SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The South Florida chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA) announced today that Florida Panthers\u00a0forward\u00a0Brad Marchand\u00a0has been selected as the club’s 2025-26\u00a0nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.<\/p>\n
Marchand, 37, has skated in 52 games with the Panthers this season, recording 54 points (27-27-54), his 11th\u00a0consecutive campaign with at least 20 goals and 20 assists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 5-foot-9, 180-pound native of Halifax, Nova Scotia registered his 1,000th\u00a0NHL point on Nov. 13 vs. Washington, becoming the\u00a0first player in franchise history to earn their 1,000th NHL point while a member of the Florida Panthers,\u00a0the fifth skater born in Nova Scotia to reach 1,000 points joining Sidney Crosby, Al MacInnis, Bobby Smith and Nathan MacKinnon, and the 102nd\u00a0player in league history to reach the milestone. He also earned a silver medal representing\u00a0Canada at the\u00a0Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Masterton Trophy winner is selected from a poll of the 32 chapters of the PHWA at the end of the regular season. Each of the 32 PHWA member chapters\u00a0nominated\u00a0a player from the 32 NHL clubs they cover. The PHWA first presented the Masterton Trophy in 1968 to commemorate the late Bill Masterton, a player with the Minnesota North Stars, who\u00a0exhibited\u00a0to a high degree the qualities of perseverance,\u00a0sportsmanship\u00a0and dedication to hockey. Masterton died January 15,\u00a01968\u00a0following an injury suffered in a game.<\/p>\n
Join the Florida Panthers Territory Membership Waiting List. Click here<\/a>\u00a0to learn more. Single game tickets are on sale now for the 2025-26 season. Please visit\u00a0SeatGeek.com<\/a>\u202for\u00a0FloridaPanthers.com\/tickets<\/a>\u202fto purchase tickets today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The South Florida chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA) announced today that Florida Panthers\u00a0forward\u00a0Brad Marchand\u00a0has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5102],"tags":[62,57,5141,5,4,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-547665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida-panthers","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-panthers","10":"tag-floridapanthers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116370010835683422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}