GDT: NHL Awards Show -- Sid Wins Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award

[Pick87your71Poison]

everyone who didn't vote for him should have a one-way ticket to the sun, leaving tomorrow morning

Yeah really... we're all Pens fans and believe he should (and mostly would without the injuries) have many more, but for the mostly reasonable fans that wish he had 5 or 6 but get it, how could anyone not vote for him this year...? And how do those people have votes going forward?

 

[WayneSid9987]

To seriously not vote for Sid after the 2 he's missed out on, for shame @ those 9 writers.

 

[MeticulouslyDishevel]

The 9 non-voters were trying to do the non-conforming hipster thing. Very avant-garde.

 

[Crafton]

9 people. 9 people should be sunbathing in the sun tomorrow. 9.






Yep.

Elliott Friedman and Ross McKeon are two of the nine.

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1647829&highlight=

5 of those 9 votes went to Getzlaf, 2 went to the 'best player in the world' and 1 each went to Varly and Price.

https://twitter.com/Sean_Leahy/status/481602719757529088

one schmuck had Crosby third...

 

[Speaking Moistly]

9 special and unique snowflakes.

 

[IcedCapp]

Elliott Friedman and Ross McKeon are two of the nine.

Poor Friedman. He seems like a good guy.

 

[Waffle Fries]

Beau Bennett ‏@BeauBennett19
Well deserved Sid, but for the record, I voted @rbontuzzo21 for the Ted Lindsey award #corksoaker

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris 38s
Sidney Crosby received 128 of 137 first-place votes for the Hart Trophy. No contest.

looks like you're looking for nine people....

Agreed, I know it's small and definitely don't want to get into another debate on earlier Harts. That being said, I can't get how anyone would vote against him this year and seems ridiculous to me.

 

[Coach Travis]

IMO, if you didn't vote for Sid you should lose your vote next year because you are braindead.

 

[Speaking Moistly]

IMO, if you didn't vote for Sid you should lose your vote next year because you are braindead.

They need a better system, actual system, to decide who in the media can vote.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

That makes me feel a little better about this year.

 

[Pick87your71Poison]

Pretty pessimistic about our chances this round, but an announcement that Sid has been nominated for the Hart doesn't really need this in the thread.

It's ok, he unfortunately deserves blocking at this point. I barely block anyone and he actually has valuable input when he puts in a useful post, but he spews out the same standard nonsense 95% of the time for whatever reason. Not entirely wrong, but annoying and useless.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Happy for Sid

 

[Crafton]

one schmuck had Crosby third...

Аrpon Basu ‏@ArponBasu 3m
Whoever gave Sidney Crosby that third place Hart vote must feel really proud.

https://twitter.com/ArponBasu/status/481604530271178752

 

[Crafton]

i'll update the OP in the next few days if/when some writers release their ballots...

 

[cygnus47]

Sid has the hugest ass. God dayum.

 

[Ozz]

How can you guys stand watching the Awards ceremony? i'd rather put a drill to my temples. Same with the draft.......i'll wait untill our turn at R1 to watch, then shut it off.

If you record that, I'll watch it instead of the rest of the awards show. It's on in the background, it's not interrupting my night

 

[DegenX]

Congrats to the Captain

 

[Beau Knows]

Crosby Hart win is the 7th highest point % win in the awards 91 year history:

1982 - Gretzky: 100%
1993 - Lemieux: 99.2%
1992 - Messier: 98.8%
2012 - Malkin: 98.8%
1984 - Gretzky: 98.7%
2008 - Ovechkin: 97.9%
2014 - Crosby: 97.8%

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Attaboy Sid. Enjoy it man.

 

[Darth Vitale]

Clean sweep. Hart, Ross, Lyndsay. Well, it ain't a Cup but it ain't bad!

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

The 9 non-voters were trying to do the non-conforming hipster thing. Very avant-garde.

That's exactly what they were doing. They were voting to be different, to appear "smarter" than their peers by concluding that the obvious choice shouldn't be the obvious choice.

I'm particularly disappointed with Friedman. Usually he seems to know his stuff. But his fluff piece about why he didn't vote for Sid came across as your typical amateur "I want to be different" stuff.

 

[flaneur]

Congrats to Sid for his wins!

actually watched a bit of the show...parts of it was so cringeworthy that it pushed passed terrible into hilarious. I'm pretty sure Cuba Gooding Jr was coked up (Messier looked like he was about to strangle him)

PK has a future in broadcasting.

 

[Darth Vitale]

Merged threads... no need for two threads talking about the same show / trophies.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Also nice of Sid to bring his sister as his guest for the awards show. Maybe she made him promise to introduce her to some of his hockey buddies. I notice Nate MacKinnon stopped to shake Sid's hand before going up on stage to accept the Calder.