National Hockey League 18's cover will feature 20-year-old Oilers center Connor McDavid, who won the Art Ross Trophy this past season.
He was the only NHLer to hit the 100-point plateau and only the fifth player in the last 20 years to pot at least 30 goals and 70 assists in one season - joining Lemieux, Crosby, Jaromir Jagr and Evgeni Malkin.
Like Crosby before him, McDavid is poised to win the Hart Trophy as league MVP in just his second season and become the first Oiler to do so since Mark Messier in 1990.
And Denis Potvin handed the Norris Trophy to Burns.
There was every expectation that the greatest names in the game would end up with lounge act status to the main showroom Vegas Golden Knights expansion draft. McDavid, Bobrovsky and Burns weren't the only big winners Wednesday night, though.
At this rate, we may be hearing McDavid's name announced as the victor of the Hart Trophy for many more years to come, as he hasn't even reached his prime in the league yet.
While not yet 21 years old and not yet able to truly enjoy the fun that Las Vegas has to offer, it was a good night for McDavid who walked away with two major awards and the cover of the new EA Sports NHL 18 video game.
The page has now begun to turn from Crosby and Ovechkin toward McDavid and Matthews, who were each nominated for a major National Hockey League award this season.
Altogether, Gretzky won nine Hart trophies in his career.
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While Crosby didn't claim the Hart, the back-to-back Stanley Cup champion won the Richard Trophy as the NHL's top goal-scorer. One of the league's newest generation of stars, Edmonton Oilers' forward Connor McDavid, was unveiled as the cover athlete for this year's game, according to a press release.
Matthews is the first Leaf to win the Calder since Brit Selby in 1965-66.
In all Vegas added picks in the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds this year as well as picks in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Vezina Trophy (awarded to the best goaltender): Sergei Bobrovsky, Braden Holtby, Carey Price.
Pavel Datsyuk has moved on, but both Anaheim's Ryan Kesler (5-to-7) and Boston's Patrice Bergeron (7-to-4) are worthy heirs.
And while they did not win, Ottawa defenceman Erik Karlsson finished second in Norris Trophy voting, while Toronto's Mike Babcock and Edmonton's Todd McLellan were second and third, respectively, for the Jack Adams Award. Tortorella, in his first full season as Blue Jackets coach, also led his team to an extra 16 wins and the playoffs.
Bettman also says he doesn't believe anything is "amiss" with the Chicago Blackhawks and Marian Hossa, who won't play next season because of side effects to medication for a progressive skin disorder. Creative AI is also being promised this year as a system for better decision-making from your teammates should you choose to play solo.
The 6-foot-1, 170-pound Frazier has averaged 6.2 points, 4.4 assists and 2.4 rebounds in three National Basketball Association seasons with New Orleans, Philadelphia and Portland.
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