Fisher Reveals Votes for NHL’s Major Awards

[Larry Fisher]

The NHL won't hand out its hardware until the annual awards banquet in June, but the votes are starting to be cast and I wanted to get my ballot in before the playoffs begin. Here are my winners and top-three candidates for six major awards based on regular-season performance: https://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-awards-candidates/

Agree or disagree?

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[Bieber fever]

Dont agree with the noris

 

[izzy]

i hope to god john carlson doesnt win the norris lmao

 

[bring back the jets]

I would have given Giroux the Hart nomination over Kopitar but it's still hard to argue those picks.

 

[volcom92886]

His Norris nominees are pitiful

 

[Larry Fisher]

Dont agree with the noris

The Norris was probably the toughest vote for me. Who's your winner and who's on your ballot?

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Come on, there's not enough Connor McDonald in these lists. He's at least Top 3 for HART.

 

[rent free]

definitely shouldn't be carlson fir the norris

 

[stl76]

The Norris was probably the toughest vote for me. Who's your winner and who's on your ballot?

Hard to argue with the point totals, but I just don't think Carlson plays a well rounded enough game to win a Norris trophy.

Personally, I would have Doughty and Hedman fighting for the top spot, with the 3rd up for grabs between Jones, Josi, Pietrangelo, and Sutter.

 

[tucker3434]

I think MacKinnon should win the Hart but I have trouble arguing that Hall (and several others) doesn’t deserve it as well.

 

[Sasso09]

Come on, there's not enough Connor McDonald in these lists. He's at least Top 3 for HART.

Not even top 5..

Giroux
Hall
MacKinnon
Kopitar
Kucherov

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

Thank you for sharing. These are all good choices but a little surprised at the absence of Hedman for the Norris, he had a fairly extensive season.

 

[gertbfrobe16]

i appreciate your effort on this but to me these awards have become a most popular contest. with most of the voters just putting who ever they think most of the others will vote for so they look like they made the right choice. using the norris as an example it usually goes to the highest scoring defense man not really the best defense man.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Disagree with Hall for Hart. And Carlson for Norris.

 

[Larry Fisher]

Hard to argue with the point totals, but I just don't think Carlson plays a well rounded enough game to win a Norris trophy.

Personally, I would have Doughty and Hedman fighting for the top spot, with the 3rd up for grabs between Jones, Josi, Pietrangelo, and Sutter.

Doughty and Hedman definitely were considered, along with Pietrangelo and Suter. Like I said, the Norris is the toughest vote this year (for me), but I think Carlson's defensive play has come a long way out of necessity this season and Jones is becoming a beast before our eyes (he's my favourite to win next year's Norris). It's going to be fun to watch those two go head-to-head in the first round of the playoffs.

 

[snipes]

Not even top 5..

Giroux
Hall
MacKinnon
Kopitar
Kucherov

His season was better than all of theirs. But no playoffs makes it tough I guess.

He'll win the Lindsay though as he had the best season and is the best player in the league without question.

 

[Captain Bowie]

Doughty and Hedman definitely were considered, along with Pietrangelo and Suter. Like I said, the Norris is the toughest vote this year (for me), but I think Carlson's defensive play has come a long way out of necessity this season and Jones is becoming a beast before our eyes (he's my favourite to win next year's Norris). It's going to be fun to watch those two go head-to-head in the first round of the playoffs.

All of your explanations were based on offence and ice time, not actual defensive prowess. I would appreciate if you showed your work there a little more.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

No Hedman OR Doughty for the Norris? That's the biggest omission I saw. The rest I'm overall fine with (even if the exact winner wasn't who I'd pick).

 

[nobody]

Is there any place where we can find the votes that have already been casted by the members of the media?

Also I agree with the votes here. My biggest plus is the 2nd place vote for Seth Jones, who seems to get lost in any Norris convo this year so kudos on that. My only down is on voting Vasilevski. I think a guy like Bob probably deserves a vote more than Vasi does looking at how Bob was absolutely clutch down the stretch while Vasi was trash.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I don't think any of them are outrageous or insulting, but I would have different Hart and Norris winners (Kopitar and Hedman, respectively).

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

The Doughty snubbing has begun!

That Norris voting is indefensible but the rest is very, very good.

Though props for sticking your neck out before just about anyone else!

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

His season was better than all of theirs. But no playoffs makes it tough I guess.

He'll win the Lindsay though as he had the best season and is the best player in the league without question.

his 100 point season was Hart caliber, but his 108 point season was worthless. Great logic by voters to hold team success against an individual

 

[Bjorn Le]

Carlson was barely the NHLs leader in defensemen scoring and he was worse defensively then several people very close to him. I don’t mind any of the other choices but the Noris is definitely wrong. Hedman and Doughty are almost guaranteed to be nominated.

 

[Lays]

Carlson should not win Norris...
Bednar 3rd for Adams? Don’t Avs fans not like him?

 

[sheed36]

Gord Miller from TSN was on Montreal TSN690 sports radio about an hour ago and he revealed who he voted for. I'm not sure if I missed any since I wasn't really paying much attention but I remember these.

Hart - Hall
Norris - Hedman
Selke - Kopitar
Vezina - Rinne
Calder - Barzal
I also believe he said Ryan O'Reilly for the Lady Byng

Edit: They just replayed the clip again and I got all of them correct. Also Pierre McGuire is on now and he also voted Hall for the Hart and Kopitar for the Selke.