Ovechkin named First and Second team All-Star
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GhostofPotvin29
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Well I commented on this in the NHL thread at basically the exact same time, but I'll just repeat: well done the brilliant minds of the PHWA.
GhostofPotvin29
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It also likely screwed Taylor Hall out of a nice bonus.
Guru Tugginmypuddah
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1st team:
G - Ovechkin
D - Ovechkin, Ovechkin
C - Ovechkin
LW - Ovechkin
RW - Ovechkin
2nd Team
G - Ovechkin
D - Ovechkin, Ovechkin
C - Ovechkin
LW - Ovechkin
RW - Ovechkin
G - Ovechkin
D - Ovechkin, Ovechkin
C - Ovechkin
LW - Ovechkin
RW - Ovechkin
2nd Team
G - Ovechkin
D - Ovechkin, Ovechkin
C - Ovechkin
LW - Ovechkin
RW - Ovechkin
drummond said:
Reimer finished 7th
http://blogimages.thescore.com/nhl/files/2013/07/tenders.jpg
Here's my reaction to the voting system:
Kunitz is a 1st team All Star?
Subban is a 1st team All Star?
Beauchemin is a 2nd team All Star?
They all had good seasons and maybe that's the way their seasons should be rewarded but those threw me a little - I wouldn't have quickly thought of them in that regard.
bustaheims
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Potvin29 said:
Not so much, no.
CraigCustance: Told that Taylor Hall hit all his exhibit A and B bonuses anyway. All-Star vote didn't cost him any money.
For anybody who wasn't following this on twitter, all the members of the PHWA were actually sent an email reminding them that Ovechkin played right wing this year before the voting.
Chev-boyar-sky
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Wasn't Ovechkin kind of terrible while he was lining up as a LW?
When he finally moved back to RW his stats took off no?
If that is indeed the case (my memory isn't always the greatest) then this is even more hilarious!
When he finally moved back to RW his stats took off no?
If that is indeed the case (my memory isn't always the greatest) then this is even more hilarious!
Heroic Shrimp
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Zee said:
Beauchemin was also 4th in Norris voting, so for that, a 2nd team all-star nod falls in line. Some of the really wacky vote-getters were highlighted by James Mirtle: Nick Leddy, Zidlicky, Chris Stewart, Parenteau, Wheeler, Saad. Nick Leddy was 6th among defensemen on his team (Chicago) in TOI/game, and he got 2 all-star votes! And among goalies: Emery (four votes), Price (three), Nabokov (two), Fleury (one), Holtby (one). Wow.
Looking at NHL.com's article about the all-star teams is a study in PR and damage control. First, there's no direct mention of Ovechkin's double status this year at all. But the article goes right into how switching positions worked for Ovechkin this year, and how's he's now been an all-star at multiple positions in his career. In writing, the only mention of second team all-stars is to acknowledge the players who were first time all-stars this year. And the the graphic which actually shows all the first and second team all-stars has Ovechkin's second entry at the very bottom of the graphic. I'm surprised they didn't use a different picture of Ovechkin, too...
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=676355&navid=DL
Zee said:
Yes. It's never happened that I can recall. I guess I just haven't accepted him as a true Norris type dman (yet?). To utter his name in the same paragraph as other Norris winners seems weird to me.
If I had my pick of all the dmen in the league, it might be a while before I got to Subban's name.
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Jalili
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Nik the Trik said:
I expect this one to be used a lot as well, when trying to discredit the value of these awards.
I'd like to see the 45 guys who voted him a LW be revealed so we can laugh at them.