japersrink.blogspot.com - 6/13/2008
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OK, one last post on awards voting, I promise.
In addition to the numbers I told you about last night, here are a few more vote totals:
Alexander Ovechkin finished ninth (8-4-1-0-2) in voting for the Lady Byng Trophy and 29th (0-0-2-1-1) in Selke Trophy voting;Nicklas Backstrom finished 72nd (0-0-0-1-0) in voting for the Lady Byng Trophy and 66th (0-0-0-0-1) in Selke Trophy voting; Viktor Kozlov
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Puck Headlines: Nashville gets time, Florida gets DeBoer
Puck Daddy —
... Mario photo from the NHL Awards. This is the best that we received. We eagerly await your e-mails with Lemieux Photoshopped in. • Players would like more discussion about a few rules and a lot of bad ice found around the League. Here's an idea: Stop playing games in June. [Dreger] • Japers begins sifting through the NHL Awards voting rubble, and wonders who considered Viktor Kozlov the best defensive forward in hockey. Did Ovechkin have a vote? [Japers' Rink] • Bobby Holik does not expect to be an Atlanta Thrasher next ...
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james mirtle —
... should, in general, prevent goals when he's on the ice, and (c) he should play on the penalty kill, preferably the first unit. To me, that's a defensive forward. At least, that would make a candidate to finish among the top five in the league, which is what we're picking. My list would have been: Sharp - Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Koivu - Pahlsson (The last two you can debate given they missed about 25 games apiece. Madden and Moen would be next up.) Some of the wild picks? Japers' Rink points out that Viktor Kozlov and his eight minutes of shorthanded ice time (over 81 games) ...
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