By Nathan Eide -
We'd love to hear your input on the awards, the winners and maybe some new categories for future HW Award installments.
Without further ado, here are your 2011 Hockey Wilderness Awards!
The Boy Named Sue award (Best season by a player with a girl's name)
The Stan Neckar award (Most unpronounceable name)
They play hockey where? (Best season by a player from a non-traditional market)
The Todd Fedoruk's original cheekbone memorial award (Guy who took the biggest ass-whooping of the year)
Nathan - Yeah, it's Westgarth. Not even close.
The Tore Vikingstad award (Name which most strikes fear into the hearts of men)
The Dikembe Mutumbo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo award (Best shot-blocker)
The Summer's Eve award (Biggest douche-bag in the NHL)
The Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael award (Biggest turtle)
Dan - Matt Cooke. For all the crap he has done, can you imagine he has only 5 major penalties?
JS - Maxime Talbot. Ugh. You make me sick.
Bryan - Matt Cooke. Hands down.
Nathan - Matt Cooke. I'll never get tired of seeing this
The Better Luck Next Time award (the player with the worst season of the year)
The Martin Skoula award (Biggest mistake by a team or player)
The Crash Test Dummies award (biggest injury of the year)
Dan - Max P. Wham, Bam.
JS - That Max Pacioretty incident was scary and a big issue. It's good that he seems to be O.K., but it's bad that someone seems to have lied about the extent of the injury.
Bryan - Sidney Crosby. The type of injury, the cloud around when he can return, his importance to his team and to the league... to have a guy like that go down for so long. Nothing will make the NHL wake up if not this, and it doesn’t seem to have done anything.
Nathan - Yeah, Crosby's will have a long-lasting impact on the NHL (hopefully) and Chara's hit on Pacioretty was malicious, but the injury that turned my stomach? Darryl Boyce's nose.
Ok Wilderness, it's your chance to let us know if we were right on or way off-base. Have at it in the comments.
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