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NHL Awards Watch: Connor McDavid not a unanimous pick for MVP

After polling a sample of voters, there is some debate as to this season's MVP. Plus, intel on all the other major awards races, as the post-deadline stretch begins.
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PWHA members starting up their rationalizations for why Mcdavid shouldn't win the Hart trophy again. Pasta scoring more goals than anyone not named Esposito in Boston Bruins history is such an amazing feat after all.
 
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Tarus said:
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NHL Awards Watch: Connor McDavid not a unanimous pick for MVP

After polling a sample of voters, there is some debate as to this season's MVP. Plus, intel on all the other major awards races, as the post-deadline stretch begins.
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PWHA members starting up their rationalizations for why Mcdavid shouldn't win the Hart trophy again. Pasta scoring more goals than anyone not named Esposito in Boston Bruins history is such an amazing feat after all.
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The NHL has to have the dumbest reporters/"journalists" of any major pro sport. Remember when Ovechkin was voted to the 1st and 2nd All Star Teams as LW and RW in 2013 when he barely played LW that season?
 
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MessierThanThou said:
The NHL has to have the dumbest reporters of all major pro sports. Remember when Ovechkin was voted to the 1st and 2nd All Star Teams as LW and RW in 2013 when he barely played LW that season?
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Yeah, that was so stupid.

The NHL even sent out an email to all of them telling them what position Ovechkin was eligible for that year. Of course, the NHL could have disqualified those votes too, so issues on both sides.
 
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Tarus said:
Yeah, that was so stupid.

The NHL even sent out an email to all of them telling them what position Ovechkin was eligible for that year. Of course, the NHL could have disqualified those votes too, so issues on both sides.
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Taylor Hall suffered the most. He probably deserved a 1st All-Star nod at LW, but Kunitz rode Crosby's coattails too well, and Hall couldn't carry the entire miserable basement-dwelling Oilers team that season, and as you mentioned, these clowns couldn't read emails, so he was denied an important career accolade.

Also, Cujo in 1993 should've won the Vezina, but these same idiots didn't consider save percentage to be all that important back then... He would probably be in the HOF by now.
 
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With 36 points in his past 17 games McDavid now needs 36 points in his final 17 to hit 160 points.

Man what I’d give to seem him pop off for a couple 6 or 7 point nights. Weird to say he’s only had a 5 point night once this year.
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With seven games left against the post-deadline Sharks, Ducks and Coyotes, the opportunity is definitely there for him to do it.
 
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Tarus said:
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NHL Awards Watch: Connor McDavid not a unanimous pick for MVP

After polling a sample of voters, there is some debate as to this season's MVP. Plus, intel on all the other major awards races, as the post-deadline stretch begins.
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PWHA members starting up their rationalizations for why Mcdavid shouldn't win the Hart trophy again. Pasta scoring more goals than anyone not named Esposito in Boston Bruins history is such an amazing feat after all.
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He is judged by a different standard. McDavid will experience this for the rest of his career. If he wins this year with 150 points it may be tough for him to win in the future with say 135 points.
 
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He is judged by a different standard. McDavid will experience this for the rest of his career. If he wins this year with 150 points it may be tough for him to win in the future with say 135 points.
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Yep. McDavid no longer needs to beat the rest of the league. He needs to beat past iterations of himself. It’s why Matthews won last year. Realistically Matthews wasn’t a better or more important player than McDavid, but Connor was competing against the version of himself that put up 106 points in 56 games and won the MVP unanimously.
 
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MessierThanThou said:
The NHL has to have the dumbest reporters/"journalists" of any major pro sport. Remember when Ovechkin was voted to the 1st and 2nd All Star Teams as LW and RW in 2013 when he barely played LW that season?
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I don't know.
Baseball writers are pretty stupid too.
They went decades of refusing to unanimously elect any player into the HOF & then when they did they chose to bestow that honor on a failed starter turned reliever. He was good but.......JFC.
I could see it if they could only vote for 1 or 2 guys & it was a stellar class with multiple worthy candidates to split the vote but they can vote for 10 players every year so that means some of these inductees were not in the top 10 of some baseball writers voting for that year.
 
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HockeyGuy1964 said:
I don't know.
Baseball writers are pretty stupid too.
They went decades of refusing to unanimously elect any player into the HOF & then when they did they chose to bestow that honor on a failed starter turned reliever. He was good but.......JFC.
I could see it if they could only vote for 1 or 2 guys & it was a stellar class with multiple worthy candidates to split the vote but they can vote for 10 players every year so that means some of these inductees were not in the top 10 of some baseball writers voting for that year.
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Baseball writers are in a special category with their nonsense.
 
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Like, breaking and closing in on Oiler records is amazing.

He passed Wayne f***ing Gretzky twice in a week for Oilers' franchise records. What a player.
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If you asked fans of every fanbase, except Oiler Nation, this question they would never come up with Glenn Anderson. It's kinda crazy he's the all-time team leader but even crazier how much he leads by.
 
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If you asked fans of every fanbase, except Oiler Nation, this question they would never come up with Glenn Anderson. It's kinda crazy he's the all-time team leader but even crazier how much he leads by.
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Anderson remains unbelievably underrated. That said what McDavid has done in this regard is insane. GWG's are a bit random for most players but less so for McDavid.
 
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MessierThanThou said:
The NHL has to have the dumbest reporters/"journalists" of any major pro sport. Remember when Ovechkin was voted to the 1st and 2nd All Star Teams as LW and RW in 2013 when he barely played LW that season?
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Can't wait for Ullmark to take the Rocket away because he scored the most goals (for a goalie) this season.
 
Fourier said:
He is judged by a different standard. McDavid will experience this for the rest of his career. If he wins this year with 150 points it may be tough for him to win in the future with say 135 points.
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Probably true, but it shouldn't be.

Doesn't help that the PWHA loves their narratives, throw something unprecedented or unusual(like scoring 60 on the leafs) and they'll go crazy about it.
 
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HockeyGuy1964 said:
If you asked fans of every fanbase, except Oiler Nation, this question they would never come up with Glenn Anderson. It's kinda crazy he's the all-time team leader but even crazier how much he leads by.
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I remember Andy as if it were yesterday. He was absolutely clutch his whole career. As much as Gretz, Kurri, Coffey and Mess stole the spotlight (and rightfully so), if the team needed a goal, he's the guy that always came through.
 
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