{"id":469640,"date":"2025-06-02T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=469640"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:56:23","slug":"the-florida-panthers-aleksander-barkov-continues-he-reign-of-individual-award-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/06\/02\/the-florida-panthers-aleksander-barkov-continues-he-reign-of-individual-award-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Florida Panthers Aleksander Barkov Continues his Reign of Individual Award Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning king of two-way, shutdown play takes home another crown. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barkoal01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a> has captured his third Frank J. Selke Trophy in five years today. Just a bit of news to prepare us for the week to come that sees his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/28\/florida-panthers-vs-carolina-hurricanes-series-recap\/\" target=\"_self\">Florida Panthers<\/a> take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/31\/current-reigning-king-edmonton-oilers-great-franchise-history-playoff-scoring\/\" target=\"_self\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> in the 2025 <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stanley Cup<\/a> Final set to begin on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aleksander Barkov wins the Selke Trophy for a second straight year and the third time overall. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9EsHWsBhmA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/9EsHWsBhmA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1929554812833530046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Aleksander Barkov Wins his Third Selke Trophy<\/h3>\n<p>Barkov has been one of the best forwards over the past number of years, let alone defensive forwards. Over his 12-year career thus far he&#8217;s nearly a point-per-game player with 782 points in 804 games. He&#8217;s also a former Lady Byng winner, and of course, a defending cup champ. Furthermore, he&#8217;s simply regarded as one of the toughest players to play against.<\/p>\n<p>He plays a very low-event game. As much as he&#8217;s on the puck, and as a centreman, he only had 52 giveaways this year. His point share was 7.2, and he has a Corsi relative percentage of 9.8. For a guy not known for his offensive prowess, when so many of the leagues top scorers that he matches up against score at such a high rate, these stats really begin to jump off the page. It is also interesting to note, his linemate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reinhsa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Reinhart<\/a> was second in Selke voting.<\/p>\n<p>For Aleksander Barkov, ever since his predecessor retired, the Selke has been his to own. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergepa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrice Bergeron<\/a> was a six-time recipient of the award, with his last time being 2022-23, the last year he played before retiring. Now, Barkov has won the past two titles. He will be looking to continue this type of play, as he tries to shutdown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/draisle01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcdavco01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-02_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor McDavid<\/a>, and the rest of the Oilers offence as they begin their Stanley Cup Final rematch. It will be a great matchup of offence versus defence, just as it was last year.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: James Guillory &#8211; Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning king of two-way, shutdown play takes home another crown. Aleksander Barkov has captured his third Frank J. Selke Trophy in five years today. Just a bit of news to prepare us for the week to come that sees his Florida Panthers take on the Edmonton Oilers in the 2025 Stanley Cup Final set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":469641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4547,34,4548],"tags":[1083,955,1156],"class_list":["post-469640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-panthers","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-aleksander-barkov","tag-nhl-news","tag-patrice-bergeron"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469656,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469640\/revisions\/469656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}