Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Named Rookie of the Month, Again
For the second times in as many months, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has been named the NHL rookie of the month. After scoring at a point per game pace in the first month of his career Nugent-Hopkins picked up the pace with 6 goals and 10 assists, including five against the Blackhawks, in the Oilers 14 games in November.
Nugent-Hopkins is the first back-to-back winner of the Rookie of the Month since Evgeni Malkin accomplished the feat in October and November of 2006. Malkin would of course go on to win the Calder Trophy that season as the NHL’s top rookie. Just for the record, Malkin was 629 days older than Nugent-Hopkins was when they played their first NHL games.
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By my calculations, that makes Ryan Nugent Hopkins 629 times better than Malkin. And to think that some people wanted to send him to Red Deer. What a bad move that would have been. Friends don’t send friends to Red Deer.
by Yeti# on Dec 2, 2011 2:39 PM MST reply actions 2 recs
Friends don’t send friends to Red Deer.
Words to live by.
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Nothing new there. I don’t even know why the NHL (or any league) bothers with fan voting.
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I only gave up on fan voting once it was clear the NHL had ‘doctored’ the result to keep Ryan Fitzpatrick from making the All-Star game.
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Rory Fitzpatrick, too. They’re biased against the Irish, I think. (Owen Nolan notwithstanding.)
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It’s been the same way in every sport. If you don’t want a popularity contest or some fanbase to rig the results, don’t have fan voting.
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They should let the contest run through, announce the winners, then go, “PSYCH! None of these fuckers is making the All-Star Game, because…come on, Erik Karlsson? Are you shitting me?”
(Actually, I just checked BTN, and Karlsson is doing pretty well, especially considering nearly everyone else on that team is getting murdered by Corsi and ZoneShift, not just ZoneShift, and he’s playing top competition. Not All-Star good, mind you, but there’s real hope for the kid.)
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