Taylor Hall wins Hart Trophy

[glenwo2]

For you, @Bleedred :

 

[Blender]

Huge for Hall and the franchise. Congratulations Hall!!

 

[glenwo2]

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Hall made specific mention of Nico Hischier when talking to the media after winning the Hart: "I'm not here without No. 13."

Hall was asked by glenwo2 "what about Bratt?"

Hall replied : "Who?"

 

[glenwo2]

Boyle and his wife looked so happy when Hall was announced

As the camera panned back from the stage while Hall was shaking hands with everyone, he saw Boyle and both embraced.

 

[glenwo2]

Almost reminds me of a smaller version of :

 

[glenwo2]

Hall wants to stay. As long as we don’t get cheap or screw up the team he isn’t going anywhere.

Well it's a good thing we don't have GARTH SNOW as GM then.

 

[Missionhockey]

Goaltending excluded, I haven't seen anything close to Stevens 1994 in New Jersey. Pure dominance.

Then Elias 2001 (Elias in 2006 was probably more dominant but it was a shortened season... Definitely the most inspirational performance I have ever seen in NJ)

I think Hall's season was on par with Zach Parise 2009 personally.


Some underrated/memorable seasons: Claude Lemieux 1992 and 1993 -
Pat Verbeek 1988- Bobby Holik 1998 - Scott Niedermayer 1998 - Scott Gomez 2000 .

Respectfully disagree.

Parise's linemates this year were vastly better than what Hall had to work with. Zajac circa 08-09 was definitely better than Nico was this past season. He was more mature, better defensively, better on the cycle, and he had better chemistry IMO with ZP than Nico has with Hall. Also he had Langenbrunner who I believe almost scored 30 that year.

Yes, the Devils scored goals at a comparable rate to this year to 08-09. However, I'd be interested to see how much of that was scored in the first half. Bratt's production nearly all come in the first half. Same with Gibbons and Boyle. From about January on it was the Taylor Hall show with Palmieri and Nico sprinkled in between.

Compare that with ZP; Zajac, Langenbrunner and Elias were far more consistent than anything Hall had to work with.

Edit: and I forgot to get this in...

WOOOO WE GOT A HART TROPHY WINNER!!!!

 

[New Jersey]

so this is what dad-like levels of pride feel like

i love taylor hall and my devils so f***ing much

 

[MullerBrotenVerbeek]

Well deserved. Still LOL'ing that we got the league MVP STRAIGHT UP for a 2nd pairing defenseman who doesn't even score points.

 

[OmNomNom]

 

[mtnet]

Beautiful, what a season

Made a fair number of goalies look foolish on some of those goals

Love that clip where he crushes Zucc before we score

 

[BomaLightDevils]

Thanks for putting this up now I didn't know I wasn't happy but now I am

 

[Classic Devil]

It's funny - who gets #9 on my all-time teams has always been difficult. Do you go with Muller for more center depth, or Parise for his 96 point season at LW? But with Hall winning the Hart, it's now a foregone conclusion that he'll occupy the #1 or #2 LW on every all-time team indefinitely. One season and he knocked both Muller and Parise off the top tier of Devils' #9s.

 

[NJ DevLolz]

Beautiful, what a season

Made a fair number of goalies look foolish on some of those goals

Love that clip where he crushes Zucc before we score

One of my favorite parts about Hall is that he's usually good for 2 or 3 monstrous hits during the year. That one on Philip Larson was one of the craziest hits I've ever seen

 

[Emperoreddy]

Remember his hand was busted up for a chunk of this season.