NHL Award Show

I couldn’t post about the award show results as they happened because I was at my brother’s high school graduation. He was a member of the Class of 2007 from Detroit Country Day School. Their commencement speaker was fellow DCDS alum, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft President & CEO). After the ceremony outside the auditorium, I saw Mike and Marian Ilitch congratulating their grandson who graduated tonight. Mr. Ilitch also attended Trevor Nill’s graduation party on Sunday (Trevor is Asst. GM Jim Nill’s son and a friend of my brother).

Anyways, I have a lot on my plate this weekend so this will be brief and posts will be light until Tuesday evening.

Nicklas Lidstrom won his fifth Norris Trophy and Pavel Datsyuk surprisingly won his second straight Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.

“You look right now and it’s tough to see anyone better, that’s for sure, “ said Niedermayer, who finished 197 points behind Lidstrom in this year’s voting. “I don’t know what more you can say,” “He has been recognized a number of times for good reason, because he’s a very, very good defenseman. He’s a smart player, has great skills, and is a good leader. He is everything that you need to be to be in his situation.”

Pronger was even more laudatory in his assessment of one of his biggest individual rivals.

“You look at what he has been able to accomplish there from Day One when he got there,” said Pronger. “All those years – ‘97, ‘98, 2002 — winning (Stanley) Cups. Four, five Norris Trophies, I don’t know how many exactly. He’s got a lot and he is here every year.

“Every year, he’s top-5 in scoring, every year he is up for the Norris Trophy, he doesn’t miss a lot of games. He’s got a pretty impressive resume.”

How impressive? In 1,176 games, Lidstrom has 868 points. He is also a mind-boggling plus-338.

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