Lohud Hockey Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Lohud Hockey Player of the Week and who runs it?

The Lohud Hockey Player of the Week is a public poll on Crowdsignal, the platform that serves the poll.fm ballots. The Journal News runs it under the lohud name, and the organizer name refers to the Rockland and Westchester coverage area that the newspaper serves in New York.

The poll is a sport ballot. It asks readers to pick one hockey nominee from a short list each week, and the ballot is the only place the nominees appear. Readers who want the names should open the live page rather than rely on a summary.

The poll is one programme across its seasons, not a set of unrelated ballots. Its first season is dated from December 2018 into February 2019, and later ballots are listed for 2023, 2025 and 2026. Readers comparing seasons should note that the weekly ballots within one season share a single name and a single poll address family on poll.fm.

What dates has the hockey poll run, and what is not dated?

The clearest dates in the material come from the first season, which ran from December 2018 to February 2019. Five ballots from that season are dated by their poll identifiers, and they fall in the December, January and February months of that run.

The 2023 ballot is listed as part of the series, but its opening and closing days are not in the material. The 2025 and 2026 ballots are live polls on poll.fm, and their windows are shown on the live page rather than in this guide.

A reader planning around the poll should treat the 2018 months as the only confirmed run. The exact days for a current season are not published in the material and should be read from the poll itself.

How does a supporter vote in the hockey poll today?

A supporter opens the Crowdsignal ballot for the current week, reads the list of nominees, and picks one. The poll then logs that choice through its vote button, and the choice is counted with the rest of the ballot.

Because the nominees change from one ballot to the next, a supporter should read the list each time instead of relying on a name from an earlier week. A vote cast on an older ballot does not carry over to a newer one, so each new poll needs its own choice.

The steps are short, so timing matters more than technique. A supporter should check the poll's date before voting, because older ballots from earlier seasons remain on poll.fm as separate pages. The general steps for public ballots are covered in the guide on getting more votes online.

The poll also invites readers to share it, and the share buttons sit on the poll page itself. Sharing the link is the simplest way to bring attention to the ballot without changing how the poll counts a choice.

How does the hockey poll sit beside the other lohud and New York ballots?

Six sibling ballots sit in the New York group, and each one is classed as a sport poll. Two of them carry the lohud name, the basketball polls, and the rest cover football or other sports. The hockey poll is the only one among these siblings built around hockey.

The sibling pages can be compared by sport, but each one runs as its own poll with its own nominees. The statewide overview is at New York, and the basketball entries sit under the lohud name at lohud Boys Basketball Player of the Week.

The table lists four of the siblings for quick comparison. The full set is in the related contests block, and each entry has its own route.

How can a fan give the hockey poll more support?

Support for a public poll starts with the poll itself. A fan can share the Crowdsignal link, ask friends to read the nominee list before choosing, and return to the poll when a new ballot opens. None of these steps change the ballot's rules.

Outside help is a separate matter. The material does not say whether paid vote services are allowed for this poll, so the rules on the live page are the only guide. Anyone considering a paid option should read the legal position on buying votes first, since the answer depends on the terms of the poll.

For this poll, the practical routine is to check each new weekly ballot as it appears, read the nominee list, and vote from the live page rather than from an older link.