MONTREAL (CP) – For the first time in the National Hockey League, a New York team has won three individual awards in one season.
Results of the voting for five-player awards were announced today.
Bryan Trottier of New York Islanders became the youngest forward and second-youngest player Io win the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player Io his team.
Trottier also won the the Art Ross Trophy for finishing on top of the scoring race during the 1978-79 regular season.
Trottier's teammate, Denis Potvin, was named winner of the James Norris Trophy for the third time as the league's best defenceman.
Other award winners were: Bob MacMillan of Atlanta Flames, the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the league's most gentlemanly player; Bobby Smith of Minnesota North Stars, the Calder Memorial Trophy as Ihe leading rookie; and Bob Gainey of Montreal Canadiens, the outstanding defensive forward.
The award recipients, with the exception of the Ross award, were selected by voting members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
Points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis for three choices with a unanimous vote drawing 255 points.
The closest to a unanimous choice was Potvin in the Norris balloting. He received 228 points and was the first selection on 40 of 51 ballots.
The closest voting was for the Lady Byng award where only nine points separated the top three choices.
MacMillan. 26. of Charlottetown, obtained by Atlanta from St. Louis Blues in a seven-player deal Dec. 12, 1977, received 79 points. Next were Iwotime winner Marcel Dionne of Los Angeles Kings with 73 points and Rick Middleton of Boston Bruins with 70.
Of the seven individual trophies for the 1978-79 regular season, three went Io the Islanders and two to the Canadiens. Ken Dryden and Michel Larocque of Montreal won the Vezina Trophy for the fourth straight season as the best goaltenders in Ihe league.
Gainey also was winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the 1979 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Trottier was the second choice of the Islanders in the 1974 amateur draft and was picked 22nd overall. This season he broke the three-season reign of right-winger Guy Lafleur of Montreal as scoring champion when he compiled a record of 134 points, including a league-leading 87 assists in 76 games.
A native of Vai Marie, Sask., Trottier polled 201 points in the Hari Trophy voting. Runner-up was Lafleur, the winner of the award in each of the previous Iwo seasons, with 84 points. Lafleur finished third in the scoring race this year with 129 points, one fewer than Dionne.