Awards & Winners

Best NHL Player ESPY Award

ESPY Award

The Best NHL Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the National Hockey League player, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year, typically most significantly in the NHL season contested during or immediately prior to the holding of the ESPY Awards ceremony. Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and retired sportspersons, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the previous June. Canadian centers Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby and right wing Jarome Iginla and Czech goaltender Dominik Hasek are the only players to have been honored multiple times; Lemieux, having captured the award three times, in 1993, 1994, and 1998, and Crosby having captured the award five times, in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,and 2013.
Date Established : 1993

Check all the winners of Best NHL Player ESPY Award presented under ESPY Award since 1993 .


Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Crosby
Ryan Getzlaf
Anže Kopitar
Henrik Lundqvist
Jonathan Toews

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Crosby
Henrik Lundqvist
Alexander Ovechkin
Martin St. Louis
John Tavares

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Quick
Claude Giroux
Henrik Lundqvist
Evgeni Malkin
Steven Stamkos

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Tim Thomas
Corey Perry
Daniel Sedin
Martin St. Louis

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Crosby
Ryan Miller
Henrik Sedin
Alexander Ovechkin
Steven Stamkos

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Crosby
Pavel Datsyuk
Evgeni Malkin
Alexander Ovechkin

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Crosby
Jarome Iginla
Alexander Ovechkin
Evgeni Malkin
Pavel Datsyuk

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Crosby

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jaromír Jágr
Alexander Ovechkin
Cam Ward
Joe Thornton

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jarome Iginla
Brad Richards
Joe Sakic
Martin St. Louis

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jean-Sébastien Giguère
Martin Brodeur
Peter Forsberg
Mario Lemieux
Markus Näslund

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Martin Brodeur
Dominik Hašek
Jarome Iginla
Nicklas Lidström
Patrick Roy
Joe Sakic
José Théodore

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Chris Pronger
Pavel Bure
Jaromír Jágr
Scott Stevens

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Dominik Hašek
Jaromír Jágr
Eric Lindros