Confirmed with Link: Zach Hyman is the Maple Leafs nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

[LeafsNation75]

Click to read more...

 

[ACC1224]

Would be a deserving winner any other season

 

[LeafsNation75]

I wonder what the chances are of him being one of the three finalist?

 

[PromisedLand]

Love it! I love Hyman

 

[Golden_Jet]

Good choice, how much will he make in a year , as a UFA..?

 

[Bomber0104]

Good choice, how much will he make in a year , as a UFA..?

$5-$5.5M I'm expecting.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Guy's a legend.

 

[Subway Schenn]

$5-$5.5M I'm expecting.

Ya think?

 

[Bomber0104]

Ya think?

Possibly higher.

This is Dubas we're talking about, after all.

 

[Subway Schenn]

Possibly higher.

This is Dubas we're talking about, after all.

Oh, of course. Its been so long, I forgot Du(m)bas(s) was our GM!!!11

 

[Once]

Guy tears his ACL, plays the rest of the game and the final game of the series, comes back better than he was prior to. Easily one of our most valuable players when you consider what the team lacks.

The funny part - not necessarily wrong - is McDavid will get more attention for his knee injury based on his documentary and notoriety.

 

[Primary Assist]

This guy's stock has risen so fast - back during the first year of the super rookies people were lambasting this guy left and right for taking up a spot on Matthews' wing. It's been so cool to watch what a professional attitude, killer work-ethic, and limitless motor can do for an AHL/NHL tweener turned 20-goal scoring top 6 forward. Our whole team plays better with this guy in the lineup.

 

[qqaz]

This guy's stock has risen so fast - back during the first year of the super rookies people were lambasting this guy left and right for taking up a spot on Matthews' wing. It's been so cool to watch what a professional attitude, killer work-ethic, and limitless motor can do for an AHL/NHL tweener turned 20-goal scoring top 6 forward. Our whole team plays better with this guy in the lineup.

Count me as one of the guys who underestimated him early on. A couple years ago I was convinced he didn't belong on the top 2 lines. Now there's no way to make a lineup without him there.

In about 3 years my opinion went from "he's a replacement level nobody" to "he's a core player, and a warrior."

 

[7even]

Count me as one of the guys who underestimated him early on. A couple years ago I was convinced he didn't belong on the top 2 lines. Now there's no way to make a lineup without him there.

In about 3 years my opinion went from "he's a replacement level nobody" to "he's a core player, and a warrior."

He's slowly but surely become one of the better board players in the league. I love watching him play. His skill set is very specialized, all athleticism, awareness, and intelligence of where to attack and when. It's an uncommon package.

 

[LeafGrief]

Guy tears his ACL, plays the rest of the game and the final game of the series, comes back better than he was prior to. Easily one of our most valuable players when you consider what the team lacks.

The funny part - not necessarily wrong - is McDavid will get more attention for his knee injury based on his documentary and notoriety.

Bobby Ryan also made a very important recovery this year. While I don't mean to disparage Hyman, I think we're all incredibly proud of him, he doesn't really have a shot this year.

 

[Once]

Bobby Ryan also made a very important recovery this year. While I don't mean to disparage Hyman, I think we're all incredibly proud of him, he doesn't really have a shot this year.

Shea Theodore should be in the mix too.

 

[LeafsNation75]

Bobby Ryan also made a very important recovery this year. While I don't mean to disparage Hyman, I think we're all incredibly proud of him, he doesn't really have a shot this year.

If it wasn't for other players stories like Bobby Ryan's personal issues or Connor McDavid's injury which was more highly profiled than Hyman playing in the 2019 playoffs with a torn ACL, maybe he would have a better chance of winning it.

 

[Martin Skoula]

This guy's stock has risen so fast - back during the first year of the super rookies people were lambasting this guy left and right for taking up a spot on Matthews' wing. It's been so cool to watch what a professional attitude, killer work-ethic, and limitless motor can do for an AHL/NHL tweener turned 20-goal scoring top 6 forward. Our whole team plays better with this guy in the lineup.

If he applied that work ethic to working on his shot, he'd be a legitimate 30+ goal scorer every year.

But man alive are his shot mechanics atrocious, they're bad for an AHL forward. I don't know if it's still the case, but sometime around his third year I went through a highlight package of every single goal he's scored: 0 of the ES goals were off the ice when they went in. He is basically incapable of getting the puck in the air when time and space are limited. The only goals he scored in those highlight packages where the puck was lifted were on PK breakaways where he had time to load up his shot.

Still though, that's almost impressive in its own right. Scoring 20 goals with no PP time and more than half of them are pure effort goals in the crease is nothing to sneeze at.

 

[Mess]

Pretty deserving candidate to be Leafs representative for this award.

He might be Leafs most underappreciated player among a lot of Leaf fans but nobody on the roster works harder and preserves more than Zach does.

 

[Bluelines]

I hope they find some way to keep this guy, one of the few guys who deserves a letter ('A') on this team, Morgan being the other.

 

[Bluelines]

If he applied that work ethic to working on his shot, he'd be a legitimate 30+ goal scorer every year.

But man alive are his shot mechanics atrocious, they're bad for an AHL forward. I don't know if it's still the case, but sometime around his third year I went through a highlight package of every single goal he's scored: 0 of the ES goals were off the ice when they went in. He is basically incapable of getting the puck in the air when time and space are limited. The only goals he scored in those highlight packages where the puck was lifted were on PK breakaways where he had time to load up his shot.

Still though, that's almost impressive in its own right. Scoring 20 goals with no PP time and more than half of them are pure effort goals in the crease is nothing to sneeze at.

He's a garbage man, he scores those dirty goals close to the net. It's his game, it would be like asking Mitch to muck it up in the corners. Hyman is not a shooter, will never be a shooter and with the type of game he plays that is OK in my books.

 

[Cor]

Guy tears his ACL, plays the rest of the game and the final game of the series, comes back better than he was prior to. Easily one of our most valuable players when you consider what the team lacks.

The funny part - not necessarily wrong - is McDavid will get more attention for his knee injury based on his documentary and notoriety.

Bobby Ryan is winning it this year, as he should.

And Oscar Lindbolm will almost certainly win it next season, assuming he’s able to return.

 

[Bluelines]

Guy tears his ACL, plays the rest of the game and the final game of the series, comes back better than he was prior to. Easily one of our most valuable players when you consider what the team lacks.

The funny part - not necessarily wrong - is McDavid will get more attention for his knee injury based on his documentary and notoriety.

Most of those individual awards are popularity contest. How can you trust the voters when Ovi was nominated for RW and LW and one voter admitted to not attending one game all year... it;s kinda a farce TBH.

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Hyman has out scored all of Johnsson,Kapanen and Kerfoot last three year. All make a million or more per season. Nome bring his type of multi tool type of game. Hyman is a gamer and leader that i would keep over all of the three higher priced players listed above. He simply brings what you need to win and he is very durable previously.
He has all the elements a team needs to be hard to play against. I would love a entire bottom 6 just like him.

 

[Once]

Bobby Ryan is winning it this year, as he should.

And Oscar Lindbolm will almost certainly win it next season, assuming he’s able to return.

I agree that Ryan should win.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for Lindblom to be in the mix next year? Meaning when he recovers and returns to game action.