Best NHL Player ESPY Award

The Best NHL Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the National Hockey League player, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year, typically most significantly in the NHL season contested during or immediately prior to the holding of the ESPY Awards ceremony.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively "experts"; and retired sportspersons, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous [Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.] .

Winners

Canadian centers Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby and right wing Jarome Iginla and Czech goaltender Dominik Hasek are the only players to have been honored multiple times; Lemieux, having captured the award in 1993, 1994, and 1996, is the only three-time winner.

Of the seventeen awards conferred, just three have gone to players not from Canada (two to Hasek and one to countrymate right wing Jaromír Jágr), and just one has gone to a defenceman (that of 2001, to Canadian Chris Pronger).

ee also

*Hart Memorial Trophy
*Lester B. Pearson Award
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*National Hockey League awards
*Vezina Trophy

Notes

References

* [http://www.hickoksports.com/history/espyawrd.shtml#hockey Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com]