Providing context on the different situation between McDavid and Giguère winning the Conn Smythe

[HugeInTheShire]

If he had come out haters wouldnt have ammo on this issue.

Sure they would have, he would have been trying to steal the Panthers thunder. Or he would have been too happy or too sad and is trying to ruin the mood. They’ll find a reason to complain

 

[Old Boys Club]

If he had come out haters wouldnt have ammo on this issue.

You know damn well they'd just shift the goalposts. Then it would be 'McDavid is a bad captain, he came out for the individual award' blah blah blah whatever nonsense.

 

[Legion34]

I really don’t think they would have.

Has there ever been any time in league history. Maybe sports history? Where the loser who wins player of the game etc doesn’t take the award and just refused to come out to accept it?
He was in the. Building.

Pro fighters stand and watch the man who ko them get belts.

We were all over the Swedish kid for giving away his medal.

Olympics etc give out mVP to players on losing teams all the time.

It’s ridiculous

Sure they would have, he would have been trying to steal the Panthers thunder. Or he would have been too happy or too sad and is trying to ruin the mood. They’ll find a reason to complain

He was required to do it. There was literally an announcement and the commissioner called him out to accept it.

It’s being an employee

 

[Nemesis Prime]

The reality is people are upset they don't have pictures of McDavid accepting it to laugh at and make memes out of.

 

[T REX]

he became a piece of trivia

 

[Hank Plank]

The reality is people are upset they don't have pictures of McDavid accepting it to laugh at and make memes out of.

Connor's dad was looking to take pictures was he hoping to make dank memes?

 

[Grifter3511]

The biggest nothing burger of all nothing burgers. But McDavid haters gonna hate.

 

[Old Boys Club]

Connor's dad was looking to take pictures was he hoping to make dank memes?

Why do you care, its an individual award and I remember in the past you said those are pointless, selfish and don't mean anything. Keeping that logic McDavid did the right thing. Plus McDavid is a whining loser anyways, you have a lot of posts regarding that topic too.

 

[Hank Plank]

Why do you care, its an individual award and I remember in the past you said those are pointless, selfish and don't mean anything. Keeping that logic McDavid did the right thing. Plus McDavid is a whining loser anyways, you have a lot of posts regarding that topic too.

Cool cool nice to see you follow my posts closely.

 

[Old Boys Club]

Cool cool nice to see you follow my posts closely.

Literally a 30 second look into your post history. All 15 pages are full of it lol

 

[Hank Plank]

Literally a 30 second look into your post history. All 15 pages are full of it lol

I said thanks already.

 

[tabness]

take a look at the video they put out for McDavid's Conn Smythe



then take a look at what they put out for Marchessault last year



lol typical nhl so embarrassing

next time it goes to a losing player just make an announcement and give it to the player in their lockerroom

 

[Old Boys Club]

I said thanks already.

You're very welcome Hank Plank. I hope your enthusiasm for all topics McDavid never wanes, you may be one of his biggest fans on this board. Please keep me updated about the whining status of McDavid, its very important and I think you should post about it more.

 

[Oleksiak]

Should have just given it to someone else since that gutless flopper didn't even respect the sport enough to suck it up and be a man.

 

[Old Boys Club]

Should have just given it to someone else since that gutless flopper didn't even respect the sport enough to suck it up and be a man.

Agreed, he should be in the ECHL with Bouchard. Demko would've shut down McBaby no problem

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Would’ve been hilarious if he came out and took a lap with the Conn Smythe

 

[GrkFlyersFan]

I think it should have always been up to him. No issue with him not coming out for it. You're the Captain of the team that lost a tight Game 7 of the SCF. His duty is to be in the handshake line, he did it, he was all class, he was all class in his postgame presser. He'll win a Cup one day, but until then, he won't be proud of this. Giguere did in '03, and that's ok too. I promise you, Devils fans are still salty about that, because that's the one thing Brodeur never won.

 

[BruinsFan37]

Not coming out to accept the award is similar to skipping the handshake line. Though really the NHL should have told him before he left the ice. If they did, and he said eff that, then it looks even worse.

If your the face of league, you swallow your pride and go and accept the reward.

 

[LokiDog]

So everyone says the league is bad at marketing. They should have shown him not come out, not cut away, and they should be selling the drama - McDavid doesn’t care about personal trophies, he wants to win. People would eat that up. Build the storyline for next year. McDavid reloaded.

Trying to act like it didn’t happen is why the league has no “stars”. People say McDavid and Crosby were too vanilla of personalities. So McDavid said screw the trophy, I’m not going out - that’s some personality. Thats a storyline going into next season. That’s marketing.

 

[pizza line]

He knew he won it, no one needed to tell the cry baby it.

 

[Three On Zero]

It's a shitty situation to put a player in.

On one said he just lost the most prized trophy in sports and didn’t give a f*** about the consolation prize he won

On the other side a lot of fans paid good money to see him play and he snubbed them by refusing to go out and accept the trophy.

It’s really a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation

 

[tarheelhockey]

Has there ever been any time in league history. Maybe sports history? Where the loser who wins player of the game etc doesn’t take the award and just refused to come out to accept it?

Has there ever been a time when the player had to be pulled back out of the locker room?

Once he’s left the ice, the season is over. Let the man go grieve with his teammates. It would be completely ****ing ridiculous to send someone in that room at that moment and pull the captain out to go make an appearance for PR. Any captain worth his salt would tell them to shove it.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Some are dogging McDavid for not coming out to accept the Conn Smythe, bringing up how past winners in a losing effort came out to accept it, and labeling him as disgracing and embarrassing the game.

I went back to take a look at the situation when Giguère won it.

Within 1 minute and 20 seconds after the clock ticked to zero, Giguère seems to be told on camera that he would be awarded the Conn Smythe trophy. Even if he wasn’t, what follows made for a very different build up.

A few minutes pass while the Devils celebrate and the Ducks wait in defeat, for the traditional handshake to ensue.

Immediately after the traditional handshake between the two teams, Bettman announces that Giguère is the winner of the Conn Smythe. I’m talking within seconds of the final handshakes.

Our example from last night sees McDavid skate over to begin shaking hands 2 minutes 3 seconds after the clock hits zero. I saw no evidence last night, or looking through it again today, that he was told he might need to stick around to accept the potential award. The hand shaking and congratulating from the Oilers goes on for at least another two minutes.

More minutes pass before Bettman finally announces the Conn Smythe winner, long after McDavid and the Oilers have cleared the ice for the new champions.

We just don’t know the behind the scenes or why it took so long for the NHL to get their shit together directly after Florida won. There was a lot more structure then, that’s for sure.

They had to clear all the rats.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Crosby is competitive of a guy as you will ever find and he would come out to receive his trophy.

 

[Szechwan]

.... no one wants to see a crushed 97 handed a trophy he has doesn't care about in that moment.

Wrong again Hanky!