{"id":612421,"date":"2026-04-17T07:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:08:08","slug":"mcdavid-wins-art-ross-mackinnon-wins-maurice-rocket-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/612421\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid wins Art Ross, MacKinnon wins Maurice &#8216;Rocket&#8217; Richard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McDavid registered 48-90\u2014138 in 82 games to finish eight points ahead of two-time reigning champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nikita-kucherov-8476453\" title=\"Nikita Kucherov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Kucherov<\/a>\u00a0(44-86\u2014130 in 76 GP) of the Tampa Bay Lightning and earn his sixth career Art Ross Trophy, adding to wins in 2016-17, 2017-18, 2020-21, 2021-22 and 2022-23. McDavid\u2019s six career Art Ross Trophies are tied for the second-most in NHL history (with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/gordie-howe-8448000\" title=\"Gordie Howe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gordie Howe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mario-lemieux-8448782\" title=\"Mario Lemieux\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Lemieux<\/a>), behind only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/wayne-gretzky-8447400\" title=\"Wayne Gretzky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne Gretzky<\/a>\u00a0(10). McDavid \u2013 also the owner of four Ted Lindsay Awards, three Hart Memorial Trophies, one Conn Smythe Trophy and one Maurice \u201cRocket\u201d Richard Trophy \u2013 now boasts 15 career individual awards, the fifth-most in League history after Gretzky (31), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alex-ovechkin-8471214\" title=\"Alex Ovechkin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Ovechkin<\/a>\u00a0(19), Lemieux (17) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/bobby-orr-8450070\" title=\"Bobby Orr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Orr<\/a> (17).<\/p>\n<p>McDavid collected points in a League-high 68 of his 82 total appearances (82.9%), also pacing the NHL with 43 multi-point performances. He found the scoresheet in each of Edmonton\u2019s 41 wins, becoming the third player in League history to record a point in all of his team\u2019s victories during a given season (minimum: 25 wins). The others: Gretzky (29 in 1980-81 w\/ EDM) and Dennis Maruk (26 in 1981 82 w\/ WSH). McDavid also factored on 48.9 percent of the Oilers\u2019 total goals (138 of 282), the highest share in the NHL ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/macklin-celebrini-8484801\" title=\"Macklin Celebrini\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a>\u00a0of the San Jose Sharks (46.2%; 115 of 249).<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 overall pick from the 2015 NHL Draft reached the 100-point milestone for the sixth straight season (tied for the second-longest streak in League history) and ninth time overall (the third-highest total in NHL history). He became the fourth-fastest player in League history to accumulate 1,100 career points, doing so in his 726th game on Nov. 3 at STL, before becoming the third-fastest player in NHL history to compile 1,200 career points \u2013 a milestone reached in his 784th career appearance on March 24 at UTA.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old McDavid has produced 409-811\u20141,220 through 794 career NHL contests. His average of 1.54 points per game ranks third in League history (minimum: 100 GP), trailing just Gretzky (1.92) and Lemieux (1.88).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McDavid registered 48-90\u2014138 in 82 games to finish eight points ahead of two-time reigning champion Nikita Kucherov\u00a0(44-86\u2014130 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-612421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}