QMJHL to award Sidney Crosby Trophy to top rookie starting this season

The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League is naming its rookie of the twelvemonth grant aft 1 of its astir celebrated graduates.

The league announced Tuesday that its apical rookie volition beryllium awarded the Sidney Crosby Trophy, starting this season.

Crosby, from Cole Harbour, N.S., had a ascendant large inferior vocation with the QMJHL’s Rimouski Océanic. He had 135 points successful 59 games successful his archetypal play and was named the league’s rookie of the twelvemonth successful 2003-04.

Crosby followed that up with 168 points, including 66 goals, successful 62 games successful 2004-05 arsenic the Océanic won a QMJHL title. He was named the MVP of some the QMJHL and the Canadian Hockey League, which besides includes the Ontario Hockey League and the Western Hockey League, some seasons.

His inferior occurrence translated instantly to the NHL aft helium was selected archetypal wide by the Pittsburgh Penguins successful the 2005 draft. He made his debut arsenic an 18-year-old successful 2005-06 and enactment up 102 points successful 81 games.

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Crosby, the Penguins skipper since 2007 and a three-time Stanley Cup winner, has 609 goals and 1,045 assists successful 1,327 vocation games. He is acceptable to skipper Canada astatine the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off planetary tournament.

“Some of my fondest memories of hockey travel from my clip successful the QMJHL playing for the Océanic,” Crosby said successful a merchandise “It is an implicit honour to person the league’s rookie of the year trophy named aft me.”