Superstars Who Have Won Extra Awards/Accolades by Proxy

[Moose Head]

Lafleur got Shutt’s retro rocket and his place in the hof.

 

[reckoning]

Some very average goalies have won Jennings Trophies with elite defencemen playing in front of them:

Rick Wamsley (Robinson)
Al Jensen (Langway)
Roman Turek (Pronger)

And then theres Bryan Hayward's three Jennings wins as Patrick Roy's backup.

 

[carjackmalone]

Ken hodge
Danny grant
Warren young
BJ Mac Donald

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

ok here’s a weird one. manny maholtra should get credit for kesler’s selke. manny took on (and absolutely crushed) the hard shutdown minutes and defensive zone starts from kesler’s workload, which freed kes up to score 40 goals. and that won him the selke because voters are dumb.

 

[JackSlater]

ok here’s a weird one. manny maholtra should get credit for kesler’s selke. manny took on (and absolutely crushed) the hard shutdown minutes and defensive zone starts from kesler’s workload, which freed kes up to score 40 goals. and that won him the selke because voters are dumb.

This is not a shot at Kesler but rather at the media members voting for the award, but you cannot forget that Kesler's excellent finishing on Vancouver's power play helped get him the Selke, an award that explicitly is only about defensive play.

 

[shello]

Ah the Chris Kunitz thread

 

[tabness]

Yzerman has both a first team and also second team all star, by proxy of Gerard Gallant (though I'm super happy for Gallant that he got it and got paid after that year).

 

[MessierThanThou]

And first team all star selection

Kunitz being a first team selection after never scoring more than 60 points in a season prior to joining Pittsburgh in his 30s was the first example that popped into my head. Taylor Hall was screwed out of a first or second All-Star selection that season and the season after.

Someone already said Hyman, but in a similar vein: zero chance that RNH ever gets 100 points playing with anyone but McDrai on the PP.

 

[Hockey Outsider]

Yzerman has both a first team and also second team all star, by proxy of Gerard Gallant (though I'm super happy for Gallant that he got it and got paid after that year).

It's (almost) unbelievable that Yzerman outscored Gallant by 62 points that year - but Gallant was a year-end all-star, and Yzerman wasn't.

 

[The Panther]

Kunitz being a first team selection after never scoring more than 60 points in a season prior to joining Pittsburgh in his 30s was the first example that popped into my head. Taylor Hall was screwed out of a first or second All-Star selection that season and the season after.

I just realized today that Kunitz had been a 1st-team All Star. Had no idea. That is really funny (and over Ovechkin!).

In fact, some idiot gave Kunitz a fourth-place vote for the Hart trophy that season...

Someone already said Hyman, but in a similar vein: zero chance that RNH ever gets 100 points playing with anyone but McDrai on the PP.

RNH's 100-point season was a one-off as we (Oilers' fans) all knew. But Hyman is a legit great player, with or without McDavid and the Oilers' PP. The poster who mentioned Hyman is probably remembering him more as a Maple Leaf, which I think was a somewhat different player. (I'm already angry at Team Canada in the novelty-tournament for leaving Hyman at home.. WTF? The guy scored 70 NHL goals last year, with another 5 or so being called back. A disgrace.)