AHL alumni take dwelling NHL Awards | TheAHL.com

Syracuse Crunch alumni Nikita Kucherov and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning have been landslide winners on the annual NHL Awards ceremony in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening.Kucherov, who started his skilled profession with Syracuse by notching 24 factors in 17 video games in 2013-14, captured the Hart Trophy because the Nationwide Hockey League’s most useful participant, receiving 164 of 171 first-place votes. Kucherov additionally claimed the Ted Lindsay Award because the league’s most excellent participant as chosen by the NHLPA.Kucherov led the NHL with 87 assists and 128 factors, probably the most by any participant since 1995-96, to seize his first profession Artwork Ross Trophy as effectively.Vasilevskiy earned 28 of 31 first-place votes to win the Vezina Trophy because the NHL’s high goaltender. Vasilevskiy, who performed 37 video games with Syracuse over his first two professional seasons (2014-16), posted a league-leading 39 victories for Tampa Bay in 2018-19.Mark Giordano of the Calgary Flames gained his first James Norris Memorial Trophy because the NHL’s greatest defenseman. Giordano, who was a standout professional rookie with the Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben Knights in 2005-06, loved his most prolific NHL marketing campaign at age 35, posting profession highs of 57 assists and 74 factors in 78 video games to rank second amongst league defensemen in scoring.Kucherov, Vasilevskiy and Giordano have been additionally three of 4 AHL graduates named to the NHL’s First All-Star Workforce, becoming a member of San Jose Sharks defenseman Brent Burns. The Second All-Star Workforce consists of AHL alumni John Carlson of the Washington Capitals, Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins and Ben Bishop of the Dallas Stars.Barry Trotz, a Calder Cup champion with the Portland Pirates and the AHL’s excellent coach in 1993-94, gained his second Jack Adams Award because the NHL’s high coach after guiding the New York Islanders to a 23-point enchancment over their earlier season and a visit to the second spherical of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.Minnesota Wild ahead and former AHL All-Star Jason Zucker accepted the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for management and humanitarianism, and 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs MVP Robin Lehner of the New York Islanders gained the Invoice Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.Members of the NHL All-Rookie Workforce embody former AHL All-Star Jordan Binnington of the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues, and Tampa Bay’s Anthony Cirelli, a Calder Cup finalist with Syracuse in 2017.All advised, greater than 87 p.c of all Nationwide Hockey League gamers in 2018-19 have been graduates of the American Hockey League, together with 357 gamers who skated in each leagues over the course of the season.