#NHLPeachy @NHL @CanadiensMTL Canadiens’ Cole Caufield Wins Lady Byng Trophy
Montreal Canadiens forward Cole Caufield is the 2025-26 recipient of the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded “to 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.
Caufield believed that he was surprising teammate Nick Suzuki with the Frank J. Selke Trophy inside the Montreal locker room, not knowing that Suzuki also was surprising him with the Lady Byng.
Caufield was the first Lady Byng Trophy finalist representing the Canadiens since Mats Naslund (1st in 1987-88, 3rd in 1985-86 and 1988-89). The first-time NHL Awards finalist joins Naslund and Toe Blake (1945-46) as Canadiens players to have won the Lady Byng since the trophy was first presented in 1924-25.
The Montreal winger prevailed in a wide-open race in which four players received at least 20 first-place votes. Caufield was the top choice of 45 voters and was named on 113 of the 198 ballots en route to 776 voting points, ahead of five-time Lady Byng finalist and three-time winner Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings (38 first-place votes, 602 points). Ottawa Senators defenseman Jake Sanderson, a first-time NHL Awards finalist, ranked third with 28 first-place votes and 585 points. Points are allocated on a 10-7-5-3-1 basis for first through fifth place.
Caufield enjoyed a historic season as Montreal’s first 50-goal scorer in 36 years, helping the Canadiens (48-24-10, 106 points) post their second-highest standings points total in that span. He notched 51-37—88 in 81 games, finishing second in the race for the Maurice Richard Trophy behind Nathan MacKinnon (53 goals) and tying the seventh-highest goal tally in franchise history. Among those 51 were 29 go-ahead goals, the second-highest figure for a single season in League history behind Brett Hull (39 in 1990-91). He did so while taking just seven minor penalties for a total of 14 penalty minutes, tied for the fewest among the NHL’s 45 players with at least 30 goals.
2025-26 Lady Byng Trophy Voting
Points
(1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th)
1.
Cole Caufield, MTL
776
(45-22-25-13-8)
2.
Anze Kopitar, LAK
602
(38-22-6-9-11)
3.
Jake Sanderson, OTT
585
(28-25-18-11-7)
4.
Zach Werenski, CBJ
468
(21-17-21-8-10)
5.
Kyle Connor, WPG
348
(6-22-18-11-11)
6.
Jack Eichel, VGK
306
(8-14-14-16-10)
7.
Jack Hughes, NJD
213
(6-10-12-6-5)
8.
Nick Suzuki, MTL
209
(13-3-5-9-6)
9.
Mark Stone, VGK
183
(7-8-7-6-4)
10.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau, NYI
102
(3-7-3-0-8)
11.
Sam Reinhart, FLA
102
(2-3-5-9-9)
12.
Mika Zibanejad, NYR
96
(1-1-9-8-10)
13.
Jaccob Slavin, CAR
88
(4-3-3-3-3)
14.
Jesper Bratt, NJD
72
(1-3-2-6-13)
15.
Cale Makar, COL
60
(2-2-3-3-2)
16.
Brayden Point, TBL
59
(1-1-3-7-6)
17.
Sidney Crosby, PIT
55
(2-3-1-2-3)
18.
Brock Boeser, VAN
52
(1-1-3-5-5)
19.
Nikolaj Ehlers, CAR
51
(1-2-2-2-11)
20.
Jared Spurgeon, MIN
47
(2-1-2-3-1)
21.
Rickard Rakell, PIT
44
(1-1-4-2-1)
22.
Teuvo Teravainen, CHI
41
(1-1-2-4-2)
23.
Travis Sanheim, PHI
39
(0-1-3-5-2)
24.
Matthew Schaefer, NYI
38
(3-1-0-0-1)
25.
Denton Mateychuk, CBJ
35
(0-3-1-2-3)
26.
Charlie Coyle, CBJ
27
(0-1-2-3-1)
27.
Troy Terry, ANA
25
(0-3-0-1-1)
28.
Mitch Marner, VGK
24
(0-2-0-2-4)
29.
Sean Monahan, CBJ
24
(0-1-2-1-4)
30.
Alex DeBrincat, DET
23
(0-1-1-3-2)
31.
Jason Robertson, DAL
20
(0-1-2-1-0)
32.
Jackson LaCombe, ANA
19
(0-2-1-0-0)
33.
Ryan O’Reilly, NSH
19
(0-2-0-1-2)
34.
Tyler Toffoli, SJS
13
(0-0-2-0-3)
35.
John Marino, UTA
12
(0-1-0-1-2)
36.
Esa Lindell, DAL
12
(0-0-2-0-2)
37.
Leon Draisaitl, EDM
11
(0-1-0-1-1)
38.
Macklin Celebrini, SJS
11
(0-0-2-0-1)
39.
Patrick Kane, DET
10
(1-0-0-0-0)
t-40.
Matt Duchene, DAL
10
(0-1-0-1-0)
Connor McDavid, EDM
10
(0-1-0-1-0)
42.
Ryan Pulock, NYI
10
(0-0-2-0-0)
43.
Emmitt Finnie, DET
10
(0-0-1-1-2)
44.
Erik Karlsson, PIT
9
(0-0-1-1-1)
45.
William Nylander, TOR
9
(0-0-0-3-0)
46.
Vladimir Tarasenko, MIN
8
(0-0-1-1-0)
t-47.
Sebastian Aho, CAR
7
(0-1-0-0-0)
Josh Doan, BUF
7
(0-1-0-0-0)
Elias Pettersson, VAN
7
(0-1-0-0-0)
Devon Toews, COL
7
(0-1-0-0-0)
51.
Philip Broberg, STL
6
(0-0-1-0-1)
t-52.
Brent Burns, COL
6
(0-0-0-2-0)
Collin Graf, SJS
6
(0-0-0-2-0)
Marcus Johansson, MIN
6
(0-0-0-2-0)
Artturi Lehkonen, COL
6
(0-0-0-2-0)
Colton Parayko, STL
6
(0-0-0-2-0)
John Tavares, TOR
6
(0-0-0-2-0)
t-58.
Lukas Dostal, ANA
5
(0-0-1-0-0)
Cam Fowler, STL
5
(0-0-1-0-0)
Mark Scheifele, WPG
5
(0-0-1-0-0)
Chandler Stephenson, SEA
5
(0-0-1-0-0)
Jonathan Toews, WPG
5
(0-0-1-0-0)
James van Riemsdyk, DET
5
(0-0-1-0-0)
t-64.
Ivan Barbashev, VGK
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Mikael Granlund, ANA
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Brandon Hagel, TBL
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Miro Heiskanen, DAL
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Filip Hronek, VAN
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Seth Jarvis, CAR
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Wyatt Johnston, DAL
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Martin Necas, COL
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Artemi Panarin, LAK
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Jonathan Quick, NYR
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Lucas Raymond, DET
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Shea Theodore, VGK
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Linus Ullmark, OTT
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
Alex Wennberg, SJS
3
(0-0-0-1-0)
78.
Kirill Kaprizov, MIN
2
(0-0-0-0-2)
t-79.
Mikael Backlund, CGY
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Filip Forsberg, NSH
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Filip Gustavsson, MIN
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Noah Hanifin, VGK
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Quinn Hughes, MIN
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Jordan Kyrou, STL
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Trevor Moore, LAK
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Jake Oettinger, DAL
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Victor Olofsson, CGY
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
James Reimer, OTT
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Matt Roy, WSH
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Nate Schmidt, UTA
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Reilly Smith, VGK
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Logan Thompson, WSH
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Gabriel Vilardi, WPG
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
Alex Vlasic, CHI
1
(0-0-0-0-1)
