Yes, it's that time again. Put on your dancing shoes, here we go:
Thrashers-Specific Awards
The Sort-Of Unsung Hero Award (awarded to a player who's plenty sung but isn't Ilya Kovalchuk)
Todd White
The Slightly Less Sung Hero Award
Marty Reasoner
The TRULY Unsung Hero Award
Jimmy Slater
The Pleasant Surprise Award
Rich Peverley
The God Award
Ilya Kovalchuk (2nd year in a row!)
Resurrection of the Year
Slava Kozlov
Best Double Act
Tobias Enstrom and Zach Bogosian (this pairing needs a name)
Steady as She Goes Award
Ron Hainsey
The "Why Wasn't He With Us All Year?" Award
Colin Stuart
Rookie of the Year
(tie) John Anderson/That Bogosian Fella
Best Commentary
Rawhide of the AJC
Funniest Commentary
Blueland Outsider
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NHL-at-Large
My Choice for the Hart Trophy
Patrick Marleau (San Jose Sharks)
Why Him: The Sharks are useless without him, even with Joe Thornton, and he's versatile as an multi-limbed androgynous hooker: a natural center, he scored 38 goals in 76 games this season, and he's one of the best defensive/PK forwards in the league.
Runners-up: Alex Ovechkin (Washington Capitals, duh), Tim Thomas (Boston Bruins)
My Choice for the Calder Trophy
Bobby Ryan (Anaheim Ducks)
Why Him: YOU try to score 31 goals in your first full year. Also, I realize Mason will get it and I'm being perversely contrarian here.
Runners-up: Steve Mason (Columbus BJs), Pekka Rinne (Nashville Predators)
My Choice for the Vezina Trophy
Tim Thomas (Boston Bruins)
Why Him: This really ought to be obvious.
Runners-up: Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks), Evgeni Nabokov (San Jose Sharks)
My Choice for the Norris Trophy
Zdeno Chara (Boston Bruins)
Why Him: He might not score 30 goals a year, but he CAN do everything exceedingly well.
Runners-up: Mike Green (yeah yeah), Duncan Keith (Chicago Blackhawks)
The "Jesus H. Christ! He's Too Goddamn Good" Award
Zach Parise/Alexander Ovechkin (2nd year in a row)
Most Underrated Player in the NHL
Bryan Little/Duncan Keith (STILL!)
This one's for you, Litts.
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7 comments:
Marleau for the Heart? You are SUCH a homer!!
My vote for the Heart, Vezina, Calder, Jack Adams, and Conn Smythe goes to Roloson by the way...
Just tryin' to gave a diffrent perspektif main.
My Hart would be Ken Klee, hands down. Try and argue that.
Bogosian and Enstrom: The Shmorgasbord (Pairing).
OooooOOOOoooooOOOoo..... I won a Peacock! I've finally made it in this world!
I'm humbled...speachles...honored, indeed!
I'd like to thank my mom...my dad...my wife & kids...and all of the "little people" out there who have made all of this possible.
Oh, and that cute as hell 10th grade teacher who was with youz-guyz in CNN Center Saturday...thank YOUUUuuUUUuuuuuuu!
So... where's my statue?
Why...
I...
/speechless
I am truly honored.
Playoff meetup sometime next week? I can't make Laura's tweetup this week, and I'm gonna need some kind of fix. First round of Yuengling is on me.
Rawhide-
It's more like a stuffed animal, but it's in the mail.
Aaron-
Sure, why not? I likes me some Yuengling. And I'll get the next round, of course.
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