Selke Trophy

[petey23]

Datysuk, Staal, and Kesler named finalists for the award.

Some important stats for consideration

Total FO

Dats: 55.1%

Kes: 55.1%

Staal: 48.3

x: 57.3

y: 52.9

FO won vs lost while being Shorthanded

Dats: 48.2

Kes: 48.9

Staal: 44.3

x: 47.6

y: 48.8

Total Take Aways

Dats: 132

Kes: 83

Staal: 41

x: 69

y: 51

Penalty Minutes (because a good defensive player won't put his team at situation where they can get scored on)

Dats: 18

Kes: 104

Staal: 57

x: 47

y: 24

Plus minus

Dats: 17

Kes: 1

Staal: 19

x: 22

y: 22

This was in the NHL section of espn.com, I added the relevant stats for player x and y. Many will probably be able to figure out who they are. I have thought all year that player y should be in the running for the Selke this year and as I was doing some research, player x kind of jumped off the page as well.

[farce poobah]

Good topic.

Datysuk is astoundingly good all over the ice.

However, Player X has become one of the NHL's finest along the walls. Watch how many 1 on 1 battles he wins in a game. This is a big part of how his team has the puck most of the game.

I would have gone Datysuk, Kesler and X.

[yzerman19]

Player X's Gold medal probably feels alot better than a Selke Trophy. I do think that he is easily the best two-way center in the game right now.

[petey23]

Player x is obviously Toews and player y is probably the most underrated player in the NHL right now as far as a "name" goes in Travis Zajac.