NHL Trophies & Recognition For Ovechkin & Green

Alex Ovechkin with Pearson, Hart and Richard Trophies on June 18, 2009.
Photo by Ryan Remiorz - AP Photo / The Canadian Press

The NHL handed out it's annual awards last night in Las Vegas, NV. Among this year's winners, both Alex Ovechkin and Mike Green of the Washington Capitals received recognition for their efforts during the 2008-2009 season. As expected, Ovechkin was the big winner of the evening.

Green and Ovechkin were named to the NHL's First All-Star Team. It is the fourth time for Alex and the first time in the Capitals' history that they had two players named to the team for the same season. Ovechkin also collected a few trophies during the event.

For the second year in a row, Alex Ovechkin won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the league's top goal (56) scorer. He also repeated in the voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy (Professional Hockey Writers Assoc. MVP choice) and Lester B. Pearson Award (Player's MVP choice). Ovie is the first player to win the Hart two years straight since Dominik Hasek won in both 1997 and 1998.

The choice of presenters for a couple of the awards that Ovechkin won were pretty cool. The Pearson Award was announced by retired Russians Vladimir Konstantinov and Igor Larionov. The Hart Trophy was presented to Ovechkin by none other than previous (1994) winner, teammate and fellow Russian Sergei Fedorov.

For the fourth consecutive year, Russian NHL players voted to award Alex Ovechkin the Kharlamov Trophy for being the best Russian player in the NHL. He received the award at a separate ceremony held June 9th.