2004 TBRW Awards

"The new phone books are here!"

There are three statistically-determined awards that are pre-determined:

+ Duane Moeser Award, Leading Point Scorer. Matt Moulson
+ Chris Norton Award, Leading Scorer, Defensemen. Charlie Cook
+ Brian Hayward Award, Leading Goaltender. Dave McKee

There are ten purely subjective awards:

+ Peter Natyshak Award, Career Improvement. This award is open to seniors or in the very rare case when no senior has demonstrated above average career improvement, juniors. The award measures how well the player has improved since starting at Cornell. Ben Wallace

+ Randy MacFarlane Award, Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess. Title says it all. Anne's favorite award. Ryan Vesce

+ Dave Shippel Award, Scrappiness and Effort. This award, which is associated with the longest-running typo in TBRW? history ("scappiness", generally goes to a player who plays bigger than his size or "better than his talent." Greg Hornby

+ Terry Gage Award, Determination in a Supporting Role. This award generally goes to an athlete whose contributions do not show up in the box score. It often goes to an unexpected player who comes out of the pack to really contribute a particular skill as a role player. Mike Iggulden

+ Mike Schafer Award, Leadership and Passion. This award needs no explanation. Ryan Vesce

+ Pierre Belanger Award, Most Loathed Referee. Nor does this one. Joel Dupree

+ John Carter Award, Most Respected Opponent. This award generally goes to an opposing player who has both ferociously skewered Cornell and who we would take in a heartbeat for one of our own. It is based on his performance against us only in games this year. Dave Steckel (Ohio State)

+ Kevan Melrose Award, Least Respected Opponent. This award goes to the guys who, when you scream "Sucks!" you really mean it. The bad and the ugly. The goon, the cheap shot artist, the whiner, the showboat. The asshole. Matt Nickerson (Clarkson)

+ Doug Dadswell Award, Most Valuable Freshman. Define it however you want. Open only to freshman, not transfers. Dave McKee

+ Joe Nieuwendyk Award, Most Valuable Player. Again, define it however you want, as long as you consider only this year's performance. Ryan Vesce


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Can't say I disagree with any of those. I know people mentioned Marr for the Gage, but he should have won that last year, not this year.

No argument here either, although I think Mayotte deserves an honorable mention for (second)Most Respect Opponent (considering we only put 1 out of 61 past him...)

Great choices. I can't seriously argue against any of them, except perhaps to propose some honorable mentions.

How is it that Brad Tapper of RPI won both the Most Respected and Least Respected Awards in 1998? I don't see anyone else winning both of those awards in the same year (much less at all). Just a bit curious as that was a bit before my time.

Bryan Tapper won least respected opponent in '98. Big difference

Whoops, my bad. I'd heard of Brad Tapper before (I think he plays on Bâby's team now). But never heard of Bryan Tapper. Guess they were some kind of Jekyll and Hyde evil twin thing?

EDIT: Eric Healy, another form RPI player plays with Bâby. Tapper played for Atlanta of the NHL in 02-03, but appears to have not played this year as a member of the Ottawa Sentators.

Almost... they weren't twins (Bryan was older), and they were both evil (in that they were both hacks, but Brad also always torched us; I think he averaged a goal a game against us his entire time at RPI).