Next to the Stanley Cup, the Hart Memorial Trophy is perhaps the next most prestigious award that a NHL player can attain.
Originally known as the Hart Trophy, the "oldest and most prestigious individual award in hockey" is awarded to the player who is deemed most valuable to their team. The Hart Trophy has been awarded 85 times to 52 different players since its beginnings in 1924. The winner is chosen by members on the Professional Hockey Writers Association, who vote to determine which player in the league was the most valuable to their team during the regular season.
The trophy is named after Canadian Doctor David Hart. Dr. Hart was the father of Cecil Hart, a former Coach and General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens hockey club. The trophy was first awarded at the end of the 1923-24 NHL season to Frank Nighbor of the Ottawa Senators. The original Hart Trophy was subsequently retired and placed in the NHL Hall of Fame in 1960. The following season, the NHL began presenting a new trophy which was dubbed the Hart Memorial Trophy. Of all 52 recipients, only three have never been inducted into the hall of fame.
The voting is conducted at the end of the season, after the regular season and the playoffs have finished. Each individual voter from the Professional Hockey Writers Association ranks their top five candidates on a 10-7-5-3-1 points system. Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL awards ceremony after the Stanley Cup has been claimed and the season is over.
There has been only one occurrence of a tie by the voters, after the 2000-01 season was completed. Players Jerome Iginla and Jose Theodore were tied in votes and the method of determining the winner was to count which player had the most first place votes. Theodore finished with 86 first place votes, as opposed to Iginla's 82, and was awarded the trophy.
Wayne Gretzky won the award on nine different occasions during his esteemed career in the NHL, eight of which were consecutive. He has been named most valuable player more than any player in any of the other three major North American sports leagues (National Foot Ball League, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association). Gretzky and his Edmonton Oiler teammate Mark Messier are the only players to have won the Hart Trophy with more than one team (Gretzky won it with the Los Angeles Kings and Messier with the New York Rangers). In 1990, after having captained the Edmonton Oilers to their first post-Gretzky Stanley Cup, Messier was awarded the Hart, in a narrow victory over Boston's Ray Bourque, with the vote coming down to a single first place vote to determine the winner.
Players from the Montreal Canadiens have won the award sixteen times; players from Boston Bruins are second with twelve winners, and the Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers have both seen players win the award nine times. In 2005-06, the Hart was awarded to Joe Thornton, who thus earned the distinction of being the only player to win the trophy while playing for two different teams in the same season (Thornton was traded from Boston to San Jose in November of 2005).
The history of the Hart trophy is not without a bit of controversy either. In 2008, the official website of the league, NHL.com, accidentally revealed the 2008 Hart Trophy winner a week before the annual NHL awards announcement of the winner. The official online merchandise store came under criticism after they began selling a t-shirt with Alexander Ovechkin advertised as the winner of the Hart Trophy for the 2008 season. After an official announcement to explain the gaffe, the winner was indeed revealed to be Ovechkin.
The current holder of the Hart Trophy is Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks.
Originally known as the Hart Trophy, the "oldest and most prestigious individual award in hockey" is awarded to the player who is deemed most valuable to their team. The Hart Trophy has been awarded 85 times to 52 different players since its beginnings in 1924. The winner is chosen by members on the Professional Hockey Writers Association, who vote to determine which player in the league was the most valuable to their team during the regular season.
The trophy is named after Canadian Doctor David Hart. Dr. Hart was the father of Cecil Hart, a former Coach and General Manager of the Montreal Canadiens hockey club. The trophy was first awarded at the end of the 1923-24 NHL season to Frank Nighbor of the Ottawa Senators. The original Hart Trophy was subsequently retired and placed in the NHL Hall of Fame in 1960. The following season, the NHL began presenting a new trophy which was dubbed the Hart Memorial Trophy. Of all 52 recipients, only three have never been inducted into the hall of fame.
The voting is conducted at the end of the season, after the regular season and the playoffs have finished. Each individual voter from the Professional Hockey Writers Association ranks their top five candidates on a 10-7-5-3-1 points system. Three finalists are named and the trophy is awarded at the NHL awards ceremony after the Stanley Cup has been claimed and the season is over.
There has been only one occurrence of a tie by the voters, after the 2000-01 season was completed. Players Jerome Iginla and Jose Theodore were tied in votes and the method of determining the winner was to count which player had the most first place votes. Theodore finished with 86 first place votes, as opposed to Iginla's 82, and was awarded the trophy.
Wayne Gretzky won the award on nine different occasions during his esteemed career in the NHL, eight of which were consecutive. He has been named most valuable player more than any player in any of the other three major North American sports leagues (National Foot Ball League, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association). Gretzky and his Edmonton Oiler teammate Mark Messier are the only players to have won the Hart Trophy with more than one team (Gretzky won it with the Los Angeles Kings and Messier with the New York Rangers). In 1990, after having captained the Edmonton Oilers to their first post-Gretzky Stanley Cup, Messier was awarded the Hart, in a narrow victory over Boston's Ray Bourque, with the vote coming down to a single first place vote to determine the winner.
Players from the Montreal Canadiens have won the award sixteen times; players from Boston Bruins are second with twelve winners, and the Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers have both seen players win the award nine times. In 2005-06, the Hart was awarded to Joe Thornton, who thus earned the distinction of being the only player to win the trophy while playing for two different teams in the same season (Thornton was traded from Boston to San Jose in November of 2005).
The history of the Hart trophy is not without a bit of controversy either. In 2008, the official website of the league, NHL.com, accidentally revealed the 2008 Hart Trophy winner a week before the annual NHL awards announcement of the winner. The official online merchandise store came under criticism after they began selling a t-shirt with Alexander Ovechkin advertised as the winner of the Hart Trophy for the 2008 season. After an official announcement to explain the gaffe, the winner was indeed revealed to be Ovechkin.
The current holder of the Hart Trophy is Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks.
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