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 Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 9:56 am Post subject: Toews, MacLean deserving award winners |
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BURNSIDE: Properly, my pal, thanks to the lockout the yearly NHL awards extravaganza in Las Vegas has been revamped and spread more than two days for the duration of the Stanley Cup finals, with the 1st batch of winners unveiled Friday afternoon. The stability of the significant awards will be unveiled Saturday just before Game 2 of the finals. Let&rsquos consider a appear at the 3 significant awards handed out Friday. For me, the Selke was the most compelling because it was genuinely a two-man race in between Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews and defending Selke winner Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins https://www.canadiensteamfanshop.com/Travis_Moen_Jersey-48. Toews and Bergeron are the heart-and-soul leaders of their teams, and Toews edged Bergeron for his first-ever Selke by a scant ten voting points. I know you imagined Toews need to have been a finalist for the Hart Trophy (as league MVP), but he&rsquos surely deserving of the Selke, which some individuals take into account a single of the most prestigious awards in the game given that it recognizes a player's comprehensive game https://www.canadiensteamfanshop.com/Dickie_Moore_Jersey-22. Now, what will be fascinating is which of these two excellent forwards ends up sporting a Stanley Cup ring in the next couple of weeks. What was your consider on the Selke voting?Dave Reginek/NHLI/Getty Photographs</cite>Jonathan Toews' all-about game earned him his first-ever Selke Trophy this season. LEBRUN: I had Bergeron initial on my official ballot and Toews second, but I&rsquom not upset that Toews won it. I believe they&rsquore both equally deserving, remarkable 200-foot gamers. Complete toss-up for me. What upsets me more is that Toews did not make it as a nominee for the Hart Trophy. I just can&rsquot think that at all. But I guess that&rsquos a conversation for Saturday when the Hart is handed out (rumor is that Alex Ovechkin has won it). 1 point I can tell you is that I was tremendously pleased to see Paul MacLean of the Ottawa Senators winning the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year. Like a lot of other media members, I have been touting him all year. Completely a slam dunk offered what he did with the damage-ravaged Senators this season. It would have been an absolute travesty had the NHL Broadcasters' Association not voted him the winner. BURNSIDE: I fear you and I may possibly come to blows when the Hart Trophy winner --and the NHLPA companion, the Ted Lindsay Award -- are announced, but I can surely recognize the Hart Trophy discussion as it relates to Toews. That&rsquos how critical he is to the Blackhawks. And I agree totally on MacLean. This is the 2nd 12 months in a row he was on the last ballot for coach of the year, and he effortlessly outdistanced the second-area finisher, Joel Quenneville of the Chicago Blackhawks. Bruce Boudreau of the Washington Capitals was third. The Jack Adams is a hard a single because usually it goes to a coach who gets his group to overachieve or does a lot more with less, but there&rsquos no query MacLean's task in retaining his team on track with out Erik Karlsson, Jason Spezza and Craig Anderson for prolonged stretches of time reinforces that he is one of the keenest coaching minds in the league. The other award of note announced Friday was the GM of the 12 months, and the Pittsburgh Penguins' Ray Shero earned that honor. I&rsquom sure he&rsquod rather his Pens were still engaged in playoff hockey, but he is complete worth for the honor given the moves he has produced dating back to last June&rsquos blockbuster trade of Jordan Staal to Carolina, and continuing via his trade deadline acquisitions of Jarome Iginla, Brenden Morrow, Douglas Murray and Jussi Jokinen, even if individuals deals didn't very pay out off the way Shero had imagined. LEBRUN: Folks no doubt will question Shero winning given how the Pens have been dominated in becoming swept by Boston in the Eastern Conference finals, but you have to comprehend that these are typical-season awards. To me, Shero is definitely deserving and a single of the quite prime GMs in the game. What I discovered curious, although, is that Scott Howson, fired as GM in Columbus early in the season, received two third-location votes, even though Greg Sherman in Colorado also received a third-area vote. Um, are the GMs not taking their voting duties significantly? Honestly. BURNSIDE: I will stage out that Martin St. Louis won the Lady Byng Trophy as the league&rsquos most gentlemanly player for the third time in the past four years. I know you were anxious about how that award voting was going to go. Saturday will be fascinating, though, as there are rumors that P.K. Subban is going to win the Norris Trophy, which boggles my thoughts more than a minor offered the season Ryan Suter had in Minnesota. And I know there&rsquos going to be tons of debate if Ovechkin does walk away with the Hart, but we'll have plenty of time to kick that around on Saturday. LEBRUN: In defense of voters, I will say it was a difficult ballot for many voters offered that the Eastern Conference and Western Conference did not play each and every other during the lockout-shortened season. So voters were restricted somewhat in what they had been in a position to witness firsthand from evening to night. Which is why I reached out to a bunch of scouts, who travel the most, to aid form my opinion on the awards I voted on. And we shall indeed see what Saturday brings https://www.canadiensteamfanshop.com/Dale_Weise_Jersey-19, my good friend.
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