05-25-2020, 10:48 PMGwdjohnson Wrote: I'm still holding out hope this Littleton shit is some sort of really in poor taste joke. Kal went above and beyond in his duties this season, and as fantastic a job as JR and Luke did this season (I'm not saying they don't deserve recognition), this was without a shadow of a doubt Kal's award and the other two should've been just a formality, and probably the biggest awards snub we'll see for some time yet.

He ran all the simming for THREE different competitions this season, when he didn't even need to volunteer to do IIHF and WJC as well, and did even more work beyond that to the point where real life jobs wouldn't even have that workload. He made sure to live sim as many games as he possibly could, and it got so time-intensive for him that he didn't have time to play games with us in Canada anymore like we did beforehand. He basically sacrificed personal time to spend hanging out with us in favour of doing all that he did this season. He called his simming duties this season his 'second job', and doing all the extra work he put in to make this transition a success probably even deserves a lifetime achievement instead of a Littleton. In fact I initially thought that it was being given to JR at first because it was gonna be followed up with a Kal Onoprienko win, so I wasn't worried about the Littleton snub.

It's just sad that he's being robbed of the recognition he blatantly deserves once again after not even being nominated last time. This league doesn't deserve the work Kal does and this just reaffirms it. I'm just stunned.

This was very well written Gabriel, don’t forget about updating every player for IIHF + WJC after the WJC commissioner ghosted. I do feel for JR as he’s caught in the crossfire of angry users and the Awards Committee and he has no control over this, JR would’ve deserved it any other season for his work.