Every Canucks Player Of The Game Axe Recipient Through 2025–26 So Far
10 Canucks have received the 'player of the game' axe since December 14.
thehockeynews.comHere’s the latest I can provide on the Vancouver Canucks team awards, based on public announcements through April 2026.
Answer summary
- 2025-26 season: Filip Hronek won the Cyclone Taylor Trophy (Most Valuable Player) and the Walter (Babe) Pratt Trophy (Best Defenceman). Drew O’Connor won the Fred J. Hume Award (Unsung Hero). Elias Pettersson was poised to win the Cyrus H. McLean Trophy as leading scorer, with notable milestones in points and assists for the season. These were announced on Fan Appreciation Night, April 14, 2026. [sources: Canucks press release 2025-26; team coverage][3][4]
Details by season
- 2024-25 season (most recent completed season before 2025-26): Quinn Hughes dominated the Canucks’ Team Awards, winning six of seven awards including the Cyclone Taylor Trophy (MVP) and Walter (Babe) Pratt Trophy (Best Defenceman), among others. He made franchise history by being the first defenceman to win multiple specific awards in a single year.[1]
- 2023-24 season: Quinn Hughes again led the awards, including the Walter (Babe) Pratt Trophy for Best Defenceman and other accolades announced on Fan Appreciation Night.[2]
What the Canucks Team Awards are
- The Canucks announce annual Team Awards during Fan Appreciation Night, recognizing MVP, Best Defenceman, top scorer, and other community and leadership honors. Winners are determined by a mix of fan voting and team votes depending on the award.[1][2]
- For Abbotsford Canucks (the Canucks’ AHL affiliate), there are separate team awards with fan voting components, though the question here focuses on the main Canucks (Vancouver) awards.[5]
Illustration
- Example: In 2025-26, Hronek captured both MVP and Best Defenceman honors, illustrating how the MVP and top defender recognitions can be awarded to the same player in a single season.[4][3]
Notes and caveats
- The Canucks’ award announcements are typically made on Fan Appreciation Night toward the end of the regular season; exact award names and winners are published in official team releases and NHL.com coverage. If you’d like, I can pull the exact press-release pages for each season and extract the full list of all seven awards per year.[2][3][4]
Would you like me to fetch the official Canucks press releases for the 2024-25, 2023-24, and 2025-26 award announcements and present a clean side-by-side table of all winners? I can also include links to each source.