Confirmed with Link: Bolts officially announce nominees for the 2022-2023 Lightning Hall of Fame

[TheDaysOf 04]

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[Felonious Python]

Henry Paul is a deep cut.

 

[These Are The Days]

We're doing a team HOF? Can we call it a Ring of Honor or something else instead? A HOF sounds tacky


By the way if we're doing this, year 1 needs to be Espo completely and totally by himself. I don't know the full condition of his health but if we were to lose him any time soon, doing it that way would be the most respectful. Get Rick Peckham to preside as Master Of Ceremonies and for 2-3 hours Phil's family, friends and "his era" Lightning players and staff come up and talk about him. He's the closest thing to deity the Lightning have. You might as well let him have this

As far as I'm concerned this is not up for discussion. He's said it so many times he may as well write it on his gravestone. That playing with Bobby Orr and winning the Stanley Cup wasn't his accomplishment. Our team was. Considering he's a top all time player that's a big friggin deal.

 

[Felonious Python]

So who would fans vote for? Online votes tend to trend towards recency. Fans from the early 90's probably aren't the demographic to use an app.

Not in this class:
Torts
Bobby Taylor
Vinny Prospal
Chris Gratton
Roman Hamrlik
Dan Boyle

Ryan Callahan is more recent than any of them.

Mikael Andersson has a great case. 7 years as a player and nearly 20 years as a scout for the team. Next year will be 20 years as a scout, so maybe then (I'd prefer current staff to not be eligible yet, except for Espo)
Nigel Kirwan is an obvious inductee.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Gotta be Phil first!

 

[The Macho King]

Must we?

 

[Felonious Python]

You know how many guys are in the Canucks Ring of Honor?

Seven.

 

[Felonious Python]

Must we?

What I don't like about team hall of fames are the politics of it. The team should be about the cups, not individual honors.

 

[BoltSTH]

What about VL4?

 

[Felonious Python]

What about VL4?

Marty and Vinny are automatically in.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

If I had to pick 4 for the first ballot:
Esposito
Andreychuk
Feaster
Peckham

There's a good variety of contributions to the franchise in here (Founder, Captain, Manager, Broadcaster). After that I would start looking at more players, but I think a team hall of fame should cover all aspects of the franchise.

 

[Major4Boarding]

The fact that The Chief isn't even in the discussion makes me want to punch a chicken

 

[Felonious Python]

Ok. I think we may be misreading this. The way the HHOF does it is that the people they've already decided are going to be inducted are called 'nominees'. We are nerds on here, so this is how we think.

What Chris Krenn said is, "Nominees were selected by an official 10-person committee & they will vote for the top two nominees."

So what they're saying is that they haven't actually done the vote yet.

It's kind of weird to have the nominees out there like this, and they probably wouldn't do it at all if there wasn't a fan vote (who will presumably pick from the list).

It makes sense to have fewer inductees per class. I think we'll admit that. It gives a day for Espo, and a day for someone else.

A 24-hour news channel would care about 'who has the votes', and I'd think that Andy would get the internet vote right now.

edit: coincidentally, another confusing hockey vote, the Hobey Baker, just opened to the fan vote yesterday. 80 'candidates' become 10 'finalists' becomes 3 'Hat Trick finalists'.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

There is only 1 true answer

 

[FinnLightning26]

The fact that The Chief isn't even in the discussion makes me want to punch a chicken

Boy I'll tell you what.

But yeah, Espo should be the first one in. He's the reason there is a Tampa Bay Lightning team to cheer for.

 

[Point21]

 

[Point21]

 

[Point21]

Konopka, Ciccone and Roy

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Konopka, Ciccone and Roy

Someone please do me a favour and shake Purcell's hands. I need to know if his handshake is limp like every shot he took.

 

[Point21]

Someone please do me a favour and shake Purcell's hands. I need to know if his handshake is limp like every shot he took.

its a shame Matt Carle wont be there

 

[These Are The Days]

Someone please do me a favour and shake Purcell's hands. I need to know if his handshake is limp like every shot he took.

As if he couldn't get more frustrating, it was said the whole time Purcell was here that he had like the 2nd hardest/best (I can't remember which one) shot on the team behind Stamkos but everyone hated that they couldn't get him to use it

 

[Major4Boarding]

Konopka, Ciccone and Roy

Man, forget the Habs game. This list is worth the admission alone. Smirky, The Swedish Battle Tank, Rusty, Creights, Cicco, and Captain Pick Kwik. Wonder if I can coerce those two to rehash their commercials!

 

[Point21]

Man, forget the Habs game. This list is worth the admission alone. Smirky, The Swedish Battle Tank, Rusty, Creights, Cicco, and Captain Pick Kwik. Wonder if I can coerce those two to rehash their commercials!

we need a Rappin With Roy segment

 

[BoltzManConstant]

Konopka, Ciccone and Roy

f*** yeah Chris Kontos.

And Enrico Ciccone. One of the best enforcer names ever.

 

[GoldenSeal]

Didn’t Phil’s brother help him start the Bolts? What about him?