National Hockey League award winners: Patrick Kane wins Ted Lindsey Award (Full results)
Patrick Kane won the Hart Trophy on Wednesday night, becoming the first player born and trained in the U.S.to be named the NHL’s most valuable player.
Patrick Kane won the Ted Lindsey Award, which is awarded to the most outstanding player as voted by fellow players. The 27-year-old finished with career highs of 46 goals, 60 assists and 106 points to become the first USA -born player to lead the league in scoring. In post interview Kane called it “Special”.
The other award that could be headed to Chicago is the Calder Trophy which should be a lock for Artemi Panarin if it wasn’t for a couple of factors. Planarian received 88 first place votes.
On Wednesday Patrick Kane and Artemi Panarin will find out if they will take home a pair of major honors during the NHL Awards. He beat out Brain MacLeallan of the Washington Captials and Jim Nill of the Dallas Stars. Masterton died on January 15, 1968, as a result of an on-ice injury.
The Mark Messier Award went to Nashville Predators Shea Weber.
– Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin won the King Clancy Trophy, awarded for humanitarian contribution to hockey. Runners up were Alex Ovechkin of Washington Captials and John Tavares of NY Islanders.
Andersen, who was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs earlier in the week, and Gibson were beaten just a combined 192 times in 2015-16.
Norris Trophy (best defenseman): Erik Karlsson, Drew Doughty, Brent Burns. Kopitar garnered 1,145 voting points, including 77 first-place votes.
After the Pittsburgh Penguins claimed the Stanley Cup, Jim Rutherford won the NHL General Manager of the Year Award.
“You need everybody around you”, said Trotz, who edged out Gerard Gallant of the Florida Panthers and Lindy Ruff of Dallas.
Vezina Trophy for top goaltender – Braden Holtby, Capitals (140 points).
“The two guys I was up against, having a point a game as a defenseman in the National Hockey League and then putting up 27 goals as a defenseman in the National Hockey League, that’s just ridiculous”, Doughty said.
The NHL 17 cover victor was Vladimir Tarasenko of St. Louis Blues.