New England has been a flaming disaster this year, unable to win a game let alone an award. With so many more experienced blue liners who have a much better stat line and a track record of high performance, the idea that either of the two mentioned would even be nominated is wild. Right now, The Dude, Brady McIntyre, and Cassius Darrow are the top three defensemen scoring wise, already in double digits. Morgan and Zheng aren’t even in the top 10 or remotely close. Zheng has 3 points and Morgan has 4. Neither is qualified for the best defensive defenseman award either as they’re both a minus 4. Even if New England has a complete turn around and takes off, Morgan and Zheng aren’t even their top blue liners, they’re on the second pairing; that goes for even strength, penalty kill, and power play time. If anyone from New England we’re to be nominated or have that level of output, it would probably be their top defenders Ensio Kalju and Tigole Bitties, who have the team’s highest blueliner point total and minutes. Without top minutes, they can’t have the contributions necessary to get into consideration territory. Both are nice up-and-coming 1000+ TPE defenders, a solid second pair by anyone’s standard, but they’re not Stevens or Biscuit material at this stage in their career as far as I’m concerned. The prediction is way off, extremely wrong, and couldn’t be realistic at all even with the most wild and lucky of STHS bounces.