Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award

The Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award is an annual award presented by the Vancouver Canucks to the player judged to be team's most exciting as voted by the fans. It is one of six annual team awards presented to Canucks players, awarded on the last home game of the regular season. Although the Canucks Media Guide does not recognize any recipients prior to the 1992–93 season, there is record of an annual winner every year since the Canucks' inaugural season in 1970. Prior to the 2013-14 NHL season, the award was simply known as the Most Exciting Player Award. On November 1, 2013, Canucks Sports & Entertainment announced that it would be renamed the Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award in honor of the team's first Hockey Hall of Fame inductee and five-time winner of the award, Pavel Bure.^[1] The most recent recipient is J.T. Miller, who received the award for the first time in his career in the 2021–22 NHL Season.

Five-time winner (1991–92 through 1994–95, 1997–98) Pavel Bure

The most prolific award winners in Canucks history have been:

• Tony Tanti – 5 times (1984–88)
• Pavel Bure – 5 (1992–1995, 1998)
• Todd Bertuzzi – 4 (2000, 2002–2004)
• Bobby Lalonde – 3 (1975–1977)
• Alexandre Burrows - 3 (2008–10)

Award winners

 

Two-time winner (1988–89, 1990–91) Trevor Linden.

 

Two-time winner (1998–99, 2000–01) Markus Naslund (left) and four-time winner (2000, 2002–2004) Todd Bertuzzi (right)

 

Three-time winner Alexandre Burrows

 

Centre Ryan Kesler won the award in 2011

Positions key

C

Centre

LW

Left wing

D

Defence

RW

Right wing

G

Goaltender

  Player is still active with the Canucks.

Season	Winner	Position	Win #
1970–71	Andre Boudrias	C	1
1971–72	Andre Boudrias	C	2
1972–73	Bobby Schmautz	RW	1
1973–74	Don Lever	LW	1
1974–75	Bobby Lalonde	C	1
1975–76	Bobby Lalonde	C	2
1976–77	Bobby Lalonde	C	3
1977–78	Hilliard Graves	RW	1
1978–79	Thomas Gradin	C	1
1979–80	Stan Smyl	RW	1
1980–81	Tiger Williams	LW	1
1981–82	Thomas Gradin	C	2
1982–83	Darcy Rota	LW	1
1983–84	Tony Tanti	LW	1
1984–85	Tony Tanti	LW	2
1985–86	Tony Tanti	LW	3
1986–87	Tony Tanti	LW	4
1987–88	Tony Tanti	LW	5
1988–89	Trevor Linden	C	1
1989–90	Brian Bradley	C	1
1990–91	Trevor Linden	C	2
1991–92	Pavel Bure	RW	1
1992–93^[2]	Pavel Bure	RW	2
1993–94	Pavel Bure	RW	3
1994–95	Pavel Bure	RW	4
1995–96	Alexander Mogilny	RW	1
1996–97	Martin Gelinas	LW	1
1997–98	Pavel Bure	RW	5
1998–99	Markus Naslund	LW	1
1999–2000	Todd Bertuzzi	RW	1
2000–01	Markus Naslund	LW	2
2001–02	Todd Bertuzzi	RW	2
2002–03	Todd Bertuzzi	RW	3
2003–04	Todd Bertuzzi	RW	4
2004–05	2004–05 NHL lockout No winner	-	-
2005–06	Anson Carter	RW	1
2006–07	Roberto Luongo	G	1
2007–08	Alexandre Burrows	RW	1
2008–09	Alexandre Burrows	RW	2
2009–10	Alexandre Burrows	RW	3
2010–11	Ryan Kesler	C	1
2011–12	David Booth	LW	1
2012–13	Jannik Hansen ^[3]	RW	1
2013–14	Zack Kassian ^[4]	RW	1
2014–15	Radim Vrbata^[5]	RW	1
2015–16	Bo Horvat	C	1
2016–17	Bo Horvat	C	2
2017–18	Brock Boeser	RW	1
2018–19	Elias Pettersson	C	1
2019–20	Elias Pettersson	C	2
2020–21	Nils Höglander	LW	1
2021–22	J.T. Miller	C/LW	1
2022–23	Andrei Kuzmenko	LW	1

See also

• Babe Pratt Trophy
• Cyclone Taylor Trophy
• Cyrus H. McLean Trophy
• Fred J. Hume Award
• Molson Cup

References

1. "Canucks honour Pavel Bure with awards in his name - Vancouver Canucks - News". Vancouver Canucks. 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
2. All awards henceforth officially recognized by Canucks Media Guide.
3. "Canucks announce team awards". Vancouver Canucks. 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2013-04-26.
4. "Canucks announce 2013.14 team awards". Vancouver Canucks. April 13, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
5. "Canucks announce 2013.14 team awards". Vancouver Canucks. April 11, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.

External links

• Canucks Award List