While there were five awards handed out on Tuesday, there is still one more to be announced. That one is the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award. It’s voted on by all 32 NHL GMs as well as some NHL executives at the end of the second round. Not surprisingly, all three of the finalists, who were named during the NHL Awards show, were among the four to help lead their teams to the conference finals including Julien BriseBois of the Lightning, Chris Drury of the Rangers, and Joe Sakic of the Avalanche. Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello won the award a year ago. The winner for this won’t be announced until partway through the first round of the draft next month in Montreal.
More news from awards night:
- Following the televised portion of the awards, the league announced its All-Rookie team. Boston’s Jeremy Swayman was the goaltender, Nashville’s Alexandre Carrier and Detroit’s Moritz Seider were the defensemen, while Toronto’s Michael Bunting, Anaheim’s Trevor Zegras, and Detroit’s Lucas Raymond comprised the forward group. Seider was the only unanimous choice from the group.
- The NHL also announced its two All-Star teams. Igor Shesterkin (Rangers) was the goalie on the first team and was joined by Roman Josi (Predators), Cale Makar (Avalanche), Johnny Gaudreau (Flames), and Maple Leafs teammates Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner. Matthews, Gaudreau, and Shesterkin are on the top team for the first time while it was the second nod for the other three.
- The second All-Star team had a pair of Flames in goaltender Jacob Markstrom and winger Matthew Tkachuk. They were joined by defensemen Charlie McAvoy (Bruins) and Victor Hedman (Lightning), winger Jonathan Huberdeau (Panthers), and center Connor McDavid (Oilers).
Imagine having 123pts and making the 2nd all-star team….
Seriously that’s really embarrassing
Mario had 199 points and still didn’t win the Hart.
Gross
And never mind Steve Yzerman. I think it was 1997 when I opined in an editorial that Yzerman would retire as the greatest player never to be named an All-Star or to win a major trophy — not easy to get accolades being the third-best center to Gretzky and Lemieux — and it was only the next year that he got the Smythe.
Indeed.
It was Gretzky’s first year in LA. Mario could have had 299 points and Wayne would have still been given the Hart.
No Draisaitl? Anywhere? Really? Leon is as important to the Oilers as anyone. I actually believe he might be more important to the Oilers than CMD. A year or so ago when McDavid was injured for a while Draisaitl went off on his own. Drai is a more complete player than McDavid just not as electric.
And Matthews winning the Hart is a joke forced upon us by the east coast media. The leafs tend to do better without him according to their stats than with. Considering the trophy is awarded to the “player judged most valuable to his team” him winning is laughable.
Not saying he isn’t a great player, but most valuable to his team?
I am an American but McDavid and Draisaitl got screwed, The two best forwards on the planet basically shut out on awards night. WOW!
All Star team 1 should have been McDavid, Draisaitl, Matthews, Makar, Josi, Shesterkin.
Well better put MacKinnon on the best playoffs players list. Also Toews should get consideration on both
Fox should have been second team over McAvoy.
I suppose the voters felt that McAvoy’s greatly superior 5-on-5 defensive metrics (despite Fox playing in front of the runaway Vezina winner) and him having SIX TIMES as many hits as Fox did, mattered more than Fox having had more assists.