You keep saying blogger in a dismissive and derogatory manner. I've given you two voters talking specifically about Chris Pronger as being the guy both before and immediately after Game 6 - and a third voter talking about him before the Finals as being the Flyers' MVP (while you said that any pro-Pronger argument must ignore the first three rounds). It's a little different than reading what some anonymous person with a Blogger account thinks about the playoffs. It's a little different than Kevin Bieksa in 2011.
Thakfully the voters not pre-occupied with blogging got it right, and Pronger didn't win the Smythe. The voting records have never been released for the Smythe, and for all we know these three were the only three that even considered Pronger, and just happen to have internet soapboxes from which to trumpet their opinions. All we know for sure is that more voters favoured Toews than Pronger.
My statement that any pro-Pronger argument must ignore the first three rounds isn't me saying Pronger didn't do anything in the first three rounds to merit consideration. I'm saying that Toews performed better against better competition in those rounds.
If you can't make the connection between Chris Pronger being a Conn Smythe hopeful and 1. One voter saying that Chris Pronger is the MVP; 2. Another voter saying that there was debate about whether or not Pronger should have been given the Conn Smythe; then the previous demonstration of your lack of capability to interpret a sentence and apply week one material from a freshmen's logic class is just the beginning of your inability to have this discussion with me. There doesn't need to be precedent if the voters themselves are openly discussing creating new precedent. There was no precedent for Reggie Leach. There was no precedent for Scott Stevens. There was no precedent for Jonathan Toews; he truly was the first forward to win the Conn Smythe without scoring a goal in the Stanley Cup Finals... which, by the way, was because of Chris Pronger.
Well at least you are seeing that Pronger winning would have indeed set a new precedent.
As stated previously, the best player, captain, and leading scorer of the Cup winner getting the Smythe is hardly big news, even if you've managed to find a detail that makes it unprecedented in your eyes.
