Carey Price has won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year for 2015, Sportsnet’s Damien Cox announced Tuesday.
The prize rounds out a decorated year for the Montreal Canadiens goaltender, who claimed the Hart, Vezina and William M. Jennings trophies at the NHL Awards in June, as well as the Ted Lindsay Award.
The winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy is voted on by a committee of media members at the Toronto Star. Former Toronto Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos was among this year’s voters.
Price, 28, is the first goaltender to claim the award and the second hockey player to win in the last 20 years. Price had a sparkling .934 save percentage in 2014-15 and set a Canadiens franchise record with 44 wins.
Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries claimed the award in 2014.
According to the Star, sprinter Andre De Grasse, basketball star Kia Nurse, soccer player Kadeisha Buchanan and track-and-field stars Shawn Barber and Derek Drouin were contenders in one of the award’s closest votes.
