Are you being serious here? He snubbed the fans? Did the fans vote for the award? Was a fan waiting to give it to him? Did a fan paying good money to see him play not get to see him play? Everyone can see him with it at the awards ceremony if it means so much to them to see McDavid standing beside a consolation prize.
Yeah, the fans present did NOT want to see him. They were already booing because he won the award in the first place.
The fans they kept panning to standing with phones out when they announced it would say otherwise. It wasn’t strictly Florida fans in the building.
He was the best and most valuable player in the playoffs by a landslide. That’s literally what the trophy is intended for.
Couldn't be that they were down 3-0, came back in a HUGE way to tie it all up and then just choked.
It's not a nothing burger. If beating some obscure 'assist record' is worthwhile of a discussion then why isn't it interesting to talk about the first and only time someone didn't accept the Conn Smythe Trophy? Imagine if Brady or Mahomes didn't accept the Super Bowl MVP trophy? Do you think people would wonder what the F is wrong with them? You wouldn't, but most people would. If you think he's such a team first martyr he could go get it and give the generic speech how this belongs to all of his teammates who gave it their all.
Love the quotation as if I used the word wrong or something
. You’re aware that there’s a literal description as to how the trophy is awarded that I was referring to, right? And yes, that’s how it’s been awarded, not sure what you’re on about there. It’s subject to a vote, so not everyone is going to agree with every winner, but this year it was as clear as it gets.
I could absolutely see Brady not giving a flying f*** about a Super Bowl MVP trophy after losing the Super Bowl.
Wrong. The literal definition of 'the player most valuable to his team' tells us absolutely nothing about the criteria for awarding this trophy. Are you for example suggesting that the team that depends on one single player the most is the most deserving? McDavid runs the Oilers. So if Oilers were eliminated in the first round, we could still award the Conn Smythe to him if we'd be following the "literal" definition. That's not how it works. Essentially, instead of the literal definition, the criteria is "the most important player on the Stanley Cup winning team, unless there is an even more relatively important player on the Stanley Cup losing team and the final series went 6 or 7 games." That's the definition, despite it not being the literal one.Love the quotation as if I used the word wrong or something
Lol, you just reworded the criteria so that you could argue. It’s the same thing. And no, we have never, and will never see it awarded to a player that didn’t make the final because it would beg the obvious question: if his team couldn’t make the finals, just how valuable could his play have been? There would obviously be better candidates. I’m not sure what you’re even arguing at this point.
Let out the rage!!!
You won't get very far arguing that Conn Smythe is awarded by its literal definition. It's easy to fact check too, by actually reading the literal definition. You're completely wrong in assuming some player couldn't be the most valuable to his team without making the finals. If the final teams score and defend by committee but one player scored every goal for his team until being eliminated in the conference finals how on earth could you identify a player more important to his team on some other team? Right, we wouldn't care, because the trophy isn't awarded by its literal definition, which was my point all along. The actual definition is much more convoluted than that, and I've no idea why you're trying to argue this very well known fact. McDavid's win fits within the real criteria. He was the best player and his team came within two goals of winning the Cup.Lol, you just reworded the criteria so that you could argue. It’s the same thing. And no, we have never, and will never see it awarded to a player that didn’t make the final because it would beg the obvious question: if his team couldn’t make the finals, just how valuable could his play have been? There would obviously be better candidates. I’m not sure what you’re even arguing at this point.
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