It's time to get rid of these way too many NHL awards

[SpinningEdge]

There's too many darn awards in the NHL.


MVP

Rookie of the Year

Coach of the Year


That's all you need. Then have some All-NHL 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams


For example, this years All-NHL first team would be (in my opinion): Ovi, Tavares, Nash, Subban, Karlsson, and Price... then you can announce a second and third team all-nhl team. I think that is less complicated and makes the awards not as confusing for newer fans. Heck, I think a lot of hockey fans that have been watching for years don't even know all the NHL awards or what they all mean. Plus, it gets more players more recognition this way. For example, Benn- if he was considered an All-NHL second team guy this year - that's awesome and deserving. Way better than just not being nominated for the top 3 in 293829392 other awards...


Plus, instead of saying someone is "Hart finalist and Selke winner this year and that year, etc. you can just say something like "Ovi, the 3 time MVP and 5 times 1st Team-NHL bla bla bla" when describing him... much easier. Anyone would be able to understand that and realize that means the guy is really good. My girlfrieng goes to almost all the Caps home games with me... but I can assure you she has no idea what a Selke or Vezina trophy means. First team All-NHL - she'll understand that.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd team All-NHL (3 forwards, 2 d guys, and 1 goalie on each team). That's 9 forwards, 6 D guys, and 3 goalies that can be All-NHL each year. I like that much more. It gives more players a chance that are having good years to have a nice accomplishment - is easier to understand - and people wouldn't feel like a great year goes unnoticed. If Price got 1st team All-NHL this season and Dubnyk got 2nd team All-NHL that's fantastic for both of them and they both derserve something like that. Just being nominated but losing an award is kind of lame and just rewards 1 player in certain aspects of the game.

Thoughts on something like this? Keep it simple to just 3 main awards and then have All-NHL teams?

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[Sprague Cleghorn]

There's too many darn awards in the NHL.


MVP

Rookie of the Year

Coach of the Year


That's all you need. Then have some All-NHL 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams


For example, this years All-NHL first team would be (in my opinion): Ovi, Tavares, Nash, Subban, Karlsson, and Price... then you can announce a second and third team all-nhl team. I think that is less complicated and makes the awards not as confusing for newer fans. Heck, I think a lot of hockey fans that have been watching for years don't even know all the NHL awards or what they all mean. Plus, it gets more players more recognition this way. For example, Benn- if he was considered an All-NHL second team guy this year - that's awesome and deserving. Way better than just not being nominated for the top 3 in 293829392 other awards...


Plus instead of saying someone is "Hart finalist and Selke winner this year and that year, etc. you can just say something like "Ovi, the 3 time MVP and 5 times 1st Team-NHL bla bla bla" when describing him... much easier.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd team All-NHL (3 forwards, 2 d guys, and 1 goalie on each team). That's 9 forwards, 6 D guys, and 3 goalies that can be All-NHL each year. I like that much more. It gives more players a chance that are having good years to have a nice accomplishment - is easier to understand - and people wouldn't feel like a great year goes unnoticed. If Price got 1st team All-NHL this season and Dubnyk got 2nd team All-NHL that's fantastic for both of them and they both derserve something like that. Just being nominated but losing an award is kind of lame and just rewards 1 player in certain aspects of the game.

Thoughts on something like this? Keep it simple to just 3 main awards and then have All-NHL teams?

1st and 2nd All-Star Teams already exist.

 

[Sarcastic]

How are awards confusing? Winning one means excellence in one area or another.

 

[SpinningEdge]

1st and 2nd All-Star Teams already exist.

I understand that - but having this in place of the current awards I think is better. There's too many awards for players in the NHL right now IMO.

Just keep it simple. MVP, ROY, and Coach of the Year... then have All-NHL teams. That's it.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

What's wrong with more awards?

For that matter, what's so essential about the ones that you kept? Get rid of them all.

 

[DekeLikeYouMeanIt]

I think the Lindsay award is a bit redundant and the Jennings is lame. The rest is fine.

 

[Comic Book Guy*]

Dude, stop including everyone in your rant. No one is confused about the NHL awards. It's just you. Look around. No one is confused about them. It's just you.

When no one is complaining about something, and it's just you bringing it up, usually the thing that's wrong isn't the thing you're complaining about.

It's just you. Don't make this sound like it's consensus that there are too many awards. It's just you.

 

[foundhockey]

I think the Lindsay award is a bit redundant and the Jennings is lame. The rest is fine.

I like the Lindsay because it's voted on by players, not sports writers.

 

[UsernameWasTaken]

Things are fine the way they are.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

There's just enough awards to cover all areas of the game.

 

[Painful Quandary]

This thread screams the Mark Messier Leadership Award.

 

[Skobel24]

TL;DR Version.

OP doesn't understand all of the awards and struggles to keep track of them. He wants to eliminate just about every single one.

 

[DekeLikeYouMeanIt]

I like the Lindsay because it's voted on by players, not sports writers.

Good point... I take it back.

 

[JackFr]

Then just ignore the other awards? I'm not sure exactly why the existance of the other awards is such a problem.

 

[Ceremony]

My girlfrieng goes to almost all the Caps home games with me... but I can assure you she has no idea what a Selke or Vezina trophy means. First team All-NHL - she'll understand that.

Was your girlfriend not attending games when a Capitals goalie won the Vezina?

If you don't know what a trophy is, learn it. Example:

"Honey, what's a Vezina?"
"Georges Vezina was a goalie that played ages ago. He was really good, the award for best goalie in a season is named in his honour."

Not especially difficult.

Conversely, I had no idea what "First Team NHL All-Star" meant until a few months ago when I was looking up something else, and the phrase "first team all-NHL" is completely meaningless to me.

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Was your girlfriend not attending games when a Capitals goalie won the Vezina?

If you don't know what a trophy is, learn it. Example:

"Honey, what's a Vezina?"
"Georges Vezina was a goalie that played ages ago. He was really good, the award for best goalie in a season is named in his honour."

Not especially difficult.

Conversely, I had no idea what "First Team NHL All-Star" meant until a few months ago when I was looking up something else, and the phrase "first team all-NHL" is completely meaningless to me.

Woah, woah, back up. What is 'goaltender'?

 

[Inkling]

I've followed hockey my whole life and I just learned that the "NHL Foundation Award" is a thing.

It's existence doesn't bother me. I could do without the Mark Messier Leadership Award that I find cringeworthy but I'm ok with the having so many awards.

 

[amnesiac]

get rid of Lindsay, Jennings, Byng

 

[McBaevid]

Get rid of the Jennings, Selke, Byng, and Masterson. All the other ones are fine

 

[redcard]

Woah, woah, back up. What is 'goaltender'?

It was probably a typo, I think he meant goatlender.

 

[BeastoftheEast85]

Why get rid of some awards? It makes the players who win them happy, the hockey media loves to cover it, and fans like to see their favorite player win one. In fact they should add more awards. Maybe make an award for every player in the league.

 

[Ttracer*]

Emphasis should be more on team never liked individual hockey awards

 

[txpd]

not sure why its important to keep it simple. I mean that simple. hart trophy is almost always a forward. so, the best goalie in the league and the best defenseman don't rate?

nah

 

[Frank Garrett]

What about the Booby Orr trophy, the Wayne Betzky trophy, and the Paul Coffey Memorial trophy?!?

 

[Skobel24]

I would be fine with the Messier trophy being eliminated, simply because he was a ****** ****ing leader when he was in Vancouver.