NEW YORK — Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov has won the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP and New York Islanders defenseman Matthew Schaefer has won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year as the league announced its major award winners and vote totals ahead of the 2026-27 season.
Kucherov captured the Hart with 1,436 points to edge Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid with 1,426 points, with Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon third as a finalist with 1,297 points. On defense, Columbus Blue Jackets' Zach Werenski won the Norris Trophy with 1,589 points over Colorado's Cale Makar with 1,191 points and Buffalo Sabres' Rasmus Dahlin with 657 points. Schaefer won the Calder in a landslide with 1,980 points, ahead of Montreal Canadiens right wing Ivan Demidov with 1,158 points and Anaheim Ducks right wing Beckett Sennecke with 958 points.
Montreal Canadiens center Nick Suzuki won the Selke Trophy as defensive forward with 1,726 points over Tampa Bay's Anthony Cirelli with 476 points and Colorado forward Brock Nelson with 406 points. Tampa Bay's Jon Cooper won the Jack Adams Award as coach with 226 points ahead of Buffalo's Lindy Ruff with 223 points and Pittsburgh's Dan Muse with 199 points. Tampa Bay's Andrei Vasilevskiy won the Vezina Trophy as top goaltender with 114 points over the New York Islanders' Ilya Sorokin with 51 points and Boston Bruins' Jeremy Swayman with 46 points, while Montreal right wing Cole Caufield won the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship with 776 points over Los Angeles Kings' Anze Kopitar with 602 points and Ottawa Senators defenseman Jake Sanderson with 585 points.
Edmonton center Connor McDavid also won the Ted Lindsay Award as most outstanding player voted by peers over San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini and Kucherov as finalists, and Colorado Avalanche left wing Gabriel Landeskog won the Masterton Trophy for perseverance over Dahlin and Winnipeg Jets center Jonathan Toews as finalists, with Anaheim Ducks goaltender Ville Husso listed as a nominee. The results set the stage for the 2026-27 Calder race, where a new crop of rookies will compete to follow recent trends that saw No. 1 overall picks win in 2023-24 with Chicago Blackhawks' Connor Bedard and in 2025-26 with Schaefer, and defensemen win the past two seasons with Montreal's Lane Hutson in 2024-25 and Schaefer.