Gigure’s Conn Smythe win also came in a losing effort, as his Anaheim Ducks fell to the New Jersey Devils in Game 7 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals. He posted a 15-6 record, a .945 save ...

The 27-year-old McDavid became the first skater from a losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy since the Philadelphia Flyers’ Reggie Leach did so in 1976, and the first player to do it since ...

Today, the name Conn Smythe is most associated with the trophy that is awarded every year to the Most Valuable Player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Nearly a century ago, however, Smythe was a well ...