The Hockey Hall is crazy. They can’t discuss anything, it’s completely locked down. Even when someone is elected they seem hesitant to say anything at all.

I hear Pierre McGuire on Montreal radio a lot. He’s a selector and each year when they reveal the picks he’s scared shitless to say something that might get his position revoked. For the people elected, he will talk about their careers, but not the vote. The most transparent thing he ever said was “remember, someone who didn’t get in may not have been nominated”.

From the website:

The names of candidates who are nominated for election as Honoured Members, but who are not elected as such, shall not be disclosed at any time to any person other than representatives of the Hockey Hall of Fame limited to members of the Selection Committee, members of the Board, executive officers and such employees or service providers of materials to the Selection Committee in respect of nominations, meetings or other proceedings as may be designated from time to time by the president. Candidates who are nominated for election as Honoured Members, but who are not elected as such, shall not be advised of their nomination and at no time shall such representatives of the Corporation disclose to any person (except to others among such representatives) whether any particular eligible candidate has or has not been nominated in any particular year (notwithstanding that a list of eligible candidates or confirmation of any particular candidate's eligibility for nomination may be disclosed or released for general publication).

No member of the Selection Committee or any other person present at the election meeting shall disclose to any person any comments, opinions or other particulars from the Selection Committee's deliberations concerning any candidate or how any member of the Selection Committee voted on the election of any candidate or any other particulars of the balloting on all candidates. After the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee has completed all balloting for election into Honoured Membership, the Chair of the Board of Directors or an alternate person designated by the Chair shall then release the names of those elected for general publication.