Hardware

Gotta somewhat disagree with you on this one. Granted, Sutter did a phenomenal job and if the trophy was awarded (as it should be) for the best coaching job FOR THE YEAR, then he should have received it. But this year it was instead awarded to the best coach FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS. The voters for the Adams did the exact same thing the referees do when they realize they have screwed up – they even it out. Torts should have won the damn thing last year, since he ONLY took the worst team in the whole league the previous season into the playoffs, where they were eventually defeated by the Champions in the second round. And so I think that as we got closer to the end of this year (and the December Debacle finally ended), that the voters realized what a fabulous job Torts was doing. And as for Sutter being GM in addition to Head Coach…. not a factor. The Adams is given to the Coach, not the guy who did the most jobs for the team. If that was the case, or if there are other contributing factors in the decision process, then they should make up another award to give out to the guy who can GM-and-coach-and-mop-the-floor-and-paint-his-house-and-overcome-the-tragic-death-of-his-kid’s-hamster-from-a-horrible-Zamboni(Ice Resurfacing Machine)-accident. Sutter was great, Torts was better. Even Hitchcock had good things to say about Torts, although I think they are friends who secretly hang out in the off-season in Argentina, so nobody recognizes them.

Went to the parade and the presentation after….this is STILL so damn surreal….

Congrats Tampa Bay on your Stanley Cup. I now have to say that now Bill Davidson has won his Stanley Cup, I hope he can now win a NBA Title with the Pistons. GO Pistons!

That was the first time I’d watched that awards show. It was great fun. Just regular guys, you know?