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If Canada wins on Sunday, do you think Carey Price deserves the MVP?

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FanHabtic said:
You would think that Price's two shutouts in the final elimination games would shut his detractors up. Apparently not... Hfboards, how i love thee ...
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He just wasnt tested enough. The more impressive goaltending happened 180 feet away from him.
 
Systemfel said:
Media voted on the All-Star Team and MVP.

Tournament directorate voted on Best D, F & G.

That's how.
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Ah. So the media voted for Selanne as MVP, and for this all-star team:

Goalkeeper: Henrik Lundqvist, Sweden
Defenseman: Erik Karlsson, Sweden
Defenseman: Drew Doughty, Canada
Forward: Teemu Selanne, Finland
Forward: Phil Kessel, USA
Forward: Mikael Granlund, Finland

While the tourney directorate voted for:

Price as top goalie (I agree)
Karlsson as top D (disagree - he was great, but Doughty and Weber were better)
Kessel as top forward (a horrific decision. Selanne, Granlund, Toews, Carter, even Crosby all would have been better choices).
 
loudi94 said:
Price allowed Canada to execute their game plan. The team had confidence in him. That's huge. Not to say they didn't have confidence in Lu or Smith, they just had a little bit more in Price.
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Not that it matters but I don't think we're really in a position to say that the team had more confidence in Price than say Smith...or that the team would have played different in front of him.

The team played great and everything worked out great. That includes the goalie, the backup goalie, and the goalie in the press box.
 
ziploc said:
Ah. So the media voted for Selanne as MVP, and for this all-star team:

Goalkeeper: Henrik Lundqvist, Sweden
Defenseman: Erik Karlsson, Sweden
Defenseman: Drew Doughty, Canada
Forward: Teemu Selanne, Finland
Forward: Phil Kessel, USA
Forward: Mikael Granlund, Finland

While the tourney directorate voted for:

Price as top goalie (I agree)
Karlsson as top D (disagree - he was great, but Doughty and Weber were better)
Kessel as top forward (a horrific decision. Selanne, Granlund, Toews, Carter, even Crosby all would have been better choices).
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Haha. He lead the tournament in scoring, Stop moaning.
 
It's not always the amount of saves a goalie makes but when he makes them and the quality. Carey Price made very timely saves, and very difficult saves, I mean he just broke his career record for shut out streak, in the Olympics during the biggest games.

But sure, Lundqvist was better with his goals from the goal line and 40 foot wrist shots. As for Rask, he played very well especially considering he had the flu, but Price still beat him head to head in round robin and that should mean something.
 
Habsawce said:
It's not always the amount of saves a goalie makes but when he makes them and the quality. Carey Price made very timely saves, and very difficult saves, I mean he just broke his career record for shut out streak, in the Olympics during the biggest games.

But sure, Lundqvist was better with his goals from the goal line and 40 foot wrist shots. As for Rask, he played very well especially considering he had the flu, but Price still beat him head to head in round robin and that should mean something.
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The same people saying Price wasn't tested enough would be screaming from the mountaintops right now about how he blew it if he had let in a goal or two at the wrong time in this tournament. The forwards weren't scoring so there was no room for error.

The pressure that Team Canada goaltenders are under in single elimination games is crazy. Win and it was because of your team, lose and it was because you sucked. You get one chance at it.

The steady play of Price allowed Canada to play that very controlled and defensively responsible game that won them the tourney.
 
ziploc said:
How is it that Price was named goalie of the tournament, but Lundqvist was named to the Tournament all-star team? And how could Selanne be the MVP, but Kessel was named as top forward? And just how, straight up, could Kessel be named the top forward?
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1. Because they're voted on by different people. The same way that Ovechkin won the Hart but Crosby won the Lindsay.

2. He won top forward because he was the top forward. Funny how you only mentioned that when that was the most obvious choice. You could at least argue for Lundqvist/Quick over Price or Doughty over Karlsson but Kessel was clearly the best forward. And people say there isn't an anti-Leafs bias? :laugh:
 
Quares27 said:
1. Because they're voted on by different people. The same way that Ovechkin won the Hart but Crosby won the Lindsay.

2. He won top forward because he was the top forward. Funny how you only mentioned that when that was the most obvious choice. You could at least argue for Lundqvist/Quick over Price or Doughty over Karlsson but Kessel was clearly the best forward. And people say there isn't an anti-Leafs bias? :laugh:
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I'm a Leafs fan and there is no way Kessel was the top forward.

Racked up a pile of points when it didn't matter and did nothing when it did.
 
yea that Kessel vote is some hardcore trolling by the IOC..... I like it
 
Whitesnake said:
It's the main board. Where kids reunite to try to piss off Habs fans. And it's working. The day we'd stop bringing Habs related subjects, you'll see tons of kids not posting anymore. Would clean the air.
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Agreed. I simply cannot believe the Price detractors now. Before the tournament "we're screwed if Price plays."

Price plays exceptionally well.

"Any other goalie would have been just as good."

Give it up Price haters, he's one of the best in the league.
 
I love Carey Price but I think that the most inspirational performance at the games was from Kristers Gudlevskis, the Latvian goaltender. I know that the MVP always goes to a player on the team that wins gold and I do believe that Price deserves it in that situation. I just can't stop thinking that Kristers Gudlevskis was more valuable to his team than any other player in the tournament.
 
ziploc said:
Ah. So the media voted for Selanne as MVP, and for this all-star team:

Goalkeeper: Henrik Lundqvist, Sweden
Defenseman: Erik Karlsson, Sweden
Defenseman: Drew Doughty, Canada
Forward: Teemu Selanne, Finland
Forward: Phil Kessel, USA
Forward: Mikael Granlund, Finland

While the tourney directorate voted for:

Price as top goalie (I agree)
Karlsson as top D (disagree - he was great, but Doughty and Weber were better)
Kessel as top forward (a horrific decision. Selanne, Granlund, Toews, Carter, even Crosby all would have been better choices).
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I agree with a lot of what you said but Carter and Crosby rightfully shouldn't have been in the discussion for best forward. Crosby was silent through the start of the tournament (hence trying every possible winger to try and get him going) and Carter had more notoriety for scoring a hat trick of mediocre goals against Austria than anything else.
 
Avro Arrow said:
I love Carey Price but I think that the most inspirational performance at the games was from Kristers Gudlevskis, the Latvian goaltender. I know that the MVP always goes to a player on the team that wins gold and I do believe that Price deserves it in that situation. I just can't stop thinking that Kristers Gudlevskis was more valuable to his team than any other player in the tournament.
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For what??? Stopping 57 shots, where most were from the outside and not really threatening shots?? You are out of your mind if you think that goaltender is MVP for that performance in one game that they didnt even win.
 
Quares27 said:
1. Because they're voted on by different people. The same way that Ovechkin won the Hart but Crosby won the Lindsay.

2. He won top forward because he was the top forward. Funny how you only mentioned that when that was the most obvious choice. You could at least argue for Lundqvist/Quick over Price or Doughty over Karlsson but Kessel was clearly the best forward. And people say there isn't an anti-Leafs bias? :laugh:
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What the crap? This has nothing to do with the Leafs. I like Kessel, but he was an absolute phantom when his team needed him most. He was great against lesser competition. Just no way he was the top forward in this competition, no way near as good as Selanne when it actually mattered.
 
TOGuy14 said:
I agree with a lot of what you said but Carter and Crosby rightfully shouldn't have been in the discussion for best forward. Crosby was silent through the start of the tournament (hence trying every possible winger to try and get him going) and Carter had more notoriety for scoring a hat trick of mediocre goals against Austria than anything else.
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I agree that Carter and Crosby would be more of a long shot, though I thought they still played very well even when not scoring. It just shows, however, how disappointing I felt Kessel's performance was against Canada and Finland. No way he should get the nod over Selanne, in my opinion.
 
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