Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov wins Hart Trophy
- by Juana Turner
- in Sports
- — Jun 22, 2019
Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning has won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player. He won the Art Ross Trophy for leading the league in scoring with a career-best 41 goals and 87 assists.
St. Louis Blues center Ryan O'Reilly won the Frank J. Selke Trophy on Wednesday night at the NHL Awards Show.
A standout rookie campaign for Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson was recognized at the NHL Awards on Wednesday night. The Flames' Mark Giordano won the Norris Trophy as the best defenseman.
Jack Adams Award as the league's top coach (based on regular-season performance): The Islanders' Barry Trotz, who beat out the Lightning's Jon Cooper and the Blues' Craig Berube.
The 20-year-old from Sweden was named Rookie of the Year, beating out St Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington and Buffalo Sabres defenceman Rasmus Dahlin for the award.
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Before adding these Cup-worthy pieces, the fourth-year general manager added free agents Jaroslav Halak (22-11-4 with a.922 save percentage) and Chris Wagner (a career-high 12 goals and 19 points), and re-upped role players like Matt Grzelcyk and Sean Kuraly without complicating Boston's salary cap structure.
Kucherov, who turned 26 on Monday, received 164 of 171 first-place votes in a runaway victory over two-time MVP Sidney Crosby of Pittsburgh and 2017 Hart victor Connor McDavid of Edmonton.
Vasilevskiy led the National Hockey League with 39 victories. If you think too much, your game can just go away, and bad things can happen. Giordano beat out two vaunted finalists: San Jose's Brent Burns, who won it in 2017, and Tampa Bay's Victor Hedman, who won it past year.
Pettersson set a Canucks rookie record with 66 points (28 goals, 38 assists) in 71 games this season, passing Bure and Ivan Hlinka (1881-91), who each had 60 points.