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The regular season is sputtering to an end. Playoff hockey is on the rise, and the offseason thread will get to Hart and Vezina talk soon enough. But gently caress that poo poo! That's not why you're here! This is where we pick the worst of the worst players/coaches/GMs/humans of the season, for this is... THE 2ND ANNUAL 2015-16 MIKE MILBURY GOLDEN SHOE AWARDS Da Categories The  Awarded to the player in their first year who had a really bad and/or disappointing season. 2015 Winner: Leon Draisaitl The Wayne Gretzky Award  Awarded to the coach who's strategy and roster management makes an atom coach look like Pat Burns. 2015 Winner: Randy Carlyle The Adam Oates Award of Knowing Goaltending  For the goalie so bad, that he's barely a step above a shooter tutor. 2015 Winner: Kari Lehtonen The Sergei Kostitsyn Abandonne Award  If you know a forward that doesn't know the meaning of the words "backchecking" or "defending"; if his Corsi and Fenwick For% look like they'd have a GPA of 1.0, then this is the place to vote for him. 2015 Winner: Tie between Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak The Rory Fitzpatrick All Star Defence Award  Some defencemen are slow; some are caught out of position a lot; some can't pinch or maintain a play at the point. The biggest offenders go here. 2015 Winner: Luca Sbisa The Dale Hunter Award of General Niceness  The NHL is ripe with cheapshotting, goalie running pieces of poo poo. This is where you vote for the biggest rear end in a top hat. 2015 Winner: Slava Voynov The Jay Feaster Is Fat Award  Bestowed to the General Manager who is the biggest detriment to his team with his overly generous trades, overpriced free agent signings, villainizing of key players, or all of the above. 2015 Winner: Don Sweeney The Quebec Nordiques are Proud to Select Eric Lindros Award  The Least Valuable Player trophy, given to the player who's the biggest detriment to his team, or to the generally worst player in the league. The Hart has two different meanings, and so does this one. Pick one and roll with it. 2015 Winner: Luca Sbisa  BRAND NEW AWARDS FOR THIS YEARThe Steve Simmons Memorial Award for Word Vomit  Once upon a time, sports journalists used to report facts on teams and players without need for dramatics, or outright lies. That era is dead and rotting in a ditch. Vote for the worst offender of the year. The Marcel Aubut Platinum Suitacse Award  NHL owners have always been a pit of vipers that would sell your family to ISIS if the price was right. They threaten to move if they don't get a free stadium. They shut the league down every 10 years in an effort to kneecap the players union. The most repugnant of them this year needs to be outed so we can shame them. Shame! Stiev Awt fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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Da Rules 1) To participate, fill out the following ballot and email it to SASgoldenshoe@gmail.com with your SA name in the subject line. 2) The points are weighted 5 for 1st, 3 for 2nd, and 1 for 3rd for all categories. 3) Discussing your picks is welcome and encouraged. 4) Voting is open until the end of the NHL Entry Draft on June 25, 2016. 5) If you want to make a change to your ballot, send me an email with the changes you wish to make. pre:The Doug Wickenheiser Award 1. 2. 3. The Wayne Gretzky Award 1. 2. 3. The Adam Oates Award of Knowing Goaltending 1. 2. 3. The Sergei Kostitsyn Abandonne Award 1. 2. 3. The Rory Fitzpatrick All Star Defence Award 1. 2. 3. The Dale Hunter Award of General Niceness 1. 2. 3. The Jay Feaster Is Fat Award 1. 2. 3. The Quebec Nordiques are Proud to Select Eric Lindros Award 1. 2. 3. The Steve Simmons Memorial Award for Word Vomit 1. 2. 3. The Marcel Aubut Platinum Suitacse Award 1. 2. 3. Stiev Awt fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Apr 11, 2016 |
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Apr 10, 2016 05:21
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Can I vote for the entire Toronto Media?
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Apr 10, 2016 05:31
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I'm not sure whether Dorsett or Bartkowski was a larger detriment to the Canucks which I think says a lot about how I'm voting for worst GM.
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Apr 10, 2016 05:40
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As bad as Therrien is I feel like Roy has worst coach absolutely locked down
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Apr 10, 2016 08:13
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Playoff posting = true #yolo Also, GO WINGS
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Apr 10, 2016 08:24
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Man, Holland is bad but he probably isn't even top 3 on worst GM
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Apr 10, 2016 08:45
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Needs a "Fallen From Grace" category for former beloved player who is now ruining some team.
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Apr 10, 2016 09:18
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Neodoomium posted:Man, Holland is bad but he probably isn't even top 3 on worst GM I'm putting him on my ballot, probably 3rd, just because I'll be damned if he doesn't get a vote.
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Apr 10, 2016 15:08
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Krime posted:Needs a "Fallen From Grace" category for former beloved player who is now ruining some team. and the nominees are: Patrick Roy Trevor Linden Cam Neely
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Apr 10, 2016 15:47
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Someone help me identify bad hockey sportswriters. I can only really think of Jason Kay/Ken Campbell/Matt Larkin because holy hell is THN bad. Other than that I can only really think of throwing in Adrian Dater as a lifetime achievement nominee (which I might do anyway), but I'm sure there are others out there much more deserving of my vote, I just have no idea who they are.
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Apr 10, 2016 15:49
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Dandy Kaiser posted:Someone help me identify bad hockey sportswriters. I can only really think of Jason Kay/Ken Campbell/Matt Larkin because holy hell is THN bad. Other than that I can only really think of throwing in Adrian Dater as a lifetime achievement nominee (which I might do anyway), but I'm sure there are others out there much more deserving of my vote, I just have no idea who they are. Rob Rossi three times over.
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Apr 10, 2016 15:59
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Also there should be a most embrassing email category
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Apr 10, 2016 16:17
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I sense a few repeats from last year. I can't see Kari not coming back (or sharing it with the other Finnish corpse in green). We could also use a memorial category for great stat sites or twitter people we've lost.
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Apr 10, 2016 18:21
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Good on last year's worst rookie winner Leon Draisaitl for being much better this year.
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Apr 10, 2016 18:23
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Someone's going to have to come up with a really good argument to sway me from writing Jim Benning three times
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Apr 10, 2016 18:42
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the more votes other lovely GMs get, the worse it looks when he still wins by a landslide
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Apr 10, 2016 18:51
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Therrien is bad yeah, but for some reason Patrick Roy just has that thing. Therrien's team by the end was awful even if he was making tons of mistakes. Roy's team had tons of potential and completely screwed the pooch.
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Apr 10, 2016 18:56
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i voted for jack capuono as worst coach because there is literally not one coach in the league that does less with more.
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Apr 10, 2016 18:59
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Dandy Kaiser posted:i voted for jack capuono as worst coach because there is literally not one coach in the league that does less with more. His badness is underrated but Roy and Therrien are titans of Randy and Oates calibre.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:10
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Willie "Play Derrick loving Dorsett more than the Sedins when down by a goal in the 3rd" Dejardins may have a say about that
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Apr 10, 2016 19:19
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It's recent so it may be clouding my mind of other bad sports writing, but that dude who had a meltdown about O'Reilly and the Masterton should be up there. I'm sure there are great opinions about Kane from early in the season, too.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:25
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Dandy Kaiser posted:i voted for jack capuono as worst coach because there is literally not one coach in the league that does less with more. Does it have to be an active coach? Because gently caress Mike Johnston so hard.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:29
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Does it have to be an active coach? Because gently caress Mike Johnston so hard. Randy Carlyle won last year despite being fired midway through the season so fired coaches are fair game.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:33
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JoelJoel posted:His badness is underrated but Roy and Therrien are titans of Randy and Oates calibre. Roy is actually not demonstrably worse than Capuono honestly, Cappy is just buoyed by the fact that the Islanders are a much better team than the Avs. If Capuono were coaching the Avs, they would be just as bad.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:33
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I actually think Roy is a much worse coach than Capuano. Roy actively spits in the face of all accepted analytics and alienates his best players. Capuano is still bad but at least he seems to do a few things right.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:41
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Capuono has done plenty of his own alienating (Strome) and analytic denial (Strait, Zidlicky, Bailey)
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Apr 10, 2016 19:44
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Dandy Kaiser posted:Capuono has done plenty of his own alienating (Strome) and analytic denial (Strait, Zidlicky, Bailey) True, but I feel like Roy actually says to the media that Corsi is for nerds. Capuano just has His Guys who happen to be possession black holes. Every coach has that to some extent.
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Apr 10, 2016 19:55
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https://twitter.com/THNKenCampbell/status/719234046811860992 We have a last minute entry for the Steve Simmons award
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Apr 10, 2016 20:38
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Dandy Kaiser posted:I can only really think of Jason Kay/Ken Campbell/Matt Larkin because holy hell is THN bad.
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Apr 10, 2016 20:39
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Roy called out his leading scorer this year for celebrating a goal because Roy felt embarrassed by a loss. Capuano just makes general statements about "some of the guys" not working or benching youngsters periodically, which almost every coach does.
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Apr 10, 2016 20:45
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Roy called out the Wild beat writer for trying to encourage Wild players to injure his guys after he sent out Cody "Alternate Captain" McLeod to hit Granlund and crush Charlie Coyle off the face off. And had Gabriel Landeskog punch Mikko Koivu gently caress Patrick Roy
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Apr 10, 2016 20:50
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Does it have to be an active coach? Because gently caress Mike Johnston so hard.
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Apr 10, 2016 20:57
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I've been saying gently caress Patrick Roy since like 1993 at least so I see no reason to stop doing this
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Apr 10, 2016 21:02
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Mind_Taker posted:I actually think Roy is a much worse coach than Capuano. Roy actively spits in the face of all accepted analytics and alienates his best players. Capuano is still bad but at least he seems to do a few things right. He does pull his goalies real early though, which is a thing analytics guys were suggesting for ages. He bad though. That Buffalo writer who wrote the thing about ROR has to be the worst for writing. Or maybe something written about one of the Kanes. Maybe even by that same Buffalo writer.
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Apr 10, 2016 22:43
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Daigle actually had a good rookie season, by the way.
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Apr 10, 2016 22:59
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Aphrodite posted:Daigle actually had a good rookie season, by the way. It was considered disappointing at the time. 51 pts in 80 games would be swell for a guy picked 15th overall with moderate expectations. For a guy picked first who was averaging Gretzky-like totals in Juniors, it's disappointing. Especially since the team was just as bad during his first year as they were beforehand. That said, I'd not object to it being called the Doug Wickenheiser. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Apr 10, 2016 23:01
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El Gallinero Gros posted:That said, I'd not object to it being called the Doug Wickenheiser. Holy poo poo...!
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Apr 11, 2016 00:42
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On the owners' award, there's an owner I'm voting for which makes sense if you look at the picture and read the description closely and think outside the box in the sports world a bit. Curious to see if anyone else votes for them. I probably was thinking waaaaaaaay too hard on that one.
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Sent. I don't read sports journalism so I had no votes for that bit Daigle award probably took the most thought
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