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Pucks of a Feather’s NHL Awards Ballot Part Two

By Ed Stein

LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 21: Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers poses for a portrait with the, from left to right, Ted Lindsay Award, Hart Memorial Trophy and the Art Ross Trophy at the 2017 NHL Awards at T-Mobile Arena on June 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV - JUNE 21: Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers poses for a portrait with the, from left to right, Ted Lindsay Award, Hart Memorial Trophy and the Art Ross Trophy at the 2017 NHL Awards at T-Mobile Arena on June 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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Welcome to part two of Pucks of a Feather’s NHL Awards Ballot. In case you missed part one, our cousins at Puck Prose asked us for our choices on these awards. We wanted to share our opinions with our readers.

Today we show our NHL Awards ballots for GM of the Year, The Ted Lindsay Award, Frank J. Selke Trophy, Lady Bing Memorial Trophy, and James Norris Memorial Trophy

GM of the Year

An annual award presented to recognize the work of the league’s general managers.

3rd Place – David Poile. He took home this prize last year. One day this award will be renamed the David Poile Trophy. Not many General Managers could to what Poile did this season. He found a way to make a great team even better.

Poile was able to add impact players Kyle Turris, and Ryan Hartman during the season The best part was that he didn’t give up a current team contributor. The biggest asset he traded away was his upcoming first round pick, which would have been 30th or 31st overall. He is good at his job.

2nd Place – Steve Yzerman. Another previous winner (2016), he took over the Bolts in May 2010. This team was built from the inside, up. Some of the best players on this team, Nikita Kucherov, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Brayden Point, and Yanni Gourde were either drafted by or signed as amateurs by Tampa under his regime. Stevie Y may eventually become as good of an executive as he was a player.

1st Place – George McPhee. It would be hard to find anyone who followed the NHL this year that would say McPhee doesn’t deserve to win. A division winning General Manager will always be a candidate for this award. That achievement pails in comparison to building a winner from complete scratch. McPhee had the vision to build a team that is faster and more skilled than anyone thought possible. Oh yeah, it’s an expansion team.

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