NEW YORK (AP) - Henrik Lundqvist has been voted the New York Rangers’ most valuable player for this season, a franchise-record eighth time he has won the award.
The goaltender also was honored by media regularly covering the team from the 2006-07 season through 2012-13. Lundqvist has a 35-20-7 record, along with a 2.46 goals-against average, a .921 save percentage and four shutouts in 64 appearances this season. He leads the NHL in saves (1,775), and helped the Rangers clinch a playoff berth earlier this week.
Forward Jesper Fast earned the Players’ Player Award given annually to the Ranger who best exemplifies what it means to be a team player. Fast has played parts of three seasons with the Rangers and is the first European-born player to receive the award since Reijo Ruotsalainen in 1984-85.
The 24-year-old Fast has 10 goals and 19 assists, a plus-9 rating and 18 penalty minutes in 77 games this season. He is one of the Rangers’ primary penalty killers.
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