Let me just say regarding the Dar trophy, that this one was the subject of some hefty internal discussions as well and the Committee didn't really come to a final conclusion on how to deal with this complicated award in the new sim engine yet, as evidenced by the very split voting. I also somewhat agree in that I think that the Nominees we came up with aren't great, only one of them really fits the criteria I have for the Award. In fact my voting criteria seems to have different substantially from that of the rest of the committee, of the 5 people I nominated 4 didn't even get a single nomination from anyone else. I hope and think that there will be some more discussion about this in the near future and that we will have a much clearer picture next season. There has been some broader discussion about the Dar Trophy in general too, so even bigger changes could be on the horizon as well.

However, I don't think any of this makes your tone in here justified @39alaska39, especially when every season your complaint about the Awards seems to be that one of your teammates got snubbed, while your own bias is blatantly obvious. Saying "xy should have been nominated" is always a pretty easy thing to claim too, the much more inconvenient question is: Over who? Who should have been eliminated in favor of your guy? In case of Vent, who I won't discount since he would indeed have been a valid nominee, his improvement basically comes down to a jump in points by 20 and thats it. None of his other stats, especially the defensive metrics, were very impressive and he also only was a middle-of-the-pack guy on his own team even with all this improvement. So who should he have replaced, the guy who improved by 27 points to become a top-5 scorer in the league? The guy who increased by 20 points and was also amongst the leagues best scorers and led his team in both points and +/-? No, the only guy who he even would have a case over is Sharp (15 point jump, 2nd among team forwards in +/-, good GA/TA ratio) and even then it's close and a valid, open discussion and not a "total snub". Oh and by the way that doesn't even take into account someone like von Otter who improved by 24 points and was among both his teams and the leagues best scorers, who also missed out. So yeah, it's not nearly as easy as you make it sound.

Oh and I love the irony in this comment...

05-21-2020, 01:00 PM39alaska39 Wrote:

05-21-2020, 12:54 PMkarlssens Wrote: 35 points is hardly a breakout season

Career best of 14 before this year, but sure. Shows the amount of research y’all do

... because his previous career best wasn't 14, that was just his last year. Shows the amount of research you do I guess?