Kuch deserves MVP.
The Art Ross winner consistently wins the Hart trophy if the Art Ross winner is Canadian. When a European player wins the Art Ross the Hart voting gets difficult to predict.
The only things that make me mildly want to see Kucherov not get the Hart are due to the pretend victim complex fabrications about playing on a team with little talent and nationality bias.
Draisaitl won the Art Ross and had the overwhelming majority of first place votes in 2019-2020.
Kucherov won the Art Ross and had all but 7 of the first place votes and won with 98.1% in 2018-2019.
Malkin won the Art Ross and collected 98.9% of the vote in 2011-2012.
Daniel Sedin won the Art Ross and lost a close vote to Perry, who had the hot streak storyline going on in a year where Crosby and Malkin each missed half a season, and Ovechkin was garbage. Henrik Sedin won both the year prior, with Ovechkin finishing a close second.
Malkin won the Art Ross and lost to fellow Russian Ovechkin in 2008-2009.
Forsberg won the Art Ross and had 80% of the Hart vote in 2002-2003.
That covers the past 20 or so seasons and doesn’t include examples like Fedorov winning the Hart over Gretzky in 1993-1994, Hasek winning Harts as a netminder, and Jagr winning one and finishing runner up to Hasek on season.
False narrative debunked.