NHL Baloney Award of the Week forgets Teemu

by Earl Sleek on Dec 11, 2006 3:38 PM PST

I hate myself for being this petty, but NHL.com, as part of its "Hype Thyself" campaign, has once again come out with its Players of the Week, chosen by some east-coast guy with an early bedtime. This week Mr. Bedtime put together a 3-man listing of Brodeur (3 wins, 2 GA), Lecavalier (4g, 3a in 3 games), and Ovechkin (1g, 6a in 3 games).

For those that are keeping track at home, that means of the 27 weekly awards given out thus far, only 9 have gone to the western conference. Of those 9 westbound awards, only 3 have gone to non-goaltenders.

Now, to be fair, the east coast is where the scoring is at. To date, the eastern conference teams have scored 133 more goals than western conference teams, so I guess I’m not surprised that the offensive awards have been east-slanted thus far. Still, let’s take a look at last week’s stats:

Hm, a close one, eh?

Still, as a theoretical "tiebreaker", the Ducks played both the Lightning and the Capitals last week, beating them both in regulation. In the first game, Teemu outscored Ovechkin 2-1, and in the second game, Teemu outscored Lecavalier 2-1. Says Selanne (on a different topic):

Aw, don’t worry, Teemu. I suspect you don’t really care, and neither do I. It’s just Monday and I needed something to gripe about.

Maybe I can cheer you up with a game of "What’s scarier?"

The fact that J.S. Giguere has more wins this season (19) than 26 teams?
The fact that the Ducks could sport a .500 record the remaining 50 games of the season and still have 4 more standing points than last year?

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Pacific Standings

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PPG	GWG	Team Record
V. Lecavalier	3	4	3	7	+5	1	1	1-2-0
A. Ovechkin	3	1	6	7	ev	0	0	2-1-0
T. Selanne	3	4	3	7	+5	1	1	3-0-0

	GP	W	L	OTL	PT
San Jose Fear The Fin	54	31	17	6	68
Los Angeles Jewels From The Crown	57	27	19	11	65
Phoenix Five For Howling	57	27	21	9	63
Dallas Defending Big D	56	28	25	3	59
Anaheim Anaheim Calling	57	24	24	9	57