Every season, I take an internal accounting of what's needed to put in a full season of hockey hounding. It's not just the time, money and toll on your body, like I groused about last season. No, it's the commitment to getting up early after a late night at the office, the willingness to make multiple trips across Tampa Bay and opening up a platform to hounds across the NHL.
It's not just effort, but also dedication. Thankfully, I gain motivation by knowing that others are doing the same thing.
Seeing that Hound Central 5.0 chronicles hockey-hounding activities here in Hockey Bay, it's my duty to once again honor those members of our fraternity. Following up on last season's inaugural edition, Hound Central 5.0 kicks off the second annual Hockey Bay Hounding Awards.
To make this work, though, I need your help once again. Please, feel free to submit, via comments at this post, your thought-out and well-reasoned votes (though none for yourself, please) for the following categories:
Hound of the Year: Awarded to the hound who consistently racks up quality autographs on a diverse platform of memorabilia. Please, don't vote for yourself.
Autograph of the Year: Awarded to the hound who scores an autograph from one of hockey's best players -- past or present -- during the course of a season.
Rookie of the Year: Awarded to a hound who excels in his/her first full Hockey Bay season.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Honors a veteran Hockey Bay hound for their dedication, knowledge and product of their efforts.
Best Supporting Hound: Awarded to the hound(s) who assists in the collection of autographs.
Meatball of the Year: Awarded to a hound who displays a clear lack of thought and consideration toward his peers.
Best Original Score: Awarded to the hound obtaining an autograph(s) on a rare or peculiar piece of memorabilia.
Across the land
Just like last year, Hound Central readers and hounds outside Hockey Bay can also participate in this annual gesture of appreciation:
Nicest NHL player: Not only signs multiples, but is pleasant, too.
Snottiest NHL player: Is not just a toughie, but is downright rude.
Best-signing team: The team that bleeds Sharpies dry.
Worst-signing team: This is great intel, too.
Best-dressed player: Each team has one. Really, they do.
Nominations close June 1. Winners, who will receive nothing more than a mention here at Hound Central 5.0, will be announced in late June.
If no nominations are received from the Hockey Bay hounding community, Hound Central 5.0 will select an honoree in each Hockey Bay category.
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Craig Conroy for nicest player, Wayne Gretzky for best player, ever!
ReplyDeleteThe nicest players are the young guys that just got to the NHL or a carreer journeyman who is getting an opportunity to play in the NHL. Those guys really appreciate where they are and how hard they worked to get there.They will take the time to talk to you like a real person and will sign for you and actually be sincere.
ReplyDeleteNicest NHL Player : Chris Kunitz
ReplyDeleteSnottiest NHL player: Cliff Ronning
Best-signing team: Nashville Predators
Nicest NHL player: Cam Janssen, St. Louis Blues
ReplyDeleteSnottiest NHL player: Martin Brodeur
Best-signing team: New York Islanders (everyone except John Tavares)
Worst-signing team: Washington Capitals
Best-dressed player: Mark Recchi
Hound of the Year: Fish for always being around (Game time, Flight Time, Morning time, ALL the time).
ReplyDeleteAutograph of the Year: Mikayla and Colin for their Sean Avery signature on a team sheet.
Rookie of the Year: Not sure who was out for their first year.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Puck Hour.
Best Supporting Hound: Mikayla and Colin.
Meatball of the Year: That guy who has been getting team signed pucks.
Best Original Score: Jamie for his picture with him and Vinny..
Across the land
Just like last year, Hound Central readers and hounds outside Hockey Bay can also participate in this annual gesture of appreciation:
Nicest NHL player: Eric Boulton.
Snottiest NHL player: Sean Avery, Even Ovechkin isn’t as rude as him.
Best-signing team: The Southeast Division, minus the Caps. A hard choice since every team that passed through this year was pretty good.
Worst-signing team: Capitals were the worst for me this year, But I still did well with them so I am basing this strictly on #’s.
Best-dressed player: Ryan Miller hands down best dressed that came through town. One of Mikayla’s new favorites, simply due to his hat.
I agree with CLiff Ronning beign the snottiest. Also Glen Anderson for this as well...
ReplyDeleteSeeing that Moody has cast his votes, I suppose I should get off my duff and do the same.
ReplyDeleteHockey Bay:
Hound of the Year: For the second straight year, my vote goes to Chris F. Day in and day out, this guy is always on his game.
Autograph of the Year: Colin, for getting Boston's Patrice Bergeron on the 2,000 autographed puck of the collection. Colin's Bruins team sheet -- the one of him watching a Bruins practice, deserves consideration, too.
Rookie of the Year: Sadly, I don't remember too many new faces making any positive contributions to hounding efforts this year. I'll blame it on the economy.
Lifetime Achievement Award: I'll vote for Moody. He's been hounding for a long time, dating to his days in Michigan. This year, though, he stepped up us efforts and even entered the blogging arena.
Best Supporting Hound: Hopefully, he won't take this the wrong way, but I have to vote for Moody. From inside intel, until an unfortunate incident, to giving me a ride home after the Houndmobile broke down, he contributed greatly to quite a few hounding efforts.
Meatball of the Year: Though I won't identify him by name, it's a silver-spoon kid who ruined a good thing for a number of Hockey Bay hounds. He just doesn't get it.
Best Original Score: Jamie, for not only getting Vinny Lecavalier to give him a ride to a Walmart in Brandon, but having the presence of mind to take a picture from inside V4's Ferrari and having him sign it.
The rest of my picks:
ReplyDeleteNicest NHL player: Boston's Patrice Bergeron, Florida's Stephen Weiss and Ottawa's Nick Foligno and Jason Spezza.
Snottiest NHL player: New York's Sean Avery, Montreal's Mike Cammalleri and Scott Gomez and Florida's Bryan McCabe.
Best-signing team: Los Angeles Kings.
Worst-signing team: Hands down, the Washington Capitals. It's one thing for Ovie to say no, but Shaone Morrisonn? C'mon, who does he think he is?
Best-dressed player: Sorry, but I didn't pay that much attention/ I'll pass.
Hound of the Year: Chris, always gets quality graphs, and puts in the effort
ReplyDeleteAutograph of the Year: Jess getting Ovechkin to sign a puck
Rookie of the Year: don't remember any rookies out there this year?
Lifetime Achievement Award: Sean, he's been getting graphs for a long time, and puts in the extra effort needed
Best Supporting Hound: Chris, always helps out and shares info
Meatball of the Year: the original Meatball, give him the award 2yrs in a row
Best Original Score: Sean Avery signing a team photo after receiving $30 (and giving change for a 50)
Nicest NHL player: Jack Johnson
Snottiest NHL player: Alex Burrows
Best-signing team: LA Kings
Worst-signing team: Washington Caps
Best-dressed player: Brendan Witt
Best Supporting Hound is my buddy Mike up here in Toronto Canada. I've seen this guy go to Leaf practices and get more than a dozen auto's and none of them are for himself. He arranges to meet members of a blog we belong to at the practice rink and teaches them how to get autos and who the players are. Most unselfish Hound I have ever met. Never sells the autos he gets and tips everyone off about upcoming autograph signings.....
ReplyDeleteHound of the Year: Chris (Badfish)
ReplyDelete.
Across the land
Just like last year, Hound Central readers and hounds outside Hockey Bay can also participate in this annual gesture of appreciation:
Nicest NHL player: Jarome Iginla, Shea Weber, Rick Nash, Saku Koiv
Snottiest NHL player: Sean Avery, Sid Crosby, Duncan Keith, Ryan Kesler
Best-signing team: Flames, Preds, Avs, Wild
Worst-signing team: Caps and Pens
Best-dressed player: Sean Avery, Dion Phaneuf
Nicest player NHL Patrice Bergeron has not changed sense his days in AHL
ReplyDeleteSnottiist in a land slide Sean Avery
Best team Buffalo Ryan Miller class act
Worst team Washington for all the reasons listed
Rookie I know he did not play in the NHL but Jordan Eberly of the Oilers when with Springfield (AHL) signed everything and smiled while doing it one of the nicest players to come along in a long time
Hound of the Year: I give this one to Colin....by my estimation his 09-10 autograph totals far exceeded my own so he gets my vote
ReplyDeleteAutograph of the Year: I will give this to my wife as she did in fact get an very nice puck from Ovie for me. I guess it never hurts to go the the hotel starbucks with a puck and pen tucked away ;)
Rookie of the Year: Ill give this to the Fort Myers dealers that came up for the Penguins and Winter Classic Teams... im still laughing at the fact they got Lundin and Blair Jones on Bruins WC bats lol
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ron
Best Supporting Hound: Moody
Meatball of the Year: IT was a tough choice this year but i gotta give it to the Meater
Best Original Score: Def the 16x20 of half of Meater's & Vinny with the "Wal-Mart ride" inscription LOL
Across the land
Nicest NHL player: Shane Doan
Snottiest NHL player: Brooks Orpik & Kesler
Best-signing team: Kings & Avs
Worst-signing team: Caps
Best-dressed player: i honestly dont recall anyone standing out this year...