He also won the Stanley Cup four times during his illustrious career. It always has and it always will.
King Clancy Memorial Trophy: Matt Dumba (MIN) Lady Byng Memorial Trophy: Nathan MacKinnon (COL) Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award: Mark Giordano (CGY) Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy: Alex Ovechkin (WSH) and David Pastrnak (BOS) William M. Jennings Trophy: Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak (BOS)
Winners of the NHL's Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, awarded annually to the league's highest goal scorer: 2016 -- Alex Ovechkin, Washington, 50 goals. "Don't get me wrong, I'm very proud of my accomplishments," he said.
2004 -- Rick Nash, Columbus, Ilya Kovalchuk, Atlanta, and Jarome Iginla, Calgary, 41 goals At that point I had something like seven goals on the year so I said, 'Yeah, you're probably right.' Everything else is not there.".
The League's all-time leader in goals (894), assists (1,963) and points (2,857) was voted the Hart Trophy winner nine times as the NHL's most valuable player, won the Art Ross Trophy 10 times for most points in a season, was voted the Conn Smythe Trophy winner twice as Stanley Cup Playoff MVP and won the Lester B. Pearson Award (now called the Ted Lindsay Award) five times as most outstanding player as judged by his peers. It was a gift from Maurice "Rocket" Richard, one Gretzky has cherished for more than two decades. Gretzky's trophy room would be clogged if he chose it to be.
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Bettman made it clear that for the purposes of “record keeping and NHL awards, the 2019-20 regular season has been deemed to be completed.” However, NHL Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr told ESPN that there has been no collectively bargained decision on where statistics from the new “qualification round” of the playoffs are going to be counted.
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