With the Stanley Cup Playoffs shifting alongside, the NHL is continuous the method of asserting the finalists for every of its main awards for the 2024-25 season.
On Friday, the league introduced the finalists for the Selke Trophy, which honors the highest defensive ahead. The three finalists for the award are Aleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers), Anthony Cirelli (Tampa Bay Lightning), and Sam Reinhart (Florida Panthers).
Barkov will probably be looking for the third Selke Trophy of his profession after incomes the respect for his efficiency in 2023-24. The Panthers star, who’s a finalist for the fourth time prior to now 5 seasons, helped the Panthers rank among the many NHL’s high 10 in goals-against per contest (seventh, 2.72), whereas additionally rating tenth with an 80.7% penalty-killing share.
Barkov additionally blocked 54 photographs, whereas allotting 87 hits in the course of the common season. If he wins the award, he’d turn out to be simply the fourth participant to perform the feat in back-to-back seasons together with Patrice Bergeron, Pavel Datsyuk, and Rod Brind’Amour.
The NHL additionally introduced the finalists for the Jack Adams Award on Friday, which honors the highest head coach within the league. Scott Arniel (Winnipeg Jets), Spencer Carbery (Washington Capitals), and Martin St. Louis (Montreal Canadiens) had been named because the finalists.
Arniel earned the respect in his first season because the Jets coach after changing Rick Bowness, who retired following the 2023-24 marketing campaign. The Jets coach led the staff to a 56-22-4 report (116 factors) and the primary Presidents’ Trophy in franchise historical past. Solely three head coaches in league historical past have recorded extra wins of their first season as a head coach.
Carbery led the Capitals to a 51-22-9 (111 factors) and the second-best report within the league in simply his second season on the helm. The Capitals had a 20-point enhance from final season, which is the third-largest enhance. In the meantime, St. Louis orchestrated a playoff season for the Canadiens after they compiled a 40-31-11 report (91 factors). It marked St. Louis’ first profitable marketing campaign as an NHL coach.
The rest of the NHL Awards will probably be introduced every day by means of mid-Could. The 2025 NHL Awards will happen in June 2025, however a precise date has but to be introduced.
Vezina Trophy
The Vezina Trophy is awarded “to the goaltender adjudged to be the most effective at his place.”
Norris Trophy
The Norris Trophy is given to “the defensive participant who demonstrates all through the season the best all-round potential within the place.”
Ted Lindsay Award
The Ted Lindsay Award is yearly awarded to “essentially the most excellent participant within the NHL.”
Hart Trophy
The Hart Trophy is given “to the participant adjudged to be essentially the most useful to his staff.”
Selke Trophy
The Selke Trophy is awarded to “the ahead who finest excels within the defensive features of the sport.”
- Aleksander Barkov (Florida Panthers)
- Anthony Cirelli (Tampa Bay Lightning)
- Sam Reinhart (Florida Panthers)
Jack Adams Award
The Jack Adams Award is given to the top coach that “contributed essentially the most to his staff’s success.”
- Scott Arniel (Winnipeg Jets)
- Spencer Carbery (Washington Capitals)
- Martin St. Louis (Montreal Canadiens)
Invoice Masterton Memorial Trophy
The Masterton Trophy is awarded to “the participant who finest exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.”
Girl Byng Trophy
The Girl Byng Trophy is yearly award “to the participant adjudged to have exhibited the most effective sort of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct mixed with a excessive commonplace of enjoying potential.”
