2007 TBRW Awards -- Call for Nominations

[Trotsky]

It's that time again.  Please list your picks and make your arguments. The criteria:

Three awards that are determined by statistics alone:


    * Duane Moeser - Matt Moulson Award, Leading Point Scorer.
    * Chris Norton - Mark McRae Award, Leading Scorer, Defensemen.
    * Brian Hayward - David LeNeveu Award, Leading Goaltender.

There are ten purely subjective awards that are open for your nominations:

    * Peter Natyshak - Sam Paolini 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.
    * Randy MacFarlane Award, Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess. Title says it all.  Anne's favorite award.
    * Dave Shippel - Greg Hornby 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."
    * 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 Schafer - Stephen Bâby Award, Leadership and Passion. This award needs no explanation.
    * Pierre Belanger - Murphy Family Award, Most Loathed Referee. Nor does this one.
    * John Carter - Dom Moore 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.
    * Kevan Melrose - Matt Nickerson Award, Least Respected Opponent. This award goes to the guy 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.
    * 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. Again, define it however you want, as long as you consider only this year's performance.

Former winners.

This year's automatic awardees:

Leading Point Scorer: Topher Scott
Leading Scorer, Defensemen: Doug Krantz and Jared Seminoff
Leading Goaltender: Troy Davenport

[Dpperk29]

Carter-Moore: Nick Dodge, He plays with class, and he plays hard.
Melrose - Nickerson: Alex Richards, simply because of the snow pile.

[Chris '03]

I feel like McCutcheon is a no brainer for the Natyshak-Paolini.

I also think there should be a career most respected opponent category. The "graduate already" category. I feel like Dylan Reese and Kevin Du have been seniors forever and have been killing Cornell for at least 6 years...

[sah67]

*Peter Natyshak - Sam Paolini Award, Career Improvement: Mitch Carefoot...the best season of Mitch's career, and I didn't see a bad game from him once this year. 17 points (more than double from any previous season) and great special-teams play didn't hurt either.

*Randy MacFarlane Award, Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess: Tony Romano.  The kid can fucking skate.  If only he didn't get pushed off the puck so much, but still.

*Dave Shippel - Greg Hornby Award, Scrappiness and Effort: Tyler Mugford.  Tyler isn't huge, but man does he hit, both hard and often.  He defines "finish your checks",  dove  (literally most of the time) after every loose puck, and saved Scrivens's and Davenport's ass numerous times.  And although he may pick up a few more penalties than necessary, his defense of his teammates both physically, and through trash-talking is unparalleled.

*Terry Gage Award, Determination in a Supporting Role: Taylor Davenport or Blake Gallagher. Davenport was solid for the whole season until he got hurt, and although he didn't end up on the scoreboard very often, he was a key blueliner.  Gallagher was a monster on the faceoffs, and although not the flashiest of freshmen, had some big goals and a key role on the powerplay.

* Mike Schafer - Stephen Bâby Award: Topher Scott I don't really want to say much here, but the tears coming from his eyes after Quinnipiac Game 2 defined "passion" for me ths year.

* Pierre Belanger - Murphy Family Award, Most Loathed Referee: Eugene Binda (not sure if we got Junior, Senior, or both): Miscalled penalties left and right, failed to call penalties, blew the whistle faster than you could shake a stick during scrums in front of the net, and overall had very little control of the game.  Then again, I have a lot of respect for the job referees have to do, so I feel a little guilty here.

* John Carter - Dom Moore Award, Most Respected Opponent: Mike Devine,G,  Dartmouth.  We put 69 shots on him in our two games against Dartmouth this year, and he let in 3 goals.  A .956 save percentage against us = enough said.

*Kevan Melrose - Matt Nickerson Award, Least Respected Opponent: Kevin Westgarth, Princeton; Alec Richards, Yale (if only for his little snow mounds); or Jamie Bates, Quinnipiac.  Also, I'm sure Mike Atkinson (Quinnipiac) and Sean Backman (Yale) are nice fellows and all, but someone needs to give them hair cuts.
 
*Doug Dadswell - Ryan Vesce Award, Most Valuable Freshman: Colin Greening. Led the team in goals; second in PPGs; unbelievable hockey sense and use of his size on the ice; plays with intensity and passion unrivaled by any other freshman.

* Joe Nieuwendyk - Doug Murray Award, Most Valuable Player: Jared Seminoff.  I'm a little hesitant about this one since he missed a whole bunch of games, but in the large portion of the season he did play, he was often our best player.  An incredible stepping-up of his already-solid game from last year...he's not a huge Murray type with a blistering slapshot, or an O'Byrne, but he's our team's best defenseman, and led in points (nearly all on assists) during the first part of the year.

[Will]

Natyshak-Paolini: Mark McCutcheon
MacFarlane: Tony Romano
Shippel-Hornby: Justin Milo
Gage: Michael Kennedy
Schafer-Baby: Uh...not applicable?  But if we have to give it to someone, Topher Scott, I guess.
Belanger-Murphy: Peter Feola, though I admit that's chosen based purely on this past weekend.
Carter-Moore: Mark Dekanich
Melrose-Nickerson: Alec Richards
Dadswell-Vesce: Colin Greening
Niewendyk-Murray: Jared Seminoff

[Josh '99]

[quote Chris '03]I also think there should be a career most respected opponent category. The "graduate already" category. I feel like Dylan Reese and Kevin Du have been seniors forever and have been killing Cornell for at least 6 years...[/quote]Some friends and I used to feel that way about Kerry Ellis-Toddington.  It seemed like he was at Clarkson straight through from 1997 to 2004.

[Liz '05]

[quote sah67]*Dave Shippel - Greg Hornby Award, Scrappiness and Effort: Tyler Mugford.  Tyler isn't huge, but man does he hit, both hard and often.  He defines "finish your checks",  dove  (literally most of the time) after every loose puck, and saved Scrivens's and Davenport's ass numerous times.  And although he may pick up a few more penalties than necessary, his defense of his teammates both physically, and through trash-talking is unparalleled.
[/quote]

Seconded.  I'll come back to the rest.

[KeithK]

[quote Dpperk29]Carter-Moore: Nick Dodge, He plays with class, and he plays hard.[/quote]
It's most respected opponent.  I don't think you get to vote for Dodge on this one...

[redhair34]

[quote KeithK][quote Dpperk29]Carter-Moore: Nick Dodge, He plays with class, and he plays hard.[/quote]
It's most respected opponent.  I don't think you get to vote for Dodge on this one...[/quote]

It's also based only on performance this year.  Dodge sat out the game at Lynah, and he was good but not outstanding in the game at Potsdam.  He was held off the scoreboard, but more importantly he, as the captain, couldn't get their team up for a game against the team (which was severely depleted) that ended Clarkson's season the past two years.  Dodge is an outstanding player but based on the criteria established above, he definitely doesn't get my vote.  Bagnall, Reese, Cashman (just to name a few) are all better options.

[DILLIGAF]

Natyshak-Paolini: Mark McCutcheon
MacFarlane: Tony Romano
Shippel-Hornby: Justin Milo
Gage: Ben Scrivens / Justin Milo
Schafer-Bâby: Absolutely Nobody deserves this one!
Dadswell-Vesce: Colin Greening
Niewendyk-Murray: Troy Davenport

[Dafatone]

I'd like to nominate Marshall on Quinnipiac for the Nickerson.  Guy never saw a dive he didn't like.

[WillCMJr]

Scrivens led in GAA and Save %, how is it Davenport automatically wins?  I don't remember who, but someone voted for Davenport as MVP.  Neither goalie should have a chance in hell as they both got pulled more than any goalies in my life.

I don't feel like nominating all awards but MVP is TOPHER


[quote Trotsky]It's that time again.  Please list your picks and make your arguments. The criteria:

Three awards that are determined by statistics alone:


    * Duane Moeser - Matt Moulson Award, Leading Point Scorer.
    * Chris Norton - Mark McRae Award, Leading Scorer, Defensemen.
    * Brian Hayward - David LeNeveu Award, Leading Goaltender.

There are ten purely subjective awards that are open for your nominations:

    * Peter Natyshak - Sam Paolini 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.
    * Randy MacFarlane Award, Transcendent Beauty and Skating Prowess. Title says it all.  Anne's favorite award.
    * Dave Shippel - Greg Hornby 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."
    * 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 Schafer - Stephen Bâby Award, Leadership and Passion. This award needs no explanation.
    * Pierre Belanger - Murphy Family Award, Most Loathed Referee. Nor does this one.
    * John Carter - Dom Moore 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.
    * Kevan Melrose - Matt Nickerson Award, Least Respected Opponent. This award goes to the guy 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.
    * 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. Again, define it however you want, as long as you consider only this year's performance.

Former winners.

This year's automatic awardees:

Leading Point Scorer: Topher Scott
Leading Scorer, Defensemen: Doug Krantz and Jared Seminoff
Leading Goaltender: Troy Davenport[/quote]

[WillCMJr]

If the goalie is selected by pure stats alone, how did both goalies get it in 01-02?  LeNeveu had better GAA, Save % and Win%.

[Trotsky]

[quote WillCMJr]If the goalie is selected by pure stats alone, how did both goalies get it in 01-02?  LeNeveu had better GAA, Save % and Win%.[/quote]

It's subjective; it's in the wrong category.  (However, this year I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue for Scrivens.  He was a "supporting role" guy.)

[Rich S]

[quote KeithK][quote Dpperk29]Carter-Moore: Nick Dodge, He plays with class, and he plays hard.[/quote]
It's most respected opponent.  I don't think you get to vote for Dodge on this one...[/quote]
It's "Cornell opponent", right?

Come on, the guy was born red...and was until he woke up and saw the Green and Gold lights!  let him vote! :-D