19th Annual TBRW Awards: Your Nominations

[Will]

Peter Natyshak-Sam Paolini Award; Career Improvement - Chris Fontas, I guess.  Not a lot of options here, and it's still hard to stick Fontas in here.

Randy MacFarlane Award; Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess - Riley Nash.

Dave Shippel-Greg Hornby Award; Scrappiness and Effort - Tyler Mugford.

Terry Gage Award; Determination in a Supporting Role - Joe Scali.

Mike Schafer-Stephen Bâby Award; Leadership and Passion - Topher Scott.

Belanger-Murphy Family Award "The Pierre"; Most Loathed Referee - I hate to have such a short memory about this, but it's still kinda hard to get past Peter Feola at the moment.

John Carter-Dom Moore Award; Most Respected Opponent - Lee Jubinville.

Kevan Melrose-Matt Nickerson Award; Least Respected Opponent - A tie between Alex Biega and Josh Coyle.  I'd tend to give it to Biega, though, since Coyle's screwups worked to our advantage in Schenectady.

Brian Hayward-David LeNeveu Award; Leading Goaltender - Ben Scrivens.

Doug Dadswell-Ryan Vesce Award; Most Valuable Freshman - Riley Nash.

Joe Nieuwendyk-Doug Murray Award; Most Valuable Player - Colin Greening.

[CowbellGuy]

DISCRETIONARY AWARDS:

Peter Natyshak-Sam Paolini Award; Career Improvement Krantz (I think your 2-3 year old memories have been collectively failing if you don't agree.)

Randy MacFarlane Award; Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess B. Nash

Dave Shippel-Greg Hornby Award; Scrappiness and Effort Mugford

Terry Gage Award; Determination in a Supporting Role Fontas

Mike Schafer-Stephen Bâby Award; Leadership and Passion Duh

Belanger-Murphy Family Award  "The Pierre"; Most Loathed Referee Feola

John Carter-Dom Moore Award; Most Respected Opponent Jubinville

Kevan Melrose-Matt Nickerson Award; Least Respected Opponent Biega

Brian Hayward-David LeNeveu Award; Leading Goaltender Davenport (Greg, and a fair number of the rest of you know perfectly well what I think about Scrivens' goaltending)

Doug Dadswell-Ryan Vesce Award; Most Valuable Freshman Mike Devin. Yes, really. I think Riley's overrated at this point and needs to put on about 25 lbs before he can make a consistent impact. Devin played a much more significant role in the team's success this year.

Joe Nieuwendyk-Doug Murray Award; Most Valuable Player Greening

[Trotsky]

The envelope please...

* TBRW Awards for 2008
* TBRW Awards History
* TBRW All-Stars

[RichH]

[quote Trotsky]The envelope please...
* TBRW All-Stars[/quote]

You know...usually I say "TBRW awards are as meaningless as polls in November," but I've been thinking this Friday night.  Nothing against Brendon (spelling, Greg!) Nash or Mike Devin, but given my MVP vote, it's criminal...CRIMINAL that Justin Krueger didn't get at least this "All-Star" award that I never knew about.  He was easily the best defenseman on the ice over the course of the entire season, and I will fight anyone who says otherwise (wait...maybe that's just the beer from tonight talking.)  I usually don't go to bat for a player like this, especially a defenseman unless he is on the same playing field as Burgoyne, Bell, and Cook...but I'm telling you Krueger is nearing that level.

Who's with me?  Let's GO, C'MON! HOOOOOO!

*listens for crickets*

I think this situation absolutely requires...a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.  And we're just the guys to do it.

[Trotsky]

Brendon has now been fixed.  So to speak.