VanIslander
A 19-year ATDer on HfBoards
I've never been a numbers guy. I watch 150-200 NHL games a year (my fav 3-4 teams, 1-2 games a night during the season and since the Internet was invented some teams more so in the offseason, looking back).
My fav player in 1999 was a young NHLer named Marian Hossa. I cheered on Ottawa for seven years because of him, then three more in Atlanta.
His best career year pointwise was 2006-07 with 100 points in Atlanta (and while I thought his 92-point season the year before that as a Thrasher was the most Hart worthy based on eyeball experience), yet he didn't seem to hit Canadian superstar radarhood hood until his hoohum days in Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Can a numbers guy find any way to make a case for Marian Hossa as the deserving Hart trophy MVP candidate in 2005-06 or 2006-07, his first two years in Atlanta?
He did score 20 points more than Slava Kozlov to easily top all Thrashers as the franchise's only 100-point season player to lead Atlanta to its most points and only playoff appearance in 2007.
Help me make the case for him as AT LEAST a Hart finalist that season (he was robbed!!).
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Too much info:
I have this tattoo with Marian Hossa on my right hip just above where shorts hide it (unless I decide to show it)!
My fav player in 1999 was a young NHLer named Marian Hossa. I cheered on Ottawa for seven years because of him, then three more in Atlanta.
His best career year pointwise was 2006-07 with 100 points in Atlanta (and while I thought his 92-point season the year before that as a Thrasher was the most Hart worthy based on eyeball experience), yet he didn't seem to hit Canadian superstar radarhood hood until his hoohum days in Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Can a numbers guy find any way to make a case for Marian Hossa as the deserving Hart trophy MVP candidate in 2005-06 or 2006-07, his first two years in Atlanta?
He did score 20 points more than Slava Kozlov to easily top all Thrashers as the franchise's only 100-point season player to lead Atlanta to its most points and only playoff appearance in 2007.
Help me make the case for him as AT LEAST a Hart finalist that season (he was robbed!!).
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Too much info:
I have this tattoo with Marian Hossa on my right hip just above where shorts hide it (unless I decide to show it)!