Vezina Trophy

Clint Malarchuk was born May 1, 1961 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada. He loved hockey and continued to excel greatly in his sport. He joined the NHL in 1981 as a goalie and played for the Quebec Nordiques, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres throughout his career. He continued to play whether it be for a minor league, professional league, or international league team until his retirement in 1992. Clint Malarchuk was the goalie for the Buffalo Sabres when his life changed forever. On March 22

a cardboard box filled with trophies. He then proceeded to hand out participation trophies to each of the players. “You did good out there” He said to each player with a sort of empty remorse in his voice. My cousin took his reward home knowing full well that the trophy he had been given was not earned from winning and most importantly he hated it. They lost every game of their season. Parents and researchers argue that children should be given participation trophies to give them the motivation to

Justice Chambers Mr. Gravett English 101 13 Nov 2017 Are We Giving Children TOO Many Trophies? In today’s society we tend to praise children by giving them plaques, trophies, and medals for anything; even just showing up. We are afraid that our children will be hurt because they lost. That thought makes us oblivious to the fact that we are sending a dangerous message to our children: Everyone's a winner. We are teaching our children that it is never okay to lose, so we make an excuse to make them

Trophies for Participation Roxanne Jones created an article called, “Listen kids, not everyone is a winner”. In this editorial, Jones began the topic of children getting trophies for doing well and participating in activities. She discussed that she does not support the idea of a child receiving awards for participation. Throughout the article, she made valid points toward her argument against giving children awards, in turn that made me agree with her. There are many reasons as to why children

Twenty-first-century culture is inclined to award trophies to all participants of a sport, even if the participant did little to contribute to the team’s success; they all receive participation awards. In doing this, it may remove the incentive to be the best in that sport. Mathematical equations no longer have right or wrong answers; there is partial or full credit given for following the correct procedure. The students may not be learning where they are making mistakes; therefore, they may not

Participation trophies are a highly debated topic among childrens sports. Many people beleive it is unessarcary, while others beleive it boosts self-esteem to non-confident young athletes. Participation Trophies should not be handed out because kids will learn that if the just give a little effort towards accomplishing something they will get rewarded. "She had a horrible attitude", Dweck says. In spite of that, "at the end of the season she got a giant trophy and would have been devastated had

Frivolous Trophy Disbursement to Children Does frivolously giving trophies to children make them into better adults or take away their will to give their best? Giving trophies out every time a child participates in an activity has just become a way of life; from receiving 12th and 13th place ribbons at field days to receiving participation trophies for tee ball and soccer. Children should have to earn what they receive, and if they lose then the hurt feelings they may have will just help them grow

children get trophies for participation? Ummm, that’s a difficult question. In several circumstances, parents put their child in extracurricular activities to get involved. If your child just shows up to a sport, but doesn’t put an effort or any work to improve they should not get a trophy. Because it could be a self-esteem booster or a motivation killer. There are reasons why you should get your children involved, but sometimes you need to push them to do their best to be able to get a trophy. In many

received a trophy for showing up — the same trophy that all the other children got. Sally cherished this trophy all her life and passed it down to her children since it taught her that you do not have to work hard for anything in your life and you will still be rewarded! As you can see, there are some issues with this scenario. In fact there is a lot of controversy on whether all children should receive trophies, or only a select few. I believe that giving children too many unearned trophies not only

mistake is like a new and fresh start on how to improve the next time around. When handed a participation award it blocks the sense of accomplishment that is worth much more than any trophy. The problem with participation trophies is children think it is a good thing to receive participation trophies. Participation trophies only tells participant that everybody is a winner. Merryman explains, “Children need to know that we learn the most through failure and mistakes.” Without failure people would never