The Hart Memorial Trophy is being awarded annually to the "player judged most valuable to his team" in the National Hockey League. The player is determined through the votes of the members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, and this year is not an exception as they've chosen Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens.
Aside from nabbing the Hart Trophy, the 27-year-old also went home with the Vezina Trophy for being the league's best goalie, the Ted Lindsay Award for being voted as the most outstanding player voted by NHL players, and a share of the William M. Jennings Trophy with Chicago Blackhawks Corey Crawford for allowing the fewest goals (189).
Price was truly the star of the night as he made history for being the first goalie to win these four awards. He was also just the second Canadiens player who wins all of them after Guy Lafleur in 1977.
The past 17 months was definitely great for Price. He won a gold medal, being Canada's starting goaltender in the 2014 Sochi Olympics and led the NHL with 44 wins, a 1.96 goals-against average and .933 save percentage.
He may still have to work his way through winning the Stanley Cup, but still his enormous success this year can't be denied. And by the end of the night everything happened just made Price speechless.
"You try and prepare something to say, and it never really comes out the way you had in mind," Price told the crowd.
"I'm just truly grateful to be here. I'm just immeasurably blessed to do what I do. That's all I really have to say."
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