TBRW Awards: First Round Voting Phase

For each award, you may vote for as many players as you wish.

Andy wins the goaltender award, so you may vote for Omar out of affection but it won't matter.

Please list your votes as follows:

Award Name 1: Player 1, Player 2, etc...
Award Name 2: Player 1, Player 2, etc...

(I have included a blank ballot to copy at the bottom of this post)

Please keep the awards in the same order as below, for ease of... well, ease of me.

Voting phase closes one week from today 3/25, 11:27 am ET.

Final awards will be determined by Final Round Voting among top three vote recipients for each award.


Past Winners

Objective Awards

Duane Moeser-Matt Moulson Award, Leading Point Scorer

Greg Miller (14-19-33)

Chris Norton-Mark McRae Award, Leading Scorer, Defenseman

Joakim Ryan (3-20-23)

Subjective Awards

Peter Natyshak-Sam Paolini Award, Career Improvement. This award is open to seniors or, in the rare case, juniors. The award measures how well the player has improved since starting at Cornell.


Randy MacFarlane-Riley Nash Award, Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess. The title says it all.


Dave Shippel-Greg Hornby Award, Scrappiness and Effort. This award generally goes to a player who plays "bigger than his size" or "better than his talent."


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.


Mike Schafer-Stephen Bâby Award, Leadership and Passion. This award needs no explanation.


Brian Hayward-David LeNeveu Award, Leading Goaltender. Based solely on this year's performance, choose our starter in the NCAA Final.


John Carter-Dominic Moore Award, Most Respected Opponent. This award goes to the guy we would take in a heartbeat for one of our own. It is based on his performance against us in games this year.


Doug Dadswell-Ryan Vesce Award, Most Valuable Freshman. Define it however you want. Open only to freshman, not transfers.


Joe Nieuwendyk-Doug Murray Award, Most Valuable Player. Define it however you want, as long as you consider this year's performance alone.


----- BLANK BALLOT -----


Career Improvement:
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess:
Scrappiness and Effort:
Determination in a Supporting Role:
Leadership and Passion:
Leading Goaltender:
Most Respected Opponent:
Most Valuable Freshman:
Most Valuable Player:

Example (and my ballot)

Career Improvement: Axell, Gotovets
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Bardreau, Ferlin, Lowry
Scrappiness and Effort: Mihalek, McCarron, Mowrey
Determination in a Supporting Role: Tiitinen, Stoick, Dias
Leadership and Passion: Axell, Miller, Birch
Leading Goaltender: Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Connor and Kellen Jones and fuck them both
Most Valuable Freshman: Willcox, Hilbrich
Most Valuable Player: Miller, Iles, Lowry, Ferlin, Birch

Career Improvement: Erik Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Joakim Ryan, John Esposito
Scrappiness and Effort: Cole Bardreau, John McCarron, Dustin Mowrey
Determination in a Supporting Role: Vince Mihalek, Dustin Mowrey
Leadership and Passion: Greg Miller, Braden Birch, Cole Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Andy Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Alex Fallstrom (Harvard), Kenny Agostino (Yale)
Most Valuable Freshman: Christian Hilbrich, Reece Wilcox
Most Valuable Player: Greg Miller, Braden Birch

Career Improvement: Vince Mihalek, Erik Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Joakim Ryan
Scrappiness and Effort: Vince Mihalek
Determination in a Supporting Role: Braden Birch, Reece Willcox,
Leadership and Passion: Cole Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Andy Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Andrew Calof (Princeton)
Most Valuable Freshman: Reece Willcox
Most Valuable Player: Andy Iles, Greg Miller


Greg Burgdoerfer wins most hated opponent. With apologies to Bruce Coles and Nick Boucher, Erik and Greg Burgdoerfer should have the reincarnation of the award named for them.

Career Improvement: Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Ferlin
Scrappiness and Effort: Mowrey, Mowrey, Mowrey
Determination in a Supporting Role: Mihalek
Leadership and Passion: Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Post, Crossbar
Most Valuable Freshman: Willcox
Most Valuable Player: Iles, Miller

Career Improvement: Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Ferlin
Scrappiness and Effort: Mowrey, Bardreau
Determination in a Supporting Role: Mihalek
Leadership and Passion: Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Caloff -- Princeton
Most Valuable Freshman: Hilbrich
Most Valuable Player: Iles

CowbellGuy
Most Respected Opponent: Post, Crossbar

OK.

I'm making that donation Jim reminded us about in another thread right now!

Career Improvement: Mihalek. Axell (although he didn't improve so much as finally stay healthy).
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Ryan (except for falling down, losing the puck and giving up a goal at Harvard that cost us a point that eventually ended up costing us 8th place)
Scrappiness and Effort: Lowry
Determination in a Supporting Role: MacDonald
Leadership and Passion: Leadership? nobody. Passion: Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Fallstrom of Harvard. Either of the Joneses of Quinnipiac.
Most Valuable Freshman: Willcox.
Most Valuable Player: How do you want to define this? Most outstanding player?:nobody. Most consistently pretty-good-most-of-the-time?:Greg Miller. Most outstanding individual performance?:Andy Iles. Player who we pretty obviously missed having in the lineup?: Cole Bardreau. Best offensive player?: Brian Ferlin, at least when he shows up. Best defensive player?: Andy Iles. Best all-around player: Joel Lowry or Greg Miller. Guy who I most want on my team?: Joel Lowry (except when he takes stupid unnecessary penalties), Greg Miller. Guy who I least want on my team?: well, that's not the point of this poll, is it?

Count me among the "glass half-empty" guys as far as how this season went. I think it's totally appropriate that: we lost the last game in double overtime; Andy Iles came up one short of the single-game record for saves; Greg Miller finished two points shy of 100 for his career. This team was a day late and a dollar short all season. Every time it had a chance to accomplish something meaningful (e.g., win the Florida tournament, clinch home ice for the first round of the playoffs, go to Atlantic City), it failed. At some point, nothing else matters other than winning games. And we never did that, at least not enough to matter.

Career Improvement: Mihalek, Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: John Esposito, Ferlin, Cole B.
Scrappiness and Effort: Lowry, Cole Bardreau, Dustin Mowrey
Determination in a Supporting Role: Mihalek, Mowrey, Dias
Leadership and Passion: McCarron, Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Andy I.
Most Respected Opponent: Jesse Root (Yale - best pk'r and always gave us fits in face offs), Jones brothers (Q)
Most Valuable Freshman: Willcox, Hilbrich
Most Valuable Player: Andy I.

Career Improvement: Mihalek
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Ferlin
Scrappiness and Effort: Mowrey
Determination in a Supporting Role: Birch
Leadership and Passion: Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Agostino (Yale)
Most Valuable Freshman: Wilcox
Most Valuable Player: Iles

Well, since the only place that the instructions mention Cornell is for the Career Improvement award.

Career Improvement: Burgdoerfer (he's been starting at Cornell, indeed. )
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Bubela
Scrappiness and Effort: Miller
Determination in a Supporting Role: Lee
Leadership and Passion: Haggerty
Leading Goaltender: Kasdorf
Most Respected Opponent: Carey (SLU)
Most Valuable Freshman: Kasdorf
Most Valuable Player: Bailen

Career Improvement: Erik Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: John Esposito
Scrappiness and Effort: Dustin Mowery, Cole Bardreau
Determination in a Supporting Role: Braden Birch, Kirill Gotovets
Leadership and Passion: Cole Bardreau
Leading Goaltender: Andy Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Agostino-Yale
Most Valuable Freshman: Christain Hilbrich, Reece Willcox
Most Valuable Player: Greg Miller

Career Improvement: Mihalek, Axell
Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Ryan
Scrappiness and Effort: Mihalek, Lowry
Determination in a Supporting Role: Macdonald, Lowry
Leadership and Passion: Bardreau, Esposito
Leading Goaltender: Iles
Most Respected Opponent: Hartzell Q
Most Valuable Freshman: Wilcox, made great strides and will be mainstay on D, hope he stays
Most Valuable Player: Miller