My Hart Trophy Winner Today is ...

[daver]

The even bigger issue with the current definition is some of the media break it down even further to simply "remove this player and does his team miss the playoffs" rather than rewarding someone who turns a 5th seed into a 1st seed.

All this leads to is endless debate on HF. In reality, if the Lindsay winner is on a playoff team, they win the Hart.

 

[General Fanager]

Crosby is my fav player. But hes not sniffing a hart with 90 or so points while mack n kuch exceed 140. Just not realistic

I know and I get it. They almost always just give it to the guy with the most points. However it is supposed to go to the player most valuable to his team. To me that's Crosby.

 

[Toby91ca]

All this leads to is endless debate on HF. In reality, if the Lindsay winner is on a playoff team, they win the Hart.

Actual reality doesn't show that though. In the history of the Lindsay/Pearson award ~50ish years, the winner of the award did not also win the Hart a total of 17 times. Of those 17 times, only 3 times was the Lindsay winner not on a playoff team.

Not being on a playoff team does make it tough in terms of winning both those awards though, think it's only happened once in history with Lemieux in 1988...and that probably took Wayne missing ~20 games for that to happen. Reality is, if your team has the Pearson and Hart winner, you probably have a good team.

 

[pegcity]

In 08/09 Datsuyk won Selke, was 4th in scoring around 15 points behind best and still lost Hart voting to both Ovi and Malkin

He would have been my MVP that year.