Online Petition

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Herb Brooks Memorial Trophy

http://www.petitiononline.com/hbmt2003/petition.html

To: IIHF, NHL, WHA, AHL, ECHL and the NCAA

1. We the undersigned request that the respective leagues to approve a proposal that would add a memorial trophy to the hockey community.

Specifically, We request the Herb Brooks Memorial Trophy to be created.

Ratification of this proposal would give a lasting memorial to Herb Brooks and would be hockey

[sioux fan in phoenix]

Just signed the online petition--was signer #456. I think it would be a great honor for a man who did so so much for USA hockey & who was a legend. Hopefully the governing bodies of the respective leagues will see past any possible politics & ratify this at their next convention. Didn't see any mention of foreign players on foreign teams being eligible for this (i.e. some player on a Russian team). I would suppose they're eligible considering it's the IIHF we're talking about.

Also:

1) How low in age do they go? Would some squirt player be eligible? (Again, I suppose so because it says it "would be given to the most outstanding member of the hockey community for his/her achievements on and off the ice.")

2) I was thinking they could give 1 award for each league instead of just 1 overall. How does one determine the most fitting player out of thousands upon thousands of hockey players?

3) The respective leagues are obviously going to cash in their votes for a player in their own league. That leaves the possibility of having 30, 40, 50 or whatever finalists. Does the IIHF then make the final ruling? (Edit: I forgot that the media was eligible to vote, but that would still leave a lot of finalists)

Great idea, but needs to be refined a little in order for it to fully work, imo.