FanFromAB Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Assist leader for the season should be awarded the Wayne Gretzy Trophy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Bah Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 From TSN: "In an interview with Larry Brooks of the New York Post, Wayne Gretzky suggested that the Conn Smythe Trophy should be renamed after Hall of Famer Jean Beliveau and that the Montreal Canadiens legend should be present when it's presented each year." Works for me,,,,,,,,,,long overdue. More here http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=397218 What player could ever personify,the MVP of the playoffs better than Jean Beliveau,the ultimate team player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReddGreybeard Posted August 2, 2012 Report Share Posted August 2, 2012 That is the first thing Gretzky has ever said I appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thethrillisgone Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 Don Cherry would have a heart attack. That would just be terrible, now wouldn't it? The trophy's name should be left as is, though. May as well just re-name the Stanley Cup the 'Beliveau Cup' since he's got his name on it 17 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MkGee Posted August 8, 2012 Report Share Posted August 8, 2012 First who cares what Gretzky has to say, I never liked him he was way too soft.. what they should do is name The Rocket Richard After Beliveau then change the con smythe trophy to the Rocket Richard trophy because the Rocket was the best player to ever skate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReddGreybeard Posted August 9, 2012 Report Share Posted August 9, 2012 Not only was he soft, he was one of the biggest whiners I ever saw play. I used to call him Whine instead of Wayne, and did not like any club he was ever associated with. I am so glad he was never associated with Montreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry-Launstein-Jr Posted August 10, 2012 Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 I cannot believe how ridiculous this one is. Conn Smythe donated the trophy, and it should have his name on it, just like Richard and the Canadiens donated the Richard Trophy. There was no playoff MVP award until Smythe donated his, and there was no award for leading goal scorer (they were lumped in with the leading points-getters - goals and assists for the Art Ross Trophy) until Richard and the Canadiens donated that. Both trophies helped cure a major injustice in hockey. Richard would have been a multiple winner of the Smythe if it had been awarded during his career, and he never got the scoring title (back then, the other teams would award assists to guys who happened to be on the ice when the scoring play was made, regardless of whether they had anything to do with the score or not). He rightly deserved several. Unfortunately, it was the one he didn't win when he would have won in 1955 is all anybody talks about. Understand that Richard was perhaps the purest goal scorer hockey has ever seen, at least up until Mike Bossy, who was an admirer of Richard's, and Richard admired him as well. Pure goal scorers don't tend to rack up a lot of assists because they are the ones who finish plays. And in my honest opinion, nobody finished like these two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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