NHL Awards

Carey Price won every award last night. Every single one! At least it looks like it from that photo.

NHL Awards Recap - I watched it, so you didn't have to - Pension Plan Puppets
Charlottes Webster toakes one for the team and watches the second worst awards show on earth (because nothing can be worse than the Teen Choice Awards)

Canadiens’ Carey Price cleans up at NHL awards | Toronto Star
Price became the first goaltender since Dominik Hasek in 1998 to be named MVP, top goaltender and most outstanding player as voted by the NHLPA.

Habs' Price wins Hart, Vezina and Ted Lindsay awards - The Globe and Mail
Price became just the third goaltender to win the Ted Lindsay award and the first since Dominik Hasek of the Detroit Red Wings in 1998

Erik Karlsson Wins Norris Trophy - Silver Seven
Erik Karlsson finished off an spectacular season by winning the Norris Trophy at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas. This is Karlsson's second Norris in just four years. He is the only Senator to win the award since the trophy was first given out in 1954.

Red Wings’ Henrik Zetterberg Awarded King Clancy Trophy - Winging It In Motown
The NHL has awarded Detroit Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for his leadership and worldwide humanitarian efforts.

Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad wins Calder Memorial Trophy - Litter Box Cats
Ek caps off stellar rookie season with a piece of NHL hardware.

Blackhawks Jonathan Toews wins 2015 Mark Messier Leadership Award - Second City Hockey
Chicago's captain wins top leadership honor for on and off the ice contributions.

The saga of Jiri Hudler and his missing shoes - Matchsticks and Gasoline
Jiri Hudler is not wearing any shoes.

Steve Yzerman wins hottest GM of the Year Award - Raw Charge
Achariya did not sneakily add this item to the FTB, honest.

Randy Carlyle received a third place vote for the Jack Adams - Pension Plan Puppets
Simmons? Had to be Simmons.

NHL Draft

Round 1 is tomorrow!

Leafs Draft Podcast - Pension Plan Puppets
Here's a bunch of cargo-short's wearing drunks, and a lovely lady, discuss tomorrow's draft!

2015 NHL Draft: Selection order - Pension Plan Puppets
With the 2015 NHL Draft just days away in Sunrise, Florida, let's take a look at the complete order for all seven rounds.

Why the NHL should abolish the draft and let Connor McDavid go to the highest bidder | National Post
Scott Stinson: No, the fascinating thing about a draft-less NHL would be how much it would force team management to reconsider player values

College hockey is increasingly a stepping stone to the NHL - The Washington Post
Jack Eichel, expected to be the No. 2 overall draft pick, is among those who chose the NCAA path over juniors or playing overseas.

Penguins Might Be Better Off Just Trading All Their Damn Draft Picks - PensBurgh
Of all 30 NHL clubs, none has a lower expectancy of NHL success from its current draft slots than the Penguins, who have all of four picks after starting with the baseline seven. Are they better off moving all of them for one NHL player?

Five Unranked Players That Could Be NHL Draft Picks - SB Nation College Hockey
Looking at five players that didn't make NHL Central Scouting's final list doesn't mean those players aren't worth being picked.

NHL Expansion

You know Vegas is happening whether you want it to or not, but where else?

Duhatschek: NHL board opens formal expansion process, but beyond Vegas, locations are murky - The Globe and Mail
Las Vegas will almost certainly get a team, and other contenders include Quebec, Portland, Seattle, and even Toronto

Quebecor says it will apply for NHL franchise - Article - TSN

NHL expansion can work, as long as the NHL helps a bit - Arctic Ice Hockey
If the NHL is a little creative, expansion could be successful this time around.


Other News

Report: Maple Leafs price Tyler Bozak at a 2nd-round pick | theScore
Market price is a harsh reality.

How Clark-Sundin draft blockbuster came to be - Sportsnet.ca
With blockbuster trades a real possibility this week, Damien Cox takes us inside one of the biggest and most shocking NHL draft day deals in history: Wendel Clark for Mats Sundin.

What five of the smartest moves of the 2014 offseason can teach us about 2015
Down Goes Brown peers into the minds of GMs

Slava Voynov, Kings defenceman, suspended by team - CBC
A Kings spokesman confirmed Wednesday night that the move was made several weeks ago after Voynov was injured outside normal hockey training.

Blue Jackets Re-Up With Curtis McElhinney for Two Years - The Cannon
The CBJ shores up their NHL-level goaltending roster.

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