Originally Posted by ~Crashintome89~ (Post 16821084)

glad it's been established that chicago is a REAL team, but vegas is not real

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16821166)

Wait...did Matty award himself the Keith Yandle award?!?!

Originally Posted by fonzz41 (Post 16821040)

Teaser: The handing out of awards - at least for our Thread - is not over yet.

#tomorrow

Originally Posted by fonzz41 (Post 16821161)

Lady and Gentlemen, welcome to the 2016-17 Ants NHL Thread Awards Show.

Please join me in thanking our dear Barbogast, who reached out to me a couple months ago, offering his services. He ended up doing the bulk of the work, and I'm very grateful for his generosity. Doing these silly awards every year is one of my favorite things, but it's always refreshing to get a new perspective, especially one as creative as his. Thanks Barbs!!!

And now, on to the awards!

*Vezina - hailtopitt. The anchor of his team’s fanbase, hailtopitt is always there when his team needs him.

*Adams - ~Crashintome89~. In a group filled with Flyers fans, Crash’s leadership and guidance does not go unnoticed.

*Calder - TheLastPig. This was our first full year with TLP, and it was a productive one and certainly deserving of the Calder.

*Selke - lockman21. Lockman’s keen ability to produce high level posts that both go on the attack while successfully defend his point wraps up this year’s Selke.

*Byng - swordo84. Such a delightful poster, and finally got to see his team have some success this year.

*Richard - TMoore4075. No matter what, Tim will always have the highest shooting percentage out of any of us. The guy leads the post count by almost 2,000!

*Norris - unccrombie. This guy defends the Rangers better than Brian Leetch ever did.

*Conn Smythe - bradshaw06. We didn’t see bradshaw too much throughout the year, but he came on strong for the playoffs and has been a big part of his team’s run.

*Hart - dmbetc. Our captain, the heart and soul of our thread, Sarah is the MVP.

*Lappy Award for best chirps (is this your 4th consecutive??) - JRS1386

*Henrik Lundqvist award for being overly dramatic but always dedicated – aeroshady

*Damien Cox award for most interesting hockey columns - Roose13

*Jaromir Jagr award for being old, but still cool - salrx95

*Doug Glatt award for best enforcer – Lcsulla

*Ted Leonsis award for most banners - Brohan_Santana

*Mario Lemeuix award for excellence combined with poise – Dramageek

*Phil Kessel award for general awesomeness – jrkarger

*Jordan Eberle award for going missing for long stretches, but always returning with a bang – MrMikeD

Originally Posted by fonzz41 (Post 16821180)

The Yandle has been awarded, but it wasn't to me. Or Barbs.

Originally Posted by lockman21 (Post 16821190)

:lol Did we give it to our one and only Jackets fan in here?

Originally Posted by Dramageek (Post 16821139)

Tim Benz! :lol :lol



As the Golden Knights are on the real NHL schedule against other real NHL teams, I guess that makes them an actual real team in reality.

Seriously, though, you can debate the merits of having another expansion team, but it won't do the league any good to have a team that utterly fails to be competitive for a decade. See Coyotes, Phoenix/Arizona, and Thrashers, Atlanta. The expansion draft affected every team, and the more stocked teams like Chicago and Washington could only protect so many.

Originally Posted by fonzz41 (Post 16821138)

Really interested to see if Duchene is a member of your team by Saturday

I'll be honest guys, I'm just trying to get us to a new page here so I can post the awards up top.

Originally Posted by salrx95 (Post 16821201)

Sure is a lot of chatter that we might even land 2 top 6 like, say duchene and eberle.

Snow making a push , I think, with all our young talent and assets to get a more competitive team now to then resign JT and be a solid playoff team from the get go.just my honest opinion.

Originally Posted by aeroshady (Post 16821204)

Sal, what are your thoughts on winning an award named after a former NY Rangers captain?! ;)

Originally Posted by fonzz41 (Post 16821161)

Lady and Gentlemen, welcome to the 2016-17 Ants NHL Thread Awards Show.

Please join me in thanking our dear Barbogast, who reached out to me a couple months ago, offering his services. He ended up doing the bulk of the work, and I'm very grateful for his generosity. Doing these silly awards every year is one of my favorite things, but it's always refreshing to get a new perspective, especially one as creative as his. Thanks Barbs!!!

And now, on to the awards!

*Vezina - hailtopitt. The anchor of his team’s fanbase, hailtopitt is always there when his team needs him.

*Adams - ~Crashintome89~. In a group filled with Flyers fans, Crash’s leadership and guidance does not go unnoticed.

*Calder - TheLastPig. This was our first full year with TLP, and it was a productive one and certainly deserving of the Calder.

*Selke - lockman21. Lockman’s keen ability to produce high level posts that both go on the attack while successfully defend his point wraps up this year’s Selke.

*Byng - swordo84. Such a delightful poster, and finally got to see his team have some success this year.

*Richard - TMoore4075. No matter what, Tim will always have the highest shooting percentage out of any of us. The guy leads the post count by almost 2,000!

*Norris - unccrombie. This guy defends the Rangers better than Brian Leetch ever did.

*Conn Smythe - bradshaw06. We didn’t see bradshaw too much throughout the year, but he came on strong for the playoffs and has been a big part of his team’s run.

*Hart - dmbetc. Our captain, the heart and soul of our thread, Sarah is the MVP.

*Lappy Award for best chirps (is this your 4th consecutive??) - JRS1386

*Henrik Lundqvist award for being overly dramatic but always dedicated – aeroshady

*Damien Cox award for most interesting hockey columns - Roose13

*Jaromir Jagr award for being old, but still cool - salrx95

*Doug Glatt award for best enforcer – Lcsulla

*Ted Leonsis award for most banners - Brohan_Santana

*Mario Lemeuix award for excellence combined with poise – Dramageek

*Phil Kessel award for general awesomeness – jrkarger

*Jordan Eberle award for going missing for long stretches, but always returning with a bang – MrMikeD

Originally Posted by aeroshady (Post 16821179)

Also, thanks for the "*Henrik Lundqvist award for being overly dramatic but always dedicated – aeroshady."

I would like to work hard next year for one of the top awards. I felt I raised my posting to another level this year, but I still came up short of where I was hoping to be.


Edit: shit....I am Lundqvist.

Originally Posted by TheLastPig (Post 16821181)

The Ted Leonsis award made me :lol

Originally Posted by Roose13 (Post 16821239)

Does having to Google Damien Cox disqualify me? :lol:lol

Originally Posted by fonzz41 (Post 16821161)

Lady and Gentlemen, welcome to the 2016-17 Ants NHL Thread Awards Show.

Please join me in thanking our dear Barbogast, who reached out to me a couple months ago, offering his services. He ended up doing the bulk of the work, and I'm very grateful for his generosity. Doing these silly awards every year is one of my favorite things, but it's always refreshing to get a new perspective, especially one as creative as his. Thanks Barbs!!!

And now, on to the awards!

*Jordan Eberle award for going missing for long stretches, but always returning with a bang – MrMikeD

Originally Posted by mr.MikeD (Post 16821366)

hahah. so true about both Eberle and me! I'm truly honoUred.

Originally Posted by swordo84 (Post 16821386)

Eberle's just been traded to the Isles, apparently. lol

Sad to see him go for sure. Had a down year, but I'd still like to see him sporting the orange and blue. Cest la vie I guess. The return should be decent.





....and the Byng for me? Hittin' the big times. I'd like to thank no one, and everyone all at the same time.

Originally Posted by salrx95 (Post 16821393)

Was just coming in to say Dreger just tweeted eberle done or about to be.