The most frustrated I've ever been with the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee was 10 years ago, when its members snubbed coach Pat Burns.
He was dying of cancer. "I know my life is nearing its end, and I accept that," Burns said in April of that year. The Hall of Fame chose not to select him in the builders' category that summer, opting to posthumously induct Calgary Flames co-owner Daryl Seaman, a practical redundancy after they inducted Flames owner Harley Hotchkiss in 2006.
Burns died in November 2010. The following year, the Hockey Hall of Fame not only didn't select Burns, but it didn't admit a builder in an election class for the first time since 1981.