Quote:Originally posted by Wally@Dec 14 2017, 11:40 AM


For argument sake you can say just over a quarter of the season.  Regardless, those 21 points were earned also playing out of position (player attributes docked) and say you take away the 21 points... he still sits at 39 points over 36 games.  He would have definitely ADDED to that and the pace he was on at that point still could/would have eclipsed 50 points for the season remaining on defense.

Rhys is going to be one hell of a player but there was nothing extraordinary about this season in comparison to other past winners of the award, but the committee is considerably incorrect by not including Dover at least in a nomination.&nbsp; Over 2/3 of a season as a defenseman... <a href='index.php?showuser=1765' rel='nofollow' alt='profile link' class='user-tagged mgroup-4'>Eggy Nog</a> this was a robbery.

<a href='index.php?showuser=283' rel='nofollow' alt='profile link' class='user-tagged mgroup-13'>ThatDamnMcJesus</a>

You can't based on his pace over 36 games, that's ridiculous. He didn't play the whole season as a defenseman, and so all his numbers are projections, and giving out awards based on projections is stupid. Let me play a rookie 1 game in a season and hope he scores a point or 2 2, SHOE IN for RotY since he scored 2 points in 1 game and at that pace surely he would have been better than anyone else.

Rhys didn't have a great season you know aside from top 10 in defense scoring and more hits & SB than any defenseman with more points. Over 100 in each. Only Malkin hit triple digits in either one.