Conn Smythe Tournament (Post 2000's) Round 1 Results

[blundluntman]

For those who missed Round 1 of the Tournament, here are the results:​

Round 1 Matchups:
01 Roy vs 21 Vasilevsky (56/89 Votes | 62.9%) | Thread
02 Lidstrom vs 22 Makar (61/87 Votes | 70.1%) | Thread
03 Giguere vs 11 Thomas (89/130 Votes | 68.5%) | Thread
04 Richards vs 14 Williams (63/67 Votes | 94.0%) | Thread
06 Ward vs 12 Quick (74/84 Votes | 88.1%) | Thread
07 Niedermayer vs 19 O’Reilly (49/96 Votes | 51.0%) | Thread
08 Zetterberg vs 09 Malkin (82/109 Votes | 75.2%) | Thread
10 Toews vs 17 Crosby (61/111 Votes | 55.0%) | Thread
13 Kane vs 18 Ovechkin (58/81 Votes| 71.6%) | Thread
15 Keith vs 20 Hedman (53/69 Votes | 76.8%) | Thread
16 Crosby vs 23 Marchessault (32/49 Votes | 65.3%) | Thread

Evgeni Malkin's 2009 Conn Smythe has been awarded a bye week and will be exempt from Round 2 due to an odd number of participants remaining.

Explanation: As some may remember, in the Hart Trophy Tourney, the bye week was awarded to the season with the highest winning percentage, which would have been Brad Richards. While his smythe wasn't the worst, it wasn't at the top of most people's lists like McDavid's 2021 season and it simply felt strange to award it to him. Because of this, I decided to do a random choice generator for the remaining candidates many believed had a shot to win the whole tournament: 03 Giguere, 09 Malkin, 12 Quick, and 15 Keith. I understand there's no perfect way to award bye weeks given all matchups aren't created equal, but the only alternative I could think of was to create a poll to decide which season deserved the bye week, which would basically be a premature poll for the winner of this tournament. It may seem a bit silly but this was the best compromise I could come up with. Hope it doesn't ruin the tournament for anybody (also: sorry to Justin Williams and his fans).

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[x Tame Impala]

Giguere over Thomas is the only one I have a problem with.

Great poll series though dude

 

[blundluntman]

Giguere over Thomas is the only one I have a problem with.

Great poll series though dude

I appreciate it my man. I've really enjoyed doing this series and the Hart one. Glad others are enjoying it as well

 

[bobholly39]

Giguere over Thomas is the only one I have a problem with.

Great poll series though dude

The only thing I have a problem is OP's font color choice lol. That hurts my eyes.

Giguere > Thomas definitely makes sense to me, but there were some really tough round 1 matches where great runs get eliminated early, and Thomas is one of those.

I didn't vote for all the winners, but all the non-winners I voted for I figured was like a 50/50, so I don't think there's any big upsets so far. Looking forward to rest of it.

Malkin with the bye 100% makes sense too.

 

[blundluntman]

The only thing I have a problem is OP's font color choice lol. That hurts my eyes.

Giguere > Thomas definitely makes sense to me, but there were some really tough round 1 matches where great runs get eliminated early, and Thomas is one of those.

I didn't vote for all the winners, but all the non-winners I voted for I figured was like a 50/50, so I don't think there's any big upsets so far. Looking forward to rest of it.

Malkin with the bye 100% makes sense too.

lol maybe it's just me but it looks good on dark mode. I'll change it to red though

 

[x Tame Impala]

Wait, 100% of us aren’t on Dark Mode???? You’re insane if you’re not using it lol

 

[No Fun Shogun]

The two correct Hawks winners (Crow was robbed in 2013) advanced, so I agree.

Wait, 100% of us aren’t on Dark Mode???? You’re insane if you’re not using it lol

 

[tabness]

Justin Williams got SMOKED lol

I know HF has its points of departure with the general hockey media (despite of course basing a lot on the media awards votes) and skews more stats and less usual hockey narrative and all, but damn...

 

[Steven Toast]

Crosby losing both makes sense to me. Two of the weaker Smythes ever IMO.

 

[Voight]

I appreciate it my man. I've really enjoyed doing this series and the Hart one. Glad others are enjoying it as well

Any thoughts on doing the same ones but for say 1980-1999?

 

[JackSlater]

I agree with all the results except for Niedermayer, and that one was a very close vote.

 

[blundluntman]

Any thoughts on doing the same ones but for say 1980-1999?

Yeah that was the plan after this one is finished up. I'll probably start it not too long after the SCF come to an end.