Mid Season NHL awards

[Gertner]

MVP:

Calder:

Norris:

Vezina

Most Surprising Team:

Most Disappointing Team:

[Gertner]

MVP: Jaromir Jagr

Calder: Alexander Ovechkin

Norris: Bryan McCabe

Vezina: Manny Fernandez

Most Surprising Team: Buffalo Sabres

Most Disappointing Team: Chicago Blackhawks

[The Gooch]

MVP: Jagr

Calder: Ovechkin

Norris: Chara

Vezina: Hasek

Most Surprising Team: Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers

Most Disappointing Team: Boston and San Jose

[YOUR Hero]

MVP: Jarg

Calder: Phaneuf

Norris: Chara

Vezina: Kiprusoff

Most Surprising Team: Buffalo

Most Disappointing Team: Vancouver
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[Zen v.W.o.]

MVP: Jagr

Calder: Ovechkin

Norris: McCabe

Vezina: Hasek

Most Surprising Team: Rangers/Sabres/Canes

Most Disappointing Team: Bruins/Blues/Sharks

[weather vane]

MVP: Kovalchuk

Calder: Ovechkin

Norris: McCabe

Vezina: Kipprusoff

Most Surprising Team: Sabres

Most Dissapointing Team: Bruins

[Kapoutman]

MVP: Jagr/Gagné

Calder: Crosby

Norris: McCabe

Vezina: Luongo

Most Surprising Team: Carolina

Most Disappointing Team: Chicago

[Adder]

MVP: Kovalchuk, most exciting pleyer in the game right now.

Calder: Svaatos - OK I choose him only because no one seems to notice him. Tied for the lead in goals by a rookie, folks.

Norris: Corvo (Kings) - Just because like Svaatos, he gets no recognition. Plus he's on my fantasy team.

Vezina: Kiprusoff - 7 shut outs, playing in the strongest division in the NHL.


Most Surprising Team: Buffalo and suddenly the Thrashers.

Most Disappointing Team: Boston, but I like it that way.
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[Zen v.W.o.]

MVP: Jagr/Gagné

Calder: Crosby

Norris: McCabe

Vezina: Luongo

Most Surprising Team: Carolina

Most Disappointing Team: Chicago


Just a question dude...why Gagne tied with jagr? If anything on Philly I would have chosen Forsberg..we saw what happens with gagne once forsberg goes down..he isnt the same. I dont think Gagne is really a go to guy, he's more like a supporting guy.

[Gertner]

MVP: Kovalchuk, most exciting pleyer in the game right now.

Calder: Svaatos - OK I choose him only because no one seems to notice him. Tied for the lead in goals by a rookie, folks.

Norris: Corvo (Kings) - Just because like Svaatos, he gets no recognition. Plus he's on my fantasy team.

Vezina: Kiprusoff - 7 shut outs, playing in the strongest division in the NHL.


Most Surprising Team: Buffalo and suddenly the Thrashers.

Most Disappointing Team: Boston, but I like it that way.
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k Kipper does not play in the toughest division.

Toronto
Fraudawa
Montreal
Buffalo
Boston


there's your toughest division

[YOUR Hero]

No

Canucks
Flames
Oilers
Colorado
Wild

That is tougher.
Ottawa is the best team going, granted, but that does not make their division the toughest.

[Skippord]

Calder: Svaatos - OK I choose him only because no one seems to notice him. Tied for the lead in goals by a rookie, folks.



Marek Owns all

[Gertner]

No

Canucks
Flames
Oilers
Colorado
Wild

That is tougher.
Ottawa is the best team going, granted, but that does not make their division the toughest.


no way. buffalo, toronto, ottawa, and montreal are all amazingly tough teams

[Kapoutman]

Just a question dude...why Gagne tied with jagr? If anything on Philly I would have chosen Forsberg..we saw what happens with gagne once forsberg goes down..he isnt the same. I dont think Gagne is really a go to guy, he's more like a supporting guy.

Well, I hesitated between Forsberg and Gagné, but I felt like Gagné was playing better in defensive, not only in offensive, thus making him a better complete player and more useful to the Flyers. I also believe it would be wrong to say that Gagné goes down when Forsberg is not there. He was playing injured when Forsberg was not there, and he took his break when Forsberg was about to come back. I also believe that Gagné is a go to guy, as in my opinion, he has proven that he can play both ways convincingly. Many coaches in the league are calling him the best two way player since Forsberg, in fact.

Not that I would disagree with anybody naming Forsberg an MVP.

[road doggy dogg]

MVP: Jaromir Jagr

Calder: Alexander Ovechkin

Norris: Bryan McCabe

Vezina: Manny Fernandez

Most Surprising Team: Buffalo Sabres

Most Disappointing Team: Chicago Blackhawks

same for everything except I'd pick Pittsburgh as most disappointing, considering all the off-season moves they made. Also, Rangers gotta be up there for most surpising as well, but I agreeon everything else

[Adder]

Pittsburgh? Why'd you think they would be any better than they are? Well ok, they should be somewhat better than they are, but they weren't about to make the playoffs this year.

[road doggy dogg]

Of course they weren't, but when your team's leader in points last season was Dick Tarnstrom with 52, and you add a shitload of talent such as: John Leclair, Mark Recchi, Sergei Gonchar, Ziggy Palffy, Sidney Crosby, you kind of expect SOMETHING of an improvement in your scoring.

[BCWWF]

Yeah Pittsburgh was one of the most hyped teams in the offseason, whether they deserved it or not. It was kind of obvious that their lack of defenders would come back and bite them, but there was still some hype.

[Scott Delaney]

I believe that my answers are the only ones that are correct in this thread (no offense to othe posters).



Calder: Alexander Ovechkin

Norris: Zdeno Chara

Vezina: Dominik Hasek (runner up: Manny Fernandez)

Most Surprising Team: Bufalo Sabres (runner up Nashville Predators)

Most Disappointing Team: Pitsburgh Penguins