NHL Awards

[SarahAnn]

TORONTO — Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin, the biggest individual story of the 2007-2008 season, also was the star of Thursday night's National Hockey League Awards Show at the Elgin Theater.

Ovechkin, who scored a League-high 65 goals and 112 points to claim both the Art Ross and Rocket Richard trophies, kicked off Thursday's show by winning the Lester B. Pearson Award as the League MVP as voted by the players.

After being presented his Ross and Richard trophies midway through the show, he closed the night by claiming the Hart Trophy as MVP as voted by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association. He beat out Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin and Calgary's Jarome Iginla...

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Only 2 winners surprised me, those being Martin Brodeur for Vezina (I thought Nabakov should have got it) and Bruce Boudreau (I thought Guy Carbonneau would win, but thought Boudreau deserved it.)

Anyways, Congratulations to all the nominees for having great seasons.
Sadly this only brings hockey fans one step closer to the great wait that follows free agency week.

 

[Dolfan32323]

Ovechkin had an absolutely amazing season... guy is like a rocket on skates.