| Rick Dudley exits, NHL Awards, Quenneville sings |
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| Written by Chris Block | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday, 18 June 2009 23:00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rick Dudley resigned from his position as Assistant General Manager on Thursday, hours before accepting the same title with the Atlanta Thrashers. Dudley had served in the hockey ops department for the past six years. I’ll have much more on his decision this weekend but this was not a shock to anyone. Dudley’s been actively seeking a new job since the end of the regular season. He wanted the GM opening in Florida, but was never seriously considered for whatever reason. Originally brought in by Bob Pulford to aid Dale Tallon in his elevation to the GM spot, Dudley was promoted twice, first to Director of Player Personnel prior to the 2005-06 season, and then to Assistant GM prior to the 2006-07 season. Concurrently, Stan Bowman added Assistant GM to his Director of Hockey Operations title in the summer of ’06. -- Blackhawks TV has footage of Joel Quenneville singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" Thursday at Wrigley Field. Others have done far worse, but it ain’t pretty. -- Mike Kiley of ChicagoNow.com had some nice comments about us yesterday after listening to the opening segment of my appearance on this week’s HockeeNight PuckCast, which you can hear by clicking the audio button at top-right of this page. -- Results from last night’s NHL Awards ceremonies at The Palms in Las Vegas. Hart Memorial Trophy (MVP): Alexander Ovechkin Lester Pearson Award (MVP as voted by players): Alexander Ovechkin Vezina Trophy (top goalie): Tim Thomas Norris Trophy (defenseman): Zdeno Chara Selke Trophy (defensive forward): Pavel Datsyuk Calder Trophy (top rookie): Steve Mason Lady Byng Trophy (most gentlemanly): Pavel Datsyuk Masterson Trophy (dedication, perseverance): Steve Sullivan King Clancy Trophy (humanitarian): Ethan Moreau Jack Adams Award (top coach): Claude Julien Art Ross Trophy (most points): Evgeni Malkin Rocket Richard Trophy (most goals): Alexander Ovechkin William Jennings Trophy (least goals against): Tim Thomas, Manny Fernandez, Boston Bruins Lifetime Achievement Award: Jean Beliveau NHL Foundation Award (charitable contributions): Rick Nash NHL Fan ‘Fav’ Award (self-explanatory): Roberto Luongo ‘Messier’ Award (leadership): Jarome Iginla Rookie, First and Second Team All-Stars were also named:
You can get a look at final award voting numbers here. [Kuklas Korner] As a rule, I never watch awards shows and I definitely wasn’t going out of my way to watch hockey players accept awards. I also needed to get a workout in before Burn Notice started. But when many people made mention today of Alex Ovechkin poking fun at Pavel Datsyuk’s English while making one of his many appearances on stage I figured I should probably look for it online. Well, I didn’t find it, but I’m left wondering why no one is discussing the following cryptic off-handed remark Ovie made about where he prefers applying his craft. “I like playing in Canadian city, but right now my favorite city to play in is Washington.” Right now? Ovechkin himself has noted many times how jacked up he gets when the Capitals play in Toronto and Montreal, but he’s never hinted before that he wanted a permanent hockey home anywhere other than Washington. Keep in mind he said this in Las Vegas. Perhaps the trophies and wax-like old goldies (Esposito, Beliveau) blurred his mind into thinking he was at 30 Yonge Street. While on the topic of Thursday’s awards ceremony, I had pains in my sides when I read Eddie Olczyk would be presenting the King Clancy, which is essentially the off-ice humanitarian of the year award. Blackhawks connection runs four deep (5 if you count Olczyk) Rumors of a Winter Classic doubleheader? About five years ago I saw a CFL game at McMahon Stadium. It’s not much of a venue. Basically a low-rent US college football stadium. Remember, CFL fields are wider so unless they set up temporary seating in each end zone (there are only walkways linking each side to the other, no seating), the rink would look like a barge on the Mississippi River. Can you imagine if the NHL did schedule two games and NBC opted not to carry the three o'clock game? I could. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites      
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