Stanley Cup champions grab league's top honors

TORONTO -- The Tampa Bay Lightning have a few more awards to go with their Stanley Cup.

Tampa Bay coach John Tortorella won coach of the year, Brad Richards was saluted as most gentlemanly player and Martin St. Louis took home the biggest prize as league MVP at the NHL awards banquet Thursday night.

St. Louis also was presented with the Art Ross Trophy as scoring champion and, earlier in the day, he won the Lester B. Pearson Award as most outstanding player as selected by his peers.

"It's going to be a tough year to top," said St. Louis, who became the first player since Wayne Gretzky in 1987 to win the Hart, Ross and Stanley Cup in the same season.

He's only the eighth player in NHL history to complete the triple.

Tampa Bay beat Calgary in Game 7 of finals on Monday.

New Jersey's Brodeur was named best goalie for the second year in a row. Fifteen of the 30 NHL general managers picked Brodeur for the Vezina Trophy. Calgary's Miikka Kiprusoff was runner-up.

New Jersey's Scott Niedermayer won the Norris Trophy as best defenseman.

Boston's Andrew Raycroft won the Calder Trophy as top rookie. He went 14-6-3 in his last 23 games to lift the Bruins to first place in the Northeast Division.