Oisin Fletcher - Jay McDonald Award

Our final non voted on prize is known as the Jay McDonald Trophy which goes to the leagues top goal-scorer for the season! That award falls to Oisen Fletcher of the Edmonton Blizzard who lit the lamp 27 times in 44, 2 more then WKP forward Alex Light! Fletcher is putting together an envious assamble of indivigual hardware.. with this being her 2nd award of the evening. Congrats @Evok !

Were back!

and the excitement builds as we move to the voted on awards section of our show starting with the Jeff Dar award which goes to the best 2 way forward. Talk about Muchizmo!.. This season may boast the best set of nominations in quite a while as all 4 were deviant 200 feet players on the ice, each likely being the top candidate in a past season. Our 4 nominees are...

Jeff Dar Award (Top 2way forward)

Tigole Bitties  
Joe Kurczewski    
Dani Forsberg  
Mike Izzy  




and the award goes to.........

Dani Forsberg is the winner of the Jeff Dar award for the leagues best 2 way forward! This is back to back Jeff Dar awards for #9 who in his prime has become one of the best players in the world. This season Forsberg dropped 53 points and 234 hits with 13 power play points and 100 minutes on the PK.. abrasive numbers worthy of the Dar. Congrats @Insayne !

Known as the Damian Littleton award our next accolade is about giving back to the community, and these 4 nominees have done plenty of that.. As someone that won the most dedicated user award and holds it with great pride i would personally like to thank all 4 nominees for there service around the boards, on discord and around the site as your time, effort and loyalty to the SHL is greatly appreciated! Our 4 nominees are ...


Damien Littleton Award (Most Dedicated)

evok
tdz
luketd
argarbargar



and the award goes to.........

This is the 2nd Damian Littleton award for @Evok who's work as the leagues simmer for both the SHL and IIHF is greatly appreciated! Like clockwork our SIM's are up everyday at 6:09 AM eastern and before 10 AM on the weekends without worry or error. Evok makes one of our leagues most difficult jobs look easy.. thank you and congratulations!

The Aidan Richan award (thank you @ArGarBarGar for the correct spelling notification) is an accolade given out to the leagues true breakout star of season 44!... Some of them came as a surprise, some were not.. but all 4 nominees have wow'd the audience this season with their abilities on the ice. The nominees for breakout star are....



Aidan Richan Award (Breakout Star)

Brady McIntyre  
Manuel Gotze  
Tor Tuck  
Liam O’Callaghan  



and the winner is .....

Brady McIntyre of the Edmonton Blizzard is our breakout star in season 44! McIntyre went from 23 points to 48 this season which includes 64 blocks, 108 penalty kill minutes and a +18 when on the ice! McIntyre was a star in 44 and someone truly deserving of this honor. Congrats @caltroit_red_flames !

Our next award honors our leagues best General Managers and this season we have 3 groups whos team made real improvement in the standings, were in good league standing, completed all of their off-season tasks on time and made moves which greatly benifited their organization. This seasons nominees for the Lance Uppercut award are...



Lance Uppercut Award (Best GM)

 Toronto North Stars - nobody, ml002
 Edmonton Blizzard - karlssens, keygan
 Los Angeles Panthers - wasty, vbottas17



and the winner is ....

The trade for Michael McFadden, the free agency signing of Jonathan Lundberg and a great lineup and strategic plan by made Toronto the surprise of the SHL as they won the eastern division with a 33-15-2 record!  take a bow GM's @Nobody and @ml002 .. the Lance Uppercut award is yours!

The sites been talking about the rediculous skill in the SMJHL for a few seasons, and here in 44 we watched that first wave of talent storm into the SHL and plant there flag onto the leagues collective consciousness. and now we pay tribute to 4 of our leagues best young players.. our nominees for the Ryan Jesster Award.


Ryan Jesster Award (Top Rookie)

Kata Vilde  
Rafe Ulrich  
Leshaun King  
Jax Aittokallio  



and the winner is .....