Ahead of Wednesday nights contest against the Seattle Kraken, the Vancouver Canucks announced that fan voting for the 2024-2025 team awards are now open!
Fans are encouraged to vote on their picks for the Cyclone Taylor Award, Walter (Babe) Pratt Trophy, Pavel Bured Award and the Fred J. Hume Award. Here are the descriptions for each of the four awards fans can vote on, last year’s winner and potential favourites in the 2024-2025 season for each award:
Cyclone Taylor Award
Most Valuable Player
This award is given to the most valuable player on the Canucks roster during the season.
2023-2024 Winner: JT Miller
2024-2025 Favourites: Quinn Hughes, Kevin Lankinen
Walter (Babe) Pratt Trophy
Best Defenceman
This award is given to the best defenceman on the Canucks blueline during the season.
2023-2024 Winner: Quinn Hughes
2024-2025 Favourites: Quinn Hughes, Tyler Myers
Pavel Bure Award
Most Exciting Player
This award is given to the Canucks’ most exciting player during the season
2023-2024 Winner: JT Miller
2024-2025 Favourites: Quinn Hughes, Kiefer Sherwood
Fred J. Hume Award
Unsung Hero
2023-2024 Winner: Dakota Joshua
2024-2025 Favourites: Pius Suter, Kiefer Sherwood, Derek Forbort
We covered who should be this years Canucks Unsung Hero, as well as the rest of the awards at the mid-way point of the season. Click the links to check out who our votes went to.
There are three other awards given out to the players that aren’t fan votes but are awarded by statistical categories and a group of Canucks Sports and Entertainment members:
Three Stars Award
Most Three Stars Selections
2023-2024 Winner: Elias Pettersson
This award is given to the Canucks player who earned the most three stars selections.
This season, Quinn Hughes leads the team with 15 (six first stars, five second stars and four third stars), followed by Kevin Lankinen with 13 (one first stars, six second stars and three third stars) and Elias Pettersson with 10 (four first stars, two second stars and four third stars).
Cyrus H. McLean Trophy
Leading Scorer
2023-2024 Winner: JT Miller
This award is given to the Canucks player who scored the most points on the season.
This season, Quinn Hughes is the far and away leader on the team with 70 points (16 goals and 54 assists). Brock Boeser is second with 46 (24 goals and 22 assists) and Elias Pettersson with 45 (15 goals and 30 assists).
Daniel & Henrik Sedin Award
Community Leadership
2023-2024 Winner: Quinn Hughes
This award was introduced in the 2019-2020 season. It is awarded to the player who best exemplifies outstanding community leadership qualities and humanitarian contributions to his community.
Fans are encouraged to vote on their pick for each award. Voting ends on April 8, with the players to be awarded on the final home game of the season, on April 16 against the Vegas Golden Knights.
