Replay Hockey
League Newsletter
League
established October 1st, 1999
Volume #9, Issue #16 – July 1, 2023
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Current League
Officers:
Commissioner:
Mark McNeil
Email List Administrator: Mark McNeil
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whole league:
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Site:
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MESSAGE FROM
THE COMMISSIONER
Congratulations to the Dallas Stars and Mark
Shannon on their second RHL Cup and first in 12 years. Parity appears
to have hit the RHL as Dallas is the 7th straight different
team to win the Cup since Sean Savage and his Leafs won 4 in a row. PO
Boulianne had a great season as well as he fought through a tough
Eastern conference to survive into the Finals but ran out of gas
against the Stars though playing them tough in all 5 games.
With the finish of our finals, the season is now complete with
Awards and Ballot results below and we can finally get started on the
summer and hopefully get the game a little bit earlier this year and
get us back to our normal October starts. I am glad to see everyone
returning for another season, but if anyone does change their mind for
any reason, please let me know asap so I can have a plan in place to
fill the spot (I do have one potential owner interested so we would be
fine if needed). I am going to start working on a new Excel file for
next year, hopefully will have that out in a week or two with the
updated stats and then we just wait on the new ratings. Thanks guys
for another great season, enjoy the summer and look forward to seeing
you all next season!
Ballot voting
is complete and the one prop we had to change the draft lottery has
passed with 20 yes votes and only a two no votes (a couple of
abstentions). The constitution has been updated to reflect this
change.
2022-2023 RHL
Awards voting is complete, thanks for the 19 teams who placed their
votes, and here are your winners:
Wayne Gretzky Award (MVP) - Leon Draisaitl, NY
Rangers
Draisaitl wins his 4th straight RHL MVP award,
with 16 of 19 first place votes and on all but 1 ballot overall.
Stamkos finishes distant 2nd with no first place votes but 7 second
place nods, while Shesterkin finishes third with 1 first place vote
and on 6 ballots overall. McDavid and Sorokin each get a first
place vote to round things out.
Terry Sawchuk Trophy (MVG) - Igor Shesterkin,
Los Angeles/Vancouver
Igor Shesterkin puts up huge numbers this
season and gets 16 of 19 first place votes to easily win this award.
The amazing thing is he is likely the first goalie in the RHL to have
been traded during the season and still win this award showing up on
all 19 ballots. Juuse Saros and Jacob Markstrom finish second
and third respectively and to add to the strange for this award this
season, neither of them gets a first place vote but does it on the
strength of being on multiple ballots (7 for Saros and 5 for
Markstrom). Bobrovsky, Jarry and Sorokin each get a single first
place vote to round out the top 5 (all tied for 4th).
Doug Harvey Trophy (Best Defensive Dman) -
Devon Toews, San Jose
Tightest race of any award this season as Devon
Toews ends up with 6 first place votes, as does Jacob Trouba, but
Toews gets the edge with his 4 second place votes and 10 overall
ballots. Trouba ends up on 9 ballots to finish just 7 total
points back and Pietrangelo gets 3 first place votes to finish third,
just edging out Adam Fox. Tanev had 2 first place votes and Fox
and McNabb had the final 2 top votes.
Bobby Orr Award (Best Offensive Dman) - Roman
Josi, NY Rangers
Another tight race as Josi and Makar each get 7
first place votes, but again it is the 7 more second place votes for
Josi that gets him the top spot for the second time in three seasons.
Josi was on 16 overall ballots while Makar made it on 13 to finish a
fairly close second. Hedman gets 4 first place votes to finish
third and Fox gets the final top vote to round things out.
Bob Gainey Trophy (Best Defensive Forward) -
Anze Kopitar, Dallas
Kopitar gets 7 first place votes finishing well
ahead of Pavelski who had 2 first place votes and 4 second place.
Cirelli gets ends up in third with a single first place vote but on 7
overall ballots and Hertl gets 2 top nods, while Bonino and Couture
each get a single first place vote.
Cam Neely Award (Best Power Forward) - Brady
Tkachuk, Buffalo
Not a repeat winner, but Brady keeps this one
in the family (Matthew took this one last year) as he gets 9 first
place votes and 16 ballots overall for an easy win over Brad Marchand
who gets 3 first place votes but is only on 11 total ballots.
Svechnikov gets 2 first place votes to finish third and Hartman,
Bunting, Wilson and Landeskog each get a single top nod to finish
things off.
Ace Bailey Award (Rookie of the Year) - Moritz
Seider, Edmonton
Seider wins this one going away with 12 first
place votes and he is on all 19 ballots as the best rookie of this
season. Boldy finishes a very distant second with 4 first place
votes and Raymond squeezes out third with a single top vote but on 13
overall ballots (9 third place votes). Lundell gets the other 2
first place votes to end up in 4th.
Scotty Bowman Award (Coach of the Year) - Mike
McMillan, Florida
Mike finishes with the most points in the
league finishing is the regular seasons top team and his 7 first place
votes and 12 overall ballots puts him at the top for this award.
Mark Shannon finishes second with 3 first place votes but his 10 total
ballots puts him ahead of Peter Brooks in third despite his 4 first
place votes (but only 7 ballots overall). Stef Grubb gets 3
first place votes as well and Conner McNeil gets the other two for the
top spot to round out the top 5.
Sam Pollock Award (GM of the Year) - Jeremy
Martinyuk, Vancouver
Jeremy gets 9 first place votes to edge out
Alex Lane for the leagues best GM. Lane has 3 first place votes
and was on a total of 10 ballots which keeps him in second ahead of
David Boutin who got just 1 first place vote but was on 9 ballots.
Stef Grubb had 3 first place votes to help him finish 4th and Kerri
Taylor finishes in the fifth spot with a single first place vote but 6
ballots total.
Bob Nystrom Award (Playoff MVP) - Chris
Kreider, DAL
Kreider finishes third in playoff points,
second in playoff goals, tied for third in playoff powerplay goals and
led his Dallas Stars to the RHL Cup. Frederik Andersen was a close
second as he puts up a 2.17 GAA and .926 Sv Pct to keep Philadelphia
in the playoff fight all the way to the end. Other players who
deserved consideration were Sorokin, Norris with 12 goals, Couture
with 3 playoff winners, Gaudreau who led all playoers in scoring with
25 points and Draisaitl who was tops with 13 goals in just 12 games.
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PC Game File Update dated 3/23/2023.
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Schedule
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Standings – Final Regular Season Standings
Tim Horton
G W
L OL Pts
ROW GF
GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
Philadelphia 82 45 28
9 99
44 280 247
33 25
14 0
2 20 14
0 7
7 2
0 1
Washington 82
46 29 7
99 42
254 230 24
27 11 0
3 19 18
0 4
6 3
0 1
Arizona
82 44 28 10
98 43
271 251 20
27 10 0
4 17 18
0 6
6 3
0 1
Anaheim
82 42 32 8
92 39
257 248
9 23 16
0 2
19 16 0
6
3 4
0 3
Buffalo
82 33 43 6
72 28
206 250 -44
18 21 0
2 15 22
0 4
5 4
0 1
St. Louis
82 25 49 8
58 22
218 296 -78
16 22 0
3
9 27 0
5
3 7
0 0
Gordie Howe G
W L OL
Pts ROW
GF GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
New York R 82
55 19 8
118 51
345 252 93
32 6
0 3
23 13 0
5
5 3
0 2
Chicago
82 50 29 3
103 46
280 252 28
28 11 0
2 22 18
0 1
5 4
0 1
New York I 82
47 28 7
101 44
277 229 48
25 13 0
3 22 15
0 4
4 4
0 2
Carolina
82 36 34 12
84 33
240 265 -25
24 14 0
3 12 20
0 9
7 3
0 0
New Jersey 82
36 35 11 83
35 271 291
-20 23
12 0
6 13 23
0 5
5 4
0 1
Detroit
82 32 36 14
78 27
248 297 -49
18 16 0
7 14 20
0 7
4 6
0 0
Bobby Orr
G W
L OL Pts
ROW GF
GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
Dallas
82 56 20 6
118 53
302 234 68
35 4
0 2
21 16 0
4
7 3
0 0
San Jose
82 52 23 7
111 50
256 218
38 34
4 0
3 18 19
0 4
8 1
0 1
Montreal
82 44 26 12 100
43 266 238
28 26
12 0
3 18 14
0 9
5 4
0 1
Boston
82 33 36 13
79 33
262 294 -32
23 15 0
3 10 21
0 10
4 5
0 1
Los Angeles 82 30 44
8 68
26 210 268
-58 18
20 0
3 12 24
0 5
2 7
0 1
Toronto
82 27 50 5
59 25
243 335 -92
15 22 0
4 12 28
0 1
4 6
0 0
Mario Lemieux G
W L OL
Pts ROW
GF GA Diff
Home
Road
Last 10
Florida
82 60 18 4
124 58
300 232 68
34 5
0 2
26 13 0
2
8 2
0 0
Pittsburgh 82
57 17 8
122 54
270 192 78
36 0
0 5
21 17 0
3
9 1
0 0
Vancouver
82 49 26 7
105 47
284 236 48
27 11 0
3 22 15
0 4
6 4
0 0
Edmonton
82 29 44 9
67 27
229 289 -60
14 22 0
5 15 22
0 4
3 5
0 2
Calgary
82 30 47 5
65 26
236 284 -48
20 18 0
3 10 29
0 2
3 7
0 0
Colorado
82 26 49 7
59 23
206 283 -77
12 25 0
4 14 24
0 3
1 9
0 0
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OVERUSAGE (season)
Player
Team GP/Max
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RHL upcoming
calendar (all 9 PM Eastern):
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