Posts About "Hart Trophy"
Are The NHL Awards Too Diluted?
April 7th, 2014 The NHL regular season is coming to a close and, naturally, that means the discussion surrounding the league’s individual player awards is starting to heat up. Who’s in for the Norris trophy? Who will get the nod for the Hart trophy? Questions and speculations are in full force and will continue until the answers are revealed. But...
Claude Giroux, Philadelphia's 'Hart' & Soul
April 3rd, 2014 It wasn't so long ago that Claude Giroux was the butt of all golf jokes. After stumbling out of the gate due in large part to a freak accident on a golf course, the Flyers captain now finds his name in the Hart Trophy discussion. Even more important to Giroux, the Flyers are now in the thick of a playoff push. And after all Giroux has...
Evgeni Malkin Primed to Break Out
November 4th, 2013 Not much has gone wrong for the Pittsburgh Penguins this year. Sure, the club is dealing with some significant injuries but, outside of a recent three game skid, those setbacks haven't hampered the Pens to this point. In fact, as the first month of the season drew to a close, the Penguins completed a perfect week in which they both...
Alex Ovechkin Off to Torrid Start
October 7th, 2013 (Rob Grabowski-USA TODAY Sports)If there were any doubts that Washington Capitals forward Alexander Ovechkin's Hart-winning year in a strike-shortened season was a fluke in an otherwise declining career, the Great Eight's start to the 2013-14 campaign should quickly put those thoughts to bed. Ovechkin has scored four goals...
A Penguin Fan's Wish List for the 2013-'14 Season
August 18th, 2013 As the excitement of the NHL Draft and buzz of the biggest free agent acquisitions disappear in the rearview mirror, the most diehard of hockey fans can only sit and wait as the season inches closer. Without any trades, transactions or, you know, actual games to discuss, the biggest hockey "stories" seem to center around alleged cases...
The Crosby Effect
August 5th, 2013 It was 2004. The Pittsburgh Penguins were atrocious, yet again. It had been three years straight of missing the playoffs and the team finished in dead last. The once prosperous team steer-headed by one of the most dominant players, Mario Lemieux, had fallen on hard times with a dwindling fanbase, piss-poor attendance, and a...
Are the Washington Capitals' Cup Chances Kaput?
June 19th, 2013 There have been a ton of articles discussing Ovechkin’s third Hart Trophy win. Whether he “deserves” it or whether he “does not deserve it”. An exasperated Casey Demarco with THW says the NHL got “it so wrong” when they awarded Ovechkin the MVP. So, we should take a second to explain the Hart Trophy. It is a MVP...
Ovechkin wins Hart Trophy: How did NHL get it so wrong?
June 18th, 2013 So for starters, there are plenty of you who will have an issue with the fact that I'm even challenging the prospect of Alexander Ovechkin as Hart winner. You are Capitals fans. You have your right to be upset, but if you can't see any reason as to why he was the wrong choice, you'd better just save yourself the aggravation and stop...
Dan Bylsma: Great Coach or Product of Talented Team?
May 24th, 2013 Let's get one thing straight, Bylsma is a genuine human being. He comes off as being family-oriented, hard-working, and looks like he truly cares for the players on his team. As great as the Pittsburgh Penguins' head coach may be as a person, I'm not evaluating his personal character. I'm evaluating his coaching ability. Resume In...
Who Deserves The Hart Trophy?
May 13th, 2013 After releasing the list of finalists for this year's Hart Trophy honors, hockey fans must be wondering who will win this year's award. While Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, and John Tavares were all named as finalists for the Hart Trophy, only one of the aforementioned players will walk away as the individual considered to be most...
Jonathan Toews Always Plays With Hart
April 24th, 2013 The Chicago Blackhawks are wrapping up one of their most successful seasons in franchise history, a season where they went undefeated in regulation for the first half (21-0-3) of the year. Chicago already has first place in the Western Conference locked up and have secured home ice advantage for the first three rounds of the Stanley Cup...
John Tavares Has Hart
April 20th, 2013 March 30. That's when the Hart Trophy became, once again, up for grabs. On that Saturday afternoon, Sidney Crosby -- who was running away with the league scoring title and making a mockery of the race for being named the NHL's MVP -- had his jaw structure rearranged by a deflected slap shot. So dominant was the season Crosby...
Evgeni Nabokov Is the New York Islanders' MVP
April 18th, 2013 For the majority of the 2012-2013 NHL season, New York Islanders fans watched a hockey team that displayed flashes of dominance at times, but played wildly inconsistent during other stretches. However, over their last twelve games the Islanders have managed to play to the tune of a 9-1-2 record and have strengthened their playoff...
