The Raw Charge First Round Playoff Award Winners

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Sometimes it seems NHL awards are only handed out to generate online outrage or to reward long careers. The purely objective counting stats awards like the Art Ross or the Jennings are nice, because there is an easy way to determine who wins them. It’s the subjective awards that tend to get most folks riled up on social media or produce the “Why Player X was snubbed” columns. After all “most valuable” means different things to different folks, right?

Well if the real awards skew towards futile and objectionable, imagine how insubstantial trophies awarded after the first round of a playoff series between just two teams are. That’s not going to dissuade us from…