A lot of folks love to use that season as full freight for a lot of things, but the reality is, we're like a week away from it all being completely different.
Hart should have been:
1. Crosby
2. Tavares
3. Ovechkin
4. Toews
Norris should have been:
1. Ryan Suter
2. Kristopher Letang
3. P.K. Subban or Francois Beauchemin
Calder should have been:
1. Jonas Brodin
2. Brendan Gallagher
3. Jonathan Huberdeau
Vezina I was pretty ok with that year actually. I don't like Niemi, but he had a surprisingly nice run. Would have pushed Rask to 4, Jimmy Howard to 5.
The Art Ross almost certainly goes another direction...
But yeah, like you said, if Sid doesn't take a puck in the mouth, maybe even Letang wins the Norris. Then that's a whole discussion and, rightfully, Subban isn't. Hell, I think Suter is in the HOF conversation and this outcome makes me seem less crazy on that...
That's the binary nature of this that's so unappealing and creates some misconceptions...