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The winner of the Eastern Conference finals still receives the Prince of Wales Trophy, while the winner of the Western Conference finals still receives the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl. The only exception to this practice was the pandemic-affected 2020–21 season that was played without conferences. [ 1 ]
The Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, [1] or simply the Campbell Bowl, is a team award presented by the National Hockey League (NHL). Named after Clarence Campbell, who served as president of the NHL from 1946–47 to 1976–77, it has been awarded for different accomplishments throughout its history, serving as a counterpart to the Prince of Wales Trophy since the 1967 NHL expansion by using the ...
Under this system, the Campbell Conference champion, and therefore the winner of the Clarence S. Campbell Bowl, was the team that finished with the best regular season record in the conference. Ever since the introduction of the Conference finals in 1982, the Campbell Bowl has been presented to the Campbell/Western Conference playoff champions.
There will be no winner of the NHL's Prince of Wales Trophy or Clarence S. Campbell Bowl this year. Steve Mayer, the league's chief content officer, told ESPN on Friday that the trophies won't be ...
Two years later, the Vezina Trophy was created for the NHL's top goaltender. The Conn Smythe Trophy was first awarded to the NHL's playoff most valuable player in 1965. Presently, the NHL has 18 annual individual trophies and awards, the most recently created being the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award which was inaugurated in 2010.
Prior to 1926–27, the Stanley Cup was then awarded as a "World Series" trophy between the champions of the NHL and a rival league (first the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, then the Western Canada Hockey League). Instead, the NHL championship trophy during this era was the O'Brien Trophy.
A superstition that is prevalent among many of today's NHL players is that no player should either touch or hoist the Wales (Eastern Conference champion) or Clarence S. Campbell (Western Conference champion) Trophies after they have won the conference playoffs; these players feel that the Stanley Cup is the true championship trophy and thus it ...
Created as the Clarence Campbell Conference in 1974–75, the conference championship went to the team with the most regular season points through the 1980–81 season. Since the 1981–82 season, the conference championship has gone to the winner of the Campbell Conference Finals (known as the Western Conference Finals since the 1993–94 season).