This year’s NHL Awards show will be a one-hour special before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final.
The NHL said the show will highlight all award winners this season. Most of them are expected to be announced before the program airs on June 12 at 6 p.m. ET on TNT in the United States and Sportsnet in Canada.
Florida Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov was already announced as this year’s winner of the Selke Trophy and King Clancy Trophy. He received both awards in a team meeting when patients of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital made a surprise visit.
Those surprise video announcements will continue leading up to the show. The program itself is expected to announce the winners of the Hart Trophy and Vezina Trophy.
Isaiah Mustafa will host the NHL Awards show. The actor and former professional football player starred in Old Spice commercials such as “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like,” which included surprise twists, including him going from a washroom setting to a beach riding a horse in one shot.
Mustafa, a Los Angeles Kings fan, currently stars in Prime Video’s crime thriller series Cross.
After Mustafa wraps up the awards show, there will be an hour until the 8 p.m. ET start time for Game 4 of the Cup final between the Edmonton Oilers and Panthers.
Oilers center Leon Draisaitl is one of the three finalists for the Hart Trophy, which goes to the NHL’s most valuable player. Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck and Tampa Bay Lightning right winger Nikita Kucherov are the other finalists.
No goalies on the Oilers or Panthers are finalists for the Vezina Trophy, which goes to the goaltender of the year. Hellebuyck is up for that award as well as Kings netminder Darcy Kuemper and the Lightning’s Andrei Vasilevskiy.
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