regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists. The winner will be announced during the 2013 Stanley Cup Final, with more detail on format to be released at a later date. The James Norris Memorial Trophy was presented in 1953 by the four children of the late James Norris in memory of the former owner-president of the Detroit Red Wings.

Montreal's P.K. Subban and Pittsburgh's Kris Letang were named the other finalists for the 2013 Norris Trophy.Iepe Rubingh unveiled chess boxing to the world in an art gallery called Platoon. Styling himself "Iepe the Joker", he took part in a demonstration fight against a Dutch friend called "Luis the Lawyer". Two months later, they fought again in Amsterdam, this time for the vacant world middleweight chess-boxing title. Vacant because they were the only two middleweight chess boxers, indeed the only two chess boxers, in the world.

Rubingh won a dramatic encounter. "I had a pretty terrible position on the board so in the last round I tried to knock him out," he recalls. "He only just managed to stay on his feet. The bell went and he put his hands up in the air but he couldn't find his corner. He was really dizzy but