NHL notebook: Bergeron wins second straight Selke Award, 6th overall

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Boston Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron won the Selke Trophy as the best defensive forward for a sixth time, building on the NHL record he broke last year.

At age 37, he led the league in faceoff wins and percentage and was only on the ice for 27 goals against at even strength in 78 games.

Bergeron also won in 2017, ’15, ’14 and ’12.

Boston’s Linus Ullmark won the Vezina as the NHL’s top goaltender.

Ullmark tied team single season records with 40 victories and a .938 save percentage to go along with a 1.89 goals-against average, as he helped backstop the Bruins to an NHL record 65 wins and 135 points.

Connor McDavid won the Ted Lindsay Award as the NHL’s most outstanding player as voted by his peers, a clear-cut choice after the highest-scoring season by a player in more than a quarter-century.

Hart won the Lindsay Award for the fourth time. He was also expected to win the Hart Trophy as NHL MVP later in the league’s annual award ceremony.

The Edmonton Oilers’ captain led the league with 64 goals, 89 assists and 153 points. That’s the most points since Mario Lemieux in 1995-96.

McDavid previously won the Hart in 2017 and 2021 and the Lindsay in 2017, 2018 and 2021. Universally recognized as the best hockey player in the world, McDavid is still searching for his first Stanley Cup title after losing in the second round of the playoffs to eventual champion Vegas.

Seattle’s Matty Beniers won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year. Beniers led all rookies with 57 points and was tied for the lead among them in goals with 24, helping the Kraken make the playoffs in their second year of existence.

Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings won the Lady Byng Award for gentlemanly conduct, Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Mark Messier Leadership Award, and Kris Letang of the Pittsburgh Penguins — who had a stroke on Nov. 28 but returned to play 12 days later — won the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance and dedication.

DUCKS: Goaltending coach Sudarshan “Sudsie” Maharaj has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing treatment in Canada.

The team said Maharaj is receiving chemotherapy in Toronto and eventually will have surgery.

He “anticipates returning to his role with the Ducks,” the team said. In the meantime, an assistant goaltending coach will be hired.

“I plan on fighting this disease vigorously with the help of my tremendous doctors both in Toronto and with the Ducks,” Maharaj said in a statement. “The hockey community is an amazingly supportive place, and I look forward to seeing you all soon.”

Ducks owners Henry and Susan Samueli said, “Sudsie is bound and determined to beat this terrible disease, and we can’t wait until he does.”

Maharaj, 59, joined the Ducks before the 2013-14 season as a consultant with the Norfolk Admirals, then the club’s AHL affiliate. He became the Ducks’ goaltending coach in 2016-17. Previously, he spent eight years in the New York Islanders organization.

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