Updated 11 Aug 2026
The season-review articles for all teams have been all been published. To read a particular team’s article, click on “2025-26 Team Articles” and go through the table and select a team.
The most recently added article is that of the 2025-26 Regular Season Awards. The silly awards from earlier years are almost entirely gone: it is difficult to be critical of the bad selections the NHL sometimes makes while you have an award called the Rockem Sockem Shoulder Pad award.
The NHL Selke Award, given by the voters to Nick Suzuki, is a bad selection. While Suzuki is arguably one of the ten best players in the league, he is not a defensive forward. He isn’t even the best defensive forward on Montreal: he’s probably the fifth-best defensive forward on his team.
Stapled To The Bench uses statistics to determine its award winners. The players who win our awards win them solely due to their play, regardless they have a heart-warming background story. There is no need to vote on an award when the data will show you who was best at something.