This week’s best and worst around the NHL

Connor McDavid headlined the 2021 NHL Awards show, winning the Hart Memorial Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award. Here are the other winners for the NHLs major awards.

Mike Sullivan insisted the Pittsburgh Penguins would take a minute to enjoy clinching their 15th straight playoff berth, the longest active streak in major North American professional sports. The postgame routine following Thursday night’s 5-4 overtime win against Washington that assured the Penguins of a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup went much like the postgame routine of the 32 victories this season that came before it. “I’m proud of the group for working as hard as they have to solidify a playoff spot, but certainly that’s not where it ends,” Sullivan said Friday.