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The last time an NHL goaltender won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league’s most valuable player and the Vezina Trophy as its top netminder in the same season, the year was 2015. And the winner that season was likely Hockey Hall-of-Famer Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens. However, Winnipeg Jets star goalie Connor Hellebuyck became the fifth and latest goaltender to do so, taking home the 2024-25 Hart and Vezina Trophies Thursday night.

The 32-year-old Hellebuyck was far and away the league’s best goalie this year. He appeared in 63 games for the Jets this year, posting a 2.00 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage. The Vezina win was the second consecutive honor for Hellebuyck, and the third of his nine-year NHL career. Hellebuyck put up a 47-12-3 record this season, becoming the seventh NHL goalie in league history to generate 45 wins or more, and the first goalie to do it since Washington Capitals netminder Braden Holtby did so in 2015-16.

Certainly, Hellebuyck’s post-season numbers weren’t nearly as dominant. He went 6-7 in 13 playoff games, generating a 3.08 GAA and an .866 SP. But no one could deny he was the league’s premier netminder through the regular season. Fellow Vezina finalists Darcy Kuemper of the Los Angeles Kings and Tampa Bay Lightning star Andrei Vasilevskiy also had solid seasons, but neither could compare to Hellebuyck. 

The bigger honor, obviously, is the Hart. Only seven other goalies in league history have won the MVP award, and Hellebuyck had to beat out finalists Leon Draisailt of the Edmonton Oilers and Nikita Kucherov of the Lightning. While these two players had amazing seasons in their own right, it’s hard to deny that Hellebuyck was extremely valuable to the Jets winning the NHL’s Presidents’ Trophy as the league’s top regular-season team. That’s the definition of the Hart award, and Hellebuyck is a deserving recipient.

With his third Vezina, Hellebuyck joins NHL legends Dominik Hasek, Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur as the only goaltenders to win the best goalie award at least three times since the league altered the Vezina voting process prior to the 1981-82 campaign. Hasek won the Vezina six times, Brodeur won it four, and Roy won it three. So Hellebuyck still has plenty of time to climb up that list. And there’s no good reason why he can’t do it.

Obviously, Hellebuyck wants more playoff success than he wants regular-season success at this point in his career. He’s signed to a contract that still has six seasons left at a relatively reasonable average annual value of $8.5 million. If he’d wanted to, he could’ve left Winnipeg and signed with a different team for considerably more money. But the Jets are still one of the most competitive teams in the league, and Hellebuyck is bound to get another chance at winning in the post-season next year.

For the interim, though, he’ll have to be content with being recognized as hockey’s pre-eminent goalie, the NHL’s most valuable player and an icon-in-the-making. Hellebuyck did everything the Jets asked of him this season, and the results he delivered earned him a special combination of awards few hockey players ever achieve.

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Every time a new NHL coach is hired, we hear about how he’s a perfect fit.

When Marco Sturm was introduced as the 30th coach in Boston Bruins history on Tuesday, he also made it clear that Boston was the right fit for him.

“I didn't want to take my first opportunity and just go for it,” Sturm said. “No, I wanted to be prepared. And yes, I always wanted to come back here, obviously, but I think the timing of it was just perfect, right? Selfishly, I'm glad the Bruins didn't play well last year, because otherwise I wouldn't be here. Let’s be honest.”

That’s pretty candid, especially for a first-time NHL bench boss. 

Sturm’s 302 games played with the Bruins between 2005 and 2010 are a strong sell for the fan base. Here’s a guy who had boots on the ground as Boston transformed from a non-playoff team into a Stanley Cup champion. He skated alongside franchise legends Zdeno Chara and Patrice Bergeron, and Bergeron was on hand at Tuesday’s presser to show his support.

While the new coach talked about how excited his two kids – now young adults – are excited that the family will once again have a home base back in Boston, he has to feel good about the success rate of the coaches that have preceded him.

Look past Joe Sacco, who was strictly an interim placeholder last season. Here’s what you’ve got:

• Jim Montgomery, 2022 to 2024: 2023 Jack Adams Winner, .652 points percentage
• Bruce Cassidy, 2017 to 2022: 2020 Jack Adams Winner, 2023 Stanley Cup champ (with the Vegas Golden Knights), .672 points percentage
• Claude Julien, 2007 to 2017: 2009 Jack Adams Winner, 2011 Stanley Cup champ (Boston Bruins), .614 points percentage

The Bruins are far from perfect, but they’ve put their coaches in positions to succeed for the better part of the last two decades.  

With a new two-year contract extension in hand that will take him through the 2027-28 season, GM Don Sweeney said Tuesday the conversations he held with his large field of 14 head-coaching candidates helped illuminate his club’s shortcomings.

“It can be uncomfortable, in terms of the critical eye that other people are watching your team and breaking down your team and the changes they want to make,” he told reporters. “You have to understand that the position we're in, we didn't execute both at the management level and the coaching level and the player level. So we have to be open to that and the tweaks that coaches want to make.”

The Bruins are going into the Sturm era without a captain in place, after Brad Marchand’s shocking deal at the trade deadline. David Pastrnak and Charlie McAvoy have worn the A’s for the last two seasons and, as Sturm pointed out Tuesday, are homegrown players who started their careers during the Chara and Bergeron era. 

Having McAvoy back on the blueline following his shoulder injury will be helpful. And at 31, Hampus Lindholm should have plenty of tread left on his tires after he missed the last 65 games of the season due to a knee injury that required surgery. 

While Jeremy Swayman’s unsettled contract situation cast a large black cloud on the Bruins heading into last season, his vibes should be much better after he wrapped up his year with a gold medal for Team USA at the IIHF World Championship last month, giving up just 12 goals in seven games and shutting out Switzerland in the gold medal game. On that team, U.S. right winger Conor Garland also called Bruins D-man Andrew Peeke “so underrated at how hard he played and how strong he was” on a shutdown pair with Brady Skjei.

After they were signed to a couple of the biggest contracts in 2024 free agency, Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov struggled to live up to expectations last season. 

For the second straight year, Pastrnak shone at the Worlds – this time leading the tournament with 15 points and earning best-forward honors. Lindholm was right behind, finishing second with 14 points and joining Pastrnak on the tournament all-star team.

Ever so slowly, the door is cracking open for European coaches to work in the NHL. Sturm’s 938-game playing career certainly gave him name recognition and relationships to build off, but the World Championship stage was where he began to make his name as a coach nearly a decade ago. 

In three seasons at the helm of his native Team Germany, Sturm helped move his national team from an also-ran into a perpetual playoff-round participant as one of the world’s top eight hockey nations.

Then, after helping the Germans win their surprise silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Sturm shifted his attention back to North America. Leaving his family behind to join the Los Angeles Kings organization in the fall of 2018, he gained experience as an assistant for three-plus years, then ran the bench of the AHL Ontario Reign for the last three seasons.

“Learning from, especially, from a guy like Todd McLellan, for me, he was the perfect fit – the perfect coach to learn from,” Sturm said. “Sometimes I say, ‘Yeah, now I'm ready,’ or you can hear ‘Marco’s ready,’ but I probably knew the on-the-ice stuff, right? I knew it as a player, a coach. I've seen a lot, and now, getting a lot of information from Todd and how he runs it, how he prepares. That's something I think I wanted to get better at, and I needed someone, I would say, to guide me through it.”

Because they’ve been chasing the Cup for more than a decade, Boston’s prospect pool is thin. But 2019 first-rounder and 2020 second-rounder Mason Lohrei established themselves as regulars last season, and there will be roster space available if any or all of Matthew Poitras, Fraser Minten or Fabian Lysell step up at training camp this fall.

The Bruins also hold the seventh-overall pick in the 2025 draft, their first top-10 selection since they took Dougie Hamilton at No. 9 in 2011. And according to PuckPedia, they’ve got more than $28 million in available cap space this summer, though they will need to take care of some young players. Morgan Geekie, Jakub Lauko, Marat Khusnutdinov, Beecher and Lohrei are all RFAs with arbitration rights. 

When Sturm arrived in Boston in 2005 as one of the key assets coming back in the Joe Thornton trade, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight for the fan base. 

“It was not my fault,” he said. “But I got here and I'm not going to lie, it was difficult because everyone loved Joe.”

Twenty years later, he’ll play a new role while trying to calm today’s choppy waters and guide a similar rise.

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Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar is the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy winner for the third time.

The Professional Hockey Writers Association voted Kopitar as the "player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability." The voters chose their top five players.

Kopitar won with 856 voting points, including 50 first-place votes. Tampa Bay Lightning center Brayden Point finished second with 793 points, including 27 first-place votes and 43 second-place votes. Although Vegas Golden Knights center Jack Eichel had 34 first-place votes and 26 second-place votes, he finished third with 782 voting points.

A total of 62 players received at least one vote. The others who received at least one first-place vote are Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin, Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki, Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar, Minnesota Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, Toronto Maple Leafs right winger Mitch Marner, St. Louis Blues defenseman Colton Parayko, Ottawa Senators defenseman Jake Sanderson, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin and Columbus Blue Jackets right winger Kirill Marchenko.

Kopitar is the third NHL player this century to win the Lady Byng Trophy three times, following four-time winner Pavel Datsyuk and three-time winner Martin St-Louis.

The 37-year-old center from Slovenia finished second on the Kings in scoring this season, with 67 points in 81 games. He averaged 18:57 of ice time and logged only four penalty minutes, the fewest among 527 skaters who played at least 55 games this season.

Kopitar received the Lady Byng Trophy during a family match at the Royal Bled Golf Course in Slovenia with his father, Matjaz, and two children, Jakob and Neza. His wife, Ines, helped with the surprise. The day before, the children made drawings of the trophy by looking at a replica.

After finishing a putt on the ninth hole, Jakob and Neza walked up to their dad and handed him the drawings. They then went to get the replica trophy together and handed it off to Kopitar.

"You won the award for the nicest NHL player," Neza said.

Ines Kopitar and Anze's parents, Mateja and Matjaz, then came to embrace the Lady Byng winner.

"I thought it was just going to be a friendly 10 holes of family golf and then a little bit of lunch, so this was a very pleasant surprise when I guess the kids brought it out on the ninth green," Kopitar said.

"Hockey is a physical sport, but within those parameters, I think there's obviously room (to be) a gentleman, a good guy," he added. "Having respect toward your peers, toward the officials, just carry yourself in a way to where kids look at you, young kids look at you, what you do on the ice."

At 6 p.m. ET on Thursday, the NHL will reveal the winners of the Hart Trophy and Vezina Trophy in a one-hour award show before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final.

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Rasmus Andersson's future with the Calgary Flames remains a point of interest in the NHL rumor mill.

The 28-year-old defenseman is a year away from UFA eligibility and will likely seek a significant raise over his current average annual value of $4.55 million.

Following the end of the Flames' regular season, GM Craig Conroy indicated his willingness to meet with the Andersson camp to discuss a contract extension. Daily Faceoff's Frank Seravalli reports the two sides are expected to make their initial proposals this week. 

Andersson was recently mentioned as a possible trade target for the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators. The Sabres are in the market for an experienced right-shot defenseman to pair with Owen Power, while the Senators seek a replacement for the sidelined Nick Jensen. However, the Senators are reportedly on his six-team no-trade list. 

On June 9, Seravalli speculated over the likelihood of Andersson getting moved before the upcoming NHL draft. He thinks the Flames realize the blueliner will be “too expensive and too long-term for their liking,” but suggested it might be to their advantage to wait until the trade deadline, when his value could be higher. 

Meanwhile, Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic reported the Flames and Vancouver Canucks are among the teams interested in Marco Rossi. Seravalli thinks Rossi of the Minnesota Wild could be a good fit among Calgary's core of young players. 

LeBrun believes the Canucks are more intrigued than the Flames, who'd prefer a center with size. Conroy has also mentioned that he wants a right-shot center, whereas Rossi is left-handed.

The Flames and Canucks aren't the only clubs in the market for a center this summer. 

Jeremy Rutherford of The Athletic reports that depth at center is a priority for the St. Louis Blues in this off-season. He cited GM Doug Armstrong's comments during his club's end-of-season media availability, indicating they would be seeking a “200-foot offensive player,” someone who can put up points and play a responsible defensive game. 

Rutherford doesn't see Armstrong getting into the bidding for a two-way winger like Mitch Marner or a center like Sam Bennett. However, The Hockey News’ Lou Korac believes Bennett would be a good fit with the Blues, provided they don't overpay for his services. 

Korac suggested a seven-year, $49-million contract for Bennett ($7 million average annual value) if the 28-year-old Florida Panthers center becomes available on July 1. If he does hit the open market, however, Bennett will likely command much more than that.

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For a few years now, the issue of NHL teams and their tax situation has been debated by pundits and NHL executives.

As the Florida Panthers are two wins away from defending their Stanley Cup championship, it’s been hard to ignore that they, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Vegas Golden Knights and even the Colorado Avalanche have won it all in recent years while having some of the lowest taxes of any NHL team.

In January, San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier said he saw both sides of the tax issue, but that he also would hypothetically support a tax equalization plan. 

Another proponent of such a plan is TNT analyst and former NHL player Paul Bissonnette, who has repeatedly said he wants the league to address the issue. 

This week, Bissonnette took his grumbling to the NHL commissioner himself, Gary Bettman, in an NHL on TNT interview at the Stanley Cup final. But Bettman deftly counterargued, and if we’re being honest, we have to say he did a solid job of speaking against any type of plan to deal with tax inequalities from team to team.

“It’s a ridiculous issue,” Bettman said. “When the Florida teams weren’t good, which was for about 17 years, nobody said anything about it. For those of you who played, were you sitting there at the tax table? No, you wanted to go to a good organization in a place where you wanted to live, where you wanted to raise your kids and send them to school. You wanted to play in a first-class arena with a first-class training facility, with an owner, an organization, a GM, and a coach that you were comfortable with. And you wanted to have good teammates so you would have a shot at winning. That’s what motivates it.

“Could it be a little bit of a factor if everything else were equal? I suppose, but that is not it. By the way, state taxes are high in Los Angeles, high in New York. What are we going to do? Subsidize those teams?”

Now, let’s be clear – we do see the no-tax states having an advantage, so we’re not prepared to agree with Bettman that this issue is “ridiculous.” But after interviewing NHL Players’ Association executive director Marty Walsh in November, and after hearing Bettman’s response to Bissonnette, our position has evolved. 

In this instance, we have to give Bettman credit. Part of his job as commissioner is making good arguments for the league’s decisions. And in this case, he did just that. And as Walsh said, finding the type of mechanism to level out the league’s tax situations is next to impossible.

If No-Tax Teams Have An Advantage, It's That They're Run By Very Smart PeopleFunny, no one really heard about the tax advantage that the Florida Panthers supposedly have when they plucked Gustav Forsling off waivers five years ago because nobody else wanted him.

But here’s where our philosophy has evolved: there are other scenarios where some teams would have an advantage, and you don’t see teams crying out for new labor deal elements to address them. 

For instance, the weak Canadian dollar might be seen as an issue to Canadian team owners, but if you really think about it, it might be spun as a selling point to free agents and players considering being dealt to Canada. 

After all, if you’re making American money as all players do, and you’re playing in a Canadian market, your cost of living is far better than it would be if you were in an American market. Let’s say you’re getting $1.33 Cdn. for every American dollar – wouldn’t that be a huge win for you as a player? Your money would be improved by one-third if you’re in a Canadian market. So why aren’t Canadian teams selling that angle?

We want the playing field to be as level as possible while also being fair to teams that are more successful than others. That’s why we still believe a luxury tax would be a great solution for the NHL, the same way it is in the NBA. But clearly, the league prefers its hard salary cap, and that’s not likely to change, even with a new collective bargaining agreement coming up in the next year. That’s just the reality of the situation.

Hockey & Taxes: What An NHL Player Pays In Taxes Depending On Their TeamNHL players must deal with two certainties: the eventual death of their career and the taxes they will pay during it. We calculated the taxes they will pay.

As Walsh told THN.com, there are many variables at play with taxes, and as Bettman noted, the bigger factors in players’ decisions on where to play probably have more to do with how well teams are managed and how competitive their rosters are. So you can see why there’s consensus between the league and players in this regard.

Bissonnette was within his rights to raise the topic in front of Bettman, but the commissioner held his own on this front and more or less ended the debate for now. It may come up again down the road, but anyone holding their breath for a change anytime soon need all the luck they can get.

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Could Paul Maurice Become The Best NHL Coach Not Named Scotty Bowman? by The Wraparoundundefined

Here's what Emma Lingan and Michael Augello discussed in this episode:

0:00: Could Paul Maurice go down as the best NHL coach not named Scotty Bowman?

3:45: Breaking down Game 3 between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers

8:29 Was hiring Derek Lalonde a smart move for the Toronto Maple Leafs?

10:42 Should the Ottawa Senators consider trading Drake Batherson?

13:00 Breaking down Spencer Carbery’s Jack Adams victory with the Washington Capitals

16:21 Reflecting on the standout performers of the 2025 NHL draft combine

19:55 Could we see a top-five draft pick be traded this season?

22:17 Will Marco Rossi be traded by the Minnesota Wild?

26:20 Can the New York Rangers afford to move on from K’Andre Miller?

28:50 Exploring the impact of the PWHL expansion draft

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Playoff fact: You almost always win Stanley Cups on the strength of the play of your star players.

Also playoff fact: You also win Stanley Cups when your depth players are difference-makers as well.

The Florida Panthers choked off the head of the snake so well in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final that the Edmonton Oilers' duo of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl was limited to two shot attempts. That might be difficult for the Panthers to repeat, but with home-ice advantage and the last change, they'll have the opportunity to get the players they want out on the ice against the Oilers' stars.

Aleksander Barkov, Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Reinhart aren't exactly lighting the world on fire themselves, but the likes Brad Marchand, Sam Bennett, Anton Lundell and Nate Schmidt have been lights-out.

It's time for the likes of Evander Kane, Connor Brown, Viktor Arvidsson and John Klingberg to do the same.

Watch today's video column for more, and share your thoughts.

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The Athletic's James Mirtle generated some buzz earlier this week, reporting the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vegas Golden Knights discussed a three-team blockbuster with the Carolina Hurricanes that would've sent Mitch Marner to Vegas before the March trade deadline.  

Following the deadline, it was reported that the Leafs and Hurricanes talked about a swap of Marner for Mikko Rantanen, but Marner declined to waive his no-movement clause. The Hurricanes instead shipped Rantanen to the Dallas Stars at the deadline.

The Hockey News' Nick Barden wrote that Marner returning to the Leafs is possible, but it feels unlikely. That means many clubs could be getting ready to try to sign him.

Mirtle cited reports claiming the Golden Knights have been interested in Marner for a while, including trade talks last summer. They lack the cap space to sign the 28-year-old right winger if he goes to market on July 1, with a projected $9.6 million available with 18 active roster players under contract. 

Mirtle suggested they could free up room by trading William Karlsson, but Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported sources around the league believe he's not available. Meanwhile, Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sunreported there are some around the league who believe defenseman Alex Pietrangelo ($8.8-million cap hit) could end up on long-term injured reserve for the remaining two years of his contract.

If Pietrangelo goes on LTIR, it would give Vegas over $18 million in wiggle room to pursue Marner. However, there's no confirmation that the veteran blueliner's playing days are over.

Meanwhile, Nick Kypreos of the Toronto Starclaimed Nicolas Hague could become a cost-cutting candidate for the Golden Knights. He's an RFA with arbitration rights this summer and is a year from UFA eligibility. The 26-year-old defenseman completed a three-year deal with an average annual value of $2.294 million. 

Kypreos claimed the Montreal Canadiens and Pittsburgh Penguins were “hot on the trail” for the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Hague. However, Marc Dumont of Montreal Hockey Now doesn't think he moves the needle for the Canadiens.

The Golden Knights could move Hague if unable to reach an agreement on a long-term deal. However, if Pietrangelo's career could be over, they might want to hang onto him rather than further deplete their blueline depth. 

Meanwhile, the Marco Rossi trade speculation keeps rolling along. Contract talks between the 23-year-old RFA center and the Minnesota Wild are reportedly stalled, raising the possibility he'll become an offer-sheet target if the Wild don't sign or trade him before July 1. 

NESN's Jay Pritchard thinks the Boston Bruins should consider acquiring Rossi, who is coming off a 60-point season. He believes his youth, skill and upside would make him a good fit with the Bruins. 

Bruins GM Don Sweeney could be watching the Rossi situation. He has over $26 million in cap space next season with 14 active roster players under contract. 

Rossi reportedly seeks a seven-year deal worth $7 million annually. That would be a significant investment for the Bruins on a promising player from another club who has not yet fully established himself as a top-six center.

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Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar is the 2024-25 Norris Trophy winner, the NHL announced on Wednesday.

The voting results were heavily one-sided in Makar’s favor. The Avs' blueliner earned 176 first-place votes and accumulated 1,861 voting points. He had 595 more voting points than Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski, the first runner-up.

Only three blueliners received first-place votes by the Professional Hockey Writers Association: Makar, Werenski (13) and Vancouver Canucks captain Quinn Hughes (2).

Hughes was the defending champion of the award but was injured for part of this season, hindering his chances of being the first player to win the award in two consecutive seasons since Niklas Lidstrom in 2008.

The 26-year-old was surprised with the trophy during a round of golf with his friends in Calgary, his hometown. After playing 11 rounds, the group stopped at Makar’s parents’ home, where they were waiting for him with the Norris.

Makar finished the regular season with 30 goals and 92 points, a career high in both categories. He’s also the first defenseman to finish in the top 10 of the NHL’s point leaders since Brent Burns with the San Jose Sharks in 2016-17. Burns had 29 goals and 76 points in that campaign.

The Colorado blueliner finished second on the team in points and goals behind Nathan MacKinnon’s 116 points and 32 tallies in the regular season.

A second Norris Trophy adds to what is already an impressive career with all the silverware Makar has brought home over the years. In addition to being the defenseman of the year twice, he also has a Calder Trophy, a Conn Smythe and a Stanley Cup. He has earned all these honors before turning 27 years old.

A few other D-men received second-place votes, including Winnipeg Jets’ Josh Morrissey with five votes. The Tampa Bay Lightning’s Victor Hedman and Dallas Stars’ Thomas Harley received one second-place vote each.

Calder Trophy winner and Montreal Canadiens rookie Lane Hutson appeared on this list. He earned 42 points, finishing ninth in the vote. He finished higher than Jake Sanderson, Evan Bouchard and former Norris Trophy winner Adam Fox.

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