Voracek All-Star MVP Snub

[rwelenc27]

How did Voracek not win AS MVP this weekend? His 6pts not only made him the top scorer of the game, but also tied Super Mario for the most points scored in an allstar game. I understand how the league wants their representing city to get recognition, but giving Johanson the MVP is a joke.

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[Cyborg LeClair]

It was voted on by fans. I imagine at least 20,000 people at the stadium voted for Johansen. It's not as much a snub as it is not really an MVP award. More like most popular player award

 

[Jtown]

what he did with Gaudreau won him mvp for the weekend and will leave a longer lasting memory than whomever won this years all star game mvp.

 

[OrangeAndBlackMetal]

Just like the allstar team shouldn't be selected by the fans. It should be selected by polling sportswriters, GMs and coaches.

 

[Jumping]

A better question is, why would anyone care?

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I really don't get worked up over the decision. I am glad Jake had a good game but honestly. It was a glorified game of pond hockey. no defense was played at all and the goalies acted like they didn't care either.

 

[Sawdalite]

It was voted on by fans. I imagine at least 20,000 people at the stadium voted for Johansen. It's not as much a snub as it is not really an MVP award. More like most popular player award

I believe it was selected through Twitter... I could be wrong though... in any case it was as silly as some of the Skill Competition winners the night before being that way... Why bother when it becomes either a fan favorite or ballot stuffing situation?


... But why not take a page out of that book and determine the NHL OT Tie Breaking Skills Competition ShootOut winner be determined through a fan voting Internet process? Then maybe the Flyers can win some.

 

[VanFlyer]

what he did with Gaudreau won him mvp for the weekend and will leave a longer lasting memory than whomever won this years all star game mvp.

I am in the backwoods, so excuse my ignorance, what did he do with Gaudreau?

 

[Hiesenberg]

I am in the backwoods, so excuse my ignorance, what did he do with Gaudreau?

He used him as kind of a "doll" to do his break away challenge, Johanson did it with a kid, which was cute. Voracek did it with an adult, which was funny.

 

[OrangeAndBlackMetal]

He used him as kind of a "doll" to do his break away challenge, Johanson did it with a kid, which was cute. Voracek did it with an adult, which was funny.

the **** giroux was doing; i dont think most people ( especially those who don't play the game) realize how difficult some of that **** was to do haha. even though he ****ed up the rest of it, catching those lobbed pucks on his blade was probably the hardest thing anyone did haha.

 

[Hiesenberg]

the **** giroux was doing; i dont think most people ( especially those who don't play the game) realize how difficult some of that **** was to do haha. even though he ****ed up the rest of it, catching those lobbed pucks on his blade was probably the hardest thing anyone did haha.

I don't think I saw Giroux.

 

[Jtown]

I am in the backwoods, so excuse my ignorance, what did he do with Gaudreau?

Do yourself a favor and youtube it. I've never seen anything funnier in the sport of hockey. I was cracking the F up.

 

[TerrapinFlyers]

Do yourself a favor and youtube it. I've never seen anything funnier in the sport of hockey. I was cracking the F up.

I've watched Hartnell skate but it's up there.

 

[Domino666]

the **** giroux was doing; i dont think most people ( especially those who don't play the game) realize how difficult some of that **** was to do haha. even though he ****ed up the rest of it, catching those lobbed pucks on his blade was probably the hardest thing anyone did haha.

Yeah I was like how in the bloody hell did he just catch that on his blade?!?!?!
But G didn't get the love from the fans he should have, JR was giving him his full due for the difficulty of what he was doing

 

[Jtown]

Yeah I was like how in the bloody hell did he just catch that on his blade?!?!?!
But G didn't get the love from the fans he should have, JR was giving him his full due for the difficulty of what he was doing

I feel like what G was doing only hockey players could really appreciate it.

 

[Adam Warlock]

It was voted on by fans. I imagine at least 20,000 people at the stadium voted for Johansen. It's not as much a snub as it is not really an MVP award. More like most popular player award

The three finalists were voted by fans (Tavares, Johansson, Bergeron)...But I think people there chose Johansson. I remember hearing in the background while waiting things being said like "its Tavares, Bergeron, or Johansson: and "lets go with him...he had a couple, right?".

It was rigged. Not that it really matters, but as stupid as the All Star game is I thought it was pretty entertaining...except for the constant catering to the home crowd.

 

[Funf]

Giroux's shootout attempts had to be the most creative I've seen in a long time. So skilled, too! You can see that even Stamkos was impressed when G caught that puck on his blade!

Voracek though...

Anyway, Jake or Tavares definitely deserved MVP, but who cares. I personally just enjoyed seeing our guys get some national recognition.

 

[Bernie Parent 1974]

A better question is, why would anyone care?

my thought exactly

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

Just like the allstar team shouldn't be selected by the fans. It should be selected by polling sportswriters, GMs and coaches.

It's a game for the fans. Why not let them pick?

 

[Sawdalite]

It's a game for the fans. Why not let them pick?

Actually, IMO the All Star Weekend should be about the players and honoring them... As it was, it was a mockery having the players try and perform difficult tasks only to have it mean nothing. I suppose it was the NBA Slam Dunk Competition back a few years that started all this messing around crap.

It may be just me but from Giroux's expressions when the winner was announced I believe he was not a happy camper... unless it was just that he didn't really care. It is just that G is always cheerful guy almost always smiling (except after a loss on the ice).

But... as was basically brought up correctly earlier... Who cares?

 

[Rebels57]

The #1 thing i'm sick of when it comes to the NHL is the obsessive knob-gobbling of Patrice Bergeron. I get it. He's a good two-way center. He's not the only one though. The guy can be completely invisible in an entire nationally televised game and still be the player most talked about. The fact that he was an AS game MVP nominee ahead of Voracek is stupifying to say the least. Fans are stupid.

 

[Jtown]

I get what you are saying about Bergeron, but i feel the same way about toews. I feel like he is being pushed upon the us as the face of the nhl and its just not oging to happen.

He is the most overrated player ive ever seen in my entire life.

 

[CodyTheHuman]

I didn't know where else to post this, so it's going here. On Voracek's third attempt (30 Thoughts on SportsNet):
"Jakub Voracek was supposed to peel off his Flyers jersey to reveal a Rick Nash Columbus sweater, but called an audible when Johansen used seven-year old Cole Vogt as a helper, hilariously grabbing Gaudreau instead. Unconfirmed rumour: it was Ryan Suter’s idea."

 

[Sawdalite]

I didn't know where else to post this, so it's going here. On Voracek's third attempt (30 Thoughts on SportsNet):
"Jakub Voracek was supposed to peel off his Flyers jersey to reveal a Rick Nash Columbus sweater, but called an audible when Johansen used seven-year old Cole Vogt as a helper, hilariously grabbing Gaudreau instead. Unconfirmed rumour: it was Ryan Suter’s idea."

Are we to believe that Gaudreau knew nothing about it and just went with the flow?... Or maybe it was that he learned about the plan and agree before Jake went out there for his third attempt?

Either way, it was so funny... I was floored by it... never seeing it coming.

 

[JustJim]

A better question is, why would anyone care?

Thank you.....I agree. The All-Star game is almost as pointless as an alumni game. It's a show for the attending audience.
I think the best part of these all-star weekends are the skills competition......the rest is just ridiculous.