The Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award is an annual award presented by the

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of the

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(NHL) 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 NHL season in

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. Prior to the 2013–14 Vancouver Canucks season, the award was simply known as the Most Exciting Player Award. On November 1, 2013,

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announced that it would renamed the award as the Pavel Bure Most Exciting Player Award in honour of the team's first

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inductee and five-time winner of the award,

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. The most recent recipient is

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, who won it for the first time in the 2024–25 season. The most prolific award winners in award's history have been: *

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– 5 times (1984–1988) *

– 5 times (1992–1995, 1998) *

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– 4 times (2000, 2002–2004) * Bobby Lalonde – 3 times (1975–1977) *

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– 3 times (2008–2010)

Winners

References

External links

Official Canucks Award Winner Archive on Canucks.com

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Winners

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