Rename the Selke.....the Bergeron

[Cats2TheCup]

He passed the torch to Barkov

 

[Drij]

no that's dumb.

 

[VainGretzky]

No Nhl players should have a trophy named after them before Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, or Howe, gets one named after them

 

[Pablo El Perro]

I get why they renamed the Pearson the Ted Lindsay Award, insofar as he caught hell for helping establish the organization that hands out the award. Not sure the same sort of case could be made for the Bergeron.

 

[Petey O]

Not in favour of renaming the trophy, but I definitely agree that Bergeron is a legendary two way forward and deserves to be in the HHOF on the first ballot.

 

[Gunnersaurus Rex]

You might not like how it sounds...but I don't care. As a Habs fan, I was so easy to dislike the Bruins. But impossible to not realize that Patrice Bergeron will always be seen as one of the best 2-way player to have ever played the game.

It,s time to move on from the trophy names that lost their meaning and give those trophies something more from this era. Yeah, I would also change every other trophy not named the Stanley Cup. But with what happened yesterday with the Bruins, I thought it was appropriate to talk about this trophy and the guy that most likely has played his final game.

If not, well wait till he retires....but acknowledge the greatness of that player.

Nope. Why tarnish the great tradition of a trophy by renaming it. One of things that makes the NHL great is the time honoured traditions.
What's next, naming the Stanley Cup after the Montreal Canadiens because they've won the most championships?
This is the epitome of looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

[bobbyking]

Talk to me when he has 10 Stanley Cups.

winning 10 Stanley's against 5 opponents... so hard dude . you play more games getting to the conference finals

 

[Hockeyholic]

Vezina-change it to Hasek Trophy
Norris-Change it to Bobby Orr trophy
Hart-Change it to Gretzky trophy

Nope. Why tarnish the great tradition of a trophy by renaming it. One of things that makes the NHL great is the time honoured traditions.
What's next, naming the Stanley Cup after the Montreal Canadiens because they've won the most championships?
This is the epitome of looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

That may not happen.

Won't be long though before we hear: "X team has won the Mastercard Stanley cup".

 

[Hockey Know it all]

Just rename it the Datsyuk. He was 2x the player Bergie was.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Why not call it the Gainey? Possibly the greatest defensive forward of all time, back when it wasn't taught.

Agreed. If we are discussing centers then my take is Trottier.

 

[Canadiens Ghost]

If not, well wait till he retires....but acknowledge the greatness of that player.

His name being on the Selke trophy is acknowledgment enough.

 

[Bring Bak Damphousse]

Uh yeah, nah.

Art Ross = Gretzky
Rocket = Ovechkin
Hart = Gretzky or Howe
Pearson = Gretzky or Lemieux

I'm counting like zero Canadiens here among the major awards.

let's rename the Rocket "The Ovechkin" too

I mean, Washington can donate there own goal scoring trophy if they’d like and call it the ovy. Unfortunately the Habs donated the Richard trophy so I’m thinking the name stays.

 

[Connor McConnor]

His career was nowhere close to good enough to rename a trophy.

 

[JackSlater]

Retiring with the record number of Selkes is good enough. There is no need to rename any of the trophies, and I cannot see a new trophy coming into existence that Bergeron would be the ideal name for.

 

[Turin]

Lets rename the Stanley Cup the Bettman Cup.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

If Frank J Selke was a piece of shit human being, then yeah..

Also, I'd dare to go away from trophies named after North Americans and call it the Pavel Datsyuk Selke trophy sponsored by Bet99

 

[TryamkinPleaseReturn]

If we're renaming trophies, as great as Bergeron is, Datsyuk is the best defensive forward of recent times (maybe ever)

 

[Section 104]

No.

 

[McFlash97]

Why Bergeron ? Why not Federov ? How about Lehtinen ? Stop with this.

 

[Raistlin]

Why not rename the Bruins the Bergerons? Everyone hates the Bruins, but everyone seem to love Bergeron. Its a PR coup, what better way to immortalize a great player when retiring his jersey is not enough? They get to keep the B logo too on top of it. Wow! what a great idea renaming old stuff!

 

[BraveCanadian]

Stop renaming trophies.

That is all.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

They should rename it the zegras just for the hfboard reaction

If I ever got even a smidge of power in the nhl, I'd do so many irrational things just to get an HFBoards reaction.

 

[RebuildinVan]

Just checked...wow Dirk Graham won the award?

 

[Cursed Lemon]

If I ever got even a smidge of power in the nhl, I'd do so many irrational things just to get an HFBoards reaction.

We're creating a new trophy...for the best defensive defenseman. It's the Paul Coffey Memorial Trophy.

 

[ichbinkanadier]

I’ll agree to this under the condition that Mark Messier’s stupid award is correctly renamed “The Mark Messier ego boosting trinket that nobody cares about.”

I'm baffled as to why Messier is even seen as the best leader. Gretzky was the captain for four of their 5 Cups.