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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
I take it you disagree that Hall was MVP of the NHL in 2018? You are saying that was fancy stat based and not reality?
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No, Hall was voted in as the MVP of the NHL that season. That is a fact. No denying the NHL Hockey Writers Association voted Hall as the league MVP.
Did I agree with the vote? Nope. I thought Kucherov should have got the vote. If it wasn't him, it should have been guys like Kopitar, Wheeler, or MacKinnon. A guy that should have received a lot more votes was Fleury, who led the upstart Knights to the playoffs in their first season. Hall had a great year, but I thought there were many more compelling stories and better performances that season.
In retrospect, what really bothered me about Hall winning the award was that the season was such an outlier for him. Career highs in every category and only his second season in the NHL to have a positive +/-. Just such a strange year where big things happened all around the league.