William M. Jennings Trophy
The William M. Jennings Trophy is an ice hockey trophy in the National Hockey League (NHL). It is awarded annually to the goalkeeper or goalkeepers with at least 25 appearances whose team has conceded the fewest goals in the regular season .
The trophy is named after ice hockey official William M. Jennings, who served as President of the New York Rangers until his death from cancer in 1981 and is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame . The trophy was donated by the board of the NHL and awarded for the first time in the 1981/82 season.
Award and history
As early as 1946 , the team's goalkeepers with the fewest goals conceded were awarded the Vezina Trophy . Before the 1981/82 season, however, the league decided to determine the winner of the trophy as "best goalkeeper" in the future through a vote among the general managers of the NHL. In order to continue to honor the goalkeepers with the fewest goals conceded, a new trophy, the William M. Jennings Trophy, was donated in return. The first winners at the end of the season were Rick Wamsley and Denis Herron from the Canadiens de Montréal .
So far, the award has been given 24 times to a duo of two goalkeepers who both played 25 games or more in the regular season. As the first goalkeeper Ed Belfour was able to win the trophy alone in 1991, after a goalkeeper team had been victorious nine times in a row. Although this would theoretically be possible with currently 82 games this season, three goalkeepers from the same team have never won the award.
At the end of the 2002/03 season closed with the Philadelphia Flyers and the New Jersey Devils for the first time since the introduction of the trophy, two teams with the same number of goals conceded as the defensively strongest team from the season. Thus, the trophy was given to both Roman Čechmánek and Robert Esche from the Flyers and to Martin Brodeur from the Devils. The same was achieved in 2014/15 by Carey Price of the Canadiens de Montréal and Corey Crawford of the Chicago Blackhawks .
Since 1982 a total of seven different players have succeeded in winning both the William M. Jennings Trophy and the Vezina Trophy in the same season: Patrick Roy , Ed Belfour, Dominik Hašek and Martin Brodeur succeeded in this "double" twice, with Brodeur in 2004 the so far was the only goalkeeper who could defend both trophies. In addition, Miikka Kiprusoff , Tim Thomas and Carey Price each won the combination once.
William M. Jennings Trophy winner
The lower limit of 25 games was reduced to 14 games in the 1994/95 season , which was shortened by a lockout . In 2005 the season was completely canceled due to another lockout and the trophy was not awarded.
Abbreviations: Sp = games, GT = goals conceded, GTS = goals conceded , Ges. = Total number of goals conceded by the team
Leaderboards
With five wins each, the two goalkeepers Martin Brodeur and Patrick Roy have won the William M. Jennings Trophy the most frequently. Ed Belfour follows with four titles. A total of eight goalkeepers have managed to win the trophy several times.
Brodeur, who has played for the New Jersey Devils since 1992 , is also the player who has won the most titles with the same team. In addition, he only shared the trophy with his substitute goalkeeper Mike Dunham on his first win in 1997 , before winning the title four times alone. In the 2003/04 season , he and his team set a new NHL record when he conceded only 164 goals in the regular season. In the 2011/12 season, the St. Louis Blues goalkeeping team missed this record by just one goal.
With a share of 70%, the majority of the winners come from Canada . Tom Barrasso from the USA became the first non-Canadian goalkeeper to win the award in 1985. Nine years later, Dominik Hašek from the Czech Republic became the first European to win the trophy.
Since 1982, the Canadiens de Montréal closed six times the season with the fewest goals conceded in the league, thus holding the record.
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Web links
- William M. Jennings Trophy on the NHL Awards website
- William M. Jennings Trophy at legendsofhockey.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hockey great dies . In: The Daily Union, August 18, 1981, p. 11 (accessed April 17, 2013)
- ↑ a b William M. Jennings Trophy on the NHL Awards website (accessed April 17, 2013)
- ↑ 2002-03 William M. Jennings Trophy Winners at legendsofhockey.net
- ^ William H. Jennings Trophy winners [sic!], ESPN .com, June 20, 2012 (accessed April 17, 2013)
- ↑ 2003-04 William M. Jennings Trophy Winner at legendsofhockey.net