2021 NHL Award Watch: Evaluating the Hart Race Aaron Heckmann | May 6, 2021 The season is just a little over a week away from coming to an end, making it a perfect time to shift our focus to evaluating the NHL awards. This…
Lightning’s Vasilevskiy Should Be a Hart Trophy Finalist Andrew Mulville | April 14, 2021 Each season, the Hart Memorial Trophy is awarded “to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team.” The Professional Hockey Writers’ Association selects the winner based on…
Panthers’ Barkov Is a Dark Horse Candidate for the Hart Trophy Colby Guy | March 22, 2021 When bringing up Hart Trophy candidates, names like Connor McDavid, Patrick Kane, and Auston Matthews are the names that usually come up, but there is one more name that has…
What Nathan MacKinnon Must Do to Win the 2021 Hart Trophy Avery McGrail | December 31, 2020 So close, yet so far away. Nathan MacKinnon has risen to the top echelon of the NHL over the last three seasons. After struggling to produce on some very bad…
Penguins 12 Days of Hockeymas: 7 Hart Trophy Seasons Jake Deemer | December 18, 2020 The ’12 Days of Christmas’ is a classic holiday song first published in its current form in 1908. In a nod to the classic carol, join The Hockey Writers as we count down…
McDavid Deserves More Respect From Hockey Media Darvin Babiuk | September 20, 2020 The NHL announced the first tranche of its 2020-21 award winners from Sept. 6-13. We still have to wait until Sept. 21 to find out the rest of the winners,…
Panthers’ Aleksander Barkov Will Win the Hart Trophy in 5 Years Pasi Tuominen | May 27, 2020 A Florida Panthers player has never won the Hart Trophy. That might change in five years, as Aleksander Barkov, their Finnish captain and top-line center, approaches his prime. Related: Top…
Hart to Hart, the Canadiens’ Hart-Winning Goalies of the 2000s Maxwell Mantik | April 27, 2020 The Hart Trophy is awarded to the NHL’s MVP of the regular season. Since the trophy’s inception in 1924, there have been only seven goalies who have won the award.…
Bruins’ Pastrnak Deserves Hart Consideration Scott Roche | March 9, 2020 Coming into his sixth campaign in the National Hockey League, Boston Bruins forward David Pastrnak had increased his goal totals in each of the last three seasons. He has broken…
Jets’ Hellebuyck Deserves Vezina & Hart Consideration Ryan Goethals | March 8, 2020 Here we are entering the second week of March and the Winnipeg Jets are in the fight of their life trying to earn a playoff spot. The fact we are…
Canucks’ Markstrom Making a Case for Vezina and Hart Consideration Landon Kapusianyk | February 18, 2020 Fresh off arguably the best goaltending performance of this year, it has become impossible to ignore the season that Jacob Markstrom is having. Although, many are still are. The Vancouver…
Jack Eichel’s Emergence as a Hart Trophy Candidate Eric Cruikshank | December 30, 2019 During this NHL season, fans have seen many young players finally develop into the stars they have been projected to be, but nobody has turned more heads than Jack Eichel.…
