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[Doggage]

2008 Canadian Athlete of the Year - Sportsnet.ca

[mcptfc2007]

i voted GSP, but 2 be fair i was not sure who the rest of those people are, but im from scotland and dont follow baseball or hockey

[SWIFTboy]

Iginla will probably win, but GSP actually has a very good shot in this one.

[neonatural45]

Voted for Iggy

in all fairness he is a way better athlete and the nicest player I have ever met

[VimyRidge]

Originally Posted by neonatural45

Voted for Iggy

in all fairness he is a way better athlete and the nicest player I have ever met

I love Iginla as much as the next Canadian but what did he do last year that makes him deserving of the award? It is not like Calgary won the Stanley cup? GSP is arguably won of the top 3 fighters in the toughest sport and champion in his weight class.

[Qball1974]

Originally Posted by neonatural45

Voted for Iggy

in all fairness he is a way better athlete and the nicest player I have ever met

Better athlete HAHAHA funny, I love Iggy but be real.

Originally Posted by VimyRidge

I love Iginla as much as the next Canadian but what did he do last year that makes him deserving of the award? It is not like Calgary won the Stanley cup? GSP is arguably won of the top 3 fighters in the toughest sport and champion in his weight class.

100% Agree.

[SWIFTboy]

Well dude is from Calgary, so you can't really blame him.

[Sakara=Excitement]

I voted about 10 times. Georges hands down. If its based on pure athleticism then Georges by far.

[SWIFTboy]

Originally Posted by Sakara=Excitement

I voted about 10 times. Georges hands down. If its based on pure athleticism then Georges by far.

Haha this made me think that if P4P lists don't already cause enough contraversy, imagine Sport-for-Sport (S4S) lists.

1) Fedor
2) Tiger Woods
3) LeBron James
4) Phil Hellmuth
5) Kimbo Slice (beard growing, not MMA)
6) Garry Kasparov (look it up)
7) Michael Phelps
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69) Gina Corrano
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578,467) Stephon Marbury
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645,936,736) Kalib Starnes

[neonatural45]

Originally Posted by VimyRidge

I love Iginla as much as the next Canadian but what did he do last year that makes him deserving of the award? It is not like Calgary won the Stanley cup? GSP is arguably won of the top 3 fighters in the toughest sport and champion in his weight class.

scored 50 goals? Was hands down the best player in his conference? Most points by a north american, most goals by a north american (that includes Canada by the way), had a great plus/minus, and didn't lose a fight. No one in the world can do that


GSP beat Serra and Fitch, I can think of welterweights off the top of my head that would do that. He only won 2 fights haha, one was against a guy who isn't even top 10 anymore (coming off of back surgery and a year long layoff) and the other was Fitch. Thiago Alves had a better year

Originally Posted by Qball1974

Better athlete HAHAHA funny, I love Iggy but be real.

Luckily most Canadians are smarter than you, telling me to get real when I say one of the best hockey players in the world is a better athlete than GSP is laughable. Hockey isn't the biggest sport worldwide but it is easily twice as big as mma, star hockey players are on-par with Lebron, Kobe, Tiger, Phelps etc in the world of sports, and saying that GSP is more of an athlete than an olympic gold medalist in his prime getting paid 7 mil a year makes you look pathetic