Here’s the latest I can share about the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.
- The trophy honors perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey, and finalists or winners are typically announced by the NHL or PHWA close to the end of the regular season or after the playoffs.[3][8]
- For the 2024-25 season, reports indicated finalists were Marc-Andre Fleury (Minnesota Wild), Gabriel Landeskog (Colorado Avalanche), and Sean Monahan (Columbus Blue Jackets), with the winner announced in a post-season reveal.[1][3]
- Recent public references show the trophy has continued to be awarded annually since its inception in 1968, with announcements tied to NHL Awards events or surprise video reveals.[4][7]
If you’d like, I can pull the very latest official winner or finalists from NHL.com or the Professional Hockey Writers Association and summarize them with citations. I can also set up a quick timeline of past winners for context.
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The Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey. The winner is selected by a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association after each teams nominates one player in competition. It is often awarded to a player who has come back from career- or even life-threatening illness or injury. A player can win this trophy only once in his career. The trophy...
icehockey.fandom.comAwarded since 1968 to player best exemplifying perseverance, sportsmanship, dedication to hockey
www.nhl.comOttawa Senators forward Bobby Ryan was named the winner of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy as the NHL player who best exemplified perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey during the 2019-20 season.
bleacherreport.comThe trophy is awarded to a player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to the game. Masterton is the only player in NHL history to die as a direct result of an on-ice injury.
www.sportsnet.caThe Bill Masterton Trophy is awarded “to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.”
thehockeynews.comThe Stanley Cup Playoffs are closing in on the second round, meaning the league is slowly announcing the finalists for season awards. In their latest release of
www.si.comLehner, Thornton among those up for award for perseverance, sportsmanship, dedication
www.nhl.comInstead of revealing all the trophy winners in a single gala this season, the NHL has been doing surprise video reveals for specific trophies. On Monday, Aleksander Barkov was surprised with the Selke, and on Wednesday, it was Nikita Kucherov’s turn to be surprised with the Ted Lindsay Trophy. On Thursday, the league announced the winner of the Bill Masterton Trophy in a video that was both touching and memorable.
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