Posts About "Art Ross Trophy"
Art Ross Trophy | 5 Things You Didn't Know
March 9th, 2020 The Art Ross Trophy is awarded annually to the NHL's top scorer. While looking into this year's race we came across some unusual/little known facts: 1. Art Ross Was a Defenseman I had erroneously assumed that because the trophy that bears his name is for the league's top scorer, that Art Ross himself would have been a...
History of the Bear: How the Bruins came to "B"
November 4th, 2017 As many hockey fans, and Bruins fans in particular know, the Boston Bruins are the NHL's oldest American team. Over the last 91 years, the Bruins have gained a massive gathering, and have become one of the NHL's most beloved teams. In the rich sports region of New England, the Bruins are adored. For hockey fans across the region, winter...
Kane Leads Pursuit of Art Ross Rarities
March 12th, 2017 NHL teams are jockeying for playoff position as we enter the final month of the 2016-17 regular season. While the playoff race will receive most of the hockey world's attention, another fantastic race is quietly taking shape. Behold, the Art Ross Trophy. First awarded to Elmer Lach of the Montreal Canadiens in 1948, the Trophy has been...
Can Patrick Kane Repeat His Art Ross Season?
June 4th, 2016 There was a time in history when it seemed like the Art Ross Trophy would never leave the city of Chicago. Between the 1959-60 season and the 1967-68 season, it was a Blackhawk's player that won the honors for the NHL's top point scorer in the league in seven out of nine years. Bobby Hull took the honors in 1959-60, 1961-62, and again...
Saying Au Revoir to Martin St. Louis
July 2nd, 2015 Thursday marked the end of one of the best careers by an undrafted free agent in the National Hockey League as free agent Martin St. Louis decided it was time to hang up the skates. One of the smallest players in the game, St. Louis played the game passionately - allowing him to remain in the league for 16 seasons. In Tampa, he...
Recapping Jamie Benn's Unique Art Ross Season
June 24th, 2015 Benn's Point Total the Highest of the Lowest It was a sprint to the finish for a historically low scoring Art Ross Trophy race in the 2014-15 season, which saw Dallas Stars' captain Jamie Benn take home the honor with only 87 points. Benn's point total tied for the lowest scoring Art Ross Trophy winner in a non-lockout season in...
Why Was the Art Ross Won with so Few Points This Season?
May 12th, 2015 Since the 2005-06 NHL season, the Art Ross trophy, which is awarded to the NHL's top point getter, has never been captured with anything less than a 100 point season. The only slight exception to that stat is that Martin St. Louis won the award in the shortened season of 2012-13 with 60 points. This year's winner is the captain of...
Jamie Benn's 2014-15 NHL Highlight Reel
April 30th, 2015 There is no doubt that the Stars’ season improved in 2015. The team steamrolled Arizona 6-0 at home on New Year’s Eve, and demolished Minnesota 7-1 before Devan Dubnyk’s metamorphic trade. In the New Year, they also shutout their most staunch opponents, Chicago and Anaheim. Despite missing the playoffs, the Stars even topped their...
Remembering Elmer Lach
April 4th, 2015 Today we join the hockey world in mourning the death of legendary Canadiens centerman Elmer Lach. We extend our deepest condolences to the family of Mr. Lach in their time of grief. A key member of one of the most electrifying forward lines ever assembled, Lach played a hard-driving style of hockey that embraced those dirty areas...
Kenora Thistles Won the Stanley Cup On This Day in 1907
January 21st, 2015 Nestled on the Lake of the Woods in far northwestern Ontario, Kenora has a rich history that also includes hockey. This small city has recently celebrated the spoils of the Los Angeles Kings’ Stanley Cup victories in 2012 and 2014, when hometown player, Mike Richards, brought the trophy back in the summertime. In fact, when Richards...
Mario Lemieux's Greatest (On-Ice) Performance
January 27th, 2014 Looking back on a career highlighted by his notching of one of the most important markers in Canada's rich hockey history, two Stanley Cup championships and countless awards, many may find it difficult to pinpoint Mario Lemieux's crowning achievement on the ice. But, if one is searching for Super Mario's most remarkable...
A Penguin Fan's Wish List for the 2013-'14 Season
August 18th, 2013 As the excitement of the NHL Draft and buzz of the biggest free agent acquisitions disappear in the rearview mirror, the most diehard of hockey fans can only sit and wait as the season inches closer. Without any trades, transactions or, you know, actual games to discuss, the biggest hockey "stories" seem to center around alleged cases...
The Crosby Effect
August 5th, 2013 It was 2004. The Pittsburgh Penguins were atrocious, yet again. It had been three years straight of missing the playoffs and the team finished in dead last. The once prosperous team steer-headed by one of the most dominant players, Mario Lemieux, had fallen on hard times with a dwindling fanbase, piss-poor attendance, and a...
