{"id":592027,"date":"2026-06-05T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/592027\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:36:16","slug":"capitals-tom-wilson-finishes-24th-in-selke-voting-aliaksei-protas-justin-sourdif-also-earn-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/592027\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitals’ Tom Wilson Finishes 24th In Selke Voting, Aliaksei Protas & Justin Sourdif Also Earn Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Capitals<\/a> were well-represented in voting for the Frank J. Selke Trophy, as Tom Wilson<\/a>, Aliaksei Protas<\/a> and Justin Sourdif<\/a> all received consideration for the award.<\/p>\n

The Selke is presented to the \u201cthe forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game,” as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Nick Suzuki<\/a> was this year’s recipient.<\/p>\n

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Wilson finished 24th in voting, receiving three third-place votes and three fifth-place votes. Through 72 games this past season, Wilson put up 30 goals and 32 assists for 62 points and was a plus-15, while playing a shutdown role and logging time on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n

In addition to Wilson, Protas finished 29th with a second-place vote and third-place vote, and Sourdif finished 33rd with one second-place vote.<\/p>\n

Protas, who earned Selke consideration last season, had 25 goals and 27 assists for 62 points in 76 games and was a plus-20. He continued to show dominance at 5-on-5, but also played a vital role on D.C.’s penalty kill.<\/p>\n

Sourdif, in his rookie season, had 15 goals and 20 assists for 35 points in 78 games and was a plus-17, and stepped into a defensive center role with Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a> out long-term due to injury. He played a strong two-way game and also took on more minutes and responsibility as the season went on.<\/p>\n

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Along with the Selke, the Lady Byng award was also presented to Suzuki’s teammate, Cole Caufield<\/a>. The Lady Byng is given \u201cto the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly conduct combined with a high standard of playing ability” as selected by the Professional Hockey Writers Association.<\/p>\n

Matt Roy<\/a> and Logan Thompson<\/a> finished 79th in voting with each earning a fifth-place vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Capitals were well-represented in voting for the Frank J. Selke Trophy, as Tom Wilson, Aliaksei Protas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5114],"tags":[396,191,971,65891,12139,5,15094,907,7603,4,975,4863,280,190,109,5222],"class_list":["post-592027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-capitals","tag-aliaksei-protas","tag-capitals","tag-cole-caufield","tag-defensive-aspects","tag-frank-j-selke-trophy","tag-hockey","tag-justin-sourdif","tag-logan-thompson","tag-matt-roy","tag-nhl","tag-nick-suzuki","tag-pierre-luc-dubois","tag-tom-wilson","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116698951427395963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592027","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=592027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}