Blackhawks’ Pat Maroon Nominated for 2025 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

The Chicago chapter of The Professional Hockey Writers Association has nominated Pat Maroon for the Masterton Trophy, given annually to the player who best embodies perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to the sport.

Maroon demonstrated strong leadership skills on a young Chicago Blackhawks team with his grittiness and hard work on the ice and as a mentor for the younger players off the ice.

The only Blackhawks to previously win the Masterton Trophy are Pit Martin (1970) and Bryan Berard (2004).

At the end of the regular season, the winner is selected by a poll of all PHWA chapters.

A grant from the PHWA is awarded annually to the Bill Masterton Scholarship Fund, based in Bloomington, Minnesota, in the name of the Masterton Trophy winner.

The trophy was presented by the NHL Writers’ Association in 1968 to commemorate the late Bill Masterton, a player for the Minnesota North Stars who exhibited, to a high degree, the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. Masterton died on Jan. 15, 1968, after an injury sustained during a game.

Maroon Retiring at End of Season

Maroon, who turns 37 this month, announced his retirement on March 22 in a pregame television interview before he and the Chicago Blackhawks played at his hometown St. Louis Blues. Maroon helped the Blues win their first championship in franchise history in 2019. He then joined the Tampa Bay Lightning and won back-to-back championships in 2020 and 2021.

Maroon has played 1,002 regular-season and playoff games with the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, Blues, Minnesota Wild, Boston Bruins, and Blackhawks after getting drafted in the sixth round in 2007 by the Philadelphia Flyers.

Maroon became the fourth player in NHL history and first since 1964 to win the Cup three years in a row with two different teams. It was not a coincidence that he revealed that he’s calling it a career while in St. Louis with his family in attendance.