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The NHL Awards have been final evening, and whereas many of the awards handed out have been well-deserved and, for some, lengthy overdue, there have been a surprising variety of voting outcomes that have been both questionable, irrational, or downright mistaken. Let’s have a look at among the peculiarities within the voting outcomes. Ryan O’Reilly of the St. Louis Blues poses with the Frank J. Selke Trophy, the Stanley Cup, the Conn Smythe Trophy and the Girl Byng ...

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 becaus...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … American Hockey League President and CEO David Andrews has introduced that the league has named the 2018-19 recipients of a number of awards for excellence and repair to the AHL.The winners have been acknowledged Thursday night at a gala reception in the course of the Board of Governors’ Annual Assembly at Hilton Head Island, S.C.Springfield Thunderbirds president Nathan Costa has been chosen because the winner of the James C. Hendy Memorial Award, given to the e...

“Huge open” sometimes describes NHL award races presently of yr. A recency bias in end-of-season voting typically results in a late-surging participant taking dwelling main – as Taylor Corridor did the 2017-18 Hart Trophy after an epic second-half scoring streak helped hoist his workforce into the playoffs. So the mid-season trophy favorites don’t at all times find yourself the winners. The 2019-20 awards race won’t observe that sample, nonetheless. The favorites shall be powe...

How do you permit Nathan MacKinnon, of all folks, that open? It was the other of the meme-worthy photograph circulating this week of 5 skaters converging on Connor McDavid. MacKinnon, arguably McDavid’s hardest competitors within the 2019-20 Hart Trophy race, discovered himself chillin’ by his lonesome within the left circle in entrance of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ web on a Colorado Avalanche energy play throughout Wednesday’s recreation. He obtained a go from proper winger Mikko ...