Highly recommended for his excellent work managing the University Of Toronto hockey team, Conn Smythe was a unanimous choice to run the first Rangers club for the 1926-27 season. After convening ...
EDMONTON — Only one skater in NHL history has won the Conn Smythe Trophy, given to the most valuable player of the Stanley Cup playoffs, when his team lost in the finals. Reggie Leach won in ...
The 27-year-old McDavid became the first skater from a losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy since the Philadelphia Flyers’ Reggie Leach did so in 1976, and the first player to do it since A ...