{"id":609572,"date":"2026-04-17T05:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609572\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:24:08","slug":"release-mcdavid-wins-art-ross-trophy-as-leagues-top-scorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609572\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: McDavid wins Art Ross Trophy as League&#8217;s top scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB\u00a0&#8211; With the conclusion of the 2025-26 NHL regular season on Thursday night, Oilers captain Connor McDavid has officially captured his sixth career Art Ross Trophy as the League&#8217;s scoring leader.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old earns his first Art Ross since the 2022-23 season with an incredible 138-point campaign of 48 goals and 90 assists, winning the League&#8217;s scoring race by an eight-point margin over Tampa Bay&#8217;s\u00a0Nikita Kucherov after posting four helpers in Thursday&#8217;s 6-1 win over the Canucks to secure home-ice advantage in the First Round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>This is McDavid&#8217;s third 130-point season in his last four seasons and his fourth career campaign with 40 or more goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB\u00a0&#8211; With the conclusion of the 2025-26 NHL regular season on Thursday night, Oilers captain Connor McDavid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-609572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}