The Presidents' Trophy is an annual Canadian sports award presented to the most outstanding defensive player in U Sports football.The trophy was first presented in 1980 after having been championed by two past presidents of Canadian university sports bodies. And though curses remain all the rage, this all means nothing to this year's Bruins, of course. In addition, seven Presidents' Trophy winners have been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, with first-round upsets being co…
Goaltender Ray Emery became the first NHL goaltender to start a season with 10 straight wins (opening with a streak of 12), and together with Corey Crawford they allowed an NHL-low 102 goals during the season to earn the Jennings Trophy.The Hawks went on to win the Stanley Cup, just the eighth time in league history a Presidents' Trophy winner became NHL champions and the only time this decade.After dominating the Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs (winning in five games), the Canadiens offered a new challenge, one the Bruins couldn’t match.Boston’s season came to a crushing end in the second round of the playoffs, and the Bruins became another Presidents’ Trophy winner to fall short of glory.While their franchise-best 113 points were enough for the team’s third Presidents Trophy and eighth division title, the Rangers could not repeat their performance from the 1993-94 season, when they won both the Presidents' Trophy and Stanley Cup.New York made a decent playoff run, then succumbed to the Lightning in Game 7 of the conference finals.The good vibes didn't continue in the postseason as Washington got bounced early by Pittsburgh, but Trotz proved to his former team and any other naysayers that he was indeed an elite level coach.Barry Trotz and Alex Ovechkin had their shot at redemption and came up short.
Jeżeli dwie drużyny mają taką samą liczbę punktów to o przyznaniu nagrody decyduje wyższa liczba zwycięstw w sezonie zasadniczym. If two teams tie for the most points, then the trophy goes to the team with the most wins. If the regular-season champion's primary success was merely outscoring others, they may be out of luck facing goaltenders that can shut them out.The lack of playoff experience may have been to blame in the examples of the 1999–2000.Teams have often given up pursuit of finishing first in the League in order to avoid injuries and rest key players for the postseason.Ian Cooper, writing for the Toronto Star, noted that ".Jonathan Weiss, writing for the Bleacher Report in 2010, also noted that of the teams between 1982 and 2009 that led the League in points during the regular season, 12 of them (45 per cent) reached the Cup Finals, while of the other 405 teams during that same time period, only 42 (under 10 per cent) advanced to the final round.Only three times in the history of the Presidents' Trophy has a team missed the playoffs the season after winning the award: the New York Rangers, who won the Trophy in the 1991–92 seasons and missed the playoffs in 1992–93 (and then rebounded to win both the Presidents' Trophy and Stanley Cup in 1993–94); the Buffalo Sabres, who won the Trophy in the 2006–07 season and missed the playoffs in 2007–08; and the Boston Bruins, who won the Trophy in the 2013–14 season and missed the playoffs in 2014–15.Prior to 1926–27, the Stanley Cup was then awarded as a "World Series" trophy between the champions of the NHL and a rival league (first the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, then the Western Canada Hockey League).
Congratulations to Geoff Davis, winner of the 2019 Men’s President’s Trophy! Then, the Columbus Blue Jackets, the lowest-seeded team in the playoffs, swept the Lightning in the first round. Another Presidents' Trophy, another season over too soon.Four Penguins players reached 100 or more points, and five scored 30 or more goals. The Rangers also had depth, with five 30-goal scorers, and they weren't shut out in any of their 80 regular-season games.But all that talent could not bring home a Stanley Cup.