re more hart trophy stuff in apr adobe com snichols adobe com sherri nichols writes in article apr mtroyal ab ca caldwell mtroyal ab ca writes the hart trophy goes to the player most valuable to his team not to the best player in the league so your above arguement is really worthless personally i always thought that most valuable to his team was silly why should the best player in the league be penalized because he plays on a team with other good players why should a lesser player be picked solely because he s the best player on a weak team wouldn t the weaker team be helped even more by the best player in the league doesn t the presence of the best player in the league make the other players on the team look better too the hart trophy was orginally awarded in a time where people did not think in terms of who was the best player rather in terms of who was the most valuable to the team and valuable to his team was not and should not be considered synonymous with best we are talking about a time when honour and attitude not measurable skills were the most important assets a player brought to his team his league and his sport this was before the onslaught of professionalism which has clearly denigrated what was formerly the foremost peacetime pursuit of glory the hart trophy is not a prize it is an honour cordially as always maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca so many morons rm and so little time
