A few of the 2021-22 NHL awards have been handed out and the winners of the remaining major trophies will be revealed on Tuesday night in Tampa Bay.
During a one-hour show, the NHL will announce the winners for the following trophies: Hart, Calder, Norris, Vezina, and Ted Lindsay Award. The finalists for the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year will also be announced with the winner revealed during the 2022 NHL Draft on July 7-8.
The Pro Hockey Talk staff made our own votes before the Stanley Cup Playofs began for a collective ballot. Each place was given a numerical value with 10 points for first, 7 points for second, and 5 points for third.
Votes were submitted by PHT writers Sean Leahy, James O’Brien, and Adam Gretz, as well as Michael Finewax, Rotoworld Senior Hockey Writer/Editor, and Jake Abrahams, NBCSports.com Managing Editor of NHL content.
[2022 NHL Award winners: Jack Adams / Lady Byng / Masterton / Selke]
HART TROPHY (Awarded to the “player judged most valuable to his team.”)
Voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association
PHT BALLOT
1. Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs (39 pts.)
2. Igor Shesterkin, New York Rangers (37 pts.)
3. Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers (24 pts.)
4. Johnny Gaudreau, Calgary Flames (5 pts.)
Jonathan Huberdeau, Florida Panthers (5 pts.)
O’BRIEN: It’s agonizing to choose between Igor Shesterkin and Auston Matthews; I can totally understand someone excluding goalies from their ballots just to avoid the question. As great as Matthews was (blending brilliant offense with wildly underrated defense), Shesterkin put together the sort of goaltending season we only see every two decades or so. McDavid and everyone else are a distant third, which is saying something, because there were some truly special seasons beyond Matthews and Shesterkin.
ABRAHAMS: I went back and forth on Matthews and Shesterkin for my top selection. Ultimately I’m choosing Matthews for two reasons. First, the sheer rarity of what Matthews has done: 60 goals, with a goals/game average above 0.80 (he did not play a full 82 games). While others have scored 60 in this generation (Stamkos in 2011-12, Ovechkin in 2007-08), neither had a goals/game average that high because they played a full 82 games. The last time someone reached both markers (60 goals, 0.80 goals/game) was Mario Lemieux in 1995-96 (69 goals in 70 games). This is the best display of goal scoring we have seen in this era of hockey. And as far as Shesterkin goes, he…