News Article: McDavid receives one first place vote for the Hart Trophy

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

The Hart Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the player "judged most valuable to his team during the regular season"

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[Messrules11]

What’s worse is 2 first place votes for the smurf to the south.

 

[ToeMcDrag83]

I legit can't believe Crosby finished that high for this year. Shocked he was nominated, even more so that he's in 2nd.
Patrick Kane's year went criminally underrated.

 

[Del Preston]

Gaudreau lol

 

[Mr Tadakichi]

It may not say it, but making the playoffs really does move the needle.

 

[Supermassive]

Soooo...one voter out of 171 thought that McDavid was more valuable to his team than Kucherov. Interesting. Cool. Fun.

 

[Fmrnuckfan95]

Not a single vote for Leon? He was better than three quarters of the guys on that list. It just goes to the highest scorer every year and that's lame.

 

[Senor Catface]

Honestly, what strikes me as way stupider is that Kucherov had 171 votes in the top 5. McDavid had 109.

That means there was at least (I'm assuming everyone voted Kucherov top 5) 62 people that didn't even have McDavid in the top 5.

Honestly, f*** those guys. They shouldn't be allowed to vote on anything.

 

[GodPucker]

This goes to show you how UNINTELLIGENT and just BRUTAL these guys are lol. Holy crap, Jhonny diver got more.

 

[YakDavid]

I really think Kucherov deserves it but I hope that they open a discussion of the award. Between Hall winning last year and Kucherov this year I don't get how voting is based. According to NHL "the Hart Memorial Trophy is an annual award given "to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team. The winner is selected in a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association in all NHL cities at the end of the regular season." My problem is that you Vasilevskiy winning the Vezina by a landslide and also Hedman coming third in Norris votes. Was kucherov the best player this year. Yes.

So we go from a player who had a sizable gap on the next player on a team that struggled and barely made the playoffs one year then the next a player who lead the league and had a 12 point gap on the next player in the league but also had an allstar team who won trophies. The year before the league leader had 15 point gap over the hart trophy player.

 

[GodPucker]

Remember folks!

JHANNY HACKEY Got his team into the playoffs!

**Then SHAT the bed hard once in them**

No career years or Norris seasons by anybody else on his team. Midget did it all himself!

 

[frag2]

I really think Kucherov deserves it but I hope that they open a discussion of the award. Between Hall winning last year and Kucherov this year I don't get how voting is based. According to NHL "the Hart Memorial Trophy is an annual award given "to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team. The winner is selected in a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association in all NHL cities at the end of the regular season." My problem is that you Vasilevskiy winning the Vezina by a landslide and also Hedman coming third in Norris votes. Was kucherov the best player this year. Yes.

So we go from a player who had a sizable gap on the next player on a team that struggled and barely made the playoffs one year then the next a player who lead the league and had a 12 point gap on the next player in the league but also had an allstar team who won trophies. The year before the league leader had 15 point gap over the hart trophy player.

Storylines. That's all PHWA cares about

 

[harpoon]

It’s one thing to be an ignorant shmuck from Toronto or LA, but how many guys from Edmonton are eligible to vote on this? Shame on them.

 

[DerpMorg]

Lol, who the f*** voted for Tavares?

 

[frag2]

It’s one thing to be an ignorant shmuck from Toronto or LA, but how many guys from Edmonton are eligible to vote on this? Shame on them.

Chapter Chair
Mark Spector, Sportsnet.ca, 1990, @SportsnetSpec (PHWA President)
Members
Rob Tychkowski, Postmedia, 1996, @Sun_Tychkowski
Shane Jones, Canadian Press, 2012, @realshanejones
Jason Gregor, Oilers Nation, 2014, @JasonGregor
Marty Klinkenberg, Globe and Mail, 2015, @globemartyk
Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 2018, @DNBsports

 

[harpoon]

Thanks @frag2. Never even heard of Shane Jones. Does he watch hockey? How embarrassing for them all.

 

[Fmrnuckfan95]

Lol, who the **** voted for Tavares?

Does TSN get a vote?

 

[frag2]

Thanks @frag2. Never even heard of Shane Jones. Does he watch hockey? How embarrassing for them all.

Probably watches hockey like how Chia watched the Oilers

 

[ChaoticOrange]

Not a single vote for Leon? He was better than three quarters of the guys on that list. It just goes to the highest scorer every year and that's lame.

On the All-Star voting ballot Draisaitl finished top 10 in all three forward positions

4th at LW
8th at RW
8th at C

the PHWA strikes again.

 

[frag2]

Does TSN get a vote?

Toronto

Probably Mirtle is my guess

Edit: lol PHWA tweeted they will announce voter breakdown tmw

 

[BlackDogg]

164 votes for "get your team to the playoffs and then disappear like Houdini"

 

[Del Preston]

The Hart Trophy is meaningless when hacks like Wyshynsky, Simmons, and Francis get a vote. The Ted Lindsay Award is the one you really want to win.

 

[Oilhawks]

164 votes for "get your team to the playoffs and then disappear like Houdini"

Saw a comment on the Facebook post for Kuch’s haul: “One trophy for each playoff game played”

 

[McFlyingV]

Not a single vote for Leon? He was better than three quarters of the guys on that list. It just goes to the highest scorer every year and that's lame.

Highest scorer in the playoffs*

The Hart is a team award lmao.

 

[Fmrnuckfan95]

164 votes for "get your team to the playoffs and then disappear like Houdini"

For all the s-talking flamer fans do, the Oilers have more recently won a playoff series....