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***MikeLiut*** · 12-12-2022, 10:38 PM

Not an actual SHL record, but one in the making.

Ekaterina Valieva was destined to become an Olympic athlete. When they kicked her out of the Weightlifting national team and had her medals taken away, she wanted to be known for something else. She began to play hockey, but was not the best player on her team.

She wanted to be in the history books, so she announced to her parents she wanted to set a new record for the longest bus ride in a season in Russia. She knew that her team travelled a lot by bus to games and tournaments, and she figured that if she rode the bus for every trip, she could add up an impressive number of kilometres. From Moscow to Kamchatka (thanks Risk!), she packed her bags and hopped on the team bus for road trips all season. She endured cold weather, bumpy roads, and cramped seats, all in the name of setting a new record.

As the season went on, Ekaterina's teammates started to take notice of her dedication. Some of them even started to root for her and cheer her on as she racked up more and more miles. By the end of the season, she only played 4 games (arriving late for most of them), and gained weight by eating an impressive amount of junk food, but Ekaterina had set a new record for the longest bus ride in a season. Even though she was still a minor league player, Ekaterina had achieved something truly remarkable and memorable, and her record still exists today.

She is trying to do the same this season in Kelowna. She is driving when possible to away games: Yukon, Vancouver, Regina... It might explain her disappointing season so far.

bjkman · 12-13-2022, 12:22 AM

***boom*** · 12-13-2022, 01:01 AM

Creative Prompt

My favourite obscure moment in SHL history would probably be the J's Vancouver Whalers in their S57 Cinderella season. With the team losing nine players and their head GM coming off a Cup run, as well as mortgaging a significant amount of draft capital to get it done, there weren't too many expectations this season. What ended up happening was one of the weirdest seasons I've ever been a part of (as the newly minted head GM). The Whalers had one of the best top lines in the entire league in Valtteri Kauppinen, Rikki Petrov and KnockedOut ByOvechkin, and those three backed up by Johnny Shuffleboard and Sarah Burke were a lethal top power-play unit. Depth could sometimes be lacking, but an all-DFA line of Alexis Saint-Michel, Robert EO Speedwagon and Eoin Byrne did pretty well as young players to augment the lineup. Where this team shone was just how clutch they were. The team went 9-6 in games that went past regulation, including being 5-2 at 3-on-3 play. Anecdotally, I think there were like four or five games on top of that where the Whalers scored a goal in the final minute to win, usually on the power play. In the playoffs, the clutchness continued as the Whalers beat Nevada in five and then Detroit in four to roll to the semifinals. Valtteri Kauppinen in particular had the playoff run of his life with 11 goals and 20 points in just 14 games, including a 7-point performance against Detroit that if I am correct is still a SMJHL record. The luck ran out when the team couldn't solve Strom Chamberlain in the semifinals, but it was still a thrilling ride.

*Katth* · 12-13-2022, 06:33 AM

I would like to talk about a NHL record by the games biggest player ever, Wayne Gretzky. The NHL all time goal scoring record sits at 894 and there is currently one active player that is closing in on this record, Alex Ovechkin. Will he break it?

As of last night, Alex Ovechkin now has 797 goals scored in his career. He's only 3 short of 800 and 98 short of breaking the record. This season Alex Ovechkin is scoring goals at a 0.57 goals per game pace (47/season). If he continues this trend he would need to play another 172 games to hit the 895 goals milestone and still have a time left on his current contract. If Alex Ovechkin ends up playing the remainder of his contract he would only need to score 23 goals per season to break the record.

I don't think it will be a question of will he break it, but when.

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***By-Tor*** · 12-13-2022, 09:53 AM

Player Prompt:

I think there needs to be more work done to expand luke's idea of putting together a composite accomplishment score like this. I think what's lost on people, especially when looking into the distant past of the league is the accumulated accomplishments of various players. Sure, you can look at the award list and see Player A won a Mexico here and a Dar here, but it doesn't really add up in your mind - or you may miss something. Creating a comprehensive database - that is regularly updated- that shows the accomplishments of players should be a league goal. It would help with Hall of Fame voting and justification, it would give transparency to the best players in league history (especially for newbies), and it would just be straight up cool. I've been here almost two years and I still don't know who the better players of the past are. I'd like to see this area of the SHL history site expanded.

Credit to enigmatic, Merica, and tweedledunn for sigs

Lorec · 12-13-2022, 11:06 AM

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Vulfzilla · 12-13-2022, 12:40 PM

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***Sburbine*** · 12-13-2022, 02:08 PM

Written Task:
So the lame goal scoring record and maybe even the points record are probably gonna be beaten this season but you know what the cool and important record that might be broken? Plus/minus. Way more important than boring goals. My player Jay O'Neil is gunning for the record at +73 held by Chicago legend Disisde Dayudie in S59. Currently at +65 with 12 games left in the season (we'll know before this Prompt is due but I don't want to write late in the week) Jay has a good shot at it. Interestingly enough Jay has to face the always top of the league and team where the current record come from Chicago 3 more times in those 12 games to clinch it. Winning this will help prove that Jay O'Neil deserves a Bojo award for the league best defensive defenseman instead of whatever defender gets the most blocks every season. Jay has showed that when he's on the ice, the other team is shutdown and can't even think about scoring.

***Frenchie*** · 12-13-2022, 02:43 PM

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HOCKEY PROMPT- This is going to be a very similar prompt, but I wanted to give people that have a lot of real life hockey knowledge a chance to flex too. 

Written Task:  What is the most interesting thing about real world hockey history to you, and why? Is there a particular player, team, or record that you find fascinating? Is there an unknown hockey fact that you feel like more people should know? OR maybe there's a current player that's gunning for a record that you'd like to talk about! I don't know! Go crazy! I just want to learn cool hockey history. (150+ words)

I think at this point it is common knowledge that among the Greatest of All Time conversation, the name of Mario Lemieux (or dubbed Mario le Magnifique) is very often if not always in it. I have a personal bias towards it, being both a french-canadian and a pens fan. That being said, this one statistic really cemented how dominant of a player he was, on top of many other incredible feats - let's not forget he kicked cancers butt and came out of retirement to have an insane almost 2 PPG season. In 83-84, during his final year of junior hockey with the Laval Voisins, Lemieux would put up a record high 282 points in 70 games..... yes, a 4 point per game season. That to me is so incredibly ludicrous, moreso that he's 31 points clear of the second best season, and 48 clear of the third which belongs to the all-time Pat Lalalalalafontaine. Insane.

*Evil_AllBran* · 12-13-2022, 06:44 PM

Making this felt like blasphemy

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CaptainCamel · 12-13-2022, 09:05 PM

Hockey Prompt:

So sadly, I don't really know a whole lot about hockey history. I enjoyed the Hurricanes' cup run back in 2006 when I was younger, but even then I didn't really get into it hockey and start following the team and sport as a whole until around 2014. One thing I will talk about is just how incredible the Gretzky era Edmonton Oilers were. I mean every single sports fan, hockey or not, knows who Wayne Gretzky is. There's a lot of talk about "oh would he be as good today as he was back then?" Absolutely not, of course not. The sport changes so much every few years. However, I do believe he would still be an absolute powerhouse in the league, easily among the big names around the league. It's not just a good player that wins a team a Stanley Cup. There's leadership involved with him that would help any team that he's on if he were to be around to play today at his prime age in the 80's

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