{"id":49471,"date":"2019-06-20T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=49471"},"modified":"2019-06-20T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:47:22","slug":"ryan-oreilly-of-the-st-louis-blues-wins-selke-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/06\/20\/ryan-oreilly-of-the-st-louis-blues-wins-selke-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan O\u2019Reilly of the St. Louis Blues Wins Selke Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more heavily debated awards going into Wednesday night\u2019s NHL Awards was the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the top defensive forward in the league. At the end of the night,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oreilry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/strong><\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/blues\/\" target=\"_self\">St. Louis Blues<\/a> was named the winner of the award as he added to the list of his accomplishments to end the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2019 Selke Trophy winner, the League&#39;s top defensive forward, is Ryan O&#39;Reilly. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLAwards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8gGt7skS8N\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/8gGt7skS8N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1141516531836366849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/07\/01\/ryan-oreilly-traded\/\" target=\"_self\">traded to the Blues<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a> as general manager Doug Armstrong, who was up for the GM of the Year Award, wanted to add some skill and shake things up.\u00a0O&#8217;Reilly, who lost the love for the game in Buffalo, was a pivotal player for the Blues this season. He found a renewed passion for hockey again. It did not hurt that his dad works in mental health. He trained Ryan in the off-season to come back stronger than before.<\/p>\n<h1>A Selke Winning Season for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/o\/oreilry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>This led to O\u2019Reilly leading the Blues in scoring with 77 points (28 goals, 49 assists) as he played in all 82 games.\u00a0You could make an argument that O&#8217;Reilly should have been nominated for the Hart Trophy as League MVP as he was the best player for the Blues all season long, even through the teams early struggles.<\/p>\n<p>One the playoffs came, O\u2019Reilly took his game to an even higher level as he won the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as Most Valuable Player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. O\u2019Reilly compiled 23 points, tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/bruins\/\" target=\"_self\">Boston Bruins<\/a> forward <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchbr03.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brad Marchand<\/a><\/strong> for most in the playoffs. He also set a new Blues franchise record for points in the playoffs, passing\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hullbr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brett Hull<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/federbe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Federko<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Record-Setting<\/h3>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly was the first player since <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/messima01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Messier<\/a><\/strong> in 1987 to have a six-game point streak in the playoffs as well as a four-game goal streak. The last player to have a four-game goal streak in the playoffs was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gretzwa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne Gretzky<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The other two finalists were <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrice Bergeron<\/a><\/strong> of the Boston Bruins and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stonema01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Stone<\/a><\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/knights\/\" target=\"_self\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. Bergeron was nominated for the Selke Trophy for the eighth consecutive year and was looking to win the award for an NHL record fifth time. Stone was on the ballot for the first time and as the voting shows this was a very tough decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Voting for the Frank J. Selke Trophy as selected by members of the PHWA: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZElunlIDLc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZElunlIDLc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PHWA (@ThePHWA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePHWA\/status\/1141517401135157248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Reilly is the second player in Blues franchise history to win the Selke Trophy. The first was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/meaghri01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Rick Meagher<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in 1989-90. The award is voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers&#8217; Association at the end of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:\u00a0MONTREAL, QC &#8211; OCTOBER 17: Look on St. Louis Blues center Ryan O&#8217;Reilly (90) during the St. Louis Blues versus the Montreal Canadiens game on October 17, 2018, at Bell Centre in Montreal, QC (Photo by David Kirouac\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more heavily debated awards going into Wednesday night\u2019s NHL Awards was the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the top defensive forward in the league. At the end of the night,\u00a0Ryan O&#8217;Reilly of the St. Louis Blues was named the winner of the award as he added to the list of his accomplishments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3130,"featured_media":37204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[32,34],"tags":[1146,218,39],"class_list":["post-49471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blues","category-news","tag-nhl-awards","tag-ryan-oreilly","tag-st-louis-blues"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49471","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\/3130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}