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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
the Athletic did a recent mid-season trophy story and Coleman wasn't mentioned. Top candidates were Nick Suzuki, Sam Reinhart, Jordan Staal, Alex Barkov and William Karlsson.
I feel like the Selke award is also highly reputational and with Bergeron now retired, a lot of voters will give it to someone who has been good for a long time but couldn't win v. Bergeron. So I'm going to guess it goes to Barkov.
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As it probably should because he really is that good defensively while also adding offense, but I'm struggling to understand the Reinhart addition. He's pretty good defensively, but I'm never wowed by his defensive prowess.
I could say the same thing for Coleman, knowing that Backlund does about 70% of the heavy defensive lifting for his line. He's above average in his own zone, but I'm never wowed by him.