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Toronto maple Leafs striker Auston Matthews won the Hart Prize for the most useful player in the overseas NHL hockey season for the first time in his career. Vezin’s trophy for the best goalkeeper was awarded to Igor Šestťorkin from the New York Rangers. Cale Makar from Colorado Avalanche became the best defender of the season and the holder of the Norris trophy.
The most prestigious awards ceremony took place in Tampa on a day off between the third and fourth dueling of the Stanley Cup Final.
“I’m not going to lie, it’s a great feeling. I’m glad my family and a lot of great gamers can be here with me. It’s really something special.” said 24-year-old Matthews, who was the top scorer in the competition with 60 goals.
In the press vote, he scored 1,630 points and clearly overtook the other two candidates to win the award – the most productive player of the basic part Connor McDavid from Edmonton (1111) and the goalkeeper Šestťorkin (738).
During the gala evening, Matthews also received the Ted Lindsay Award for the best player of the season according to the votes of the hockey players themselves. They also included him in the first All Star team of the NHL. No Toronto player and no US-born hockey player has scored sixty goals in the season before.
Thanks to him, Toronto also had the most successful season in terms of victories (balance 54-21-7) and points (115) in the history of the club. In the first round of the playoffs, he lost to Tampa Bay. The Productive Center was a candidate to win the Hart Trophy in the previous year as well, when they preferred the voters to McDavid.
In the Canadian scoring of the basic part, Matthews was in sixth place with 106 points, he was the highest in the statistics of shots on goal (348), fifth in the number of winning goals (10) and third in the number of powerlifting goals (16). He scored at least 34 goals in each of his six seasons in the profile, last year he won the scorer table with 41 as well. He is the second native from the USA with Hart’s trophy, the first was Patrick Kane from Chicago in the 2015/2016 season. He won the award as the third Toronto player in history and the first since 1955, when Ted Kenney received it.
In a vote by members of the NHL Players’ Association for the Ted Lindsay Award, Matthews ousted McDavid, a three-time winner of the 2017, 2018 and 2021 awards, as well as Nashville defender and captain Roman Josi.
For the first time in his career, Russian goalkeeper Šestťorkin was looking forward to winning the Vezin Trophy. Twenty-six-year-old NY Rangers had a score of 36-13-4 in 52 captured duels. With an average of 2.07 goals per match and a success rate of 93.5 percent, he achieved the best statistics in the league and brought the Rangers to the playoffs for the first time since 2017. With six shutouts, he was third in the league. Only Europeans fought for Vezin this year, except for the Six, the Swedes Jacob Markström of Calgary Flames and Finn Juuse Saros of Nashville were candidates.
“It means a lot to me. I didn’t think about this award when I came to the NHL. I didn’t catch it in the first preparatory game against the Islanders, but one little kid showed me my picture and it said, ‘For the future winner of the Vezina Trophy.’ I wonder why not? We have a good team. Everyone helped me a lot, it’s a team victory. “ said Sixorkin, who is the third Rangers goalkeeper with the award after John Vanbiesbrouck (1985/86) and Henrik Lundqvist (2011/12).
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Igor Shesterkin
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Twenty-three-year-old Makar is the first defender in the history of the Colorado Avalanche / Quebec Nordiques to win the Norris Trophy for the best defender of the profiliga. In the basic part, he was at the top of the quarterback table with 28 goals and with 86 points he was the second most productive among the defenders after Josim (96). He was third in the number of points in the power play (34) and in shots on goal (240) and in the number of winning goals (6) in the divided first position.
He also transferred great form to the playoffs and is fighting with Colorado in the finals to win the Stanley Cup. He received 1,631 votes and only narrowly overtook the winner of this 2020 award, Josi of Nashville (1606). Victor Hedman from Tampa Bay (940) finished third.
“I really appreciate it, but for me, the clear goal remains to win the Stanley Cup with Colorado. That’s why I have to turn the page over quickly and be ready for tomorrow.” said Makar, whose team leads the final in the playoffs over Tampa 2: 1 in matches. As the fifth player in history, Norrisa won in the first three full seasons of the NHL – ahead of Adam Fox, Erik Karlsson, Denis Potvin and Bobby Orr (twice).
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Cale Makar
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They chose the German defender Moritz Seider as the league’s best rookie. The 21-year-old Detroit player scored 50 points (7 + 43) in his premiere season and was the most productive quarterback among newcomers, with seven goals on the second place of the shooters behind the Slovak representative Martin Fehérváry from Washington.
He led the first-yearers with 21 power points, four winning goals and 187 shots on goal. Among the newcomers, he had the highest time on the ice (average 23:02 min) and was fourth overall in their points, reminded the official website of the competition. He defeated the attackers Trevor Zegras from Anaheim and Michael Bunting from Toronto in a vote. He is the sixth Detroit player with this prize, the first after goalkeeper Roger Crozier (1964/65).
“I am excited to share this moment with my loved ones and my agent, and I am very, very grateful for everything that has happened tonight,” Seider said during the awards ceremony. Fehérváry finished in the vote for the best rookie in a common 14th place with one point, in the vote for the All Star team of rookies he was among the defenders seventh with four points.
List of individual prices in the NHL for the season 2021/2022:
Hart Trophy (most useful player): winner: Auston Matthews (Toronto) 1630 (119-49-15-6-4), next ranking: 2. Connor McDavid (Edmonton) 1111 (29-66-56-20-19), 3. Igor Šestťorkin ( NY Rangers) 738 (24-26-41-29-24)
Norris Trophy (best defender): winner: Cale Makar (Colorado) 1631 (92-98-5-0-0), next ranking: 2. Roman Josi (Nashville) 1606 (98-76-17-3-0), 3. Victor Hedman ( Tampa Bay) 940 (4-14-142-30-2)
Vezina Trophy (best goalkeeper): winner: Igor Šestťorkin (NY Rangers) 154 (29-3-0), next ranking: 2. Jacob Markström (Calgary) 53 (0-14-11), 3. Juuse Saros (Nashville) 32 (0-9 -5)
Calder Trophy (best rookie): winner: Moritz Seider (Detroit) 1853 (170-18-3-4-0), next ranking: 2. Trevor Zegras (Anaheim) 1191 (15-100-57-18-2), 3. Michael Bunting ( Toronto) 877 (7-51-65-34-23)
Ted Lindsay Award (best player according to NHLPA members): winner: Auston Matthews (Toronto), other finalists: Connor McDavid (Edmonton), Roman Josi (Nashville)
(behind the player is the number of points and in parentheses the number of places in 1st to 5th place – note)
All Star team – first team: Igor Šestťorkin (NY Rangers) – Roman Josi (Nashville), Cale Makar (Colorado) – Mitchell Marner (Toronto), Auston Matthews (Toronto), Johnny Gaudreau (Calgary)
All Star team – second team: Jacob Markström (Calgary) – Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay), Charlie McAvoy (Boston) – Matthew Tkachuk (Calgary), Connor McDavid (Edmonton), Jonathan Huberdeau (Florida)
All Star rookie team: Jeremy Swayman (Boston) – Moritz Seider (Detroit), Alexandre Carrier (Nashville) – Lucas Raymond (Detroit), Trevor Zegras (Anaheim), Michael Bunting (Toronto)
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