The Penguins Sindey Crosby took home all the hardware last night at the 2006-2007 NHL awards ceremony - he already had clinched the Art Ross Trophy as the regular season point leader, and took home the Lester B. Pearson Award (best player voted by players) and the Hart Memorial Trophy (MVP as voted by the writers). He won both the Pearson and Hart going away.
Penguins Rookie Evgeni Malkin came away with the Calder Memorial Trophy for rookie of the year, winning over Paul Statsny by a wide margin. Pens rookie Jordan Staal came in third in the voting. Coach Therrien accepted on behalf of Malkin, who was out of county. Therrien made a joke that he left messages for Geno in English and in Russian - and that his "Russian must not be so good".
The only trophy the Pens were up for but did not win was the Jack Adams Award for coach of the year. Pens coach Michel Therrien finished third in the voting behind Vancouver's Vigneault and Buffalo's Ruff. The other two were separated by less than 10 votes, with Therrien
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