Toews is the definition of a HHoF lock
He could kill 10 people and he still gets in
3 Cups
Conn Smythe
Selke
2 Olympic gold medals
WJC gold medal
World Cup gold medal
6x all star
Youngest triple gold member ever
He may very well get in, but:
- Conn Smythe and Selke are not huge needle-movers when it comes to the HHOF. Lehtinen and Datsyuk have
three Selkes and are still waiting for their call. A whole bunch of non-HHOFers have Smythes, especially in this era.
- He has been to six all star
games which is irrelevant. What matters is postseason All Star
awards, of which Toews has only one — a second team award, at that.
^^ for the above to be his entire individual trophy case, is incredibly weak for a HHOF’er. Again, if a Slovakian Nashville Predators player had a 2nd All Star award and a Selke and a Smythe, we wouldn’t even be talking about that guy as a serious candidate.
Toews’
entire case for the HHOF comes from the additional luster he gets from Cups and medals — awards that were won on the most over-loaded rosters of his generation. His big value-add, leadership and character, is stained by his complicity in one of the biggest scandals in league history.
Will he still get in, probably, because this is the same committee that put in guys like Guy Carbonneau and Dick Duff. Toews is connected enough in the hockey establishment that they’ll give it to him regardless of whether he’s fully earned it.