The Awards That Flames Did Not Win

The NHL Awards are complete, and with their completion comes the reveal of the voting break-downs for the various awards. We’ve already dug into the voting breakdown for the awards that Calgary Flames representatives won – the Jack Adams and the Lady Byng – but how did the Flames fare in the awards they didn’t take home?

Here are the voting breakdowns, via the NHL’s public relations department, of the available tallies for awards Flames didn’t bring home

Super sophomore Sean Monahan appeared on four Selke ballots, and even got a first-place vote. He wasn’t considered a high-end contender, and probably won’t for awhile, but it shows that his reputation as a 200-foot player is growing rather nicely around the league.

[Voting conducted by Professional Hockey Writers Association members.]

Not surprising: Mark Giordano finishing pretty high-up, even though he missed the final 21 games of the regular season. He beat out Duncan Keith, which is pretty interesting in itself.

Surprising: T.J. Brodie and Dennis Wideman, and their voting tallies. Wideman was on four ballots (all 5th-place votes), while Brodie received just the single 3rd-place vote. Weird.

Also, in terms of year-end All-Star voting: Giordano finished 6th (with 153 points and 8 first-place votes), with Dennis Wideman 18th (9 points) and T.J. Brodie 21st (4 points).

[Voting conducted by PHWA members.]

Three first-place votes for Brad Treliving, in his first season in his job, in a year where he didn’t do a whole heck of a lot outside of a Corban Knight-for-Drew Shore swap, grabbing David Schlemko off waivers, and trading away Curtis Glencross and Sven Baertschi for draft picks.

[Voting conducted by a 40-member panel of GMs, executives, and media.]

There’s gonna be a lot of shouting about “East Coast Bias” here. Well, Forsberg plays in the Eastern time zone and got creamed by Gaudreau, so I don’t know how much water that holds. But Ekblad’s ability to eat up minutes like a veteran and Stone’s great late-season push probably seemed flashier than Gaudreau’s consistent play all season – the first five games of the year notwithstanding.

Gaudreau also finished in a tie for 9th among left-wingers in the voting for the year-end All-Star Teams.

[Voting conducted by PHWA members.]

I was a bit surprised to see Hudler so high-up in Hart voting, particularly with a single first-place vote on a team that finished where it did. Even more surprising? The year-end All-Star voting, which saw Hudler get votes for all three forward positions.

He was on 65 ballots as a right-winger (finishing 3rd), 2 ballots as a center and 1 ballot as a left-wing. It’s not quite as bad as Alex Ovechkin getting voted in for two different positions, nor did the three errant votes cost him a win – he was a distant third on the right side – but it is a bit of a head-scratcher considering the PHWA has been pretty adamant (since the Ovechkin debacle) about getting players’ positions correct when voting.

[Voting conducted by PHWA members.]