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Patrice Bergeron Wins The Selke Trophy

06/05/2022 at 3:07pm EDT

NEW YORK (June 5, 2022) – Center Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins is the 2021-22 recipient of the Frank J. Selke Trophy, recognizing "the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game," as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers Association.

Bergeron is a Selke Trophy recipient for a record fifth time in his career, adding to his wins in 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2016-17. He had been tied with Bob Gainey, who captured the trophy in each of the first four years it was awarded (1977-78 through 1980-81 with Montreal).

The Bruins captain was a runaway winner by the most decisive margin among his five Selke triumphs. He appeared on 194 of the 195 ballots cast and garnered 160 first-place votes for 1,798 voting points. Second-place Elias Lindholm of the Calgary Flames was named on 157 ballots, including 21 first-place selections, for 878 points. Aleksander Barkov of the Florida Panthers, the 2020-21 Selke winner, was third in voting with 746 points (10 first-place selections).

Bergeron kept his familiar place atop NHL face-off and puck possession categories, leading the League in face-off wins (991) for the seventh time in his career and posting the top win percentage (61.9%). He also led the League in the puck possession metric SAT% (65.1), with Boston accounting for 65.1% of all shot attempts 5-on-5 when Bergeron was on the ice (min: 25 GP) -- the best figure by any player since the statistic was first recorded in 2009-10.

Bergeron was a Selke Trophy finalist for the 11th straight season, extending his own mark in that category, and surpassed the 10 consecutive years of top-three Hart Trophy finishes by Wayne Gretzky (1980 through 1989) as the longest ever for a voted NHL Award.

For more on the Frank J. Selke Trophy, including a list of past winners, click here.

2021-22 Frank J. Selke Trophy Voting

Points

(1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th)

1.

Patrice Bergeron, BOS

1798

(160-20-11-0-3)

2.

Elias Lindholm, CGY

878

(21-46-50-28-12)

3.

Aleksander Barkov, FLA

746

(10-52-40-22-16)

4.

Ryan O’Reilly, STL

415

(1-16-28-39-36)

5.

Anthony Cirelli, TBL

385

(0-28-19-22-28)

6.

Anze Kopitar, LAK

163

(3-9-6-10-10)

7.

Joel Eriksson Ek, MIN

113

(0-7-4-9-17)

8.

Phillip Danault, LAK

78

(0-3-5-8-8)

9.

Marcus Foligno, MIN

77

(0-3-5-7-10)

10.

Auston Matthews, TOR

70

(0-2-6-4-14)

11.

Jordan Staal, CAR

58

(0-0-4-11-5)

12.

Brad Marchand, BOS

53

(0-1-6-4-4)

13.

Mikael Backlund, CGY

45

(0-4-1-3-3)

14.

Sebastian Aho, CAR

32

(0-0-2-6-4)

15.

Mika Zibanejad, NYR

25

(0-1-1-3-4)

16.

Mitchell Marner, TOR

24

(0-1-1-3-3)

17.

Jesper Fast, CAR

13

(0-1-1-0-1)

18.

Mason Marchment, FLA

13

(0-1-0-2-0)

19.

Rasmus Asplund, BUF

11

(0-0-1-2-0)

20.

Valeri Nichushkin, COL

11

(0-0-1-0-6)

21.

Roope Hintz, DAL

10

(0-0-0-2-4)

22.

Joe Pavelski, DAL

6

(0-0-1-0-1)

23.

J.T. Miller, VAN

6

(0-0-0-2-0)

t-24.

Andrew Copp, NYR

5

(0-0-1-0-0)

Vincent Trocheck, CAR

5

(0-0-1-0-0)

26.

Colton Sissons, NSH

4

(0-0-0-1-1)

t-27.

Johnny Gaudreau, CGY

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

Nazem Kadri, COL

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

David Kampf, TOR

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

Jesse Puljujarvi, EDM

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

Michael Raffl, DAL

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

Sam Reinhart, FLA

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

Matthew Tkachuk, CGY

3

(0-0-0-1-0)

t-34.

Sidney Crosby, PIT

1

(0-0-0-0-1)

Bo Horvat, VAN

1

(0-0-0-0-1)

Anton Lundell, FLA

1

(0-0-0-0-1)

Jean-Gabriel Pageau, NYI

1

(0-0-0-0-1)

Evan Rodrigues, PIT

1

(0-0-0-0-1)

* Points allocation: 10-7-5-3-1 (1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th)

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