickly establishing a dynasty, the longer a player is on the ice for the Wolfpack, the more they'll be padding their stats.

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ontanis · 08-30-2019, 03:19 AM

I believe, that one of the most underrated records is the most career assists, which of course, was achieved by the one and only - Alonzo Garbanzo. Why is it underrated, you ask? Well, i just want to say that the most career assists record was broken by a defenseman. Maybe it would not be of any significance if a winger or a center would have this record under his belt, but me being a defenseman and to see that Alonzo was such a powerful force on the offensive is truly astounding to me. This record screams to me that Alonzo Garbanzo is the quintessential offensive defenseman and model team player in the modern SHL era. Not to mention, he achieved the record in 1208 games played, which makes the record to stand out even more. For example, Esa Anrikkanen tallied 549 assists in 1458 games. When you put these numbers into perspective, everyone should be talking more about Alonzo Garbanzo's assists number. Over and out.

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Segi · 08-30-2019, 07:04 AM

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Which record would you say will be the hardest to break? Explain yourself!

A record that is certainly possible to break but very unlikely to be done so is the one of most SHL games played in a career. If you don't count SHL legend CPU player, who played over 1500 games in 10 seasons, the record is held by Esa Anrikkanen who over a career of 29 seasons played 1458 games for the Calgary Dragons.

The record could be broken by a member who is really determined to do so, since you can essentially keep your player going forever, but I think, it's very unlikely than anyone ever does, because at some point, due to regression, the player will end up between 500 and 700 tpe and not put up good numbers anymore. You'd have to keep your player around long enough that you could just make a successfull career with another player in the time, you would waste your first one on bottom lines and I don't think, there is anyone determined enough to stay active through such a period.

Huck24 · 08-30-2019, 08:27 AM

Which record would you say will be the hardest to break? Explain yourself!

Looking through the current records one stat that I don't think will ever be matched is the record for the single season PIMs. I was shocked when I looked at those numbers. Having only been part of the SHL for the past three seasons, the highest amount of PIMs in a season that I have seen was during my first season, S47 when Edmonton's Tor Tuck gained himself 117 minutes in the sin bin. The next season, Poopity Scoop took that season with with 16 less PIMs (101) and this season, Tuck is back on top of the list with 83 PIMs with 6 games left to play. So, unless Tor somehow manages to get himself 110 more penalty minutes is these remaining games, which works out to be a little more than 18 minutes a game, this record isn't going to be touched. The record books show 5 different eras for PIMs, all of which I do not think will ever be touched. The lowest era record is the previously mentioned stat, with Kaspar Tzisling sitting for 192 minutes in S24. The highest total ever for PIMs was way back in S6, with Seth Plaut somehow getting 261 PIMs. That's frickin' wild! Through 50 games, a skater would need to average 4.34 PIMs per game, something that I can never see happening, not even close...

gordieboom · 08-30-2019, 11:25 AM

Which existing record (e.g., most goals, most wins, most hits, etc.) do you think will be broken by a currently active player? Explain yourself?

For this occasion i opened up the bojo box to check which player currently holds the record for most career assists. It turns out to be Alonzo Garbanzo who has collected a massive 765 assists in 24 seasons. Number two on the list is Joe McKeil with 582.
That means a gap of almost 200 which is very impressive to say the least. Despite that incredible record i believe there is one currently active player capable of beating it. To say it in other words, i know one player who will do everything he can to beat it. His name is Gordie Boomhover, center and playmaker playing for the New England Wolfpack. Gordie is determined to reach 1000 assists in his career, If it means he needs 50 seasons or more than so be it. At the moment Gordie collected 28 assists, so he has a long way to go, but his career is still young.

*Julio Tokolosh* · 08-30-2019, 11:30 AM

First, great PT. a combination of creativity and history. reading through these is like watching TSN's version of "Ancient Aliens".

The record that stands out as the hardest to break is Taylor McDavid's record for fights taken. With 54 fights, 17 outright wins, 13 losses, and 24 somewhere in between, those are numbers that are closer to an NHL career tough guy. Although John Grossman is a close second with 48 bouts through just 10 seasons (while McDavid took 22 to achieve his), the number stands out because of the direction of the league. This record stands out as particularly interesting to me because of the recent reddit draft where multiple active prospects went undrafted because of their build choices. As the league and the GMs, HO, and illuminati advance, the role of the enforcer is left further behind. With injuries turned off, it is just a matter of time until the enforcer role is removed.

In order to make these records achievable, there would have to be a major shift, where injuries are turned back on, but an insurance plan is installed in order to keep injured players active.

Whikadoodle · 08-30-2019, 12:32 PM

Can I choose an IIHF record? If so, I think that Ireland's streak of five straight gold medals is an unbreakable record for a number of reasons. Before Ireland went on their historic run in the S40s, a handful of federations (including my beloved Sweden) had notched back to back gold medals, but five straight is a streak we never saw coming and likely will never see again. Ireland benefitted from a couple of factors. First, Ireland came about after a massive s20 class, where we saw many first generation players go USA or CAN. Ireland expanded at just the right time; giving it plenty of open slots. Furthermore, the recruiting arm of Ireland was top notch, gathering talent who would commit to Ireland for their entire SHL user careers.

These days there are simply too many federations to pull from USA and CAN. Additionally, the smaller federations are much better managed and increase IIHF parity. The five Gold medal streak is unbeatable.

Taxman100 · 08-30-2019, 01:40 PM

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Which existing record (e.g., most goals, most wins, most hits, etc.) do you think will be broken by a currently active player? Explain yourself?

I think the career goals record could be broken, you have guys who have and will play for a long time like Jason Visser @ToeDragon84 who are like 150 off the record of 514 by Esa with quite a few seasons left to go. The SHL has a very heavy goal focus now so if you have someone try to build a high scoring low passing player and play for awhile, you could end up with the SHL's best sniper, someone who can break that record. If you can have like 20 25-goal seasons then a few lesser seasons you could pass that, I think it's more do-able than people think. And there's plenty of younger players coming up the ranks and pushing the 30 goal mark who could move up the ranks fast too. I expect it to be broken within the next 15 seasons or so, which is awhile but it is more a question of not if but when it will happen.

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