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Best NHL players to never receive a single vote for an award or all-star team

Epsilon

Epsilon

#basta
Oct 26, 2002
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Bolstering his case as one of the all-time draft busts, Doug Wickenheiser -almost- qualified for this, but he received a single third place Selke vote in 1984-85.
 
Ralph Malfredsson

Ralph Malfredsson

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4 time Stanley Cup champion, Olympic gold medallist, and king of the garbage goals: Tomas Holmstrom
 
overpass

overpass

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TheDevilMadeMe said:
1994-95 had a very limited number of voters due to the lockout rules, so there were fewer homer votes to go around. This was the voting for RW.

RIGHT WING: Jaromir Jagr 71 (14-0-1); Theoren Fleury 35 (0-11-2); Brett Hull 15 (0-3-6); Peter Bondra 12 (1-1-4); Owen Nolan 1 (0-0-1); Ray Sheppard 1 (0-0-1)

3 name ballots, with 4 RWs clearly ahead of the rest. Then a single homer vote to both Nolan and Sheppard. Guess the Flyers didn't have a guy throwing out a homer vote like the Sharks and Red Wings did.
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I believe there were two rounds of voting in 1995. The top 3 finishers from each conference were included in the second round of voting, and only the results from the second round have been posted here.

As a result, no more than 6 players got (second round) votes for each award, by design. Renberg may well have received votes in the first round. We just don't know.
 
Epsilon

Epsilon

#basta
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Ralph Malfredsson said:
4 time Stanley Cup champion, Olympic gold medallist, and king of the garbage goals: Tomas Holmstrom
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Nice one. He never got a single vote for anything.

A few more near-misses (as usual, not counting the Calder or Byng):

-Alexander Frolov got a single 5th place Selke vote. He's one of the better players I've found from the 5-place ballot era that's got so close to this.

-Petr Klima got a few all-star votes in 1990-91, otherwise nothing.
 
Pominville Knows

Pominville Knows

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Who's the best player in the USSR league to never get any votes for their awards? Now that is something we'll never have a clue on, and probably wont care as much about either.
 
vadim sharifijanov

vadim sharifijanov

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of all players in the five vote ballot era, nedved is the most impressive name mentioned so far, right?

almost 1,000 games, played for a number of marquee teams, often scored at an all-star level or close to it.
 
vadim sharifijanov

vadim sharifijanov

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overpass said:
I believe there were two rounds of voting in 1995. The top 3 finishers from each conference were included in the second round of voting, and only the results from the second round have been posted here.

As a result, no more than 6 players got (second round) votes for each award, by design. Renberg may well have received votes in the first round. We just don't know.
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ah that makes sense. i would have had him above bondra and nolan, but so it goes.
 
Hockey Outsider

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Some close calls not already mentioned:

- Derek Sanderson won the Calder (we're excluding that right?) but other than that had just 2 voting points for the centre all-star team in 1971. Not bad for a guy who was lured to the WHA with a multi-million dollar contract. (Granted he almost certainly would have earned Selke votes had it been around when he was in the NHL).

- Scott Mellanby. Over 1,400 games, scored 364 goals, spent nearly 2,500 minutes in the box, key part of the '96 Panthers surprise SCF run. Received a single 5th place Hart vote.

- Andrew Cassels. Excluding the Byng he had just one 5th place Selke vote in 2001.

- Jocelyn Thibault. A single third-place all-star vote in 2002 in a career of nearly 600 games.

- Ulf Dahlen. Assuming we exclude Calder/Byng votes he has a single 2nd place Selke vote in 1992.

Now an actual suggestion:

- Ken Daneyko. He won the Masterson (we're excluding that right?) but otherwise received no votes for anything. Not a great player but appeared in nearly 1,300 games and was an important depth player (the #4 defenseman) on three Stanley Cup winning teams.
 
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Epsilon

Epsilon

#basta
Oct 26, 2002
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A few other names I randomly thought of:

-Stephane Fiset never got a vote for anything. He was a decent platoon starter/backup for a while.

-Geoff Sanderson had a single 2nd place vote (presumably a homer/throwaway vote) for all-star center once, otherwise nothing.

-If the team needs a powerplay point specialist, Marc-Andre Bergeron qualifies.

Also there was a player I was going to look up, then forgot who it was while checking out Fiset. Tells you how ephemeral the memories of players who might qualify for this can be. :laugh:
 
TheDevilMadeMe

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Hockey Outsider said:
Some close calls not already mentioned:

- Derek Sanderson won the Calder (we're excluding that right?) but other than that had just 2 voting points for the centre all-star team in 1971. Not bad for a guy who was lured to the WHA with a multi-million dollar contract. (Granted he almost certainly would have earned Selke votes had it been around when he was in the NHL).

- Scott Mellanby. Over 1,400 games, scored 364 goals, spent nearly 2,500 minutes in the box, key part of the '96 Panthers surprise SCF run. Received a single 5th place Hart vote.

- Andrew Cassels. Excluding the Byng he had just one 5th place Selke vote in 2001.

- Jocelyn Thibault. A single third-place all-star vote in 2002 in a career of nearly 600 games.

- Ulf Dahlen. Assuming we exclude Calder/Byng votes he has a single 2nd place Selke vote in 1992.

Now an actual suggestion:

- Ken Daneyko. He won the Masterson (we're excluding that right?) but otherwise received no votes for anything. Not a great player but appeared in nearly 1,300 games and was an important depth player (the #4 defenseman) on three Stanley Cup winning teams.
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If you want to be technical about it, he was only the clear #4 in 2000. In 2003, he was basically the #6, and in 1995, Lemaire changed the lineup around so many times, it's hard to tell whether Daneyko, Niedermayer, or Chambers was the #2, 3, or 4 - it kind of changed by round.
 
Voight

Voight

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TheDevilMadeMe said:
If you want to be technical about it, he was only the clear #4 in 2000. In 2003, he was basically the #6, and in 1995, Lemaire changed the lineup around so many times, it's hard to tell whether Daneyko, Niedermayer, or Chambers was the #2, 3, or 4 - it kind of changed by round.
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#6 might even be generous considering he was scratched the first six games of the 2003 finals.
 
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