Selke Award Announced, Barkov shouldn't have even been Finalist & it's b&w!

▪︎This years Selke Award was determined by 197 voter ballots. Consisting of 177 Professional Hockey Writer's Association (PHWA) members and 19 invited international broadcasters.

Selke Award Qualifications:
NHL Forward who best excels at the defense aspects of the game.

-Toughest Matchups: Determined by Most DEF-Zone Time, followed by NTL-Zone Time.

-Penalty Killing Record: Determined by Most Short Handed Ice-Time considering the Rank of Teams PK%.

-Overall Defensive Impact for their Team: Determinded by Most FO's, FOW%, TA's, and Untangibles like solid board play or not making positional errors, & this is when +/- would be considered a little.

Congrats to the winner, Alexander Barkov and other finalist Anthony Cirelli + Sam Reinhart.

-I believe the Selke winner Barkov is a great defensive forward. Sadly, I just believe in stats more, which show he was utilized mostly as an Offensive Center. Maybe the Panther's going to the Cup 3 years straight allowing 3 years of Panther Player Interviews about how good of a Defensive Fwd. Barky is & how the NHL "still" does not full give him his flowers pressured some voters.

As for Reinhart, I don't want to come off like I'm attacking the NHL or the PHWA, but you are UTTERLY INSANE to believe Sam Reinhart should have been a finalist! He doesn't come even CLOSE to ranking Top 40 in more than 1 qualifying catergory. The best he has going for him is his +/- 30, yet that is a Team Stat on the defending Cup Champion Team who is now in the Cup as the favorite to win...

Nico Hischier 100% without question should have won & he wasn't even a finalist.

Ryan McLeod should have been the other finalist.

Replacing Sam Reinhart & Alexander Barkov with Nico Hischier & Ryan McLeod for Selke🏆
HERE ARE THE SUPPORTING STATS⤵️:

•Hischier: 75gm. 35G/69pts. +/- 9
•Barkov: 67gm. 20G/71pts. +/- 1
•Reinhart: 79gm. 39G/81pts. +/- 6
•A.Cirelli: 80gm. 27G/59pts. +/- 30
•R.McLeod: 79 gm. 20G/53pts. +/- 13

Most Short Handed Minutes (FWD):
•R.Mcleod- 182:59 (Ranked 12th)

• BUF 73% on PK 22nd in NHL

•A.Cirelli - 164:19 (Ranked 24th)

• TB 81.6% on PK 6th in NHL

•Hischier- 154:35 (Ranked 35th)

• NJD 82.7% on PK 2nd in NHL

Ridley Greig - 137:20 (Ranked 49th)
(Last Rankable player showed)

•Reinhart- 123:19 (Below 50)

• FLA 80.7% on PK 10th in NHL •Barkov's- 101:35 (Below 50)

▪︎Hischier: (Ranked 22 in Def. & Neutral Zone Starts of all Fwds. w/600minutes+ played.) D-Zone Start: 20.6% Neutral Zone: 18% O-Zone Start: 17.4%

**▪︎R.McLeod: D-Zone Start: 20.4% Neutral Zone: 16.2% O-Zone Start: 11.7%

▪︎Cirelli: D-Zone Start: 19% Neutral Zone: 19.2% O-Zone Start: 13.9%

▪︎Barkov: D-Zone Start: 16.4% Neutral Zone: 16.6% O-Zone Start: 21.3%

▪︎Reinhart: Dzone start: 15.2% Neutral zone: 15.8% Ozone: 21.6%

Top 25 in Most FO's: •Nico: FOW: 987 / FO: 1,777 Rank 2
•Cirelli: FOW: 647/ FO: 1,292 Rank 22
•R.McLeod: FOW: 630 / FO:* 1204 Rank 25

(Not in Top 25):
•Barkov: FOW: 580 / FO: 1,026 •Reinhart: FOW: 212 / FO: 514

Top 25 Faceoff Win% w/350+ Faceoffs:
•Barkov: FOW% 56.5% Rank #16 •Hischier: FOW% 55.5% Rank #23 •R.McLeod: FOW% 52.3% •A.Cirelli: FOW% 50.1% •Reinhart: FOW% 41.2%

Sources: (HockeyDB, Statmuse, & Moneypuck)

I just bout covered all categories & Cirelli should have been on there Reinhart literally wasnt in ANY qualifying category & clearly proves how much dick the voters are swallowing based on Florida going to the 🏆 the last 3yrs. getting mad interviews all repeating how the league doesnt realize how good Barkov is defensively so they bitch made got pressured to give him a Selke. That'd be my article of the day.