The

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NHL Man of the Year Award was sponsored by

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to award a

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player based on his sportsmanship and involvement with charitable groups. Every NHL team nominates a player and the winner would be chosen by a panel of judges at the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs and receive $21,000 to donate to their charities.Chester Swenson, ''Selling to a Segmented Market'' (McGraw-Hill, 1992), ; trade paperback, pp 126. The award lasted from the 1987–88 season until the 1991–92 season. Six years later, the NHL established the

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, which served a similar function until it was merged into the

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in 2017–18.

Winners

References

{{NHLawards National Hockey League trophies and awards