You mean emotions I take it? Yeah, I relate way better with logic than emotion so you very well could be right sir.
If you are trying to assess the Masterton using logic/objective reasoning over emotion/subjective reasoning, then you are doing the Masterton wrong.
1) Antti Niemi is the Habs nominee, having played on 3 teams this year (and 4 teams in the last 14 months), and after struggling with his career on the ropes, finally finding a home in Montreal where he has performed at an elite level. His story focuses on perseverance in the face of a career running off the rails, hanging on / not giving up and playing through professional struggles to find a light at the end of the tunnel.
2) Jordan Staal is Carolina's nominee after having lost his infant daughter to a birth defect, and the psychological fight he has had this season playing through such a personal loss (similar to Karlsson, I suppose).
3) Brian Boyle played through Leukemia.
4) Derek Dorsett was forced to retire far too early in the face of crippling neck injuries.
... How are you going to use "logic" to assess and rank these four completely different, entirely subjective, non-statistical stories? Is there a mathematical formula to decide which of these four players "persevered" more than the others? Is there a spreadsheet that helps determine which player better embodied the idea of "sportsmanship"?
The award is the
embodiment of an appeal to emotion. At no point has there ever been objective consideration in the history of the Masterton.
