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Originally Posted by Cole436
I know this won't be a popular opinion, however I don't think Iginla should have won that year. I feel you can't be the most valuable player in the league to your team if you still missed the playoffs and didn't achieve the bare minimum for team success.
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It's not even the biggest trophy that Iginla got robbed.
But even though I disagreed at the time because it's Iginla, I can get the argument now and I think it's been used enough to justify players not on playoff teams missing out on it.
The Ted Lindsay is the award that goes to the best player full stop. There's no weird criteria or ambiguity on who is or should be eligible. The only issue is that the media doesn't award it so I don't think it gets the same prestige but then there's less bias to.