Only player to win four major NHL awards in the same season — and did it twice. Czech immigrant who became a Blackhawks legend.
Stanislav Gvoth was born in Sokolče, Czechoslovakia in 1940 and moved to Canada as a child, where he was adopted by his aunt and uncle and took his surname Mikita. He spent his entire 22-season career with the Chicago Black Hawks. He won the Stanley Cup in 1961. He won four Art Ross Trophies as scoring champion (1964, 1965, 1967, 1968) and two Hart Trophies as MVP (1967, 1968). In 1967-68 he became the only player in NHL history to win the Hart Trophy, Art Ross Trophy and Lady Byng Trophy in the same season — and he had done the same triple in 1966-67. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983 and named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in 2017. He is credited with inventing the curved hockey stick blade — he noticed the puck moved differently when his blade was bent, and the curved stick became universal. He accumulated 1,467 career points, placing him among hockey's all-time scoring leaders. He was one of the greatest players in Blackhawks history and one of the most significant Czech-born figures in North American hockey.
Stanley Cup (1961)
Career Honours
- Stanley Cup (1961)
- Hart Trophy 2x
- Art Ross Trophy 4x
- Lady Byng Trophy 2x
- Hall of Fame (1983)
- NHL 100 Greatest Players