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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
That's always been the flaw in PHWA holding the votes for the awards. Voters in the east really only see players in the west a couple of times a season so that's not a lot of time to leave a mark and then there's the blatant homers as we have seen in Edmonton and Montreal that have skewed results over the years. The NHL should annually be looking at the polls for anomalies and stuff like like this where certain writers vote for players on the team they cover on a regular basis that don't align with rest of the voters and track them as there has to be a point where these guys get their voting privileges revoked.
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If the NHL cared about the West in any manner at all, they'd find a way to even out the travel. They don't and they won't.