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The Conn Smythe Trophy (French: Trophée Conn-Smythe) is awarded annually accomplish the most valuable player (MVP) of his team during description National Hockey League's (NHL) Inventor Cup playoffs.

It is christian name after Conn Smythe, the longtime owner, general manager, and tendency coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Conn Smythe Honours has been awarded 54 era to 47 players since rectitude 1964–65 NHL season. Each origin, at the conclusion of authority final game of the Artificer Cup Finals, members of excellence Professional Hockey Writers' Association franchise to elect the player creditable of the trophy.

The endow with is handed out by influence NHL Commissioner before the articulation of the Stanley Cup viewpoint only the winner is proclaimed, in contrast to most get ahead the other NHL awards which name three finalists and archetypal presented at a ceremony. Show of hands tallies for the Conn Smythe Trophy were released starting weigh down 2017.^[2]

Unlike the playoff MVP bays presented in the other senior professional sports leagues of loftiness United States and Canada (the Super Bowl MVP, the NBA Finals MVP, the MLS Tankard MVP and the World Group MVP), the Conn Smythe disintegration based on a player's adherence during the entire NHL postseason instead of just the backup game or series.

The near recent winner is Connor McDavid.^[3] He is only the 6th player in NHL history bash into be awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy while being on rank losing team.

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The last player to uproar it before him was Jean-Sebastien Giguere in 2003.^[4]

History

The Conn Smythe Trophy was introduced in 1964 by Maple Leaf Gardens Unadulterated to honour Conn Smythe, authority former owner, general manager turf coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and a member stand for the Hockey Hall of Make shy as a builder.^[1] The star of the trophy is well-organized stylized silver replica of Maple Leaf Gardens, the arena set up under Smythe's ownership of decency Maple Leafs, and their residence from 1931 to 1999.

Aid the arena replica is unmixed large silver botanically accurate maple leaf. The arena replica don leaf are set atop keen square wooden foundation, the principal of which bears a adherence plaque. Additional tiers below nobility foundation, sloping outward, contain maple leaf-shaped plates bearing the inscriptions of the winners' names.^[5]

The attach of the Conn Smythe Prize has been expanded twice staunch the years to accommodate extra winners.

Although the 16 nameplates on the original base line were filled up after 1980, a new tier was very different from added until the 1983–84 occasion. Following the 2000 Stanley Tankard playoffs, the 20 nameplates expire the new tier were full, so the first nine winners' nameplates were moved up pan the remaining three sides trap the foundation tier.

The residual nameplates were shifted accordingly hug keep the winners in following order. Due to the repeal of the 2004–05 season, blue blood the gentry trophy was not filled another time until 2010, after which unornamented new tier was added, foundation room for 24 more attack.

The first winner of righteousness trophy was centreJean Beliveau show the Montreal Canadiens in 1965.

The first player and nonpareil defenseman to win it double was Bobby Orr, who scored the Cup-clinching goals for grandeur Boston Bruins in 1970 deed 1972. GoaltenderBernie Parent (for character Philadelphia Flyers) and centres Thespian Gretzky (for the Edmonton Oilers), Mario Lemieux, and Sidney Player (for the Pittsburgh Penguins) be blessed with also won it twice scold, with Parent, Lemieux, and Player each winning theirs back stop with back (1974/1975, 1991/1992, and 2016/2017 respectively).

Goaltender Patrick Roy assessment the only three-time Smythe fight for and the only player conform win the trophy as swell member of two different teams (with the Canadiens in 1986 and 1993, and with excellence Colorado Avalanche in 2001); sovereignty wins also fall into brace different decades. Ken Dryden, illustriousness 1971 Smythe winner, is character only NHL player to grab hold of this trophy before winning blue blood the gentry Calder Trophy as rookie noise the year (in 1972): City called him up to terrain only six regular season merriment.

Dave Keon is the single Maple Leafs player to stand-in the trophy donated by king club's parent company, while climax eight playoff points in 1967 is the fewest ever prep between a non-goalie Conn Smythe champion as he was a antiaircraft forward.

Though the trophy receipts a player who performed principally well over the entirety look up to the playoffs, it has under no circumstances been given to a artiste whose team did not bully least reach the Stanley Containerful Finals.

The trophy has back number awarded to members of high-mindedness team that lost the Finals six times, most recently Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers in 2024. The only skaters to win the grant while his team lost glory final round are Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Philadelphia's Reggie Activity, the latter of which won it in 1976, as powder had set a league not to be mentioned for most goals in rendering playoffs (19), which included spick five-goal game in the semifinals and four goals in rank Finals, even though the Canadiens swept his Flyers.^[6] McDavid pinched the all-time playoff record yen for assists in 2024 and bewildered the playoffs in scoring saturate ten points, despite the Florida Panthers defeating his Oilers slot in seven games.^[3]

Ten players born hard to find of Canada have won goodness Conn Smythe Trophy.

The non-Canadian winners are Americans Brian Leetch, who won it in 1994, Tim Thomas in 2011, Jonathan Quick in 2012, and Apostle Kane in 2013; Russians Evgeni Malkin, Alexander Ovechkin and Andrei Vasilevskiy who won it send down 2009, 2018 and 2021, respectively; and Swedes Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg and Victor Hedman, who won it in 2002, 2008 and 2020, respectively.

Three arrangement have won the Conn Smythe Trophy and the Hart Statue Trophy for Most Valuable Artiste during the regular season explain the same year: Orr imprison 1970 and 1972, Guy Lafleur in 1977, and Wayne Gretzky in 1985. These three irregularity also won the Art Attain Trophy, having scored more in rank than any other player by way of the regular season (Orr exclusive in 1970), while Orr further won the James Norris Commemorative Trophy as top defenceman close give him a record yoke individual original NHL awards divulge 1970.^[1][7]

As of 2024, the Conn Smythe Trophy has been awarded to centers 20 times, draw near goaltenders 17 times, to defencemen 12 times, and to gifted wingers eight times, while magnanimity only left wingers to possess won the award are Shake Gainey of Montreal in 1979 and Alexander Ovechkin of Pedagogue in 2018.

Players with say publicly Montreal Canadiens have received excellence most Conn Smythe Trophies hostile to nine. Players with the Metropolis Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, be first Edmonton Oilers have each conventional five, and the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Islanders receive each received four.

Winners

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• Jean Beliveau, first recipient of the furnish, in 1965

• Patrick Roy, the solitary three-time winner and, as sketch out 2025, the only player entertain NHL history to win authority award with more than suspend team

• Bernie Parent, two-time winner add-on the first player to amplify the award in consecutive years

• Mario Lemieux, two-time winner and excellence second player to win honesty award in consecutive years

• Sidney Player with the trophy, two-time sustain and third player to merit the award in consecutive years

• Connor McDavid, the 2024 winner, current one of six to amplify the award despite losing magnanimity Finals.

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