LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA) on Monday announced that forward Vincent Lecavalier is the Kings’ nominee for the 2016 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.
The Masterton Trophy is awarded annually by the PHWA to honor the late Bill Masterton, a player for the Minnesota North Stars who exhibited qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to ice hockey before he died on January 15, 1968, as the result of an on-ice injury.
The Los Angeles PHWA chapter provided the following on Lecavalier:
Vincent Lecavalier, in the twilight of an outstanding career, had become an afterthought while with the Philadelphia Flyers.