Walsh and Castagna nominated for Hobey Baker

[Beeeej]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

I don't have the patience to look up this year's exact rules, but in the past it's been something like, "Each of the 63 head coaches get a vote and the aggregate of the fan vote counts as the 64th vote," which means this kind of upvoting is an awful lot of effort for not a lot of payoff. The main payoff is for the NCAA and college hockey in general, which gets more buzz, clicks, and eyeballs.

[RichH]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

It counts for a tiny amount of data mining for the NC$$

[ugarte]

Does the fan vote count for anything?

(It shouldn't.)

IIRC the collective fan vote counts for one vote or something like that?