Here’s the latest on the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.
- The 2024-25 finalists were announced in early May 2025: Marc-Andre Fleury (Minnesota Wild), Gabriel Landeskog (Colorado Avalanche), and Sean Monahan (Columbus Blue Jackets). The trophy honors perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey.[1][2][3]
- Fleury, who announced this would be his final NHL season, was highlighted as a finalist following a long career and recent battles through his late-career context. The nomination process and finalists were covered by The Hockey News and SI, confirming these three players as the 2025 Masterton finalists.[3][1]
- The Trophy winner for the 2024-25 season was announced in June 2025; look to NHL.com for the official recap of the complete list of winners, including the Masterton recipient. The NHL’s published pieces and league recaps provide the final confirmation along with citations for the other major awards of that season.[7]
If you’d like, I can pull the exact dates of the announcements and provide a concise timeline, or fetch the official NHL page with the final winner’s name and a short summary.
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The top three vote-getters, as determined by a membership-wide runoff, will be designated as finalists. The Masterton Trophy will be awarded, along with the other NHL major awards, during the Stanley Cup Final. The following are this year’s nominees:
www.thephwa.comThe Stanley Cup Playoffs are closing in on the second round, meaning the league is slowly announcing the finalists for season awards. In their latest release of
www.si.comIngram, Couturier, Crosby among those up for award for perseverance, sportsmanship, dedication
www.nhl.comThe Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey. The winner is selected by a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association after each teams nominates one player in competition. It is often awarded to a player who has come back from career- or even life-threatening illness or injury. A player can win this trophy only once in his career. The trophy...
icehockey.fandom.comAwarded since 1968 to player best exemplifying perseverance, sportsmanship, dedication to hockey
www.nhl.comST. PAUL, Minn - On the morning after his last ever game in the NHL, Marc-Andre Fleury was named a finalist for the 2025 Bill Masterton trophy.
thehockeynews.comOttawa Senators forward Bobby Ryan was named the winner of the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy as the NHL player who best exemplified perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey during the 2019-20 season.
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www.newsnow.co.ukThe Bill Masterton Trophy is awarded “to the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey.”
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