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Matt Cooke wins the first-ever Bertuzzday award!

Matt Cooke

Pittsburgh Penguins’ Matt Cooke (24) plays against the Boston Bruins in the third period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Sunday, March 7, 2010. The Penguins won 2-1. Cooke injured Boston Bruins’ Marc Savard on a blindside hit in the third period. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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Your first ever Bertuzzday award winner is ... Matt Cooke! Let’s take a look at the poll results (super cute pie graph can be found here):
Matt Cooke: 96 votes (69%)

Colin Campbell: 26 votes (19%)

“Other": 11 votes (8%)

Steve Mason: 7 votes (5%)

The real highlight - for me anyway - was reading some of the user submitted responses for “other.” Here are some of the anonymous entries (misspellings and grammatical errors left blissfully untouched):

“JAMES O’BRIEN”

“Bob Probert”

“Gary Betteman"(sic)

“Maxim Lapierre for boarding San Jose center Scott Nichol” (yeah, I missed that one for sure)

“yourweakmindedO’Brien”

“I have to give this first vote to Corey Perry as he is a goalie seeking missle”

“Sean Avery for being Sean Avery”

Aw, I love you guys too.

Congratulations (I guess?) go to Matt Cooke whose true reward will be skating around the ice with a bounty on his head for quite some time (especially against Boston). To keep things simple, I’ll have this week’s nominees a little bit later today. There’s a good chance Mr. Ovechkin will earn a nomination.