Canadiens' Price wins Hart Trophy as NHL MVP

Wednesday, 06.24.2015 / 9:09 PM / 2015 NHL Awards

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Canadiens' Price wins Hart Trophy as NHL MVP
Goaltender Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens has won the Hart Memorial Trophy.

Goaltender Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens has won the Hart Memorial Trophy, awarded "to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team" as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.

Price was a runaway winner, receiving 139 first-place votes from the 157 ballots cast for 1,498 points. Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin, named on 150 ballots including eight first-place tallies, finished second in voting with 888 points, followed by New York Islanders center John Tavares (739).

Price captured his first career William M. Jennings Trophy as well as the sixth in Canadiens history to backstop the club to its best regular season since 1988-89. He led the NHL in wins (44), goals-against average (1.96) and save percentage (.933), becoming the first goaltender to pace the League in all three categories since Ed Belfour in 1990-91. In doing so, Price surpassed the franchise record for wins in one season (42), set by Jacques Plante in 1955-56 and equaled by Plante in 1961-62 and Ken Dryden in 1975-76. The first-time Hart Trophy finalist is the first goaltender to capture MVP honors since Montreal's Jose Theodore in 2002.

2014-2015 Hart Trophy Voting

Pts. (1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th)

1. Carey Price, MTL 1498 (139-14-2-0-0)

2. Alex Ovechkin, WSH 888 (8-75-45-18-4)

3. John Tavares, NYI 739 (4-41-63-27-16)

4. Devan Dubnyk, MIN 410 (6-16-25-30-23)

5. Sidney Crosby, PIT 138 (0-2-3-25-34)

6. Ryan Getzlaf, ANA 124 (0-2-6-20-20)

7. Rick Nash, NYR 70 (0-1-4-9-16)

8. Pekka Rinne, NSH 49 (0-2-4-4-3)

9. Erik Karlsson, OTT 32 (0-1-1-5-5)

10. Jonathan Toews, CHI 31 (0-1-3-2-3)

11. Steven Stamkos, TBL 29 (0-1-0-5-7)

12. Jamie Benn, DAL 23 (0-0-0-5-8)

13. Jiri Hudler, CGY 16 (0-1-0-3-0)

14. Vladimir Tarasenko, STL 14 (0-0-0-3-5)

15. Andrew Hammond, OTT 9 (0-0-0-1-6)

16. P.K. Subban, MTL 5 (0-0-1-0-0)

17. Drew Doughty, LAK 2 (0-0-0-0-2)

18. Dustin Byfuglien, WPG 1 (0-0-0-0-1)

Marc-Andre Fleury, PIT 1 (0-0-0-0-1)

Braden Holtby, WSH 1 (0-0-0-0-1)

Zach Parise, MIN 1 (0-0-0-0-1)

Shea Weber, NSH 1 (0-0-0-0-1)