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The PHBA Awards and our votes

A few weeks ago, the folks over at The Royal Half (specifically PumperNicholl) got 65 hockey blogs and bloggers to submit their votes for the first ever Professional Hockey Bloggers Association awards. Similar to the PHWA (but with no W and a very loose definition of the word Professional) the PHWA is made up of some of the biggest team-specific hockey blogs out there, and a few independent bloggers for good measure. As TRH says:

Is the inaugural PHBA vote worse than what the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association and NHL General Managers put out for you every year, or are the team-specific blogs you’ve come to know and love providing you with a better representation of who should win each award?

Two blogs for each team and a few blogging celebrities voted on the major award categories, submitting five entries per award on a 10-7-6-3-1 point basis. Below are the results, and who DBTB voted for. Definitely check out the full list of winners (and who voted for who) over at the Royal Half, and let us know how you think we did in the comments.

Hart Trophy

Winner: Sidney Crosby

Our votes
1. Sidney Crosby
2. Ryan Getzlaf
3. Semyon Varlamov
4. Ben Bishop
5. Jonathan Toews

Lady Byng Trophy

Winner: Ryan O’Reilly

Our votes
1. Ryan O’Reilly
2. Tyler Seguin
3. Loui Eriksson
4. Phil Kessel
5. Ryan Getzlaf

Vezina Trophy

Winner: Tuuka Rask

Our votes
1. Semyon Varlamov
2. Tuuka Rask
3. Ben Bishop
4. Carey Price
5. Sergei Bobrovsky

Selke Trophy

Winner: Patrice Bergeron

Our votes
1. Patrice Bergeron
2. David Backes
3. Anze Kopitar
4. Jonathan Toews
5. Ryan Getzlaf

Calder Trophy

Winner: Nathan MacKinnon

Our votes
1. Nathan MacKinnon
2. Ondrej Palat
3. Tyler Johnson
4. Torrey Krug
5. Hampus Lindholm

Norris Trophy

Winner: Duncan Keith

Our votes
1. Duncan Keith
2. Shea Weber
3. Alex Pietrangelo
4. Drew Doughty
5. Zdeno Chara

Jack Adams Trophy

Winner: Patrick Roy

Our votes
1. Patrick Roy
2. Mike Babcock
3. Jon Cooper
4. Craig Berube
5. Bruce Boudreau

What do think of our votes, and the winners, DBTBers? Let us know how we did, and thanks to PumperNicholl and The Royal Half for inviting us and for putting this whole thing together.