The PHBA Awards and our votes
Here's our votes and the results from the first ever Professional Hockey Bloggers Awards.
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.