Norris trophy (99.8% complete historical results, 1954-2023)

Hockey Outsider · Jun 25, 2015

Introduction

I have nearly the complete Norris trophy voting results from the inception of the award (1953-54) until present (2022-23). The data is 99.8% complete (and I'll prove how I know this).

Standard disclaimers - the Norris trophy voting doesn't take into account the playoffs or international tournaments. The voters may or may not actually be intelligent, objective hockey fans.

Still, despite those issues, I think there's enough interesting information that it's worth reviewing the 69 years worth of data.

For the sake of not destroying HFBoards servers, I'm not posting all the data. I'd like to think I've posted everything that would be interesting to a passionate (but not insane) fan. If you want more information, ask me.

Note 1: there's a lot of data here. I've tried my best to ensure everything is consistent but let me know if you see any errors.

Note 2: I often refer to "Norris trophy share". This equals the number of votes a defenseman earned, divided by the maximum number possible votes. So a player who wins a unanimous Norris trophy would have a 100% share, and it scales down from there.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 25, 2015

Detailed results by player - 5% threshold

This table shows the following:

Column 1: year
Column 2: player name
Column 3: votes earned
Column 4: maximum possible number of votes that could have been earned that year
Column 5: Norris shares
Column 6: rank during the year

Year

Player

Votes

Max

Percentage

Rank

2021

Adam Fox

743

1000

74.3%

1

2022

Adam Fox

248

1950

12.7%

5

2023

Adam Fox

1125

1960

57.4%

2

2004

Adrian Aucoin

166

1040

16.0%

5

1969

Al Arbour

17

180

9.4%

5

1970

Al Arbour

9

180

5.0%

6

1989

Al MacInnis

57

315

18.1%

3

1990

Al MacInnis

127

315

40.3%

2

1991

Al MacInnis

228

330

69.1%

2

1994

Al MacInnis

60

270

22.2%

3

1999

Al MacInnis

548

560

97.9%

1

2001

Al MacInnis

49

620

7.9%

7

2003

Al MacInnis

486

620

78.4%

2

2012

Alex Pietrangelo

381

1490

25.6%

4

2014

Alex Pietrangelo

304

1370

22.2%

5

2020

Alex Pietrangelo

527

1700

31.0%

4

1960

Allan Stanley

42

180

23.3%

2

1961

Allan Stanley

27

180

15.0%

3

1962

Allan Stanley

14

180

7.8%

8

1966

Allan Stanley

23

180

12.8%

7

2008

Andrei Markov

156

1340

11.6%

6

2009

Andrei Markov

95

1330

7.1%

6

1982

Barry Beck

28

315

8.9%

7

1954

Bill Gadsby

38

180

21.1%

3

1956

Bill Gadsby

59

180

32.8%

2

1957

Bill Gadsby

32

180

17.8%

3

1958

Bill Gadsby

119

180

66.1%

2

1959

Bill Gadsby

67

180

37.2%

2

1960

Bill Gadsby

22

180

12.2%

6

1963

Bill Gadsby

25

180

13.9%

5

1965

Bill Gadsby

40

180

22.2%

3

1968

Bill White

9

120

7.5%

7

1972

Bill White

25

210

11.9%

3

1973

Bill White

36

240

15.0%

3

1974

Bill White

44

240

18.3%

3

1960

Bob Armstrong

12

180

6.7%

7

1964

Bob Baun

9

180

5.0%

7

1965

Bob Baun

15

180

8.3%

8

1954

Bob Goldham

18

180

10.0%

5

1955

Bob Goldham

16

180

8.9%

4

1967

Bobby Orr

36

180

20.0%

3

1968

Bobby Orr

68

120

56.7%

1

1969

Bobby Orr

176

180

97.8%

1

1970

Bobby Orr

180

100.0%

1

1971

Bobby Orr

208

210

99.0%

1

1972

Bobby Orr

204

210

97.1%

1

1973

Bobby Orr

224

240

93.3%

1

1974

Bobby Orr

236

240

98.3%

1

1975

Bobby Orr

266

270

98.5%

1

1975

Borje Salming

31

270

11.5%

4

1976

Borje Salming

56

270

20.7%

3

1977

Borje Salming

157

270

58.1%

2

1978

Borje Salming

84

270

31.1%

4

1979

Borje Salming

65

255

25.5%

3

1980

Borje Salming

117

315

37.1%

2

1988

Brad McCrimmon

70

315

22.2%

4

1989

Brad McCrimmon

24

315

7.6%

6

1970

Brad Park

58

180

32.2%

2

1971

Brad Park

57

210

27.1%

2

1972

Brad Park

117

210

55.7%

2

1973

Brad Park

36

240

15.0%

3

1974

Brad Park

98

240

40.8%

2

1976

Brad Park

96

270

35.6%

2

1978

Brad Park

135

270

50.0%

2

2016

Brent Burns

619

1500

41.3%

3

2017

Brent Burns

1437

1670

86.0%

1

2019

Brent Burns

720

1710

42.1%

2

2008

Brian Campbell

333

1340

24.9%

5

1981

Brian Engblom

21

315

6.7%

6

1982

Brian Engblom

31

315

9.8%

6

1991

Brian Leetch

30

330

9.1%

4

1992

Brian Leetch

335

345

97.1%

1

1996

Brian Leetch

245

540

45.4%

3

1997

Brian Leetch

494

540

91.5%

1

1999

Brian Leetch

49

560

8.8%

8

2001

Brian Leetch

126

620

20.3%

5

2004

Bryan McCabe

189

1040

18.2%

4

2021

Cale Makar

655

1000

65.5%

2

2022

Cale Makar

1631

1950

83.6%

1

2023

Cale Makar

553

1960

28.2%

3

1961

Carl Brewer

9

180

5.0%

6

1962

Carl Brewer

41

180

22.8%

4

1963

Carl Brewer

81

180

45.0%

2

1965

Carl Brewer

19

180

10.6%

6

1970

Carl Brewer

22

180

12.2%

3

2021

Charlie McAvoy

125

1000

12.5%

5

2022

Charlie McAvoy

358

1950

18.4%

4

1989

Chris Chelios

226

315

71.7%

1

1991

Chris Chelios

56

330

17.0%

3

1993

Chris Chelios

201

250

80.4%

1

1995

Chris Chelios

39

75

52.0%

2

1996

Chris Chelios

408

540

75.6%

1

1997

Chris Chelios

172

540

31.9%

4

2000

Chris Chelios

54

580

9.3%

6

2002

Chris Chelios

431

620

69.5%

2

1998

Chris Pronger

316

540

58.5%

3

1999

Chris Pronger

107

560

19.1%

4

2000

Chris Pronger

565

580

97.4%

1

2002

Chris Pronger

62

620

10.0%

5

2004

Chris Pronger

345

1040

33.2%

3

2006

Chris Pronger

97

1290

7.5%

7

2007

Chris Pronger

608

1430

42.5%

3

2010

Chris Pronger

168

1330

12.6%

5

1982

Craig Hartsburg

54

315

17.1%

4

2007

Dan Boyle

219

1430

15.3%

4

2009

Dan Boyle

173

1330

13.0%

5

2010

Dan Boyle

116

1330

8.7%

6

2021

Darnell Nurse

76

1000

7.6%

7

1997

Darryl Sydor

45

540

8.3%

7

1975

Denis Potvin

99

270

36.7%

2

1976

Denis Potvin

237

270

87.8%

1

1977

Denis Potvin

58

270

21.5%

3

1978

Denis Potvin

155

270

57.4%

1

1979

Denis Potvin

228

255

89.4%

1

1981

Denis Potvin

113

315

35.9%

2

1982

Denis Potvin

27

315

8.6%

8

1984

Denis Potvin

66

310

21.3%

4

1999

Derian Hatcher

53

560

9.5%

7

2003

Derian Hatcher

142

620

22.9%

3

2007

Dion Phaneuf

98

1430

6.9%

6

2008

Dion Phaneuf

561

1340

41.9%

2

1964

Doug Barkley

9

180

5.0%

7

1966

Doug Barkley

30

180

16.7%

5

1954

Doug Harvey

57

180

31.7%

2

1955

Doug Harvey

147

180

81.7%

1

1956

Doug Harvey

156

180

86.7%

1

1957

Doug Harvey

159

180

88.3%

1

1958

Doug Harvey

153

180

85.0%

1

1959

Doug Harvey

48

180

26.7%

4

1960

Doug Harvey

129

180

71.7%

1

1961

Doug Harvey

162

180

90.0%

1

1962

Doug Harvey

102

180

56.7%

1

1963

Doug Harvey

14

180

7.8%

6

1957

Doug Mohns

23

180

12.8%

5

1962

Doug Mohns

15

180

8.3%

5

1982

Doug Wilson

177

315

56.2%

1

1983

Doug Wilson

29

315

9.2%

4

1985

Doug Wilson

84

315

26.7%

4

1990

Doug Wilson

40

315

12.7%

3

2021

Dougie Hamilton

239

1000

23.9%

4

2023

Dougie Hamilton

270

1960

13.8%

6

2010

Drew Doughty

662

1330

49.8%

3

2014

Drew Doughty

284

1370

20.7%

6

2015

Drew Doughty

889

1570

56.6%

2

2016

Drew Doughty

1254

1500

83.6%

1

2018

Drew Doughty

1164

1640

71.0%

2

2009

Duncan Keith

95

1330

7.1%

6

2010

Duncan Keith

1096

1330

82.4%

1

2013

Duncan Keith

281

1780

15.8%

6

2014

Duncan Keith

1033

1370

75.4%

1

2015

Duncan Keith

134

1570

8.5%

7

2017

Duncan Keith

384

1670

23.0%

4

2002

Ed Jovanovski

53

620

8.5%

6

2003

Ed Jovanovski

58

620

9.4%

6

1963

Elmer Vasko

28

180

15.6%

4

1964

Elmer Vasko

28

180

15.6%

3

1999

Eric Desjardins

91

560

16.3%

5

2000

Eric Desjardins

119

580

20.5%

4

2012

Erik Karlsson

1069

1490

71.7%

1

2014

Erik Karlsson

70

1370

5.1%

7

2015

Erik Karlsson

964

1570

61.4%

1

2016

Erik Karlsson

1020

1500

68.0%

2

2017

Erik Karlsson

1292

1670

77.4%

2

2023

Erik Karlsson

1585

1960

80.9%

1

1955

Fern Flaman

32

180

17.8%

3

1956

Fern Flaman

11

180

6.1%

5

1957

Fern Flaman

32

180

17.8%

3

1958

Fern Flaman

17

180

9.4%

3

1959

Fern Flaman

34

180

18.9%

5

2013

Francois Beauchemin

290

1780

16.3%

4

1999

Fredrik Olausson

48

560

8.6%

9

1988

Gary Suter

80

315

25.4%

3

1973

Guy Lapointe

58

240

24.2%

2

1975

Guy Lapointe

45

270

16.7%

3

1976

Guy Lapointe

39

270

14.4%

4

1977

Guy Lapointe

32

270

11.9%

4

2023

Hampus Lindholm

483

1960

24.6%

4

1962

Harry Howell

9

180

5.0%

9

1964

Harry Howell

13

180

7.2%

5

1965

Harry Howell

12

180

6.7%

9

1966

Harry Howell

28

180

15.6%

6

1967

Harry Howell

113

180

62.8%

1

1955

Hugh Bolton

9

180

5.0%

5

2020

Jaccob Slavin

138

1700

8.1%

5

1962

Jack Evans

15

180

8.3%

5

1964

Jacques Laperriere

25

180

13.9%

4

1965

Jacques Laperriere

78

180

43.3%

2

1966

Jacques Laperriere

89

180

49.4%

1

1968

Jacques Laperriere

15

120

12.5%

5

1969

Jacques Laperriere

9

180

5.0%

6

1970

Jacques Laperriere

18

180

10.0%

4

1973

Jacques Laperriere

25

240

10.4%

5

2021

Jakob Chychrun

50

1000

5.0%

10

1966

JC Tremblay

32

180

17.8%

4

1967

JC Tremblay

18

180

10.0%

5

1968

JC Tremblay

31

120

25.8%

2

1971

JC Tremblay

35

210

16.7%

3

1962

Jean-Guy Talbot

46

180

25.6%

3

1963

Jean-Guy Talbot

11

180

6.1%

7

1968

Jim Neilson

26

120

21.7%

4

1970

Jim Neilson

11

180

6.1%

5

1980

Jim Schoenfeld

85

315

27.0%

3

2018

John Carlson

311

1640

19.0%

5

2019

John Carlson

551

1710

32.2%

4

2020

John Carlson

1267

1700

74.5%

2

2018

John Klingberg

160

1640

9.8%

6

2023

Josh Morrissey

337

1960

17.2%

5

2011

Keith Yandle

312

1270

24.6%

5

1993

Kevin Hatcher

17

250

6.8%

4

1982

Kevin Lowe

20

315

6.3%

10

1988

Kevin Lowe

24

315

7.6%

5

2007

Kimmo Timonen

144

1430

10.1%

5

2011

Kris Letang

144

1270

11.3%

6

2013

Kris Letang

914

1780

51.3%

3

2015

Kris Letang

80

1570

5.1%

8

2016

Kris Letang

587

1500

39.1%

4

2019

Kris Letang

145

1710

8.5%

6

2021

Kris Letang

60

1000

6.0%

9

1981

Larry Murphy

16

315

5.1%

7

1987

Larry Murphy

31

270

11.5%

3

1992

Larry Murphy

37

345

10.7%

5

1993

Larry Murphy

93

250

37.2%

3

1995

Larry Murphy

7

75

9.3%

4

1998

Larry Murphy

47

540

8.7%

6

1977

Larry Robinson

186

270

68.9%

1

1978

Larry Robinson

85

270

31.5%

3

1979

Larry Robinson

83

255

32.5%

2

1980

Larry Robinson

239

315

75.9%

1

1981

Larry Robinson

100

315

31.7%

3

1982

Larry Robinson

50

315

15.9%

5

1986

Larry Robinson

43

300

14.3%

3

1961

Leo Boivin

15

180

8.3%

5

2011

Lubomir Visnovsky

573

1270

45.1%

4

2021

Mackenzie Weegar

74

1000

7.4%

8

1957

Marcel Pronovost

15

180

8.3%

6

1959

Marcel Pronovost

58

180

32.2%

3

1960

Marcel Pronovost

39

180

21.7%

3

1961

Marcel Pronovost

52

180

28.9%

2

1965

Marcel Pronovost

20

180

11.1%

5

2015

Mark Giordano

177

1570

11.3%

6

2019

Mark Giordano

1690

1710

98.8%

1

1980

Mark Howe

23

315

7.3%

5

1983

Mark Howe

155

315

49.2%

2

1986

Mark Howe

172

300

57.3%

2

1987

Mark Howe

137

270

50.7%

2

2004

Mathieu Schneider

144

1040

13.8%

7

2006

Mathieu Schneider

111

1290

8.6%

6

2008

Mike Green

84

1340

6.3%

7

2009

Mike Green

982

1330

73.8%

2

2010

Mike Green

831

1330

62.5%

2

1968

Mike McMahon

8

120

6.7%

8

2023

Miro Heiskanen

269

1960

13.7%

7

2019

Morgan Reilly

515

1710

30.1%

5

1996

Nicklas Lidstrom

54

540

10.0%

6

1997

Nicklas Lidstrom

60

540

11.1%

6

1998

Nicklas Lidstrom

369

540

68.3%

2

1999

Nicklas Lidstrom

234

560

41.8%

2

2000

Nicklas Lidstrom

400

580

69.0%

2

2001

Nicklas Lidstrom

600

620

96.8%

1

2002

Nicklas Lidstrom

472

620

76.1%

1

2003

Nicklas Lidstrom

560

620

90.3%

1

2004

Nicklas Lidstrom

165

1040

15.9%

6

2006

Nicklas Lidstrom

1152

1290

89.3%

1

2007

Nicklas Lidstrom

1217

1430

85.1%

1

2008

Nicklas Lidstrom

1313

1340

98.0%

1

2009

Nicklas Lidstrom

733

1330

55.1%

3

2010

Nicklas Lidstrom

303

1330

22.8%

4

2011

Nicklas Lidstrom

736

1270

58.0%

1

2012

Nicklas Lidstrom

132

1490

8.9%

5

1966

Pat Stapleton

40

180

22.2%

3

1971

Pat Stapleton

23

210

11.0%

4

1972

Pat Stapleton

16

210

7.6%

4

1982

Paul Coffey

55

315

17.5%

3

1983

Paul Coffey

24

315

7.6%

5

1984

Paul Coffey

126

310

40.6%

2

1985

Paul Coffey

223

315

70.8%

1

1986

Paul Coffey

280

300

93.3%

1

1989

Paul Coffey

115

315

36.5%

2

1990

Paul Coffey

33

315

10.5%

4

1995

Paul Coffey

69

75

92.0%

1

1996

Paul Coffey

83

540

15.4%

5

1961

Pete Goegan

9

180

5.0%

6

1990

Phil Housley

32

315

10.2%

5

1992

Phil Housley

82

345

23.8%

3

1993

Phil Housley

16

250

6.4%

5

1999

Phil Housley

40

560

7.1%

10

1959

Pierre Pilote

19

180

10.6%

6

1960

Pierre Pilote

33

180

18.3%

4

1961

Pierre Pilote

24

180

13.3%

4

1962

Pierre Pilote

47

180

26.1%

2

1963

Pierre Pilote

98

180

54.4%

1

1964

Pierre Pilote

138

180

76.7%

1

1965

Pierre Pilote

93

180

51.7%

1

1966

Pierre Pilote

54

180

30.0%

2

1967

Pierre Pilote

95

180

52.8%

2

1968

Pierre Pilote

11

120

9.2%

6

2013

PK Subban

1266

1780

71.1%

1

2015

PK Subban

801

1570

51.0%

3

2018

PK Subban

565

1640

34.5%

3

2023

Quinn Hughes

101

1960

5.2%

9

1981

Randy Carlyle

120

315

38.1%

1

2023

Rasmus Dahlin

262

1960

13.4%

8

1980

Ray Bourque

51

315

16.2%

4

1981

Ray Bourque

53

315

16.8%

4

1982

Ray Bourque

80

315

25.4%

2

1983

Ray Bourque

139

315

44.1%

3

1984

Ray Bourque

120

310

38.7%

3

1985

Ray Bourque

136

315

43.2%

2

1986

Ray Bourque

25

300

8.3%

4

1987

Ray Bourque

266

270

98.5%

1

1988

Ray Bourque

245

315

77.8%

1

1989

Ray Bourque

56

315

17.8%

4

1990

Ray Bourque

315

100.0%

1

1991

Ray Bourque

257

330

77.9%

1

1992

Ray Bourque

112

345

32.5%

2

1993

Ray Bourque

97

250

38.8%

2

1994

Ray Bourque

199

270

73.7%

1

1995

Ray Bourque

20

75

26.7%

3

1996

Ray Bourque

403

540

74.6%

2

1997

Ray Bourque

45

540

8.3%

7

1998

Ray Bourque

37

540

6.9%

7

1999

Ray Bourque

157

560

28.0%

3

2000

Ray Bourque

36

580

6.2%

7

2001

Ray Bourque

251

620

40.5%

2

1954

Red Kelly

162

180

90.0%

1

1955

Red Kelly

95

180

52.8%

2

1956

Red Kelly

44

180

24.4%

3

1957

Red Kelly

42

180

23.3%

2

1998

Rob Blake

401

540

74.3%

1

2000

Rob Blake

196

580

33.8%

3

2001

Rob Blake

176

620

28.4%

4

2002

Rob Blake

321

620

51.8%

3

2003

Rob Blake

62

620

10.0%

5

2004

Rob Blake

124

1040

11.9%

8

1981

Rod Langway

38

315

12.1%

5

1982

Rod Langway

24

315

7.6%

9

1983

Rod Langway

180

315

57.1%

1

1984

Rod Langway

227

310

73.2%

1

1985

Rod Langway

89

315

28.3%

3

1986

Rod Langway

19

300

6.3%

5

2015

Roman Josi

222

1570

14.1%

5

2016

Roman Josi

120

1500

8.0%

5

2018

Roman Josi

86

1640

5.2%

7

2020

Roman Josi

1499

1700

88.2%

1

2022

Roman Josi

1606

1950

82.4%

2

1958

Ron Stewart

13

180

7.2%

4

2013

Ryan Suter

1230

1780

69.1%

2

2014

Ryan Suter

351

1370

25.6%

4

2017

Ryan Suter

175

1670

10.5%

5

1997

Sandis Ozolinsh

176

540

32.6%

3

1998

Scott Niedermayer

58

540

10.7%

5

2004

Scott Niedermayer

872

1040

83.8%

1

2006

Scott Niedermayer

817

1290

63.3%

2

2007

Scott Niedermayer

1024

1430

71.6%

2

1988

Scott Stevens

124

315

39.4%

2

1992

Scott Stevens

44

345

12.8%

4

1994

Scott Stevens

195

270

72.2%

2

1997

Scott Stevens

171

540

31.7%

5

1998

Scott Stevens

84

540

15.6%

4

1999

Scott Stevens

55

560

9.8%

6

2001

Scott Stevens

203

620

32.7%

3

1973

Serge Savard

22

240

9.2%

6

1975

Serge Savard

14

270

5.2%

5

1976

Serge Savard

23

270

8.5%

5

1977

Serge Savard

29

270

10.7%

5

1979

Serge Savard

41

255

16.1%

4

2000

Sergei Gonchar

78

580

13.4%

5

2001

Sergei Gonchar

94

620

15.2%

6

2002

Sergei Gonchar

147

620

23.7%

4

2003

Sergei Gonchar

131

620

21.1%

4

2004

Sergei Gonchar

55

1040

5.3%

9

2007

Sergei Gonchar

85

1430

5.9%

7

2008

Sergei Gonchar

370

1340

27.6%

4

1994

Sergei Zubov

15

270

5.6%

4

2003

Sergei Zubov

37

620

6.0%

8

2006

Sergei Zubov

464

1290

36.0%

3

2018

Seth Jones

406

1640

24.8%

4

2021

Shea Theodore

109

1000

10.9%

6

2009

Shea Weber

186

1330

14.0%

4

2010

Shea Weber

96

1330

7.2%

7

2011

Shea Weber

727

1270

57.2%

2

2012

Shea Weber

1057

1490

70.9%

2

2014

Shea Weber

638

1370

46.6%

3

2015

Shea Weber

614

1570

39.1%

4

2017

Shea Weber

100

1670

6.0%

6

1989

Steve Duchesne

30

315

9.5%

5

1965

Ted Green

17

180

9.4%

7

1968

Ted Green

6

120

5.0%

9

1969

Ted Green

27

180

15.0%

3

1969

Ted Harris

22

180

12.2%

4

2002

Teppo Numminen

44

620

7.1%

7

1964

Terry Harper

13

180

7.2%

5

1954

Tim Horton

26

180

14.4%

4

1961

Tim Horton

9

180

5.0%

6

1962

Tim Horton

15

180

8.3%

5

1963

Tim Horton

37

180

20.6%

3

1964

Tim Horton

70

180

38.9%

2

1965

Tim Horton

27

180

15.0%

4

1967

Tim Horton

34

180

18.9%

4

1968

Tim Horton

30

120

25.0%

3

1969

Tim Horton

48

180

26.7%

2

1956

Tom Johnson

21

180

11.7%

4

1959

Tom Johnson

92

180

51.1%

1

1960

Tom Johnson

32

180

17.8%

5

2017

Victor Hedman

728

1670

43.6%

3

2018

Victor Hedman

1385

1640

84.5%

1

2019

Victor Hedman

585

1710

34.2%

3

2020

Victor Hedman

820

1700

48.2%

3

2021

Victor Hedman

433

1000

43.3%

3

2022

Victor Hedman

940

1950

48.2%

3

1996

Vladimir Konstantinov

131

540

24.3%

4

1997

Vladimir Konstantinov

178

540

33.0%

2

2006

Wade Redden

115

1290

8.9%

5

2003

Zdeno Chara

55

620

8.9%

7

2004

Zdeno Chara

563

1040

54.1%

2

2006

Zdeno Chara

430

1290

33.3%

4

2008

Zdeno Chara

486

1340

36.3%

3

2009

Zdeno Chara

1034

1330

77.7%

1

2010

Zdeno Chara

88

1330

6.6%

8

2011

Zdeno Chara

688

1270

54.2%

3

2012

Zdeno Chara

950

1490

63.8%

3

2013

Zdeno Chara

289

1780

16.2%

5

2014

Zdeno Chara

667

1370

48.7%

2

Note that I'm only showing years where a defenseman earned at least 5.0% percent of the maximum possible votes. This weeds out years where a player only receives a few throwaway votes.

A note on ties - I'm treating players as having the same rank as long as they have the same number of voting points. In reality, the NHL uses the number of first-place votes (then second-place, etc) as the tie-breaker. I only have data regarding the total number of votes. It would be extremely time-consuming to input all the detailed results, so I'm not going to do that. I'm presenting the data as is, with this note, to be consistent and transparent about what I've done.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 25, 2015

All-time Norris trophy rankings - 5% threshold

PLAYER	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	TOTAL
Ray Bourque	5	6	4	4			3				22
Nicklas Lidstrom	7	3	1	1	1	3					16
Doug Harvey	7	1		1		1					10
Pierre Pilote	3	3		2		2					10
Zdeno Chara	1	2	3	1	1		1	1			10
Bobby Orr	8		1								9
Paul Coffey	3	2	1	1	2						9
Tim Horton		2	2	3	1	1					9
Chris Chelios	3	2	1	1		1					8
Denis Potvin	3	2	1	1				1			8
Chris Pronger	1		3	1	2		1				8
Bill Gadsby		3	3		1	1					8
Larry Robinson	2	1	3		1						7
Al MacInnis	1	3	2				1				7
Jacques Laperriere	1	1		2	2	1					7
Brad Park		6	1								7
Scott Stevens		2	1	2	1	1					7
Shea Weber		2	1	2		1	1				7
Sergei Gonchar				3	1	1	1		1		7
Erik Karlsson	3	2					1				6
Brian Leetch	2		1	1	1			1			6
Rod Langway	2		1		2				1		6
Duncan Keith	2			1		2	1				6
Victor Hedman	1		5								6
Rob Blake	1		2	1	1			1			6
Borje Salming		2	2	2							6
Larry Murphy			2	1	1	1	1				6
Kris Letang			1	1		2		1	1		6
Drew Doughty	1	2	1			1					5
Roman Josi	1	1			2		1				5
Harry Howell	1				1	1			2		5
Marcel Pronovost		1	2		1	1					5
Carl Brewer		1	1	1		2					5
Fern Flaman			3		2						5
Serge Savard				1	3	1					5
Red Kelly	1	2	1								4
Scott Niedermayer	1	2			1						4
Doug Wilson	1		1	2							4
Mark Howe		3			1						4
Guy Lapointe		1	1	2							4
JC Tremblay		1	1	1	1						4
Allan Stanley		1	1				1	1			4
Bill White			3				1				4
Phil Housley			1		2					1	4
Brent Burns	1	1	1								3
Cale Makar	1	1	1								3
Adam Fox	1	1			1						3
PK Subban	1		2								3
Tom Johnson	1			1	1						3
Mike Green		2					1				3
Ryan Suter		1		1	1						3
John Carlson		1		1	1						3
Pat Stapleton			1	2							3
Sergei Zubov			1	1				1			3
Ted Green			1				1		1		3
Alex Pietrangelo				2	1						3
Dan Boyle				1	1	1					3
Mark Giordano	1					1					2
Vladimir Konstantinov		1		1							2
Dion Phaneuf		1				1					2
Elmer Vasko			1	1							2
Derian Hatcher			1				1				2
Jean-Guy Talbot			1				1				2
Bob Goldham				1	1						2
Eric Desjardins				1	1						2
Jim Neilson				1	1						2
Charlie McAvoy				1	1						2
Brad McCrimmon				1		1					2
Dougie Hamilton				1		1					2
Doug Mohns					2						2
Al Arbour					1	1					2
Doug Barkley					1		1				2
Kevin Lowe					1					1	2
Andrei Markov						2					2
Brian Engblom						2					2
Ed Jovanovski						2					2
Mathieu Schneider						1	1				2
Bob Baun							1	1			2
Randy Carlyle	1										1
Gary Suter			1								1
Jim Schoenfeld			1								1
Sandis Ozolinsh			1								1
Bryan McCabe				1							1
Craig Hartsburg				1							1
Francois Beauchemin				1							1
Kevin Hatcher				1							1
Lubomir Visnovsky				1							1
Ron Stewart				1							1
Ted Harris				1							1
Seth Jones				1							1
Hampus Lindholm				1							1
Adrian Aucoin					1						1
Brian Campbell					1						1
Hugh Bolton					1						1
Jack Evans					1						1
Keith Yandle					1						1
Kimmo Timonen					1						1
Leo Boivin					1						1
Steve Duchesne					1						1
Terry Harper					1						1
Wade Redden					1						1
Morgan Reilly					1						1
Jaccob Slavin					1						1
Josh Morrissey					1						1
Pete Goegan						1					1
John Klingberg						1					1
Shea Theodore						1					1
Barry Beck							1				1
Darryl Sydor							1				1
Teppo Numminen							1				1
Bob Armstrong							1				1
Darnell Nurse							1				1
Miro Heiskanen							1				1
Mike McMahon								1			1
Mackenzie Weegar								1			1
Rasmus Dahlin								1			1
Fredrik Olausson									1		1
Quinn Hughes									1		1
Jakob Chychrun										1	1

This table shows the number of times each player finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. in Norris voting. Once again I'm cutting off the data once we get to players with less than a 5.0% vote share. This means I'm posting the top four for almost every year, the top six in about half the years, and down to as low as 10th place on rare occasions.

Note that many of these players (most notably Kelly, Harvey and Gadsby) played several years before the inception of the Norris trophy. Kelly is particularly disadvantaged here, as he earned a spot on the year-end first all-star team each of the three years before the Norris was created, generally by wide margins.

Ray Bourque is a freak of nature. He played 22 seasons and never placed less than 7th in Norris voting once. He was 4th or higher 19 times. The only players who can rival Bourque's consistently high level of play are Gretzky and Howe. By this metric, Bourque singlehandedly almost matches the results of Chelios, Potvin and Pronger!

This table shows how much of an aberration Randy Carlyle's Norris trophy truly was. Not only did he win a very questionable award, he was never even close to contending for the Norris trophy again. Even some of the weaker winners (Tom Johnson, Harry Howell, Doug Wilson) were at least contenders in a few other years.

Many of us know that Brad Park was runner-up for the Norris six times (four times to Orr, twice to Potvin). The defensemen with the most "significant" seasons (as I've defined them) who didn't win the Norris are Tim Horton and Bill Gadsby. Somewhat surprisingly, Sergei Gonchar is in the top five.

Some people say that Sergei Zubov deserves a spot in the Hall of Fame. He was great in the playoffs but his voting record is comparable to Pat Stapleton and Dan Boyle. Has he been underrated by the Norris voters? Or is the position that he deserves a spot in the HOF historical revisionism?

The biggest surprise is seeing Chara ranked T-3rd on this list (5th if you're looking at tiebreakers). If you believe he played in a somewhat weaker era for high-end defensive talent (as I do), this result should be discounted somewhat, but he`s still in extremely impressive territory. The lingering questions as to whether he's a Hall of Fame player are, at this point, laughable.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 25, 2015

All-time Norris trophy shares

Ray Bourque	900.9
Nicklas Lidstrom	896.8
Bobby Orr	760.8
Doug Harvey	626.7
Chris Chelios	415.8
Zdeno Chara	400.8
Paul Coffey	393.9
Erik Karlsson	365.9
Denis Potvin	364.5
Pierre Pilote	345.3
Al MacInnis	345.2
Victor Hedman	309.4
Chris Pronger	288.5
Drew Doughty	287.9
Brian Leetch	284.2
Larry Robinson	276.3
Brad Park	265.8
Shea Weber	245.9
Scott Niedermayer	237.5
Scott Stevens	231.0
Bill Gadsby	227.8
Duncan Keith	217.2
Rob Blake	211.3
Roman Josi	204.3
Borje Salming	193.4
Red Kelly	192.2
Rod Langway	186.6
Tim Horton	181.4
Cale Makar	178.7
Brent Burns	175.7
Mark Howe	173.2
PK Subban	157.4
Jacques Laperriere	148.6
Adam Fox	144.4
Mike Green	142.9
John Carlson	129.7
Kris Letang	127.9
Marcel Pronovost	118.9
Ryan Suter	117.2
Mark Giordano	116.0
Sergei Gonchar	113.2
Harry Howell	108.1
Doug Wilson	107.4
Carl Brewer	100.6
Tom Johnson	88.9
Larry Murphy	87.2
Alex Pietrangelo	82.7
Guy Lapointe	78.1
JC Tremblay	77.4
Fern Flaman	70.0
Allan Stanley	68.3
Sergei Zubov	64.9
Bill White	59.2
Vladimir Konstantinov	57.2
Dion Phaneuf	56.5
Phil Housley	52.8
Serge Savard	51.6
Lubomir Visnovsky	49.0
Pat Stapleton	48.2
Eric Desjardins	45.7
Dougie Hamilton	41.9
Randy Carlyle	40.3
Dan Boyle	38.9
Elmer Vasko	36.7
Jim Neilson	34.5
Derian Hatcher	34.4
Gary Suter	34.2
Doug Mohns	33.9
Sandis Ozolinsh	33.3
Jim Schoenfeld	33.1
Jean-Guy Talbot	32.8
Brian Campbell	32.2
Charlie McAvoy	31.7
Ted Green	31.7
Morgan Reilly	30.6
Brad McCrimmon	29.8
Seth Jones	27.6
Keith Yandle	26.4
Doug Barkley	25.0
Hampus Lindholm	24.8
Mathieu Schneider	23.3
Bryan McCabe	21.7
Bob Goldham	20.6
Adrian Aucoin	20.5
Andrei Markov	20.4
Bob Baun	19.8
Kevin Lowe	19.4
Ed Jovanovski	19.3
Barry Beck	18.3
Wade Redden	18.3
Craig Hartsburg	17.5
Terry Harper	17.5
Josh Morrissey	17.2
Brian Engblom	16.5
Francois Beauchemin	16.4
Leo Boivin	16.1
Al Arbour	16.1
Ted Harris	14.6
Miro Heiskanen	14.5
John Klingberg	14.0

See description of Norris trophy shares in the first post. I'm not filtering the data (so players might gain a few points in years where they have few throwaway votes).

Note that many of these players (most notably Kelly, Harvey and Gadsby) played several years before the inception of the Norris trophy. Kelly is particularly disadvantaged here, as he earned a spot on the year-end first all-star team each of the three years before the Norris was created, generally by wide margins.

Quality of competition is a major factor here. Poor Brad Park peaked at the same time as Orr and Potvin. Both of them, though especially Orr, dominated the Norris trophy voting, and left few votes available for everybody else. Considering the context, Park's 17th place finish is very impressive.

Note that a single big season can really skew the numbers. Doug Wilson ranks ahead of Murphy, Lapointe, Savard, etc., and that feels wrong.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 25, 2015

Data validation

Note that I've been accumulating the data for years from a variety of sources - copies of old newspapers available online, magazines, and this website. I can't guarantee complete accuracy of the data (either because I made a typo when inputting it, or the source may have contained wrong information for whatever reason). I've done a fair amount of spot-checking and correct any errors on the rare occasions when I find them, but once again, let me know if you see any mistakes.

It's actually fairly easy to validate the completeness of the data. For example, in 1954, there were 36 voters, each awarding 5+3+1 = 9 voting points. Thus, there were 36 * 9 = 324 points available. Adding up the individual results for each player (162 for Kelly, 57 for Harvey, all the way down to 1 each for Pronovost and a few others), we get 324 points. This tells me that the data is 100% complete. (Again, there could still be inaccuracies - such as by switching the votes for Gadsby and Horton - but at least this tells me I'm not missing any data).

Here are the results:

1954	324	324	100.0%
1955	324	324	100.0%
1956	324	324	100.0%
1957	321	324	99.1%
1958	324	324	100.0%
1959	324	324	100.0%
1960	324	324	100.0%
1961	320	324	98.8%
1962	324	324	100.0%
1963	324	324	100.0%
1964	324	324	100.0%
1965	324	324	100.0%
1966	324	324	100.0%
1967	324	324	100.0%
1968	216	216	100.0%
1969	324	324	100.0%
1970	319	324	98.5%
1971	378	378	100.0%
1972	378	378	100.0%
1973	432	432	100.0%
1974	432	432	100.0%
1975	486	486	100.0%
1976	486	486	100.0%
1977	462	486	95.1%
1978	486	486	100.0%
1979	459	459	100.0%
1980	566	567	99.8%
1981	567	567	100.0%
1982	567	567	100.0%
1983	567	567	100.0%
1984	558	558	100.0%
1985	567	567	100.0%
1986	540	540	100.0%
1987	486	486	100.0%
1988	567	567	100.0%
1989	567	567	100.0%
1990	567	567	100.0%
1991	594	594	100.0%
1992	621	621	100.0%
1993	450	450	100.0%
1994	486	486	100.0%
1995	135	135	100.0%
1996	1,404	1,404	100.0%
1997	1,404	1,404	100.0%
1998	1,404	1,404	100.0%
1999	1,455	1,456	99.9%
2000	1,508	1,508	100.0%
2001	1,612	1,612	100.0%
2002	1,590	1,612	98.6%
2003	1,612	1,612	100.0%
2004	2,704	2,704	100.0%
2006	3,354	3,354	100.0%
2007	3,711	3,718	99.8%
2008	3,479	3,484	99.9%
2009	3,458	3,458	100.0%
2010	3,454	3,458	99.9%
2011	3,302	3,302	100.0%
2012	3,874	3,874	100.0%
2013	4,627	4,628	100.0%
2014	3,562	3,562	100.0%
2015	4,082	4,082	100.0%
2016	3,900	3,900	100.0%
2017	4,342	4,342	100.0%
2018	4,264	4,264	100.0%
2019	4,446	4,446	100.0%
2020	4,420	4,420	100.0%
2021	2,600	2,600	100.0%
2022	5,070	5,070	100.0%
2023	5,096	5,096	100.0%

Over the past 69 years, I'm at less than 99.0% completeness in just four seasons: 1961 (98.8%), 1970 (98.5%), 1977 (95.1%) and 2002 (98.7%). Let me know if you know where I can find the complete results for these years, but at this point it won't materially impact anything.

A simple (unweighted) average shows that I have 99.8% complete data. For this reason I'm highly confident in the integrity of the data that I've presented.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 25, 2015

Unanimous Norris trophy wins

Just two unanimous winners in 62 years of voting - Bobby Orr in 1970 and Ray Bourque in 1990.

Largest margins of victory over second place

1971	Bobby Orr	99.0%	Brad Park	27.1%	71.9%
1969	Bobby Orr	97.8%	Tim Horton	26.7%	71.1%
1973	Bobby Orr	93.3%	Guy Lapointe	24.2%	69.2%
1970	Bobby Orr	100.0%	Brad Park	32.2%	67.8%
1957	Doug Harvey	88.3%	Red Kelly	23.3%	65.0%

So, I hear that Bobby Orr was a pretty good defenseman. He has five of the top seven largest margins of victory.

Smallest margins of victory over second place

2011	Nicklas Lidstrom	58.0%	Shea Weber	57.2%	0.7%
2012	Erik Karlsson	71.7%	Shea Weber	70.9%	0.8%
1996	Chris Chelios	75.6%	Ray Bourque	74.6%	0.9%
2022	Cale Makar	83.6%	Roman Josi	82.4%	1.3%
1994	Ray Bourque	73.7%	Scott Stevens	72.2%	1.5%

Poor Shea Weber. Not only was he runner-up twice, his two losses were the two narrowest losses in the history of the trophy (and they were in consecutive years).

Moridin · Jun 25, 2015

It blows my mind everytime i see stats like this...

Most great have 7-10 seasons of greatness...

And LidstrÃ¶m doubles that with 16....

And Bourque has 3 times the peak of a Leetch, Park or Pronger with 22.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 22, 2016

This entire thread has been updated for 2016.

Some of today's best blueliners are continuing to climb the ranks. Shea Weber is 15th in Norris trophy shares, Drew Doughty is 19th, Erik Karlsson is 21st, and Duncan Keith is 22nd.

alko · Jun 23, 2016

Surprised by Chara. He is in the top 5 in All-time rankings.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 21, 2017

This entire thread has been updated for 2017. Some commentary:

Brent Burns won the Norris trophy. He now has two seasons in the top three in voting (2016 and 2017) and ranks 30th all-time in voting shares.

Erik Karlsson was runner-up. He now has five "significant" seasons (earning at least 5% of the maximum number of votes). He ranks 13th all-time in voting shares (a fraction of a point behind Leetch). Remarkable for a 26-year-old.

Victor Hedman, who placed third, has his first "significant" season.

Duncan Keith quietly placed fourth in Norris voting. He now has six "significant" seasons, ranking him on par with Salming and Leetch. He didn't earn a lot of votes this year, but still enough to vault him into 20th place in terms of all-time voting shares.

Ryan Suter finished fifth. He earned his third "significant" season.

Shea Weber is the sixth and final defenseman who earned more than the threshold number of votes. He now has a remarkable seven "significant" seasons. His Norris voting record is nearly identical to Scott Stevens' (though their playoff resumes, obviously, are vastly different). He ranks 16th all-time in voting shares - impressive for someone who never won the Norris.

silkyjohnson50 · Jun 22, 2017

Rather than going into each thread individually, I'm just going to use this one to thank you for your work. I really love looking at all of these.

Dennis Bonvie · Jun 22, 2017

Hockey Outsider said:
All-time Norris trophy shares

See description of Norris trophy shares in the first post. I`m not filtering the data (so players might gain a few points in years where they have few throwaway votes).

Player | Shares
Ray Bourque | 901
Nicklas Lidstrom | 897
Bobby Orr | 761
Doug Harvey | 627
Chris Chelios | 416
Zdeno Chara | 400
Paul Coffey | 394
Denis Potvin | 364
Pierre Pilote | 345
Al MacInnis | 345
Chris Pronger | 289
Brian Leetch | 284
Erik Karlsson | 284
Larry Robinson | 276
Brad Park | 266
Shea Weber | 246
Scott Niedermayer | 238
Scott Stevens | 231
Bill Gadsby | 228
Duncan Keith | 217
Drew Doughty | 217
Rob Blake | 211
Borje Salming | 193
Red Kelly | 192
Rod Langway | 187
Tim Horton | 181
Mark Howe | 173
Jacques Laperriere | 149
Mike Green | 143
Brent Burns | 129
PK Subban | 123
Marcel Pronovost | 119
Ryan Suter | 116
Sergei Gonchar | 113
Kris Letang | 110
Harry Howell | 108
Doug Wilson | 107
Carl Brewer | 101
Tom Johnson | 89
Larry Murphy | 87
Guy Lapointe | 78
JC Tremblay | 77
Fern Flaman | 70
Allan Stanley | 68
Sergei Zubov | 65
Bill White | 59
Vladimir Konstantinov | 57
Dion Phaneuf | 57
Phil Housley | 53
Serge Savard | 52
Victor Hedman | 51
Alex Pietrangelo | 50
Lubomir Visnovsky | 49
Pat Stapleton | 48
Eric Desjardins | 46
Randy Carlyle | 40
Dan Boyle | 39
Elmer Vasko | 37
Jim Neilson | 35
Derian Hatcher | 34
Gary Suter | 34
Doug Mohns | 34
Sandis Ozolinsh | 33
Jim Schoenfeld | 33
Jean-Guy Talbot | 33
Brian Campbell | 32
Ted Green | 32
Brad McCrimmon | 30
Keith Yandle | 26
Doug Barkley | 25
Mathieu Schneider | 23
Roman Josi | 23
Bryan McCabe | 22
Bob Goldham | 21
Adrian Aucoin | 20
Andrei Markov | 20
Bob Baun | 20
Kevin Lowe | 19
Ed Jovanovski | 19
Barry Beck | 18
Wade Redden | 18
Craig Hartsburg | 18
Terry Harper | 17
Mark Giordano | 17
Brian Engblom | 17
Francois Beauchemin | 16
Leo Boivin | 16
Al Arbour | 16
Ted Harris | 15
Teppo Numminen | 13
Steve Duchesne | 12
Kimmo Timonen | 11
Kevin Hatcher | 11
Brian Rafalski | 11
Bob Armstrong | 11
Darryl Sydor | 10
Gary Bergman | 9
Jack Evans | 9
Fredrik Olausson | 9
Keith Magnuson | 8

Note that many of these players (most notably Kelly, Harvey and Gadsby) played several years before the inception of the Norris trophy. Kelly is particularly disadvantaged here, as he earned a spot on the year-end first all-star team each of the three years before the Norris was created, generally by wide margins.

Quality of competition is a major factor here. Poor Brad Park peaked at the same time as Orr and Potvin. Both of them, though especially Orr, dominated the Norris trophy voting, and left few votes available for everybody else. Considering the context, Park's 15th place finish is very impressive.

Note that a single big season can really skew the numbers. Doug Wilson ranks ahead of Murphy, Lapointe, Savard, etc., and that feels wrong.

Great stuff!

Don't usually see Orr compared to other defensemen. These numbers show why.

Doug Wilson ranked ahead of Larry Murphy doesn't seem wrong to me.

Just ahead of Serge Savard: Phil Housley and Dion Phaneuf.

Surprised Mark Howe didn't rank higher.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 22, 2017

silkyjohnson50 said:
Rather than going into each thread individually, I'm just going to use this one to thank you for your work. I really love looking at all of these.

Thanks! I appreciate the comment.

Dennis Bonvie said:
Great stuff!

Don't usually see Orr compared to other defensemen. These numbers show why.

Doug Wilson ranked ahead of Larry Murphy doesn't seem wrong to me.

Just ahead of Serge Savard: Phil Housley and Dion Phaneuf.

Surprised Mark Howe didn't rank higher.

Yes, it definitely feels wrong to see Housley and Phaneuf ahead of Savard. The standard disclaimer - this stuff doesn't take the playoffs into account. Voters also probably overrate offense (because it's easy to measure) and underrate defense.

Howe was runner-up to some decisive winners (Coffey in 1986 and Borque in 1987) which meant there were fewer votes for him to earn.

vadim sharifijanov · Jun 23, 2017

Hockey Outsider said:
All-time Norris trophy shares

Player | Shares
Chris Chelios | 416
Zdeno Chara | 400
Paul Coffey | 394

wacky

chelios 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4
chara 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5
coffey 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5

Hockey Outsider · Jun 24, 2017

vadim sharifijanov said:
wacky

chelios 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4
chara 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5
coffey 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5

Coffey had a few seasons where he technically finished top five, but it was with a minimal number of votes.

For example, in 1987 Coffey was 5th in Norris voting - but only got 10 voting points out of a possible 270. In 1991, he was again 5th - with 8 points out of 330.

So Coffey had several more years than Chelios and Chara where he earned a few fringe votes (maybe due to reputation, maybe because offense is easier to measure than defense). Regardless, that gives him more "top fives" if you're not filtering the data, but (by definition) these types of seasons count very little towards the amount of total votes earned over his career.

Hockey Outsider · Nov 8, 2017

This thread has been updated after the data migration on HFBoards. Let me know if you see any errors/problems.

VanIslander · Nov 8, 2017

I am not surprised to see Ted Green on it three times, but Doug Barkley twice surprises me. Huh.

BUT...

Hugh Bolton?

Wait, he got a mere 9 votes out of hundreds, certainly way less than 5% of the "threshhold" you set Hockey Outsider. Not only is the bar you set ridiculously/insignificantly low, but Hugh Bolton didn't even meet it but is listed as if he had!

Here's Hugh. Even he looks puzzled.

Hockey Outsider · Nov 8, 2017

In 1955, there were 180 votes up for grabs in the Norris trophy race, and Bolton got 9 of them - exactly 5%.

Were you looking at the data from hockey-reference.com? Their calculation of the vote percentage for 1955 (and possibly other years - I haven't checked) is definitely incorrect. There were 180 votes up for grabs and Red Kelly got 147 of them. So his voting share should be 82% (which is what I have listed here) - not 49%, which is what they have on their website. Similarly, the 5% I calculated for Bolton is correct - the 3% they calculated is wrong.

The mistake hockey-reference.com made is they're dividing each player's votes by the total number of votes on record. That's a faulty approach, since there are always more total votes than are needed for a unanimous trophy (due to all of the second and third-place votes). For example, in 1970, 324 voting points were awarded in total. But Bobby Orr won the trophy unanimously with 180 points (the remaining points are attributable to second and third-place votes).

It's debatable if 5% is too low a threshold (maybe 10% is better), but it's been applied consistently for all defensemen.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 20, 2018

This entire thread has been updated for 2018. Some commentary:

Victor Hedman won the Norris. He now has two "significant" seasons (1st this year, 3rd last year).

Drew Doughty was the runner-up. He's now had five "significant" seasons in the last eight years. He's finished 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 3rd and 6th. Doughty now ranks 12th place all-time in Norris trophy shares, passing Erik Karlsson, Brian Leetch and Larry Robinson.

PK Subban finished third. This is his third "significant" season. He's finished 1st, 3rd and 3rd.

Seth Jones (4th), John Carlson (5th) and John Klingberg (6th). It was the first "significant" season for each of them.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 19, 2019

This entire thread has been updated for 2019. Some commentary:

Mark Giordano won the Norris trophy with the 4th highest vote share in the history of the award (98.8%). The only players who won the award more decisively were Bobby Orr (1970 and 1971) and Ray Bourque (1990). Giordano deserved to win the trophy, but I don't think we witnessed an all-time great season, so I was surprised by his very high share of the vote. This is his second "significant" season (which I've defined as being at least 5.0% of the vote share); in addition to winning the trophy, he finished 6th.

Brent Burns has had a pretty good run. He's finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd in Norris voting (all over the past four seasons).

Victor Hedman, last year's winner, has also finished in the top three, three times (all consecutive) - 1st, 3rd and 3rd.

John Carlson had his second significant season - he's finished 4th and 5th in voting.

Morgan Reillly received the first Norris trophy votes of his career, finishing 5th.

Kris Letang quietly had his 5th significant season. He's only been an official finalist once, but has finished 3rd, 4th, 6th, 6th and 8th.

Hockey Outsider · Sep 22, 2020

This entire thread has been updated for 2020. Some commentary:

Roman Josi won the Norris trophy. He's now finished 1st, 5th, 5th, and 7th.
John Carlson was runner-up. He's now finished 2nd, 4th and 5th in Norris voting over the past three years.
Victor Hedman finished third. He's now finished 3rd for the Norris in three of the past four years (and also won the award in 2018). It also looks like he's a Conn Smythe candidate. Hedman's four seasons as a Norris finalist puts him on par with Pronger, Horton, Salming and Karlsson; and ahead of Stevens, Leetch, Niedermayer, Langway, Howe and Blake.
Alex Pietrangelo finished fourth. He's now finished 4th, 4th and 5th.
Jaccob Slavin finished fifth. He earned a trivial number of votes in each of the past three years, but made a big jump this season.

I noticed that 2019's winner, Mark Giordano, didn't receive a single vote this year. How often has the Norris winner failed to earn a single vote in the next season? As far as I can call, this has happened four times - Bobby Orr 1975, Brian Leetch 1992, Brian Leetch 1997, and now Mark Giordano 2020. In Orr's case, injuries limited him to just ten games in 1976. Leetch missed more than half of the 1993 season, and in 1998 the Rangers missed the playoffs and his plus/minus plummeted. Giordano missed ten games and his offense plummeted.

Boxscore · Sep 25, 2020

This just shows how incredible Ray Bourque was--my goodness.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 30, 2021

This entire thread has been updated for 2021. As always, let me know if you see any errors. A quick summary of this year's results:

Adam Fox won the Norris trophy. He's one of only two defensemen in NHL history (the other being Bobby Orr) to win the award in his sophomore season. As I noted in another thread, Fox is the only defenseman in NHL history to win the Norris while on a team that didn't qualify for the playoffs. This was his first season getting any significant Norris consideration (which I've always defined as at least 5% of the votes).
Cale Makar, also a sophomore, was runner-up. It was his first "significant" Norris trophy finish.
Victor Hedman finished third. He's now has one win and four 3rd place finishes. He's one of only a small handful of defensemen to be a Norris finalist five years in a row.
Kris Letang finished 9th. He's now finished 3rd, 4th, 6th, 6th, 8th and 9th.
Otherwise is was a very green crop of Norris finalists. The following defensemen had their first significant Norris trophy finishes - Dougie Hamilton (4th), Charlie McAvoy (5th), Shea Theodore (6th), Darnell Nurse (7th), Mackenzie Weegar (8th), and Jakob Chychrun (10th).

It was a fractured field. You'd have to go back to 1999 to find another season where ten defensemen each got at least 5% of the votes.

Hockey Outsider · Jun 24, 2022

This entire thread has been updated for 2022. As always, let me know if you see any errors. A quick summary of this year's results:

Cale Makar won the Norris trophy (and he was runner-up last year - I define any seasons where a player gets at least 5% of the votes as "significant"). This was the 4th closest vote in the history of the trophy. I posted more details in another thread. More voters ranked Josi over Makar, but those who ranked Makar higher had him ahead by a larger margin.

Roman Josi was runner-up. This was his fifth "significant" season. In addition to winning the Norris trophy in 2020, he also finished 2nd, 5th, 5th, and 7th. Josi earned the highest vote share in history (82.4%) for a player who didn't win the Norris.

Victor Hedman finished third. This was his sixth "significant" season. In addition to winning the Norris trophy in 2018, he placed 3rd five times. Hedman is now one of only 12 defensemen in the entire history of the Norris trophy to be a finalist six times. He's also one of only five defensemen (Orr, Bourque, Lidstrom and Pilote) to be a finalist six consecutive seasons.

Charlie McAvoy finished 4th. It was his second "significant" season (he also finished 5th last year).

Adam Fox finished 5th. It was his second "significant" season (he won the Norris last year).

Hockey Outsider · Jul 3, 2023

This entire thread has been updated for 2023. As always, let me know if you see any errors. A quick summary of this year's results:

Erik Karlsson won the Norris trophy for the third time. He's also finished runner-up twice, and has a 7th place finish. With five years finishing in the top two, he ties some big names - Potvin, Chelios and Coffey. Those four are tied for 7th all-time (behind only Bourque, Lidstrom, Orr, Harvey, Park, and Pilote).

Adam Fox was runner-up. It was his third consecutive significant finish in a row (he won in 2021 and placed 5th last year).

Cale Makar, despite only playing in 60 games, finished 3rd. It was also his third consecutive significant finish in a row (he was runner-up in 2021 and won the trophy last year).

Dougie Hamilton finished 6th. This was his second significant finish (he also finished 4th in 2021).

Five defensemen had their first significant finishes - Hampus Lindholm (4th), Josh Morrissey (5th), Miro Heiskanen (7th), Rasmus Dahlin (8th) and Quinn Hughes (9th).

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