COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS: With West Coast players being shut out at the National Hockey League awards once again, the league’s annual showcase of its best and brightest is just another reminder of how much of an embarrassing joke the NHL awards have been for years.
LOS ANGELES — The 2015 National Hockey League awards have come and gone, and once again, they have proven to be a complete joke.
Year after year after year, the NHL awards turns out to be an embarrassing knock on the league’s credibility, not to mention that of some of the writers who vote for five of the six player awards (having been a voter for these awards in previous seasons, that includes yours truly) because of the blatantly obvious advantage given to players from Eastern Conference teams, primarily due to the fact that they get far greater attention from the media in Eastern time zone cities and in much of Canada.