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Aleksander Barkov Wins 2024 Selke Trophy

May 18, 2024 at 7:25 pm CDT | by Brennan McClain 3 Comments

Continuing on with the slow drip of announcing award winners from the 2023-24 regular season, the National Hockey League has announced this year’s winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy, given to the player who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game. The league announced this year’s winner as captain of the Florida Panthers, Aleksander Barkov, who will win the award for the second time in his career.

Barkov, who last won the award over the 2020-21 season, will end the two-year run of former Boston Bruins captain, Patrice Bergeron. Now earning his second Selke Trophy victory, Barkov is tied with the captain of the Los Angeles Kings, Anze Kopitar, with the most Selke Trophies among active players.

There is little doubt about Barkov’s case for the win, as he has regularly been one of the league’s top defensive forwards for the last several years. This season in particular, Barkov finished with a +33 rating, a +31 takeaway-to-giveaway ratio, and kept the puck in the offensive zone 46.3% of the time at even strength, putting him in the 97th percentile in the NHL.

Although being an individual award, Barkov’s defensive capabilities are certainly boosted by the rest of his teammates on the Panthers roster, as they tied for first in the league this season with 2.41 GA/G. Not only did Barkov help Florida excel at limiting goals against, but the team finished with the third-fewest shots against, as well as sustaining the league’s sixth-best penalty kill.

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  1. User 517680827

    1 year ago

    Conn Smythe next? Somehow after all these yrs he’s STILL underrated by some. The writers at nhl.com were asked last month what player on each team had best chance of winning a major award. The writer TG wrote Panthers best shot was Reinhart for the Selke. Lol

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  2. Red Wings

    1 year ago

    Probably the best overall player in the NHL.

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  3. aka.nda

    1 year ago

    Well deserved.

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