Other alternate awards

After yesterday's post on NBA Most Valuable Duos, it got me to thinking about the old, petroleum-based days, when putting out an alternative set of awards was part of the spring routine. One of them was the Executioner of the Year, which this year, really, ought to be retired and just handed to Isiah Thomas. Hell, it ought to be named for him.

But what about the NHL? There's no shortage of Executioner candidates this year. And what about other awards you'd like to see?

Over at Sports Guy North, Kent MacDonald is trying to decide his annual Rucchin of the Year winner -- a great idea, this, giving an award for the strongest coattail-hanger of the year, and Jonathan Cheechoo is the runaway leader.

In the NBA, I'm not sure what you'd call this -- the John Salley Trophy, perhaps, or the Phil Jackson Plaque.

Any alternate awards you can think of, send 'em along, as we ready for Part I of the NHL bloggers' playof roundtable.

Comments

[Joe Ives]

That award is awesome, but the term "To Rucchin" is classic! "noun: a leach, or parasite. one who feeds off of others, and would be unable to get by in their absence.

verb: to rely on or benefit from others, especially in cases where the subject is unable to fend for his/her self."

great stuff. cheechoo is clearly the winner this year. same points in his career before and after being on Thornton's line. difference is 55 games after his arrival, and 170 games before. huge difference.

[Kramer]

How about the Vernon Maxwell Award for most insane player of the year award, won for the second consecutive year by Ron Artest? My Latrell bobblehead is complaining to me that he should have won it, but he wasn't technically a player this year, so he was ineligible.

Maybe the Dwight Gooden Award for saddest display by a once great player, won this year by Jeremy Roenick for pleading to be on the US national team and then whining and crying about it when he didn't get picked?

Or perhaps the Oliver Miller Award for fat-ass of the year, won in a landslide by Keith Tkatchuk for showing up to camp after the lockout 50 pounds overweight?

And I'll cap off my suggestions with the Tim Wakefield Award for player capable of being either unbelievably good or unbelievably bad on a given night with nothing in between, won by Toronto's own Jose Calderon.