Art Ross Trophy
The Art Ross Trophy is an ice hockey trophy in the National Hockey League . It is awarded to the NHL player with the highest number of points (goals + assists ) during the regular season. The trophy was named after Arthur Howie "Art" Ross , an ice hockey player, referee, coach and manager. The trophy was first awarded in 1948.
If two or more players have the same number of points, the player who scored more goals wins. If there is a tie in the number of goals scored, the player who has played fewer games wins. If there is still a tie, the winner is whoever scored his first goal of the season earlier.
Elmer Lach was the first winner of the Art Ross Trophy in 1948 and needed 61 points for it . This is the lowest value since the trophy was awarded. The record winner is Wayne Gretzky , who led the scorer list of the National Hockey League ten times during his career at the end of the season and holds another record with seven successes in a row from 1981 to 1987. He is also the only player in league history to score more than 200 points in one season. He succeeded four times, with he reached another record in the 1985/86 season with 215 points. In addition to Gretzky, Gordie Howe and Mario Lemieux led the scorer rankings in the National Hockey League several times and both won the Art Ross Trophy six times. Five-time winners of the award were Phil Esposito and Jaromír Jágr . The Czech Jágr is therefore also the most successful European player. Wayne Gretzky was the only player to win the Art Ross Trophy as a member of two teams, seven times as a player for the Edmonton Oilers and three times for the Los Angeles Kings . Joe Thornton was transferred from the Boston Bruins to the San Jose Sharks during the 2005/06 season and at the end of the season became the first player in league history to play for two teams in one season and win the Art Ross Trophy.
Sidney Crosby became the youngest player in history to win the trophy in 2007 at the age of 19. Gordie Howe was 34 years old when he finished the regular season as the top scorer for the last time in his career in 1963, and the oldest player to ever do so. This only changed when Martin St. Louis won his second Art Ross Trophy in 2013 at the age of 37. This makes him not only the oldest player to succeed, but also the player who had the most time (nine years) between his first and second win of the award. The trophy has been won 13 times by a Pittsburgh Penguins player . A player from the Edmonton Oilers was successful ten times, and a player from the Montréal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks won nine times . Two-time winner Bobby Orr is the only defender to top the scorer standings at the end of the season. Elmer Lach (1948), Roy Conacher (1949) and Mario Lemieux (1993) had enough 60 matches to top the league's scorer list at the end of the season. This is the lowest number during a fully played season. This value was only undercut by Jaromír Jágr and also Martin St. Louis, who ended the 1994/95 season and the 2012/2013 season at St. Louis as the top scorer and had completed 48 NHL games. However, it must be noted that this season was shortened to 48 matches due to a lockout . So far, eleven winners came to the current maximum number of 82 NHL games, with Jarome Iginla succeeding in the 2001/02 season as the first player. All previous winners had a point average of over one point per game. Besides Wayne Gretzky, only Mario Lemieux achieved an average of over two points. So far, 30 players have won the Art Ross Trophy, twelve players have been successful several times.
List of winners
- Year : The year in which the player won the Art Ross Trophy.
- Winner : Name the winner.
- Team: Name the franchise the player was playing for at the time.
- Games: The number of games that the winner has played.
- Goals: states the number of goals the winner has scored.
- Assists: The number of assists the winner has achieved.
- Points: states the number of points the winner has achieved.
- Average : states the average number of points scored per season game.
- Age: States the age of the winner in years at the end of the respective regular season.
Top scorer until 1947
- Year : The year in which the player topped the scorer list.
- Top scorer : states the name of the leader in the scorer list.
- Team: Name the franchise the player was playing for at the time.
- Points: States the number of points that the player with the highest points has achieved.
Web links
- Art Ross Trophy at legendsofhockey.net
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Trophies - Art Ross Trophy. (No longer available online.) Nhl.com, archived from the original on April 27, 2006 ; accessed on March 2, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c d e NHL Art Ross Trophy Winners. hockey-reference.com, accessed March 2, 2011 .