Kyle Connor

The award is given to the “player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability," according to the NHL. It was first awarded in 1924-25, and has been ever since, aside from the canceled season in 2004-05.

NEW YORK (AP) — Winnipeg Jets forward Kyle Connor has won the Lady Byng Trophy, given to the NHL’s most gentlemanly player. The league announced the honor Monday night before Game 4 of the Western Conference final between Colorado and Edmonton. Connor tied for the second-fewest number of...

NEW YORK -- Winnipeg Jets forward Kyle Connor has won the Lady Byng Trophy, given to the NHL's most gentlemanly player. The league announced the honor Monday night before Game 4 of the Western Conference finals between Colorado and Edmonton. Connor tied for the second-fewest number of minor penalties during...

Connor was named on 181 of the 195 ballots cast, including 122 first-place selections. WINNIPEG, June 6, 2022 - The Winnipeg Jets, in conjunction with the National Hockey League, today announced that forward Kyle Connor is the 2021-22 recipient of the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded "to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability" as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Connor is the first player in Jets/Thrashers franchise history to capture the award and the first Winnipeg player (Jets 1.0 or 2.0) to win the Lady Byng Trophy. Jets 1.0 forward Alexei Zhamnov was a finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy in 1994-95 and Teemu Selanne was also a finalist the following season in a year he split between Winnipeg and Anaheim.

Winnipeg Jets winger Kyle Connor is the recipient of the 2022 Lady Byng Trophy, given “to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability.”. The other finalists were Jaccob Slavin of the Carolina Hurricanes (who...

Rather than do the awards ceremony like the NHL has done in years prior, this year the NHL decided to name the award winners each night during the Conference Finals of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs and will continue to do so throughout the remainder of the postseason. Tonight, prior...

Winnipeg Jets forward Kyle Connor has won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the player "adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability," the NHL announced Monday. Connor beat out Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin and Minnesota Wild...