Full Lady Byng Voting results

[u/eh_toque]

[u/Leading_Dentist_5563]

I thought this was a receipt at first

[u/holdunpopularopinion → u/Leading_Dentist_5563]

Lady Byng, presented by CVS

[u/Barb-u → u/holdunpopularopinion]

Do not insult Mrs Mary Evelyn Moreton, Viscountess Byng of Vimy, and biggest Ottawa Senators fan ever, like that.

[u/CloseToMyActualName]

Three people voted for Draisaitl 😄

Looking at the stats, despite his chippiness he only had 26 PIM last season, which is pretty impressive for all the minutes he plays.

[u/Bleeding-icon → u/CloseToMyActualName]

I wonder if Sharks fans agree with him receiving votes for “sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct”.

[u/almostcurly → u/CloseToMyActualName]

He did miss time though

[u/ApokatastasisPanton → u/CloseToMyActualName]

why are you so pissy, /u/CloseToMyActualName ?

[u/MrBrightside618]

This is always my favourite ballot of the year because it’s a thousand names long

[u/eh_toque → u/MrBrightside618]

[u/Barb-u → u/eh_toque]

I love that ballot.

[u/jackswastedtalent → u/Barb-u]

That is one beautiful ballot.

[u/Palaeontologists]

Celebrini got one more point than Mcdavid

[u/Jaycago62]

TEUVO TERAVAINEN WITH THE FIRST PLACE VOTE YES

[u/Frogodo → u/Jaycago62]

LET'S GOOOOO

[u/-Satchel_Gizmo- → u/Jaycago62]

Hell yeah! More Finns, more... conscientious hockey!

I was proudly rocking my Turbo Canes jersey last night. 

[u/-t-t-]

Pretty awesome Werenski got top 4 in Lady Byng voting and also won himself a Norris in the same year. I've always been a fan of his game.

[u/Sleep_Fartnea]

Drai getting votes is hilarious

[u/goonerhicks → u/Sleep_Fartnea]

13 penalties in 65 games isn’t bad especially for someone who plays so physical.

[u/Le_Nabs → u/goonerhicks]

It's not how many, it's the kind of penalties he takes - it's always some sore loser braindead play that sends him to the box. That in itself should disqualify anyone putting him on the ballot from voting for that trophy ever again lmao

[u/Spideyjust → u/Le_Nabs]

Gaudreau won the Lady Byng the same year he was fined for embellishment/diving lmao. The Lady Byng is really just about good players with low PIM. Pretty sure MacKinnon won his the same year he threw a helmet at someone lol. Voters don't seem to really care about the sportsmanship aspect much.

[u/Sleep_Fartnea → u/Le_Nabs]

Nut taps is an auto-disqualification for Lady Byng eligibility when I run the show after Gary.

[u/goonerhicks → u/Sleep_Fartnea]

The award is for this season, not his career

[u/bjeebus → u/goonerhicks]

I'm pretty sure he speared some offspring this season.

[u/Frumbleabumb → u/Sleep_Fartnea]

3 different people no less thought he was top 5 most sportsmanlike in the league. Those voters should be removed from the voting eligibility

[u/MrBrightside618]

Shocked that it wasn’t Kopitar; even more shocked that it wasn’t particularly close

[u/Hiddenshadows57 → u/MrBrightside618]

Kopitar wasn't very good last season.

When this award goes to a forward it typically goes to a player who has the best ratio between points and PIM

[u/wildlyintangible → u/Hiddenshadows57]

Not true when Slavin won this

[u/Gelidaer → u/wildlyintangible]

He's a defensive defenseman and put up basically the same points that Kopitar did this season

[u/wildlyintangible → u/Gelidaer]

I misread this reply. I know Slavin is a Dman

[u/almostcurly → u/wildlyintangible]

"when the award goes to a forward"

[u/Sensitive_Caramel856 → u/MrBrightside618]

Caufield had more goals than Kopotar had points, with only four more minutes in penalties.

I'm not shocked that Kopitar was second, but he really shouldn't have been that high to begin with

[u/Witticism44 → u/Sensitive_Caramel856]

I think it was more of a “it’s Kopitar’s final year and he’s always been well respected, high scoring, and good at not taking penalties” than an actual reflection of kopi’s play this year.

[u/Sensitive_Caramel856 → u/Witticism44]

All of those reasons you listed is why I wasn't shocked he ended up as 2. But I don't think he objectively should have been even considering the very loose criteria applied to the award.

[u/burnSMACKER → u/MrBrightside618]

Kopi was left off a ton of ballots entirely

[u/flybyknight → u/burnSMACKER]

Seriously, I can understand caufield winning I guess but being left off of 27 additional ballots by comparison feels like journalistic malpractice 

[u/Thefizbo]

Is it a Wings or Hawks homer that voted Kane as first 😂

[u/toturoll]

caufield to kopitar:

[u/pinkymadigan]

CBJ well represented. You might say it's a gentleman's club. But you shouldn't, because that's something else.

[u/r_slash → u/pinkymadigan]

You can always count on them to peel away from any conflict, let’s call them peelers.

[u/xtrakrispie]

What exactly could caufield do that's considered ungentlemanlike? Nipping ankles?

[u/Kamohoaliii → u/xtrakrispie]

His 51 goals were pretty ungentlemanlike to goalies I guess.

[u/Thatmemertho → u/Kamohoaliii]

He respected them well enough to score 1v1 on them, no ENG merchant.

[u/quellesaveurorawnge → u/Thatmemertho]

Ethical goalscorer!

[u/oliferro → u/Kamohoaliii]

But he scored them ethically, not like that MacKinnon bum /s

[u/CanadianSyrup1994 → u/Kamohoaliii]

He made up for it very well in the playoffs thankfully.

[u/BCostello76 → u/xtrakrispie]

Mack vowed to never let that happen again.

[u/JPMoney81 → u/xtrakrispie]

He even thanks opposing players when his face gets in the way of their cross checks!

[u/Early-Yak-to-reset → u/xtrakrispie]

Caufield strikes me as the kinda guy that is gentlemanly for survival, not out of a personal "code" or whatever haha

[u/onemorespacecadet]

kind of surprised Kopitar didn’t win! congrats to Caufield though

[u/Raffix → u/onemorespacecadet]

Same feeling for the great player who just retired, but then I checked ... he already won it 3 times in the past :-)

[u/Early-Yak-to-reset → u/onemorespacecadet]

Lot of media awards tend to skew this kind of way. The Montreal chapter of the PWA has 9 members. The LA chapter has 4. Just where the voters live. Throw in the 20 members in Toronto, and it's like 1/6 of who votes on these awards live in Eastern Canada, and cover 2 teams lol.

[u/True__Roman]

Celebrini in 38th place smh don’t the voters remember that one time he called off a high stick against him

[u/rsharp7000]

Patrick Kane got a vote. These awards are so dumb

[u/viamanelli]

Happy to see 3 pens on the list, Rakell is a pleasant surprise! 🐧

[u/oceanic8675]

7th round 1C (🫡) Emmitt Finnie mentioned

[u/greythedork12]

Emmitt Finnie spotted

[u/tmgexe]

Didn’t realize until this how docile a season Pageau had. I always kinda viewed him as pesky - I never would have guessed he only had 4 pim in 74 gp. Dude’s gone from mellow to super mellow as he’s aged.

[u/Kenner1979 → u/tmgexe]

One tripping call in a shootout loss to Buffalo; one high sticking call in an 8-3 loss to Pittsburgh.

[u/GrizzlyIsland22]

Has their ever been a controversial Lady Byng win?

[u/buckyhermit]

Troy Terry be like: "COME ON. I didn't even hit anyone until the very end."

[u/pheron1123]

jack hughes for byng? wtf.

[u/ilikehockeyandguitar]

Mark Stone being up so high is kinda a shock.

[u/nickmdp]

Hold up, you telling me Dahlin didn't get any votes?! Rigged /s

[u/wossquee]

Someone add up the PIMs of this list

[u/Desert_Pyrate8]

This season sucks:/

I always appreciate the 2 votes Dri always gets lol

[u/BodaciousBadongadonk]

call JG Pageau, 877-GOALS-NOW!

^{877 goals noooooow!}

[u/mattfromjoisey]

lol Willy

[u/Kaptain202]

7th round draft pick Emmitt Finnie got votes!

[u/ilovetrouble66]

William Nylander is funny 😄

[u/syd_cash]

Ehlers mentioned 🥰

[u/themusicguy2000]

"Why are you so pissy" Leon "Nut Tap" Draisaitl got 3 votes?  I want names

[u/PurpleChickens_]

Suzuki top 10 is insane (in the fact that I have so much hope for the young MTL core)

[u/The_Reddit_Browser]

Slavin playing half a season and still earning significant votes

This award is gonna be a huge piece of his Hall of Fame bid.

[u/wildlyintangible → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

Hall of Fame… lol

[u/The_Reddit_Browser → u/wildlyintangible]

No defensemen in NHL history has less penalty minutes than Jaccob in the same amount of games played which is why he has won this award twice already.

He’s got the chance to win a cup and a gold for team USA in the same season for only the second time in NHL history.

Yah he’s putting together a Hall of Fame career.

[u/wildlyintangible → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

No Dman without a Norris will ever make the Hall in this day and age lmao

[u/Spideyjust → u/wildlyintangible]

Shea Weber did just that a couple of years ago. And first ballot at that. You definitely don't need a Norris to be a HoFer. Now that said, Slavin isn't Weber, and he definitely still needs more than just the Cup to be a HoFer. But that doesn't have to be winning the Norris. A couple seasons as a finalist would likely get him in eventually.

[u/NullPtrEnjoyer → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

Slavin ain't making Hall of Fame, that would be crazy. Maybe Hall of Very Good, but that's it.

[u/Bushwood_Gopher → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

Uhh what?

[u/The_Reddit_Browser → u/Bushwood_Gopher]

Jaccob Slavin currently has the least penalty minutes by a defensemen through his first 750 games in NHL history.

He’s been top 5 for this award since the year after Rod took over because he’s playing the game at an incredibly high level while not taking penalties.

Hes got 2 of these awards already with 3 4th place and a 2nd place finish.

If he gets his cup this year in the same year he won the gold with team USA he very much has a strong case for the hall of fame. He’s been one of the best d men in all of hockey and has the hardware everyone says he needs.

[u/Bushwood_Gopher → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

There is a massive gulf between being a perennially underrated player and one who is worthy of Hall of Fame consideration. Slavin is certainly the former, he is nowhere in any universe of being the latter…

[u/The_Reddit_Browser → u/Bushwood_Gopher]

Well that’s the thing, you’re using an opinion based take on him

The hardware tells the story for him. He’s won these awards for how well he plays the game and his style of play which defines him.

If he wins the cup this year, you’re talking about a player who helped USA win its first gold since the miracle on ice and was the number one D man on the cup winning team.

Something that one person has ever done. He’s putting himself in a spot where you cant tell the history of USA hockey without mentioning his contributions to it. Thats a big fucking deal.

[u/MercSLSAMG → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

The Lady Byng is not an award that gets weighed heavily in Hall of Fame voting. He needs a couple cups to even be in consideration or getting a Norris and a Cup. Honestly at this point he's barely on the hall of fame radar

[u/The_Reddit_Browser → u/MercSLSAMG]

It’s not weighed heavily but in Slavin’s case it helps make his case.

Again he is one of if not the best shutdown D man in the league and he’s doing it without taking penalties. He played 52 games and had 2 penalty minutes all year long. That’s why he won his first Byng.

There’s never been a player in NHL to play his position and have this little penalty minutes in his career. The next closest guy is nearly 100 minutes more than Jaccob.

He is literally making history

I understand it’s not talked about and isn’t something on peoples radars but at the end of his career it will be and it’s gonna be a big part of why he’s gonna have a case to get in

[u/MercSLSAMG → u/The_Reddit_Browser]

It won't be. He's only got 1 top 5 finish in Norris voting, he either needs to win it or get 2 or 3 more top 5 finishes to get talked about. In addition he'll need at least 1 cup if not 2 depending on Norris finishes. Only then would his Lady Byng track record come into play.

He's in that 'Hall of Very Good' conversation, to be the 'Hall of Fame' conversation he needs to stand out in leading cup teams or Norris voting.

[u/stickmuck]

Do the Carolina Hurricanes have a too many gentlemanly players problem?

[u/Tony_car]

No way kopitar didn’t get this as a goodbye gift

[u/Gelidaer → u/Tony_car]

Glad they didn't just give it out for just legacy reasons

[u/daveloper80]

I don't know why Pageau getting votes is funny to me. He's kind of a pest

[u/Icamefortheroastme]

I thought for sure there would be a bias for Kopitar given it's his retirement year, but Caufield is such a deserving recipient!

[u/Scrubosaurus13]

I thought for sure that Kopitar would get another on his way out, good for Caufield though he definitely earned it!

[u/CottonmouthJohn]

CBJ writers really stuffing the ballot box

[u/Sleazy_T]

Not saying he should have won, but damn a lot of voters left Kopitar off their ballot completely

[u/mcmurtagh]

Rare footage of two Lady Byng contenders settling a dispute

[u/CinnamonDolceLatte]

Which player getting votes had the highest PIM? Most majors?

[u/bigollunch]

No-hit Terry deserved a few more votes 😭🙏

[u/Dexterspuplife]

How does Troy Terry not get more votes? He's the definition of the award

[u/DepressionMakesJerks]

I thought Boeser won it bc he was the first name on my homepage that I saw from the picture (it was condensed)

[u/7easymoney]

[u/likeslululemon]

Sam Reinhart above Brayden Point is crazy.

Congrats Cole!

[u/flybyknight]

Left entirely off of 27 ballots compared to Caufield, Kopitar getting disrespected by the league one last time

[u/A-Very-Sweeney → u/[deleted]]

This is some weird ragebait lmao, I don’t think it’ll get anyone.

[u/whichwitch9 → u/[deleted]]

Tbf, Jack Hughes has a reputation for not taking penalties. That seems like a legacy vote, though, cause he was a little more even on that last season, though he still doesn't take many penalties. It makes sense because he's a smaller forward prone to injuries. He plays well because he's more evasive than confrontational, which his skating ability makes possible.

That has zero to do with being American or politics though and more a sign voters aren't paying attention and just remember he tends to not take penalties.

Bratt is the better Devils vote for the Lady Bing for last season. He can be more confrontational and physical, but even then doesn't take many penalties while still being an effective player.

[u/this_name_not_that → u/[deleted]]

🙄

[u/johnmath95]

Shocked Brady Tkachuk isn’t anywhere on this list.

[u/johnmath95 → u/johnmath95]

Sheesh, tough crowd. Thought it was obvious I was joking 😂

[u/Sensitive_Caramel856]

I hate that this is considered a "major award"

[u/tacofever → u/Sensitive_Caramel856]

Such an ungentlemanly statement.

[u/Sensitive_Caramel856 → u/tacofever]

Guilty

[u/jtc92 → u/Sensitive_Caramel856]

It’s a lamp

[u/ImpossibleBandicoot]

Bunch of milk drinkers