It's a clean sweep for Jimmy Howard.

After being voted the Detroit Red Wings' regular-season Most Valuable Player by MLive.com readers, Howard has won the award for the playoff as well.

There were 1,708 votes cast in our playoff MVP poll and Howard was once again an overwhelming winner, this time by a wider margin than his victory in the regular-season MVP voting.

He collected 1,209 votes – that's almost 71 percent – to finish well ahead of runner-up Henrik Zetterberg, who got 335 votes.

Damien Brunner was third with 71 votes, Pavel Datsyuk got 58 and there were 35 people who voted "other" rather than select one of our five candidates.

One reader did a little bit of extra research before casting his ballot for Howard.

Howard's leadership was a big factor, according to one reader.

One reader couldn't choose between Howard and Zetterberg, who was Detroit's leading scorer in the playoffs and was a big reason the Red Wings were able to contain Chicago captain Jonathan Toews in the second round.

One reader thinks rookie forward Gustav Nyquist was on Zetterberg's heels in the race for playoff MVP and another gave support to Nyquist and the entire third line, which coach Mike Babcock credited with making the Red Wings a more difficult team to play against during the stretch run of the regular season and into the playoffs.

Who was your playoff MVP?

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