NsHL Awards Discussion Thread

[Commissioner]

Gents,

Below is what Josh Sweetland sent out yesterday. This seems like a good plan. I will leave this thread open for further discussion.

Men,

Basically the way I envision this happening doesn't so much appoint me as the final arbiter on who makes the ballot and who doesn't. All I will simply be doing is handling the communications end of the process.

Ideally, I'd like to hold a nominations process (following the completion of the regular season) that will involve all 30 GM's where they select three nominees for each award. This way we all have a say on who will be on the ballot.

After this we will proceed with the vote to determine the winner of each award.

So in a sense, we're all contributing here. I'm just volunteering to be the point man who gathers everyone's nominations/votes to provide the final results. The key to all of this is communication from everyone in the league to ensure this process gets completed in a timely fashion. All I'd need is a response with nominees and then later, a response with your votes.

As it stands currently, our voting awards are as follows:

- Most Valuable Player
- Goaltender of the Year
- Defenceman of the Year
- Rookie of the Year
- Best Defensive Forward
- GM of the Year
- Coach of the Year
- The Commissioner's Trophy

[NJDevilsGM]

Why don't we just mirror the NHL awards as much as possible and then add in say 3-4 GM awards. Maybe most active GM, most improved team and GM of the Year.

[The_ZeroCool]

I agree completely with Trent. We should have a bunch of awards to give to GMs that show quality and ability at the job.

[Anaheim GM]

I am for whatever the group comes up with collaboratively. I think all of these ideas are strong.

I think we can offer the following awards for GM (here are some of my ideas):

Media Award (Golden Microphone Award, perhaps): Given to the GM who posts and promotes their team the best throughout the year via message board, website, facebook, other social media, etc.

GM of the Year : Given to the GM who has best benefited his organization by way of completing lines, drafting players, promoting prospects, nurturing youth, marketing their product, and lastly (and least importantly) overall team wins in both the NsHL and AsHL.

Scotty Bowman Award (or something like that): Given strictly to the GM who accumulates the most combined wins (or points) in the NsHL and AsHL


Just some ideas.

[NJDevilsGM]

I'd suggest adding best trade of the year, but I could also see that being something that could cause some anger for the team deemed to be on the losing side of said trade.

[canuckgm]

Wow Trent, as much fun as that would be,i have a feeling that's is like telling someone,"boy you are a dumb ass" just my thought thou

[torontogm]

I'm going to agree with Mike on this one about the best trade, Trent... however, we have had threads created in the past where teams have posted their favourite trades... I believe some of them were lopsided ones, some were mutually beneficial ones, and some were the tales of moving Arpad Mihaly four or five times during the same draft. Might be a better course of action if you want to talk trash about trades.

[The_ZeroCool]

Don't really like the best trade award. I would say any kind of serious award(s) like Mark said and then a couple or few more fun awards for GMs.. I think the best trades are usually the ones that don't cause a "stir".

[Detroit Cherni]

I like the idea of the best trade award. I don't think it has to go the the guy who fleeces another GM either. I think it would add some great perspective to having fun, and rewarding the participation of GMs for their hard efforts in making their team's stronger or rebuilding faster. With a salary cap, combined with the smarts every GM in this league has, trades are harder to make. Personally, my vote of trade of the year would have been Mark and Andrew for their blockbuster at the Draft. No one got ripped off there.

[NJDevilsGM]

How about best mutually beneficial trade? Trades are supposed to help both teams, so maybe an award for one which helped both GM's involved? Leave it to GM's to nominate one trade they have done that season

[Carolina GM]

GM awards are a good idea, but they are tricky. IMO any award for a trade that takes place in the current year is too early to judge .. plus this kind of award would likely lead to hard feelings by some.

Just my two cents.

[FlyersGM]

I'm all about tradition, so I say we re-instate the original NsHL Awards. I think "GM of the Year" and the "Commissioners Trophy" are sufficient and a major factor in those awards is whether a GM is making trades that help his team.

[Carolina GM]

I agree with Jack.

[CalgaryGM]

I say we keep the tradition going as well. We could also add a new trophy or two.

[Anaheim GM]

Tradition is REALLY good. My position on having GMs recognized for their work on the message board and work on, not just their NsHL team, their AsHL team, but their entire organization may give us a nice pool of GMs to choose from. It also encourages GMs to spend some time creating media, promoting their players, and may help make the AsHL a little bit more competitive. I mean, I'm all for GMs not giving a d**n in the minor leagues because it makes the AsHL that much easier to dominate, however, if GMs are not putting in a whole lot of effort into their minor leagues then they are missing out on a significant part of the competition (and fun) of the league.

Anytime that we can encourage GMs or reward GMs who put in the time and effort are awards I like to see. No offense to the "best trade" awards, however, what looks like a freaking awesome trade today could very well look like total garbage in a year...or even a month....More times than not it takes YEARS for a deal to produce a "winner" IMO, so, awarding someone with the "best trade" is somewhat meaningless and, I would bet, make us wrong on nearly every award in due time.

Although, it would be a LOT of fun to pontificate on how trades will work out, I must admit....I'm just not sure how we could award it, other than making it a deferred kind of a deal. For instance, the deal that Rich Dechellis made (and the players he received) that sent Sidney Crosby to Colorado ended up netting him two Stanley Cup championships, however, it took a few years before that unfolded. I could be wrong on this one, but I think it would be tough to do it.

I mean, I remember when most of the league flipped a capacitor over the "totally lopsided" deal that Anaheim made involving Mike Ribeiro and Mattias Ohlund several years ago. You guys thought I killed it didn't you? Well, that same year St. Louis went on to win the Cup and the deal itself helped usher in two consecutive seasons of missing the playoffs in Anaheim, so how did that work out for all of us?