Awarded to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the NHL.
1933 Carl Voss 1934 Russ Blinco 1935 David "Sweeney" Schriner 1936 Mike Karakas (G) 1937 Syl Apps 1938 Carl "Cully" Dahlstrom 1939 Frank Brimsek (G) 1940 James "Kilby" Macdonald 1941 John Quilty 1942 Grant Warwick 1943 Gaye Stewart 1944 Gus Bodnar 1945 Frank McCool (G) 1946 Edgar Laprade 1947 Howie Meeker 1948 Jim McFadden 1949 Pentti Lund 1950 Jack Gelineau (G) 1951 Terry Sawchuk (G) 1952 Bernie "Boom-Boom" Geoffrion 1953 Lorne "Gump" Worsley (G) 1954 Camille Henry 1955 Ed Litzenberger 1956 Glenn Hall (G) 1957 Larry Regan 1958 Frank Mahovlich 1959 Ralph Backstrom 1960 Bill Hay 1961 Dave Keon 1962 Bobby Rousseau 1963 Kent Douglas 1964 Jacques Laperriere 1965 Roger Crozier (G) 1966 Brit Selby 1967 Bobby Orr 1968 Derek Sanderson 1969 Danny Grant 1970 Tony Esposito (G) 1971 Gilbert Perreault 1972 Ken Dryden (G) 1973 Steve Vickers 1974 Denis Potvin 1975 Eric Vail 1976 Bryan Trottier 1977 Willi Plett 1978 Mike Bossy 1979 Bobby Smith 1980 Ray Bourque 1981 Peter Stastny 1982 Dale Hawerchuk 1983 Steve Larmer 1984 Tom Barrasso (G) 1985 Mario Lemieux 1986 Gary Suter 1987 Luc Robitaille 1988 Joe Nieuwendyk 1989 Brian Leetch 1990 Sergei Makarov 1991 Ed Belfour (G) 1992 Pavel Bure 1993 Teemu Selanne 1994 Martin Brodeur (G) 1995 Peter Forsberg 1996 Daniel Alfredsson 1997 Bryan Berard 1998 Sergei Samsonov 1999 Chris Drury 2000 Scott Gomez 2001 Evgeny Nabokov (G) 2002 Dany Heatley 2003 Barret Jackman 2004 Andrew Raycroft 2005 No Winner (Owner's Lockout) 2006 Alexander Ovechkin 2007 Evgeni Malkin 2008 Patrick Kane 2009 Steve Mason (G) 2010 Tyler Myers 2011 Jeff Skinner 2012 Gabriel Landeskog 2013 Jonathan Huberdeau 2014 Nathan MacKinnon 2015 Aaron Ekblad 2016 Artemi Panarin 2017 Auston Matthews 2018 Matthew Barzal 2019 Elias Pettersson 2020 Cale Makar 2021 Kirill Kaprizov 2022 Moritz Seider 2023 Matty Beniers 2024 Connor Bedard |