Tonight the NHL held the annual NHL Awards hosted by Nashville and for the most part, it was an absolute cringe fest. I’m not sure anyone expected much else, but we did get a cameo from the legend himself, George!
Some notable wins came from Patrice Bergeron getting the Selke for the 2nd year in a row and his 6th overall which is an NHL record, Kris Letang with the Bill Masterton Memorial which I personally loved seeing and Matty Beniers getting the Calder for Rookie of the year. Some of the more obvious ones included the Vezina going to Ullmark, although I personally thought Sorokin didn’t get the credit he deserved this year, Ullmark was the clear favourite. Similarly, Karlsson with the Norris 11 years after his 1st now getting his 3rd ever and the big one, the Hart went to McDavid. No surprises there, right? Well, until you look at the voter breakdown. For the Hart, an overwhelming 195 votes were submitted for McDavid and then 1 outlier vote put him at 5th. I mean, really? Clearly a strategic vote but whoever this was, this is simply ridiculous. If you want to put Pastrnak in 1st, or anyone else really, thats one thing I but how can you reasonably say there were not 1, 2 or 3 players ahead of him but 4 players ahead of McDavid this season? That is nutty. I cover it all in todays NHL hockey video!
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41 Comments
Surprised Tkachuk didn't spit out his mouth guard, and turtle up after he lost to McDavid.
I'd rather watch every second of draft coverage
, twice than watch this Canadian biased award show.
Fr. I know that Ullmark was much better then sorokin this year. But Soroking really gets no respect.
The show was painful to watch.
Dirks son didn’t play out well
The whole thing seems so out of touch. Wasn't fun watch for the fans and the players themselves didn't even look happy to be there
Never before Bedard has there been a prospect that has been given such a red carpet-experience, and I think it might affect his play. Remember he is still 17 years old and has a lot of growing to do.
An old guy watching a great sport become a clown show………sad….
Not sure why they have to make it "a show" in the first place.
It looked like a " Inbreed Cousin Party" to me. But what do you Expect from a town and a Nation that thinks being a " Suburd Cowboy' make you One. LMFAS
Turned it off after 10 minutes what a snoozefest
I had to turn it off after 15 minutes. Worse than any YouTube video I've ever made, and I've made some pretty bad ones (especially on other channels).
Why let 1 alcholic ruin a celecration
Horrible show
Americanization of the NHL, so sad to see. its all about gambling and other none hockey crap since bettman took over. the All Star event was a joke not worth watching. thankfully I can attend Junior A games, less expensive and more exciting, its not all about the almighty dollar, hockey at its best
Turned it off was to cringe for me . Congrats to alll the winners
Bless their hearts…
EP40 was the best hockey player this season. He played the most perfect season a player can do. Sorry but personally Hart trophy is useless to me. Just an award for best offensive player. McDavid finished in the 56th percentile on defense, 100th percentile on offensive. However EP40 did the impossible and finished in the 99th percentile for both offense and defense. Legitmately the most complete season i have seen since Datsyuk hit 97 points
This only proves even more how the NHL has become disconnected from pretty much everyone outside themselves. Just look at the cities the league has expanded to in the last 20-25 years and you'll get why this year's final had the worst TV ratings since the 2007 final.
Mcdavid showing that old carpet of a personality, dude put al his skill points into hockey.
Agree. Absolutely can't watch these things anymore. Same is true of the All Star Game. Just NOT interesting at all for a real hockey fan.
i’m just glad a Pittsburgh penguin won a trophy
All the awards are deserved besides ullmark and montgomery first of all ullmark is playing on the best team best defence in the nhl so he obviously will have better stats meanwhile sorokin is playing on a pretty average team with pretty average defence and saving and leading his team to the playoffs so technically ullmark has the best stats but sorokin is top 6 in shots taken this season meanwhile ullmark is 17th and played 13 less games than sorokin helleybuyck is good too but not as much as sorokin. For the jack adams, good team does not man good coach as well as bad team does not mean bad coach hakstol helped MASSIVELY a team of mostly average players to playoffs and devlopped some of them into stars (mccann, dunn etc.) montgomery had a way easier task the team he was coaching already was star filled (pasta, bertuzzi,debrusk,marchand,mcavoy,orlov,bergeron,lindholm,hall) so honnestly no matter which coach you put on boston they will be good meanwhile hakstol is starting a team from the ground up
The Bruins choked in the first round and their coach gets an award. NHL awards are a joke. Connor McDavid is overrated as hell too.
It was cringe AF.
whos george
The NHL Awards show hasn't really been about hockey since they took it to Vegas and had all these random celebrities involved instead of actual hockey people.
Wow Dierks. Following a speech involving alcoholism with drinking from the cup? New low.
Why? Why a music award show and not a hockey award show? Because it was in NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE! Most the people there probably don't even know what hockey is. They only see ice at the arena. It's like having a ski award show in Hawaii. Hockey used to be Canadian. Now, our country and our teams are f*cked. The league is rigged and we'll probably never see the cup come home again. The cup was donated by Lord Stanley, Governor-General of Canada in 1896. We need the current G-G to donate a new cup only for Canada.
I wish every award was announced like the masterton. I love how personal it was
Every event NHL hosts is absolute cringe in the last 3 years. New management times.
It was crap. There, I said it.
So many awkward moments/pauses. Terrible idea with having some kid interviewing people. Players seemed like they didn't really know how to give proper answers to some 8 year old. 3 men trying to figure out how to tilt the cup so this clown who wants to drink from it won't get beer all over his shirt or floor. Biz trying to be funny with some players, but not really working out.
Hockey awards in Nashville? More Bettman bullcrap
Why do you need a show? To had off a bunch of trophy?what a boring dull dimwitted special??!
Never watch these, but as a Red Wings fan who watched the myth-making in real time, I'm here for any and all George content!
I miss Alan Thicke
Sorokin should’ve got vezina, Ullmark is inconsistent he was never good on buffalo he was only good when he got traded to a team with 65 wins. Soon as Boston defense isn’t great in the playoffs, he becomes mediocre. Sorokin has played better on a wild card team with ok Defense than he did two seasons ago on an ecf team.
They should’ve kept it in Vegas
I thought it was the CMT awards for a minute. You know McDavid was thrilled. I just don’t like the direction of these events. The Super Skills Competition was ridiculous. Knocking down surfboards? I’m kind of tired of every award automatically being given to McDavid. I get that he’s fabulous, but other players deserve some recognition as well. It must suck to have him your category. I would not have bothered to show and with the CMT award gala and concert going on, seemingly simultaneously, I would have needed a sedative just watching from home.
Who’s George???