Kopitar, 37, also won the Lady Byng in the 2015-16 and 2022-23 seasons to become the 10th player to win it at least three times.

Kopitar hopes to win his third Lady Byng, and his first since 2022-23. The 37-year-old center scored 21 goals and 67 points in 81 games this year while only registering four penalty minutes.

Los Angeles Kings center Anže Kopitar claimed the third Lady Byng Memorial Trophy of his NHL career on Thursday after taking just two minor penalties in 81 games last season.

This was Kopitar’s fourth Lady Byng nomination (2016, 2018, 2023 and 2025), with the Kings having lost in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs in each of those four campaigns.

Kopitar won the Lady Byng twice, in 2015-16 and 2022-23. Only Pavel Datsyuk and Martin St-Louis won the trophy more times in this century.

Four different players have won the Lady Byng while playing for the Flames franchise: Johnny Gaudreau (2017), Jiri Hudler (2015), Joe Mullen (1987 and 1989), and Bob MacMillan (1979).

He set the NHL record with 1,274 faceoff wins. O'Reilly won the Lady Byng with Colorado in 2013-14. The only Sabres player to win the award was Gilbert Perreault in 1972-73.

Kings captain Anže Kopitar has been named a finalist for the NHL’s Lady Byng Trophy, awarded annually “to the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly ...

Byng and Davis went blow for blow through six innings and ended up tied at 1-1. But the Lady Wolves got a one-out, three-run homer from Mattie Morton in the bottom of the seventh to steal the walk ...

May 2 - Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar will vie for his third Lady Byng Trophy after being named a finalist for the award on Friday. Kopitar, who won the award in 2016 and 2023, was joined ...