-The Gordie Howe Award (most active on the board) This one's always a toss-up between Snuggy, Shooter and GDB I think (not including Rob).
Love GDB's rankings and insights, they always give me a good chuckle with some of the things he writes up so I'll give him the nod here.
-The Ken Holland Award (most outstanding GM) I'll have to give this one to my arch rival Slacky.
Took what was a very sad team and turned it into a lot of nice young players. Did very well turning old guys into picks and good prospects, and even better turning solid point producing players into top prospects and picks. With Slacky's knowledge and all the draft picks this year, that team isn't going to be at the bottom of the league for long. Very well could be a contender next season if he does what I did and starts trading those assets for solid scoring NHL'ers.
-The Wayne Gretzky Award (team w/ best centers) Toss up. PHI or ANA.
PHI has 2 of the top 3 overall in Geno and Stamkos, plus Pavelski and Couture still within the top-35.
ANA has 3 of the top-15 with the Stars duo plus Bergeron.
I'm giving the nod here to PHI, based on the top-3 of each team almost the same in FP/game, but Couture tips the scales as the 4th for PHI versus Dubois as the 4th for ANA.
-The Brendan Shanahan Award (team w/ best left wings) With 4 of the top-20 at the time of doing this, COL takes this one down.
DB, Arvi, Lee and Rantanen is pretty solid. Not to mention Ferland scoring 20 goals so far as well as a 5th option.
-The Jaromir Jagr Award (team w/ best right wings) Tougher one here, because COL has a lot of dual guys already mentioned in the LW category in the top-40... DB, Arvi, Rantanen, Ferland. Plus Blake Wheeler at 6th overall and Craig Smith 33rd overall. Yikes, that's some RW depth.
But STL has 3 of the top-15 in 'Senko, Zuck and Voracek, with Vlad/Jake being RW only players.
I'm going to go with STL on this one for fact that 2 of the top 15 are RW only guys, and COL already got the LW award... but it could go either way.
-The Bobby Orr Award (team w/ best defensemen) This one is also tough. I have to bow out due to the fact I have no one in the top-5, top-10 or top-15. (Thanks to Erik Karlsson for going after that Green Jacket this season...).
That leave CAR and STL and boy do they have some doozies. STL has the better top-4 for sure, but CAR has the better top-6, and we dress 6, so I'm giving the nod to CAR here. STL would probably have taken it with a healthy Weber and healthy/not so sucky Shattenkirk.
-The Dominik Hasek Award (team w/ best goalies) Yikes. EDM, STL, WPG....
WPG's 3-headed monster had lots of injures, or else those 3 studs would take it.
EDM and STL are so close, but EDM's guys are both over 6 pts/game and have more points overall. I think King Hank just crept up due to last week's back to back 50 save performances too. Shame Allen has taken a plunge, as that used to be a top trio as well. EDM wins this one.
-The Bad Juju Award (most unluckiest team) I would have gone for me, but the return of JC and others from injury boosted me the last 3-4 weeks. That's Jeff Carter for those of you who were thinking otherwise...
Never sure who to put for this one... Team who just misses playoffs, team who "should" have done better and made playoffs but ended up stinking, or other.
I think "other" might be the case here with WPG having Murray and Price out currently with no sign of them coming back for next week. Not sure I see Price coming back at all with MTL out of things in the real playoff hunt. PIT can kind of afford to rest Murray if they keep winning, although they're still playing for home ice. Maybe they'll just be content making playoffs and rest Murray though, seeing as he's won the Cup the last 2 years, plus took on full-time starter this year...lots of extra games played there.