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Agreed. What I came to learn over these NHL playoffs is that Ron MacLean is damn good at his job..... Love the guy

TSN now has articles up about each winner, if anyone is interested: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/ Lidstrom won with 1,217 points in voting, ahead of Niedermayer's 1,024 and Pronger's 608.

and finally....the Hart Memorial Trophy...MVP: From the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby! the youngest winner of the award since Wayne Gretzky in 1980 Contratulations, kid....and may you have many more ahead......

and possibly the hardest one to pick.... The Vezina Trophy: From the New Jersey Devils, Martin Brodeur! 3 time Vezina Trophy Winner

Here's the money maker.... James Norris Memorial Trophy! This years winner is........ Nicklas Lidstrom...... Five Time. Five Time. Five Time. Five Time. FIVE TIME Norris Trophy Winner! Congratulations Nick

It started at 8pm local time in Halifax....which is 7:00 EST.... which is live.... I get all the CBC feeds through my satellite.....

Jack Adams award, coach of the year: Alain Vigneault of the Vancouver Canucks

Fair enough..... NHL First Team All-Stars: Ovechkin-Crosby-Heatley Lidstrom Neidermayer Broduer EDIT: second team all-stars Lecavalier, St. Louis, Vanek Pronger, Boyle Luongo King Clancy Memorial: Saku Koivu

Ok...Does anyone care if I spoil the results by just typing them or should I continue to provide a quick link?.... it seems some reactions are kind of spoiling it anyways

I am right...I am reporting the live results ...hence not to spoil anything if people want to watch it...... so don't click it if you don't want to know.....

Live: Winner of the Lady Byng Memorial: click

Live: Winner of the Calder trophy.... click

I'll be flipping between the live feed from CBC Halifax and the local time zone feed.....

It has already started on the CBC Halifax...7-9.... CBC Toronto has it for 8-10...and CBC West has it for 11pm-1am.... I guess it is just 8pm local time for all time zones.....

Cool...I thought this was tomorrow.....

But would disliking Jim be enough reason to vote down the sale? Wouldn't they feel they'd be screwing over Craig?

Here is the article...it's great, also talks about how he told Holland he wasn't going to accept money for not playing due to injury in the year he was here with Cujo..... http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A...384/1004/SPORTS

It was in an article this season..... *searches for link*

TSN has an article of their own: 10 years on, Konstantinov still recovering

:banana: :carrot: "I don't want my legacy to be about the numbers, or how many trophies I won, I want it to be that I was a competitor, and that my teammates believed in me. That's what's most important to me. That my teammates know, when I'm in the net, I'm the man, I'm the right person for them. And that I never gave up." - Dominik Hasek

Agreed. That is the one good thing that would come of a disapproval..... However, in my opinion, there are more negative ramifications that would result. Liepold would be forced to continue (possibly) losing money, rather than making up all past losses in this purchase, meanwhile continuing to be very unpopular in Nashville, as you mentioned. And as I previously mentioned, they would be denying a great, deep-pocketed, hockey-fan owner a franchise, nullifying any inflation in value of NHL franchises that would have resulted, and probably deter some future buyers (of any current or expansion franchise) due to them being scared/annoyed of how controlling the NHL is.

It would be very unwise for the NHL to disapprove of Balsillie's purchase. Regardless of his intentions, he would be a great owner. He and his wife are big hockey fans, there would be financial security with his bottomless pockets, and he vastly inflated the value of NHL franchises with the premium price he paid. Yes it would be great for Nashville, but it would be a major set-back for the NHL as a whole.....

I enjoy reading his blog, the articles and the rumours to a lesser degree.... but Bert and Hasek's salary predictions are just silly....if it was going by their performance, it's not far off, but he has to take other factors into consideration.....

Yes, but that isn't the fans, it's the writers and members of the media that are generally more knowledgeable than the average fan.... in my experiences and conversations with other hockey fans, Lidstrom is hardly recognized to be as great as he is.....

Lidstrom is so underrated amongst non-Wings fans.....