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NHL Awards: Ryan Kesler wins Selke, Dan Bylsma wins Jack Adams

By Helene Elliott
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Vancouver’s Ryan Kesler wins the Selke as the top defensive forward…no surprise there. Brief but nice speech, thanking team, parents, wife, kids.

Mild surprise: Jack Adams as Coach of the Year goes to Pittsburgh’s Dan Bylsma. Remember, voting is done before playoffs, so his team’s first-round loss didn’t come into play. Still a deserving winner. Bylsma did well with Penguins after losing Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby to injuries.

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Next up: Calder trophy for rookie of the year.

More coming as the awards are announced.

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--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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