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FanHouse NHL Awards: Scott Gomez Award for Witness Protection

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 3:30PM by Bruce Ciskie (author feed)
Filed under: Canadiens, Rangers, Senators, Red Wings, NHL Awards

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The real NHL awards will be handed out Thursday night in Las Vegas, so FanHouse decided to hand out its own special awards for the 2008-09 season.

It takes a special player to get paid a lot of money. In the salary cap era, you expect guys who are signed to big-money deals to produce. When they disappear into the Witness Protection Program, it's usually a notable occurrence. With that said, we present nominees for the 2008-2009 Witness Protection Award, and boy do we have some options to pick from.

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FanHouse NHL Awards: Wade Redden Award for Wasted Cap Space

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 1:20PM by Adam Gretz (author feed)
Filed under: NHL Awards, NHL Fans, NHL Economics

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The real NHL awards will be handed out Thursday night in Las Vegas, so FanHouse decided to hand out its own special awards for the 2008-09 season.

It's designed to maintain competitive balance and parity across the league, but if you waste valuable salary cap space on free agents that don't pan out or contribute the way you expected, you're pretty much stuck without a paddle because nobody is going to bail you out and take that albatross contract off your hands.

Introducing the FanHouse nominees for the Wade Redden Award for Wasted Cap Space.

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FanHouse NHL Awards: Pavel Datsyuk Award for Shootout Creativity

Posted: Jun 18th 2009 9:28AM by Kevin Schultz (author feed)
Filed under: NHL Awards, NHL Videos

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The real NHL awards will be handed out Thursday night in Las Vegas, so FanHouse decided to hand out its own special awards for the 2008-09 season.

While there are still many folks firmly planted on both the pro and con sides of the shootout debate, I think one thing that everyone can agree on is that the skill competition does produce some amazing highlight reel goals. Today, I have the pleasure of unveiling the FanHouse nominees for the best shootout goal of the 2008-09 season.

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FanHouse NHL Awards: Vesa Toskala Award for Worst Goal Allowed

Posted: Jun 17th 2009 3:00PM by Adam Gretz (author feed)
Filed under: NHL Awards, NHL Fans, NHL Videos

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The real NHL awards will be handed out Thursday night in Las Vegas, so FanHouse decided to hand out its own special awards for the 2008-09 season.

During the 2007-08 season, Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Vesa Toskala made blooper reels across the NHL for allowing a goal against the New York Islanders from 190 feet away. Hey, it happens to the best of them, and just to prove it, we introduce you to the 2008-09 nominees for the Vesa Toskala Award, celebrating the worst goal allowed of the year.

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