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He again won the Norris Trophy while nabbing a First-Team All-Star selection and finishing third in the Hart Trophy balloting. Orr feuded with Toronto rookie defenceman Pat Quinn that season. In a late-season game, Orr attempted to knock the puck loose from Maple Leafs goaltender Bruce Gamble and Quinn cross-checked Orr to the ice. Orr kicked ...
The James Norris Memorial Trophy, or simply the Norris Trophy, is awarded annually to the National Hockey League's top "defense player who demonstrates throughout the season the greatest all-round ability in the position". [1] It is named after James E. Norris, the longtime owner of the Detroit Red Wings. The James Norris Memorial Trophy has ...
The Bruins have also won many individual awards. Legendary defenseman Bobby Orr is the team's most decorated player, with eight James Norris Memorial Trophy wins, three Hart Memorial Trophy wins, two Conn Smythe Trophy wins, two Art Ross Trophy wins, a Calder Memorial Trophy win, and a Ted Lindsay Award, for a total of 17.
Brent Burns began at right wing, was switched to defenseman, back to right wing for a year and then back to defenseman. Only two players have won both the Hart Trophy (the NHL's MVP award) and the Norris Trophy (the defensive player of the year award): Bobby Orr three times and Chris Pronger once, each time in the same season. [7]
In 2021, Fox won the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman, joining Bobby Orr as the only two players in NHL history to win the award before their third NHL season. He played two seasons in the U.S. National Team Development Program , and finished with the record for the most assists in a single season (in 2015–16) and the ...
Voting for this year's Norris Trophy will have concluded ... but is the NHL's highest-scoring defenseman since Jan. 1, scoring 56 points in his last 45 games. He leads all defensemen in goals (23 ...
The trophy is given annually to the player that is voted best defenceman in the NHL during the regular season. Pages in category "James Norris Memorial Trophy winners" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
In addition to his Norris Trophy honours, he is the only defenceman in NHL history to capture the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer. [4] In 1998, Orr was selected as the best defenceman of all-time (second overall player behind Wayne Gretzky) in The Hockey News' Top 100 NHL Players of all-time.