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TORONTO -- Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks and Claude Giroux of the Philadelphia Flyers have been nominated as finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award. The award is presented annually to the most valuable player in the NHL, as voted by fellow members of the National Hockey League Players Association. The three centres are also the finalists for the Hart Trophy, awarded by the NHL to the player considered most valuable to his team. Crosby scored 36 goals and led the league in assists (68) and points (104) to capture his second career Art Ross Trophy and lead the Penguins to their second consecutive division title. He registered points in 60 of the 80 games he played in (75 per cent), including 30 multi-point performances, and never went more than two consecutive games without registering a point. The 26-year-old Cole Harbour, N.S., native also reached the 100-point milestone for the fifth time hit 700 career points in his 497th game, the fastest among active players and sixth-fastest in NHL history. Crosby won the award in 2007 and 2013 and was a finalist in 2010. Getzlaf scored a career-high 31 goals and ranked second in the league with 87 points to lead the Ducks to the top record in the Western Conference for the first time in franchise history. He posted a 14-game point streak from Nov. 15-Dec. 15 (six goals, 11 assists). Getzlaf, from Regina, also set a career high with seven game-winning goals and recorded a plus-28 defensive rating. Hes a first-time nominee and is looking to become the first Ducks player to receive the award. Giroux matched a career high with 28 goals and finished third in the NHL scoring race with 86 points to help the Flyers bounce back from a 3-9-0 start to the season. After being held pointless in his first five games and not scoring a goal until his 16th, Giroux totalled 28 goals and 51 assists in his final 67 games of the season. The 26-year-old Hearst, Ont., native also compiled a career-long, nine-game point streak Dec. 11-30, (six goals, 11 assists) and recorded his 100th NHL goal Dec. 19. Hes looking to become the first Flyer to receive the Award since Eric Lindros in 1995. . The Padres made the moves before Fridays game at Washington. They promoted infielder Jace Peterson from Double-A San Antonio and right-hander Kevin Quackenbush from Triple-A El Paso. . Nathan Beaulieu, Tomas Jurco, Danick Gauthier and Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist each as the Sea Dogs extended the longest streak in the Canadian Hockey League this season. http://www.probasketballshop.com/team-u ... es-Jersey/. Rajon Rondo had 18 of Bostons season-high 38 assists and the Celtics committed just seven turnovers in a 118-111 win over the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. . -- Colin Kaepernick insists he just happened to pull on a pair of socks with dollar bill prints all over them Wednesday morning -- before he learned he had struck a new fortune with the San Francisco 49ers. . - Florida State has suspended Jameis Winston for the entire game against Clemson on Saturday, extending its initial punishment of one half after the quarterback made offensive and vulgar comments about female anatomy earlier this week.Did your Premier League team live up to expectations at the weekend? Weve asked former Arsenal and England defender, and Sky Sports Now guest, Nigel Winterburn to give each side a grade based on their 90-minute performance over the weekend.So how did your team fare? Did they get an A+ or an F, or somewhere in between? Read on to see how your team has been ranked... Premier League weekend results Arsenal 1-1 Crystal Palace Bournemouth 1-2 Liverpool Leicester 2-2 West Ham Chelsea 0-3 Man City Everton 1-1 Southampton West Brom 0-1 Watford Man Utd 1-0 Aston Villa Newcastle 3-0 Swansea Norwich 0-3 Sunderland Sunderland - AThey have played quite well in some of their games recently but have not got the results they probably deserved with their energy, work-rate and chances created. Norwich was such a big game for them and they got the win they needed against the side just above them in the table.Manchester City - A-A good performance from City. Chelsea havent delivered this season, but they have been in quite decent form recently and can still be a tough team to beat, so this was an impressive result.Liverpool - B+They were on a high from the Europa League and its sometimes difficult to produce a top-quality performance after a result like that. But Jurgen Klopp made a lot of changes and they were very good. I expected them to win with the quality they had, but away games are never that easy. Daniel Sturridge scored Liverpools second goal against Bournemouth Newcastle - B+A good result for Newcastle that they really needed. The performance was quite strong, they came under a lot of pressure at 1-0 but got the important second goal that gave them the belief they could win the game. They were under immense pressure.Southampton - B+It was a good performance and they had several chances they should have taken. They will be disappointed they didnt come away with the win.West Ham - B+They will be frustrated as they feel decisions have been going against them at times this season. In the second half, they came back into it quite well and were away against the league leaders, so not a bad point. Watch Aaron Cresswells strike, which gave West Ham a 2-1 lead against Leicester Leicester - BSome frustration from Leicester but it was a difficult game. They havent been at their best in the last few weeks but they have got results. From their point of view, its all about momentum. They showed great courage to come back and nick the point, they just have to focus on picking up the results and getting to the finish line.Watford - BThey have picked up a few surprise results this season and they showed when they get the lead they can be hard to play against. The goals have dried up for Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo, but they still managed to get the win away from home.Manchester United - B-It wasnt as clinical as many people expected, but its still a win and thats what United need at this stage of the season if they are going to challenge for a top-four finish. Marcus Rashfords goal gave Manchester United victory over Aston Villa Palace - B-I think Palace will admit they were a bit lucky.dddddddddddd They were content to frustrate Arsenal, but they came on stronger in the last 20 minutes and made a couple of substitutions which gave them more power going forward. Its a fantastic point for them.Bournemouth - CA disappointing first half meant they were 2-0 down at the break. They came back into it, but couldnt get the goal right until the end when it was too late.Arsenal - C+It was a very weird game. Arsenal controlled it, but they were a bit one-paced and Palace sat in and frustrated them. Arsenal got ahead, but their Achilles heel this season has been not seeing games out. It wasnt a dynamic performance from Arsenal. Should Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech have kept out Yannick Bolasies long-range shot? West Brom - C+They will be looking at the two missed penalties and thinking how they did not get anything out of this match.Everton - CEverton made a few changes, but they are struggling to win games at home, so it wasnt a surprising result. A lot of Everton supporters are not happy with Roberto Martinez and the amount of goals the team is conceding, especially at home.Swansea - CThey will look back to the period when they were on top and didnt score. If they had taken any of those chances then the game could have turned out differently.Chelsea - DIt was a flat performance from Chelsea. They were very open and it looked like Manchester City could cut through them at will at times. Maybe it was an end-of-season performance with not a lot to play for, but it was very disappointing from Chelsea. Graeme Souness and Jamie Redknapp analyse Manchester Citys lightning-fast counter-attack for their second goal against Chelsea Aston Villa - DIt looks like they have done some work on organisation, but there is no real desire to see it through. They know they are relegated now and a lot of Villa fans will probably think I am being kind giving them a D.Norwich - DVery flat. They will say decisions maybe went against them but it was very disappointing from them at home against a team they did not want to lose against.What do you think? Do you agree with the ratings? If you are reading on www.skysports.com leave a comment below or tweet us @SkyFootball. Also See: Were Leicester decisions right? Walcott has many suitors Ranieri silent on ref Moss Air of apathy at Arsenal ' ' '