Edmonton Oilers captain, Connor McDavid, has been voted the winner of the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay to add to his Art Ross this year.
Connor McDavid has been unanimously voted the winner of the Hart Trophy. The Hart Trophy is given to the NHL’s most valuable player voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. He is the second unanimous winner since Wayne Gretzky in 1981-82.
Connor McDavid also is the winner of the Ted Lindsay Award. The Ted Lindsay is awarded to the most outstanding player in the NHL. This award is voted on by members of the NHL Players’ Association. This award to me means more than the Hart as it means that the other players think he is the best. Who knows more about skill of NHL players than other NHL players.
Connor McDavid finished with 105 points, 21 points ahead of the second-highest scorer, teammate Leon Draisaitl. He averaged 1.88 points per game in this COVID shortened season. If you took away the 33 goals he scored and only counted his assists(72) he would still have finished 2nd in league scoring.
To me, there is no doubt that Connor McDavid is the best player in the NHL. Since the 2017-2018 season, McDavid has had 43 more points than anyone else in the NHL. He has averaged 1.41 points per game in that time frame.
The scary thing to me is that he is getting better every season. If he does a whole 82 game season at this year’s scoring rate he would get 154 points in a season. No player has gotten more than 150 points in a season since Mario Lemieux got 161 in the 1995-96 season. In the last years, the highest point total has been Nikita Kucherov in 2018-19 with 128 points. McDavid is already a Hall of Fame player but I think he may go down as one of the best players of all time.