Saturday, April 18, 2009
Presentation of the 2009 Holik Award
The Holik Award for Incompetent Arrogance is presented to the player that chose to bolt from a successful team from the previous year to a mediocre team this year, only to see his former team succeed without him while his new team continues to fail. The award is named for Bobby Holik, who deserted the New Jersey Devils for the NY Rangers after the 2002 season, only to see the Devils win the Stanley Cup the next season. Holik never made the playoffs as a Rag.
This year's Holik Award winner is Ryan Malone. After playing an important power forward role for the Stanley Cup runner up Penguins, Malone took the money to sign with the Tampa Bay Lightening. Lecavelier and St. Louis are genuine stars, but anyone that actually knows hockey understands that Tampa Bay has never come close to being a contender again because they never replaced 2006 Holik award winner Nikholai Khabibulin in nets or the leadership and timely special teams play of Dave Andreychuck. Their season was died an immediate death when they inconceivably signed the braindead goofus Barry Melrose as coach. Barry Melrose is the William Kristol of ice hockey; the opposite of his opinion is inevitably correct because he is such a blinder-wearing dimwit.
Malone put up decent numbers on a 'Ning squad that was a seasonlong cellar dweller. Meanwhile, the Pens rented same able wingers for the ever-annoying-but-yeah-really-good Crosby and Malkin and are, as of this writing, halfway to the second round.
Congratulations, Mr. Malone!
2009 Holik Award Winner
Ryan Malone. Former Team: Penguins. New Team: 'Ning.
Past Winners:
Past Winners
2007: Zdeno Chara
2006: Nikolai Khabibulin
2004: Bobby Holik
2003: Bobby Holik
This year's Holik Award winner is Ryan Malone. After playing an important power forward role for the Stanley Cup runner up Penguins, Malone took the money to sign with the Tampa Bay Lightening. Lecavelier and St. Louis are genuine stars, but anyone that actually knows hockey understands that Tampa Bay has never come close to being a contender again because they never replaced 2006 Holik award winner Nikholai Khabibulin in nets or the leadership and timely special teams play of Dave Andreychuck. Their season was died an immediate death when they inconceivably signed the braindead goofus Barry Melrose as coach. Barry Melrose is the William Kristol of ice hockey; the opposite of his opinion is inevitably correct because he is such a blinder-wearing dimwit.
Malone put up decent numbers on a 'Ning squad that was a seasonlong cellar dweller. Meanwhile, the Pens rented same able wingers for the ever-annoying-but-yeah-really-good Crosby and Malkin and are, as of this writing, halfway to the second round.
Congratulations, Mr. Malone!
2009 Holik Award Winner
Ryan Malone. Former Team: Penguins. New Team: 'Ning.
Past Winners:
Past Winners
2007: Zdeno Chara
2006: Nikolai Khabibulin
2004: Bobby Holik
2003: Bobby Holik
// posted by Grinder McCarver @ 1:06 PM 
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That would have been my pick too.
If I had to make a prediction, I think former-Ducks Moen and Pahlsson have a great chance of being 2010's winner.
They both landed on semi-contenders, but they are the very kind of player Holik will be, and they are only valuable on teams that are already good. If one of them takes over $5m per to go to, say, the LA Kings, they are in the running, I think.
Then again, there are guys like Marian Hossa who take less money to go to a team they think is going to win... wait I have an idea. the Paul Kariya award!
For the player that takes a paycut to stiff his former team to go get a Stanley Cup and nevertheless is playing golf before the end of April.
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If I had to make a prediction, I think former-Ducks Moen and Pahlsson have a great chance of being 2010's winner.
They both landed on semi-contenders, but they are the very kind of player Holik will be, and they are only valuable on teams that are already good. If one of them takes over $5m per to go to, say, the LA Kings, they are in the running, I think.
Then again, there are guys like Marian Hossa who take less money to go to a team they think is going to win... wait I have an idea. the Paul Kariya award!
For the player that takes a paycut to stiff his former team to go get a Stanley Cup and nevertheless is playing golf before the end of April.
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