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Mr. Consistency Lidstrom first to win three straight Norris' since OrrPosted: Thursday June 12, 2003 11:52 PMUpdated: Friday June 13, 2003 2:19 AM
TORONTO (AP) -- Nicklas Lidstrom of the Detroit Red Wings won the Norris Trophy for a third straight season Thursday night. Lidstrom's streak of being recognized as the league's top defensemen is the longest since Bobby Orr did it eight consecutive times from 1968-75. Lidstrom led players in average ice time -- 29 minutes, 20 seconds -- and was third with a plus-40. He was third in scoring among defensemen with 62 points. It was the sixth straight year he was a finalist for the Norris. He was second for three years in a row before winning in 2001. "I don't think it's really sunk in that I've won three in a row," Lidstrom said. Detroit's Steve Yzerman received the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey and teammate Brendan Shanahan won the King Clancy Memorial Trophy for humanitarianism. Henrik Zetterberg of the Red Wings finished just behind St. Louis' Barrett Jackman for the Calder Trophy, which awards the NHL's top rookie. Lidstrom finished third in the balloting for the Lady Byng Trophy as the most gentlemanly player, which was won by Dallas' Mike Modano, a native of Livonia, Mich. Lidstrom was a finalist for the award, which he has not won, for a fifth straight year. Yzerman was awarded for his hard work in recovering from offseason knee surgery. He returned in late February from the injury that threatened to end his 20-year NHL career. Months of rehabilitation enabled him to resume his career following an osteotomy, a realignment procedure of a damaged knee. Detroit went 14-1-0-1 in the regular season with the 38-year-old Yzerman in the lineup. Yzerman is a free agent, who has said he plans to finish his career with the Red Wings, the only NHL team he has played for. "I'm not 100 percent but I'm feeling good," Yzerman said. "I don't want to come out and say it will be my last [season]. I'll see how it goes." Yzerman won the trophy that honors Bill Masterton, a player with the Minnesota North Stars who died Jan. 15, 1968, as a result of being injured during an NHL game. Shanahan started a program with the Detroit fire department to assist low-income families purchase and install smoke detectors after becoming concerned about the number of unnecessary deaths cause by house fires and in honor of his father, formerly a Toronto firefighter. |
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