Season 4

Season 4 was the fourth season of league operations in the RPHL. Season 4 is often considered as the most significant and exciting season in RPHL history, as a large spike in league skill occurred, due to a huge and sudden increase in highly skilled players that joined the league. Some of which included RPHL Hall of Fame members Sloberon, EternaIKillerX, iiTons, REYCAPONE, and RobotSpider25. Other highly talented players that joined included MadSvardo, Provorox, and JasonOleksiak, along with the return of Birdoxd, among several others. Every team played 20 games, with 6 teams competing in Season 4. The 3 teams from the Eastern Conference were the Columbus Comets, Springfield Thunderbirds, and the Tampa Bay Rhinos. The 3 teams from the Western Conference were the Corpus Christi Blue Angels, Los Angeles Lions, and the Utah Vipers. Another reason for the great remembrance of Season 4 was that it's often considered the first time that the league took stat-taking super seriously. Furthermore, both the Corpus Christi Blue Angels and the Springfield Thunderbirds finished first and second in the league, with respectively, with 32 and 31 points. This set the still-current first and second team record for "Most Points In a Season".

The first game of the Regular Season was on January 5th, 2019, and the last game was on February 18th, 2019. The RPHL All-Star Skills Competition was on February 20th, with the RPHL All-Star Game being the day after, on February 21st. The Season 4 Premium Cup Playoffs followed the All-Star game. The first game of the playoffs was on February 23rd, and ended on March 12th, with the Corpus Christi Blue Angels winning the Premium Cup, beating the Springfield Thunderbirds in the Premium Cup Finals with a series score of 4-1.



League Procedures
Star System

Rule Changes

The charging penalty was implemented because Springfield Thunderbirds goalie, Br0q_Boeser, abused the power of the goalie pads by frequently charging someone who had possession of the puck.

Teams

Jerseys

Regular Season
Winter Classic

All-Star Game

Trivia

 * RPHL founder Zombie_x955 has 1 career point, scored in his first career game. It was a secondary assist in S4.
 * Sloberon won the Most Dynamic Teammate Duo Award for three straight seasons from S4-S6. Talk about chemistry!
 * DreadfulSleep won the Premium Cup 4x in a row from S1-S4. Gh0stSvardo has won it from S5-S7 (3 seasons in a row). Has the torch been passed..??
 * 2 out of the 8 of the Premium Cup champion teams are based in Texas! (San Antonio and Corpus Christi, S3 and S4 respectively).
 * A goalie from the Utah Vipers had won the Golden Goalie Trophy 3 consecutive seasons. This lasted from S2-S4.
 * There was a RPHL off-season league known as the RPHL Beauty League ran by KamekSvug in the S4 off-season.
 * No goalie has ever officially scored a goalie goal in the majors... the closest was a game in S4 when Automatic_Stretchers cleared the puck down to the other net and it went in! However, some people claim teammate Base_e touched it. After some controversy, the referee credited Base_e with the goal after all.
 * Up until S4, the final game of the Premium Cup Finals was always some type of FFT. The Springfield Thunderbirds finally ended this weird streak.
 * S4 was the last season that copyrighted/trademarked teams were allowed.
 * En route to their S4 Premium Cup win, CBA goaltender Provorox had two shutouts in the Premium Cup Finals!