100 SHL Moments
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#100 - Jack Crasher learns to light a fire
Jack Crasher became an unrestricted free agent leaving the Vancouver Nightmare (Now the Seattle Riot). He was the biggest UFA name in the market that season. He got into talks with all the general managers in the league and signed a contract with all the teams in private message. Later that day, Jack Crasher never again returned to the league. To the manager's dismay, Jack Crasher was forced to retire and his agent banned from future SHL games. Jack Crasher also predicted the league to "die in the middle of season 7" #99 - Winnipeg Jets wins first ever Challenge Cup in SHL history The very first ever Challenge Cup was won by the Winnipeg Jets. The team had 12 players! That is the team with the smallest amount of members to ever win a Challenge Cup. The team had very well known players including Jay McDonald, Ron Mexico, Pavol Skvoznak, Sergei Karpotsov, and Damian Littleton. #98 - Drayson Williams drafted first overall by the Hamilton Steelhawks in season 2 Drayson Williams turned out to be the biggest bust in the SHL history. He was drafted first overall and his name is only known in the SHL record book as the 1st overall player with the least points, least TPE, least everything. Drayson Williams didn't have a long career in the SHL. The season 2 draft had players like Jamie Campagiorni, Brandon Holmes, Dominic Turcotte, Gabriel Fortescue, and Ron Bolt among others. It certainly is a deep draft at that time so someone has to question why the Hamilton Steelhawks chose Drayson Williams #97 - First ever junior draft was held The first NWJHL junior draft was held on season one on June 19 2010. The first overall pick was Lucas Read to the Brandon Blazers. The other players drafted on the first round were Olaf Glockner to the Prince George Firebirds, Tommy Trecker to the Vancouver Whalers and Jamie Campagniori to the Lethbridge Lions. #96 - Toronto North Stars make their first ever Challenge Cup finals after 16 long seasons. Season 16 - one of the most successful North Stars season. After treacherous seasons of missing the playoffs or being first round exits, they finally managed to muster up enough strength to go all the way to the Challenge Cup finals. It was unfortunate that their tracks were stopped by the Edmonton Blizzard. They are still searching for their first ever Challenge Cup in franchise history. They are tied with the Seattle Riot organization as the teams with the longest Cup drought of 16 seasons. #95 - Edmonton Rebuild The Edmonton organization spent many seasons rebuilding. After the a new ownership took over the manager position, it didn't take long for Seth to sell all his assets for draft pick. The acquisition of young players for sure are great but the manager forgot the value of veterans on the team. The organization would rinse and repeat gaining prospect and losing the prospect because he didn't like to be on a losing team for the rest of his career. Over the course of the Edmonton "rebuild", they acquired the following players in the first round: S6 - Dougie Brind'Amour 7th overall (ditched team and retired for the 20th time) S7 - Elias Armia 1st overall (ditched team to be GM of his own team) S8 - Antero Salmelainen 1st overall S8 - Sam Slade 2nd overall (Good thing he was traded before he ditched team) S8 - Cole Reinhart 8th overall (ditched team. The Cole Reinhart we know today to manage the Blizzard is a fake) S9 - Teemu Nurmi 5th overall (ditched team as he was traded for Michael Haan) S10 - Michael Haan 1st overall (ditched team in S17 off season) S10 -Alexander Andrezjeck 4th overall (ditched team when he got traded to Panthers) S10 - John Langabeer 5th overall (ditched team when he got traded to Hawks) Season 11 was really when they stopped the full rebuild as they traded their second overall pick for Tom Corcoran, Ronan O'Keefe, and Kevin Lebacon. 94 - Spangle was named SHL Commissioner At the time, Spangle being named commissioner made many people upset. Many were calling for the head of the new Commissioner with #firespangs #spangworstcomiss in nearly every thread. It came far as for the league banning everyone who opposes spangle. Truly facists. It turns out Spangle was one of the best commissioners in the SHL with the implementation of many SHL rules we know today. He became an SHL owner even though he doesn't own SHL. 93 - Dpark gets caught with a multi The first major and controversial multiple account was when Dpark got caught with a multi called boooobmilk. The player's name was Chico Salmon and he was playing with the Montreal Impact. There was a big arguement that people should be allowed to have multi because it doesn't hurt in anyway but the league opposes. This was when the EEL was created to stop people from creating multiple accounts 92 - Texas Renegades wins the Challenge Cup The Texas Renegades seems like a team that never started from the bottom. They are an expansion team from season 10 but they have been consistently making the playoffs. They have only missed the playoffs once and that was their first year in the league. Many people question the Renegades trading away their picks like they grow from trees but so far the Renegades have been doing more great in their season than bad. They have been doing better than teams that try to collect draft picks. 91 - Las Vegas Kings moves to Seattle and renames to Riot This franchise holds the SHL record for franchise relocation. They have moved cities for a total of five times! They have went through name changes for a total of six times! The Seattle franchise was originally the Wisconsin Monarchs with the logo of the Los Angeles Kings. The franchise was then moved to the Vancouver and named Ice Wolves. The franchise went into a name change and was known as the Vancouver Nightmare. They had two logos at their time as the Nightmare. Then the team changed ownership again and relocated to Las Vegas and renamed themselves the Kings. Kind of ironic since they had the LA Kings logo as their very first. Finally they are currently in Seattle, named Riot. Hope this is the last of their change. 90 - Goalie drought On season 11, the league went through a terrible change. They changed the engine to whatever version it was. The goalies started playing terrible that season with very high scoring games. Never have anyone seen 90 point scorers but that came close to a reality on season 11 when Elias Armia scored 88 points in only 50 games. The goalies were far from impressive. John McBride was the best goaltender in season 11 with a save percentage of 0.903 and goals against average of 2.29. That looks like a save percentage of a back up. The second best goaltender was Tom Corcoran with a save percentage of 0.890 and goals against average of 2.46. Only three goalies had a goals against average of below 3.00! 89 - Cats invade SHL Way way way back - once upon a time, cats invaded SHL in forms of pictures. They would have threads full of cat pictures. The modern day equivalent would be spiderman pictures. I wonder how many members quit because of cat pictures. 88 - Each NWJHL teams played 90 games each and an end of a junior era! Season 3 was a weird season. Each NWJHL teams played 90 games each! That is nothing compared to the 50 games that is being played right now! The league only had six teams back then and there were the now relocated or defuncted teams such as the Lethbridge Lions and the Brandon Blazers. Derek Manley of the Kelowna Knights lead the league in scoring with 128 points in 90 games. The leading goal scorer was Kiernan Cassidy with 75 points in 90 games. The best goaltender that season was Jonathan Quicker with a record of 50-27-4. No modern goalie will be able to beat that record unless they go perfect 50-0-0! The Kelowna Knights won the Four Star Cup that season after finishing last place in their conference. They came back from a 3-0 series deficit against the Lethbridge Lions in the conference finals. 87 - Expansion teams make the Challenge Cup finals on their first ever season. On season 6, the SHL expanded to a total of ten teams. The Los Angeles Panthers and the Minnesota Chiefs were brand new franchise. Nonetheless, no one would have guessed that the two new franchises would make it all the way to the Challenge Cup finals beating all the league's powerhouses. The Los Angeles Panthers would end up winning the Challenge Cup finals in seven games. Ideen Fallah lead the way for the Panthers with 15 points in 12 games while Brodie Witzel for the Chiefs lead his team with 22 points in 17 games. 86 - Dragons finally break out and win not only one cup but two cups The Calgary Dragons were always overhyped in the off-season. They had a great roster buy they couldn't manage to win anything - regular season nor playoffs. That changed on season 8 when the Dragons finally was able to win a Challenge Cup - their first ever. They would repeat another Challenge Cup the season after. The Dragons would have another first place finish the season after their second straight cup but it didn't materialize into a three-peat. The season after that, the Dragons would fall back from grace finishing fourth in their conference. This period of time was known as the Calgary Dragons Dynasty (Fun fact, there were three well known dynasty in the SHL and all of them are Alberta teams) 85 - Hamilton Steelhawks cinderella run The Hamilton Steelhawks barely made the playoffs on season 3. They had a record of 15-21-4 good enough for 34 points. The team behind them was the Toronto North Stars - a team that had a record of 16-23-1 for 33 points. If Hamilton have had lost in regulation in their final game, they would have missed the playoffs. Their shootout lost on their final game made the difference between making the playoffs and missing the playoffs. To show how much Hamilton sucked that season, here is the Eastern conference standings from season 3: West Kendall Platoon 28-7-5 61 pts Manhattan Rage 22-9-9 53 points Hamilton Steelhawks 15-21-4 34 points The Steelhawks managed to beat the Rage 4-2, and the Platoon 4-1 - both very convincing wins. The Hawks couldn't manage to finish the cinderella run as the Edmonton Comets stopped their tracks with a sweep. 85 - Edmonton franchise dynasties The Edmonton franchise has the most Challenge Cups in the SHL history with a total of 5, more than double the amount of any SHL teams. Not only that but they are the only franchise to win a back-to-back Challenge Cup twice. The very first Edmonton Dynasty came on the first seasons of the SHL - namely seasons 3 and 4. They were lead by legends like Jay MacDonald, Sergei Karpotsov, and other players like Richard Metcalf, Patrick Perry, Jeff Hockridge among others. The dynasty would end after the retirement of Sergei Karpotsov, the boom of the league, and the hire of Seth. The second Edmonton Dynasty is a defensive behemoth lead by a defensive core of Cole Reinhart, Teemu Nurmi, Gene Parmesan among others. They won the Challenge Cup three time in four season with the ability to increase those number. Their recent Challenge Cup win was a complete cinderella run after barely making the playoffs on their last game of the season against the first place Los Angeles Panthers. They would end up beating the Panthers again in the playoffs to boost their confidence. 84 - First time Challenge Cup Wins and Cup Droughts! As of today, the Challenge Cup has been handed out a total of 16 times! Eight SHL teams have won a Challenge Cup in that time span. The first ever team to win the Challenge Cup was the Winnipeg Jets. They have also won the Cup on Season 7 for a total of 2 Challenge Cups. They are in a 9 season cup drought. The West Kendall Platoon won their first Challenge Cup on season 2. They would win again on season 5. So far the West Kendall Platoon are on an 11 season cup drought. The Edmonton franchise has the most Challenge Cup with a total of 5. They won the Challenge Cup on season 3, and 4 as the Comets and 13, 15, 16 as the Blizzard. They are not on a cup drought currently. The Los Angeles Panthers won their first and only cup on their very first season on season 6. So far the Panthers have had many seasons of rebuild but they are currently surging as one of the best teams in the western conference. They Panthers are on a 10 season cup drought. The Calgary Dragons had a dynasty - winning Challenge Cups from seasons 8 and 9. They are currently finding their form again to compete for a Challenge Cup. So far they have had disappointing conference final exits in the past seasons. So far the Dragons are on a 7 season cup drought. The Minnesota Chiefs had a small but unknown dynasty from their very first time in the SHL. They had many top 2 finishes and are cup favourites for many seasons despite being a new team. They won their first Challenge Cup on season 10 and won another one on season 12. They are on a 4 season cup drought. The Hamilton Steelhawks were an original six team but saw their first cup only on season 11. They are on a 5 season cup drought. The Texas Renegades have consistently made the SHL playoffs and was awarded with a Challenge Cup on season 14. They are on a 2 season cup drought. There are four teams that have never won the Challenge Cup - the Toronto North Stars, The Seattle Riot, The Manhattan Rage, and the New England Wolfpack. The Toronto North Stars and the Seattle Riot are two of SHL's original six teams and they have the longest cup drought at 16 seasons. The Manhattan Rage are on a 15 season cup drought. The New England Wolfpack are a recent expansion team and are on a 6 season cup drought 84 The IHF had more teams than they do now The IHF used to have a whole lot more teams with any player being able to play on teams that they want regardless of their country. The most popular team at that time were of course the American countries but there was a big support for Team Latvia, Team Kazhakstan, and Team Australia (or was it Austria). There was also Team Ireland, Team Iceland, and of course the basic teams like Team Russia, Sweden, Finland, and such! 83 The Fight Club The Fight Club was created to enforce many fighting in the SHL. Fighting today is not very popular as it doesn't help the team but back then, fighters have had way more fun including this club. You would bet money to put your player in a pool and when the player fights another player that was in the fight club, they would have their wins, lost, or ties recorded on their player. The player with the best record would win the prize pool. This was quite a popular thing with fancy signature, media attention, and fighter introduction, interview and such. 82 The Bank Manager and The SHL Network There used to be a separate account for managing the bank and doing play by plays. Yes, that's right. Bank managing was way more difficult back in the day as you would have to log in to another account just so you can edit everything about bank managing. When Bill hacked the league, the Bank Manager posted his retirement. I still don't know if it was Bill or the actual bank manager. Link: http://z7.invisionfree.com/The_SHL/index.p...wtopic=5030&hl= The SHL Network account was pretty interesting. The reasoning behind it was because it prevent inflation of total post counts. The SHL Network account would make its way on this site only to be disabled because of hacking and people using the account for anonymity 81 Raging Homos After Bill Lochhead was drafted by the Wisconsin Monarchs then traded to the Manhattan Rage, he was then coined as a raging homo and the entire team was also called the raging homo. Because of this, he raged all over the forum and caused many commotions in PbPs. Bill's punishment was banishment from the league. His friend Gage also went along with him because he was also a raging homo. 80 NWJHL expands The NWJHL had an expansion up to eight teams. The Lethbridge Lions and the Anaheim Outlaws also relocated. The NWJHL teams from the expansion were the Boston Battalion, Detroit Falcons, Washington Patriots, Montreal Impact, Vancouver Whalers, Prince George Firebirds, Kelowna Knights and the Seattle Stingrays. The SHL then decided to defunct two NWJHL teams as there are not enough new members to fill each team's roster. Unfortunately, the Stingrays and the Patriots had to go. 79 - Biggest SHL Draft The season 5 SHL entry draft held the most players ever with eight rounds worth of players. Not only that but this season also held the deepest pool of players. This was when the league boomed in activity. The first overall pick that season belonged to the Toronto North Stars, who selected Danielle Hogan. While the first round wasn't really that spectacular with names like Jayson Hornet, Niclas Mastromarino, and Peter Peter Iannitelli not making it that far in the SHL, this draft had names like Frankie Gooseneck and Audun Wissink on the third round, Jackson Turska on the fourth round, Vladislav Smirnov and John McBride on the fifth round, Giovanni Mortellaro on the sixth round, and Brandon Sawyer on the seventh round. This goes to show how much the scouting has improved (or has it really improved or is it just that there are less number of players to scout which makes percentage better) 78 The SHL moves from Invisionfree to Jcink The first major move the SHL did was moving to Jcink. The SHL was unhappy with the limitation that invisionfree has. Some members also never returned to the SHL again because of the move. Majority of the members were happy of the move because it will provide a cleaner and more organized forums. Today, some talks of another big move has been discussed and possibly started but nothing has materialized yet. The league might be having second thoughts about moving again since it might be prone to hacking and what not. ![]() 77 New team and already relocating? The Buffalo was awarded an SHL franchise and was named the Thunder. Not even a season has passed and the team has already relocated to Hartford and was renamed as Hartford Hydras! The team however didn't last long in Hartford as once again it was relocated to New England and as known today as the New England Wolfpack. No one knows if this franchise will hold a similar fate as the Wisconsin franchise but so far the ownership might be rethinking of another move as the team has dominated their conference. No cups to show for though. That is their next step. 76 - SHL Wikipedia An SHL wikipedia project was discussed and started on. The leader of the project was a user called IanPhoenix Many people seemed to be interested by making one. It didn't last one season as people stopped contributing articles. The last article created was the Minnesota Chiefs page. At that time, they have never won the Challenge Cup! Boon and JumpierPegasus were the GMs back then. The most popular page is a page of Julian Dupont. It says "Julien Dupont is a big scrub who is the lover of Matthew Ekblad." The site can be found on http://shl.wikia.com/wiki/Simulation_Hockey_League 75 - Edmonton Blizzard makes it a clean 10-0-0 On season 15, the Edmonton Blizzard won 21 straight games and had their last 10 games, last 10 home games, and last 10 road games go perfect 10-0-0 across the board. The Blizzard win streak would end again the Panthers on the road. The Blizzard at one point in the season have not lost the game in 31 straight games. The Blizzard finished that season with a 38-7-5 record and clinched the president's trophy. The Blizzard also won the Challenge Cup that season. 74 - Defenseman leads the league in scoring. For the first time ever in SHL history, Jason Due, a Las Vegas King defenseman lead the entire league in scoring on season 14. This accomplishment was awarded with the Sarmad Khan Trophy, the Ron Mexico Trophy, and the Scott Stevens Trophy. 73 - Boring NWJHL Back in season 3 and before, the NWJHL players were not allowed to train their players nor anything. They basically just had to collect cash from PbPs and media in order to increase their draft stock. The NWJHL changed after that season and added TPE caps, training camps, and workouts. It became the junior league that it is today with SHL-like qualities. 72 - The bank gets fucked Michael Abdalla fooled the bank in the SHL by not withdrawing any money. His player soon became maxed out and people became suspicious of it. Michael Abdalla was then caught cheating and he was forced to retire and all his money was taken by the master bank. It turns out he owed the bank somewhere around 10 million. Abdeezy was also not to be able to take any jobs again in the entire SHL but he got a SMJHL GM job because the SHL is soft as shit.
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Former SHL Head Commissioner S12ish-S27ish GM ![]() 2x GM Of The Year 5 Time Cup Winner League MVP Past Players ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Current Player D - Chico Smeb (S46) SMJHL - Drafted 65th Overall by ![]() SHL - Drafted 23rd Overall by ![]() ![]() Banned Secretly Loves Montreal ![]() Registered S13, S15, S16 Challenge Cup Champion Quote:Originally posted by Leafs = Slumpbusters@Mar 4 2014, 03:47 PM This no top 100 though. It's just 100 moments.
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Due goes the entire S5 without scoring a goal. In the 2nd round against the dynasty Edmonton Comets, it goes 7 games. Regulation solves nothing, so they head to overtime. Due quickly ends it with his first ever goal and ends the first Edmonton dynasty. B)
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Former SHL Head Commissioner S12ish-S27ish GM ![]() 2x GM Of The Year 5 Time Cup Winner League MVP Past Players ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Current Player D - Chico Smeb (S46) SMJHL - Drafted 65th Overall by ![]() SHL - Drafted 23rd Overall by ![]() ![]() Banned Secretly Loves Montreal Quote:Originally posted by ,Mar 4 2014@ 06:48 PMthe panthers are getting together in the off-season via FA and draft and then going on to win Cup is a moment ![]() Registered Posting Freak Quote:S7 - Elias Armia 1st overall (ditched team to be GM of his own team) :lol: ilu stud ![]() ![]() Registered S13, S15, S16 Challenge Cup Champion Quote:Originally posted by Leafs = Slumpbusters@Mar 4 2014, 03:58 PM but doesn't matter if it ends up 1, 10 0u 69
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