Patrice Bergeron Wins Selke Trophy
Patrice Bergeron edged out Jonathan Toews to win his third Selke Trophy on Wednesday night. Bergeron and Toews finished well ahead of Kings star Anze Kopitar, who was third in the voting.
Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa finished seventh in the voting.
What a bunch of bullcrap
I just can’t understand the thinking of the voters. I thought the objective of hockey was to win games. Compare Boston and Chicago for the just completed season – ignore the payoffs, if you like. Then ask which player had the greatest impact – focused on the Selke criteria – in producing winning hockey. Toews wins and it is not even close. The vote should be public so we can see exactly who the idiots are that contribute to the lunacy of this result.
That’s not right. It should have been close between the three in 14 but with those teams not even making the playoffs and Toews having better stats/facts in every category then those two. That’s not right.
Whatever. To moar important things.
“Consolation Prize” for Bergeron.
He’s good, but Toews was better this year.
ok Bergy beat toews… bs but whatever… Bergy is a hell of a player, im ok with that…
BUT BACKES OVER HOSSA? someone explain that to me?
Shouldn’t they stop bothering to vote and just make the trophies based on stats which is pretty much all that happens anyway:
Hart – most points or dominant goalie
Selke – highest face-off % with lots of points
Norris – most points by a defenseman
Lady Byng – fewest penalty minutes with lots of points
Messier –
Jack Adams – team that didn’t make the playoffs last year but did this year
GMOY (how is this not called the Pollack trophy?) – team that crapped out last year but made a deep run in the playoff this year
Maybe for the Lady Byng, Hudler should win that until he retires if he keeps giving speeches like that. Check out the video if you haven’t seen it.
What a farce..
No Nash, no Kruger, no Getzlaf, but Bergeron and Backes?
If you’re calling Bergeron being nominated for – much less winning – the Selke a farce you’re painfully clueless
Pretty obvious who only watches Blackhawks games. The fact that Kopitar received so few votes should be more bothersome than anything.
Bergeron is a great player and the vote was close, but I do personally believe there is an East Coast bias, since that is where most of the writers who vote are based.
And for Backes to finish ahead of Hoss, and that is two years in a row. We all know this is not all about the players abilities, so no suprise for me really.
Have to take these awards with a grain of salt. Look at the Jack Adams award, Q didn’t even get one vote, someone awarded a vote to Randy Carlyle. So there you have it.
Bergeron is a great player and the vote was close, but I do personally believe there is an East Coast bias, since that is where most of the writers who vote are based.
And for Backes to finish ahead of Hoss, and that is two years in a row. We all know this is not all about the players abilities, so no suprise for me really.