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Daniel Sedin, Roberto Luongo, and Corey Perry take home first NHL Awards

Vancouver Canucks v Los Angeles Kings

Vancouver Canucks Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center on March 5, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

Harry How

Not all of the NHL’s regular season awards are handed out after a red carpet ceremony in Las Vegas after the Stanley Cup final is over and done with. Some of them are decided thanks to the statistics acquired during the regular season rather than put to a vote and the Vancouver Canucks are already picking up a lot of hardware.

Daniel Sedin secured the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s top scorer completing his season with 104 points. Sedin finished five points ahead of Tampa Bay’s Martin St. Louis and six points ahead of Anaheim’s Corey Perry. Sedin finished the year with 41 goals and 63 assists and figures to be a Hart Trophy finalist after helping lead the Canucks to the Presidents’ Trophy.

Sedin is the tenth different player to win the Art Ross Trophy in the last ten years. After so many years of seeing the likes of Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemieux, and Wayne Gretzky dominate year after year, parity isn’t just for the standings anymore.

Sedin’s Canucks teammates Roberto Luongo and Cory Schneider took home the Jennings Trophy as the NHL’s top goaltending tandem. The pair of goalies allowed just 185 goals this season, the best mark in the league. It’s the first time any goaltenders from Vancouver have won the award and it speaks to the defensive dominance we’ve seen out of the Canucks this season. With all the goals they’re scoring and preventing, it’s easy to see why the Canucks are the favorites to win the Stanley Cup. Oddly enough Luongo isn’t being mentioned very much at all for Vezina Trophy consideration. With 38 wins and a 2.11 goals against average with a .928 save percentage, he should at least get considered.

Corey Perry’s huge season scoring 50 goals was good enough to get him the Rocket Richard Trophy as the league’s top goal scorer. Perry’s outburst in the final two months of the season in willing the Ducks into the playoffs and the fourth seed in the Western Conference carried him up the goal rankings and flying past Steve Stamkos on his way to being the NHL’s lone 50 goal scorer. Perry finished five goals ahead of Stamkos while Jarome Iginla was seven back with 43 goals.

All of these players will get to continue making their presence felt in the playoffs as the Canucks are the top seed in the West and the Ducks are the fourth seed. Whether we see them take home more awards will have to wait until the end of June.