Elias Pettersson is the first Canuck to ever be nominated for the Lady Byng Trophy
Published May 04, 2024 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 2 minute read
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A fourth Canuck is up for an NHL award.
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A day after his hard work along the boards helped set up the series-clinching goal for the Vancouver Canucks against the Nashville Predators Friday, Elias Pettersson is one of three finalists for the Lady Byng Trophy, the NHL announced Saturday.
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The Lady Byng is awarded to “to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability,” as voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.
Pettersson has been nominated alongside Carolina’s Jaccob Slavin and Toronto’s Auston Matthews.
This is the first time that a Canuck has been nominated for the Lady Byng. Pettersson was penalized just six times all season, while being the Canucks’ third-leading scorer and one of their top penalty killers.
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Pettersson scored 10 game-winning goals for the Canucks, fourth-best in the NHL; don’t forget the four-game stretch in January where he scored the winning goal in each game, a historic run that saw him one game short of tying the NHL’s century-old record for most consecutive games with the game-winning goal.
Among the NHL’s top 80 scorers, only Nashville’s Gustav Nyquist took fewer penalties than Pettersson.
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Matthews has been nominated twice before, in 2020 and 2021, while Slavin won the award in 2021 and was a finalist in 2022.
Slavin is considered one of the NHL’s smartest defensemen, who smartly uses his positioning and his stick to defend while rarely taking a penalty. Matthews led the league in goals this year — 69, the most by any player in a season since 1995-96 — while taking just 20 minutes in penalties, the lowest amount among the NHL’s top 15 scorers.
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