Time to celebrate the season that ended last week with the NHL Awards...
and yesterday night in Las Vegas it was Nikita Kucherov the star among the stars, honoured with the Hart Trophy, the League MVP prize...
among the other awards, Andrei Vasilevskiy won the Vezina Trophy (best Goalie), Mark Giordano won the Norris Trophy (best Defenseman), Elias Pettersson won the Calder Trophy (Rookie of the Year) and Barry Trotz won the Jack Adams Award (Coach of the Year)...
here are all the winners of all the 2018/2019 Awards...
https://www.nhl.com/fans/nhl-awards-event
At the same event, also the 2018/2019 NHL All-Star Team and the 2018/2019 NHL All-Rookie Team votes were disclosed...
the All-Star Team for this season is:
Goalie: Andrei Vasilevskiy
Defense: Mark Giordano & Brent Burns
Forwards: Connor McDavid (center), Alexandr Ovechkin (left wing), Nikita Kucherov (right wing)
Full voting results, here:
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-all-star-teams-announced-for-2018-19-season/c-307914356
meanwhile, the All-Rookie Team is:
Goalie: Jordan Binnington (who else? )
Defense: Rasmus Dahlin & Miro Heiskanen (that was easy, too)
Forwards: Elias Pettersson, Brady Tkachuk & Anthony Cirelli
Full voting results, here:
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-2018-19-all-rookie-team/c-307914766
Finally, a few rule changes for the next season have been approved...
here all the details...
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-expected-to-detail-rule-changes-from-competition-committee/c-307915432