1949 NHL Offseason News and Notes
As always, here are the top 10 scorers from the just completed playoffs.
Montreal’s Ted Lindsay is awarded the Hart Trophy. His first league MVP. I would have given it to
Milt Schmidt, who led the
Leafs from last to the Cup finals, finishing second in scoring.
Sugar Jim Henry wins his first Gardiner Trophy. He had a great year, leading the
Bruins to finish just a few points out of first.
Earl Seibert has been elected into the Hall of Fame. It’s hard in a sim game like this to determine great defensive players. Plus/minus is more or less a misleading stat, that at best, tells part of a story.
Seibert played on some bad teams and has a -43 career number.
When
Chicago won their cups though, he was their top defenseman. He put up game ratings around 70, which is excellent. He was never the teams biggest star, or the league’s best defenseman, but the role he played, on a great dynasty, plus he’s 4th all time in defenseman scoring, suggest to me the Hall of Fame is where he belongs!
Wow, what a stacked first round in this years draft.
Pierre Pilote is a number 1 defenseman in the making.
Glenn Hall looks like the future star goalie in
Montreal.
Boom Boom Geoffrion and
Dickie Moore are talented players that will fit in perfectly with the youth in
Boston and
Toronto.
Top pick
Jean Beliveau is a star. He could, and should play right now. He doesn’t need any seasoning. This is a lottery pick for
Chicago, meaning they just didn’t get a typical top pick, they got a franchise altering star.
