Selke has become best two way forward, not defensive. If he scored more then he'd get more votes, his defense is already worthy.
Yep, also Couturier arguably played better overall this season than last I reckon, (definitely 5v5) but had far less votes.
Also in regards to his age, his top 10 finish in 2013-14 was only the 8th time in NHL history a player in his aged 21 season or younger came top 10 in Selke votes.
It is also true in regards to the Selke, since the lockout, while the description of the award has stayed the same the way it is voted for has not.
Draper, Madden, Graham, Meagher, Ramsay and Jarvis would not have won 'their' Selke's post-lockout, most would not have came top five. Heck, Guy Carbonneau and Jere Lehtinen would likely have one or two less Selkes as well.
I mean, since 2008 there have only been two guys in top 5 voting with below 50 points (one who had 49).
2/35 in a 7 year span had less than 50 points.
In the 7 years pre-lockout that figure was 17/35.
I mean, league scoring comes into it (Yearly average of 5.56 GPG from 08-09 to present vs 5.32 from 97-98 to lockout, so the last 7 years has had 4.5% more scoring than pre lockout) but not to that degree.
I mean, Daniel Winnik has only ever got Selke votes in one year, Boyd Gordon has never been top 10... and last year Crosby came ahead of Stepan and Little...
The way the Selke is voted for has got away from the literal definition of the word...