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TQT's End of the Year Awards (Because We Can)

Seeing as the final Icers story of the year gets published tomorrow (or so we think), we figured we'd give you one last taste of TQT.

Over the next few minutes we'll share with you the results of some of the season-long polls we took, some of the best answers we got, as well as some awards of our own. So, without further ado...

Favorite Coach Balboni quirk

This was a close contest. Six different Coach Balboni quirks received votes, and the winner only took home the prize by one vote.

6th Place - 1 Vote: "Wheels Up"

2nd (Tie) - 2 Votes: "Mullet," "Schwivel," "Boston Accent," "Wooshy Wooshy Pants"

And coming in 1st, with 3 Votes: "Logistics"

Dean's Take: Considering I now laugh whenever I hear the word "logistics," whether it's Balboni-related or not, this doesn't surprise me.

Pat's Take: This one should come as no surprise -- anyone who has been around Coach Balboni knows his affinity for the word.

Paul's Take: Like the other guys said, no contest here. Balboni must have used it enough to rub off on some others, as even coach Downey and a lot of the players started throwing the word "logistics" around in a lot of late-season interviews.

Shift of the Year

In the first of our writer-given awards, we're going to honor the best :30-1:30 individual stretch of the season. Not really any other criteria aside from what stuck out the most.

At least for us, the single-most impressive shift of the year came against Oakland University. In this shift, the individual responsible made two GIANT, bone-crushing hits (and another that may have only left stress fractures). For the near entirety of the shift, this individual stalked back and forth along the visitor's blue line, daring any Golden Grizzly to cross while carrying the puck. No dice.

As a result, this individual earned nicknames from us such as "The One Man Wrecking Crew," "Jersey's Finest," and the THON-Induced "Little Mermaid." Here's to you Paul Daley. Congrats on the most painful 39 seconds we have ever seen (and if you feel the need to hit any of us for this, hit Paul).

In the movie of your life, who plays your girlfriend?

It was a wide open contest in this category, with 10 different women receiving votes (although only one received more than one vote).

2nd Place (Tie) - 1 Vote: Marisa Miller, Angelina Jolie, Heidi Klum, Elisha Cuthbert, Megan Fox, Jessica Beil, the twins from "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," Jessica Simpson and Eva Mendez

And coming in 1st, with 3 Votes: Jessica Alba

Dean's Take: While I wouldn't argue if you forced Alba on me, I think out of the choices offered to me here, I'd side with Mike Diethorn's choice of Megan Fox.

Pat's Take: I'd have to side with Mills's pick of Marisa Miller, but you definitely can't go wrong with Alba.

Paul's Take: I'm going off the board with this one, nobody got it right. Jennifer Aniston. End of story.

Quote of the Year

Considering we almost created a weekly blog post with this individual, solely to hear statements of increasing ridiculousness, this award was a unanimous decision. While we may have never started "Tuesdays With Teddy," we have no regrets in awarding this for basically anything said this year by sophomore goalie Teddy Hume.

Best nickname on the team

Coming into this category we had a feeling this would come down to two nicknames, and sure enough it did.

3rd Place (Tie) - 1 Vote: Pops, The Columbus Cutler, Condor, McGaff

2nd Place - 3 Votes: The Grey One

And coming in 1st, with 5 Votes (the leading vote-getter in any category): Sweet Lou

Dean's Take: If Steve Thurston can make his own nickname, I want to as well. From now on, please refer to me as Crash Davis.

Pat's Take: It's rare that a self-given nickname sticks, but "Sweet Lou" is a classic, if not incredibly random.

Paul's take: Yes Pat, "Sweet Lou" is random and definitely a classic. No Dean, we will not be calling you Crash Davis. I can think of some other things we can call you, though. None of which are appropriate for print.

Man of the Year

While the majority of the readers will expect this award to go to Luke DeLorenzo, Frank Berry or any of this year's seniors, this award goes to someone who was only quoted twice this season (and someone we figure most fans would overlook).

The winner of this award acted as the man behind the team. The post-game scene of this individual carrying countless sticks toward the locker room, the pre-game scene of this individual corralling loose pucks from around the ice and in-game scene of him repairing the broken end boards after Steve Thurston's now famous declaration of "The f***ing board fell off." We'd like to recognize the efforts of a man that far too often goes unnoticed. Here's to you, Graham Pepperman, team equipment manager, jack of all trades and, now, Between The Pipes' Man of the Year.

Biggest Ladies Man

And now to the biggest (and most anticipated) category of the night. Throughout the season we really only remembered two candidates, so we figured it'd come down between them -- but instead we got the biggest upset of the night.

4th Place (Tie) - 1 Vote: Lukas DeLorenzo, Brandon Rubeo, Kyle Mills and Teddy Hume

3rd Place - 3 Votes: John Jay

2nd Place - 3.5 Votes:... Matt Kirstein

And coming in 1st, with 4.5 Votes and the biggest surprise of the night: Chris Pronchik.

Dean's Take: Considering when Kirstein asked me who won this last week our guess was that it came down between him and John Jay, this is shocking.

Pat's Take: I don't have any inside information on this, so I'll just have to take the guys' word for it.

Paul's Take:: Yeah not really sure what to say about this one, just got to trust the guys with it. I'll be nice to Pat and Dean, and not reveal who the biggest ladies man among the Icers reporters is.

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