Duncan Keith wins Norris Trophy

but the comma in the wrong place threw off my timing

As I asked on the prior thread, what, if anything, are the salary cap implications of this?

First to win since Cheli in 1996 and its fitting because he is our best defenseman since..

With the way this day has been going, were about to find out he gets a 1.5 million dollar bonus that counts against the cap next season.

Sharp appeared at the NHL awards with Captain, Kaner and New Teeth with the Cup. If he is representing the team, wonder if that means he is staying?

Mike Green, once again, was thaaaaat close to a prize.

just curious.

I wanted to post this in the new thread, but the topic was discussed in the Buff trade thread.

Here is the Kaner-in-bed deadspin article

There are two comments that were left after the article that are hilarious:

Solid

Yeah, I’d only perform “so-so” with a chick who had the arms of an orangutan required to take that photo.

Winner

About 15 seconds passed before anyone in the room realized he came.

Smiles. Congrats Duncs.

A gold medal, Stanley Cup, and the Norris. What a season. And he isn’t going anywhere for a long while.

No more being mistaken for a native Mississippian.

Fans of the Hawk… yet another vote that shows our hockey operation is world class. Duncan Keith is a world class talent and teammate. Today’s moves were required because of the cap, will be good for both teams, will give our young talent the opportunity to step up, and will reload with even more picks. Huet to Rockford, Hammer and Anti back on the bus, and one more trade (Verstegg) and we are ready to run it again.

I’m pretty sure this seals (McClure’s?) the prediction that Keith will be the last Hawk to wear #2.

What do Blackhawks always do? Win baby, that’s just how we do it these days.
Stanley Cups, Gold Medals, Conn Smythe’s, Norris Trophies …. there is just no end for the best is there?

I’d also like to congratulate Ryan Getzlaf on channeling his inner hawks61 with that bit with Bobby Ryan. Priceless, like the GOLD keyboard I’m using to type this.

Probably it’s the position, but it feels Teeth doesn’t get the praise he should. He’s not a monster like Chara or Pronger but his all around game is second to none. Great skates, stickwork, anticipation, body positioning … the guy does it all for a d-man. Can’t be any happier for Duncs.

As a whole I found them to be a fuck of a lot better than last year’s. Chaka Khan anyone? Mind you Shinedown and the Goo Goo Dolls weren’t exactly the best of acts but they were far better than anything I say last year … which wasn’t much after Chaka Khan it was ‘hit the power button’ after that. Although, that Cirque-du-Soleil Beetles bit was a train-wreck.

- Ovie waiting for the music to stop so he could finish his speech was pretty funny as was D2K getting cut-off.

- Jay Mohr needs to die. Somewhere.

- Jamie Kennedy needs to watch hockey before he becomes a presenter. Seriously.

- Mark Messier on Sidney Crosby: " I can’t think of a better leader in the game right now than Sid". Really? I can think of one, his name is Jonathan Toews.

- Datsyuk can speak english and crack a joke?

- Jose Thoedore is one classy dude. He may not be a great goaltender but he’s a great guy with a big heart. I was happy to see him win.

- J.R. ripping Milbury and for him to be with Olczyk to present Keith the Norris trophy was awesome. So was Stamkos’ suit.

That’s all I got. And here you thought that with the season over so would be my long posts.

This has been the most satisfing hockey sports year season era I that having personally witnessed. The growth of the Blackhawks since William passed (may he rest in peace joy) has been nothing short of, well, there just aren’t words.

Thank you Hawks (players, all non-players) thank you SCH (and well, drunks includes all, you sober people are cool too) and thank you (enter whatever god-like entity you think, even if it’s nothing)

This has been so much fun I hope we can all stick around and enjoy it again.

What a fabulous season you had!! What a fabulous team we had the honor to follow all season.

Got this courtesy of rsnctz (don’t know if she posted it here already), but it’s a live blog from Wimbeldon, and the comments as the Never-Ending-Match-To-The-End-of-Time (Isner v. Mahut) are awesome, and become more cracked-out and existential as the day wears on.

Without a doubt the best thing i read all day. Worth it, even if you’re not into tennis.

when I heard he won. My stylist thinks I"m a lunatic after I let out a shriek/squeal at the news. Go Dunc!

I missed it and forgot to set the DVR…

fucking useless reply button!

The picture here is of a BC youth hockey team that Brouwer, Ladd, ad Seabrook all played on, which is pretty fucking amazing.

Technology-wise, I’m sorta the anti-CNS, so I dunno how to drop a picture in here. Maybe someone else can.

My point, however, is that, in this picture, we see that the rugged Andrew Ladd was, once upon a time, kind of a pretty boy. Your comment about your ole lady’s crush on him made me think of this.

Good night all.

but that picture, damn!

The slightly open mouth- sometimes it looks to me like cockiness, then I blink and it looks like mild retardation.

It’s like one of those Necker cubes.

all dressed up like that. Someplace romantic I bet.

OK, I’m totally pissed I didn’t realize this was on TV today and I missed it.

Just like how #9, #21, and #3 (a generation’s best Hawk players, and all players on the same team at some point) were raised to the rafters…

If this current group keeps up its play, we’ll see #2, #19, and #88 raised up there some day too.

Duncs IS the best Defensemen in the league. Mike Green is the best scoring D-Man in the NHL, but that’s not what this award is for. Glad it went to the right man.

Looks like a hillbilly on the ice (I was born in hick country so I can say that).

Glad he won. Can’t believe anyone who appreciates hockey would vote for Green above Doughty. Washington gets more exposure but the voters should know better.