Should the Conn Smythe Trophy Recognize Players from Teams That Don’t Win the Stanley Cup?

[Hockey Outsider]

Absolutely, I've said the same numerous times. Crosby was a very weak Conn Smythe choice... but Kessel would have been as well, despite how many people claim he should have won it. The voters had such an easy out to avoid making a bad choice in Couture, but they couldn't bring themselves to do it because Couture's team didn't play well enough. Pronger should have won in 2006 as well off the top of my head.

Agreed. Pronger in 2006 has one of the strongest cases for the Conn Smythe in a losing cause.

 

[spiny norman]

Lopsided result.