And The Award Goes To . . .

Now that the Stanley Cup playoffs are over, it's time once again to hand out the only Hockey Awards that really matter! Screw the NHL's Hockey Awards, who needs 'em?

DEBRA SHE WHO SEEKS'

2024 PLAYOFF HOCKEY AWARDS

1. Best Promotional Item 

**The Connor McDonut**

Produced by a local Edmonton donut shop, these big sugary confections in the Oilers team colours of orange and blue were only available for sale on game days. Diabeetus on a plate!

2. Best National Anthems Singer 

**SoulBear at Winnipeg Jets home games**

SoulBear is an openly gay singer from Winnipeg with an outstanding voice! In the absence of a video yet to be posted from the Jets' 2024 playoff run, here's one from the Jets' 2022 Pride Night where SoulBear sings, a cappella, both the American and Canadian national anthems:

3. Best Superfan 

It's a three-way tie among these intrepid Edmonton Oilers devotees:

**Superfan Magoo (Blair Gladue)**

**Banjoguy55 (Dave Steil)**

**Mama Stanley (Mary Loewen)**

And here's a snippet from a profile of Mama Stanley by the St. Albert Gazette --

Being Mama Stanley is no easy feat

for St. Albert’s Mary Loewen.

Two Oilers blazers, check. Chrome makeup, check.

Tinsel wig, got it. Finally, the crowning glory:

a homemade Stanley Cup hat she wears

on her head, adorned with 3,500 sequins,

each individually pinned on with little nails.

“It took my daughter and my grandson’s girlfriend

a long time to make that,” she said.

“Every time I go to Rogers [Arena], it’s always

my head that sets the security off.”

4. Most Heartbreaking Haircuts of 2024

Two of my former Hockey Hair Gods have cut their hair! Behold the Before & After Pix of my poor shorn sheep:

**Mark Stone (Vegas Golden Knights)**

**Igor Shesterkin (New York Rangers)**

I'm devastated.

But not for long . . . .

5. This Year's Hockey Hair God

**Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian goalie for the Florida Panthers** 

Feast your eyes on those luscious locks, golden highlights and all!