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The History Of The Lady Byng Trophy
by Paul on 12/13/11 at 02:40 PM ET
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from Glen Goodhand/Hockey Historical Highlights at the Oshawa Express,
Lady Evelyn Byng, wife of Canada’s 12th Governor General (1921 through 1926) was a keen hockey fan. She and her husband could often be found in the auditorium in Ottawa watching the Senator’s games.
But she was disturbed by the unnecessary violence and dirty play in general. So in March 1925 she contacted Frank Calder, president of the NHL, voicing her concerns. At that time she offered to donate a “challenge cup,” a trophy to be awarded to “any man on any team in the NHL, who, though being thoroughly effective, is also a thoroughly clean player.”
Her offer was accepted, and that very season Frank Nighbor of the home-town Ottawas was the undisputed winner of this new honour. In fact he was voted the award the first two years it was offered.
But the desired affect of her incentive for clean play fell short of expectations.
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Penalty minutes are glorified, treated as positive stats in a player’s profile.
Actually, not at all. Thanks for playing though.
Posted by some kid on 12/13/11 at 04:18 PM ET
I don’t understand. The author starts off with the history of the Lady Byng, but then goes on to write an essay about penalty minutes in a season.
Just because something is a penalty doesn’t mean it’s dirty or violent. Is a delay of game penalty really any sort of “non-clean” penalty? Hooking? Holding? Interference? They’re not violent and I don’t see how they relate to the blurb about Lady Byng at all.
The most irritating thing is that it seems the author thinks the desirable thing is to have an entire season without penalties. That’s not possible in ANY sport…and if an entire season went by without penalties, wouldn’t they just make up new penalties to call? It seems to me that a sport played where no one happens to break any rule through the course of a season is probably a sport with poor rules in the first place.
What a ridiculous article.
Posted by BuzzFledderjohn on 12/13/11 at 05:37 PM ET
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