Nothing says award winning hockey play like taking hits, body blows or blocked shots or saves on the pads.. Hockey is about hitting that puck hard, and into people often, as well as being physical on the ice with other players.

Therefore the award is going to be made possible by the took a hit index. this index will contain all the types of hits a player can recieve on the ice and then wiegh the different hits against carefully calibrated values (for example, blocked shot is worth 5, a goalie save is worth 2 etc.) and offcourse this index needs to be carefully adjusted to remove any time on ice differences so that the award is not merely given to the players who clock up the most minutes on the ice.

Also apart from normal Inactivity exclusions this award will be awarded to the highest person in the index, period, no judgements, no debates, just the person at the top of the list.

...on a more serious note, more straight up stats awards would be great, we have top scorer and top points earner, why not Top for Hits, top for Shots blocked and most saves. more is better :-)