Vince Leah Trophy
# Vince Leah Trophy

The Vince Leah Trophy is an annual award given to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League during the regular season. The Rookie of the Year award was created in 1950. From 1967 to 1977, the award winner was presented the Gordon Petrie Memorial Trophy.

Vince Leah was a sportswriter for The Winnipeg Tribune and the Winnipeg Free Press, founded the Excelsior Hockey Club in 1934, which produced forty future professional hockey players and won thirteen provincial championships.

## Recipients

| Season | Winner | Team |
| - | - | - |
| 2015 | James Shearer | Steinbach Pistons |
| 2014 | Tyler Jeanson | Portage Terriers |
| 2013 | Tristan Keck | Winkler Flyers |
| 2012 | Tanner Jago | Winkler Flyers |
| 2011 | Bryn Chyzyk | Dauphin Kings |
| 2010 | Brendan O'Donnell | Winnipeg South Blues |
| 2009 | Jordan DePape | Winnipeg Saints |
| 2008 | Stephan Vigier | Swan Valley Stampeders |
| 2007 | Aaron Lewadniuk | Winkler Flyers |
| 2006 | Jason Gregoire | Winnipeg South Blues |
| 2005 | Matt Ostash | Winkler Flyers |
| 2004 | Mark Magnowski | Winnipeg Saints |
| 2003 | Andrew Jackman | Portage Terriers |
| 2002 | Blaine Jarvis | Neepawa Natives |
| 2001 | Mark Agnew | Swan Valley Stampeders |
| 2000 | D.J. Huver | St. James Canadians |
| 1997 | Tyler Arnason | Winnipeg South Blues |
| 1994 | Cory Cyrenne | St. Boniface Saints |
| 1977 | Bruno Rogger | Brandon Travellers |
| 1976 | Anthony Gurniak | West Kildonan North Stars |
| 1975 | Ken Krentz | Selkirk Steelers |
| 1972 | Calvin Kitching | St. James Canadians |
| 1971 | Bill Kriski | St. Boniface Saints |
| 1970 | Frank Turnbull | Winnipeg Monarchs |
| 1969 | Jim Cahoon | Dauphin Kings |
| 1968 | Wayne Chernecki | West Kildonan North Stars |
| 1967 | Bobby Clarke | Flin Flon Bombers |
| 1966 | Chuck Lefley | Winnipeg Rangers |
| 1965 | Bill Ramsay | Winnipeg Monarchs |
| 1963 | Ken Kachulak | Brandon Wheat Kings |
| 1960 | George Hill | Brandon Wheat Kings |
