
The Cyclone Taylor Trophy is the award given each year to the
most valuable player
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(MVP) on the
Vancouver Canucks
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of the
National Hockey League
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(NHL). It is named after
Cyclone Taylor, a Canadian professional
ice hockey
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forward who led the
Vancouver Millionaires
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to the
Stanley Cup
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in
1915
Events
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January
*January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction".
*January 1
* ...
. The award was dedicated to him prior to the
1979–80 Vancouver Canucks season, the season after his death on June 9, 1979, although an award for the Canucks MVP has existed since the team's
inauguration
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in
1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...
. Previously it was a Canucks MVP Award as selected by the fans while the other MVP award, the
President's Trophy was selected by
CP Air and later
Canadian Airlines. However after the
1995–96 season, the Cyclone Taylor Trophy officially became the lone Canucks MVP award since the winners of each trophy was identical.
The most prolific winner of the Cyclone Taylor Trophy is
Markus Naslund, who has been awarded five times (including four straight from
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
to
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
), followed by
Trevor Linden with four. The most recent recipient is
Quinn Hughes
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, who won it for the first time in the
2024–25 season.
Winners
See also
*
Babe Pratt Trophy
*
Cyrus H. McLean Trophy
*
Fred J. Hume Award
*
Molson Cup
The Molson Cup is an award presented to a distinguished player on Canadian ice hockey teams. After each game, the " three game stars" are selected, usually by a member of the media. At the end of the season, the player with the most three-star h ...
*
Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award
References
External links
Official Canucks Award Winner Archive on Canucks.com
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Vancouver Canucks trophies and awards