2008 Lady Byng Memorial Nominees

The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy is given annually to the National Hockey League “player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability” It has been awarded 81 times to 50 different players since its inception in 1925.

This years nominees are Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings, Buffalo Sabres right wing Jason Pominville and Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Martin St. Louis. If he wins, Datsyuk would become the first player in seventy years to win the Lady Byng Trophy in three consecutive seasons. The last player to do so was New York Rangers forward Frank Boucher - a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame - from 1933 through 1935.