Art Ross Trophy

Template:Short description Template:Infobox sports award The Art Ross Trophy is awarded to the National Hockey League (NHL) player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season. It was presented to the league by former player, general manager, and head coach Art Ross. The trophy has been awarded 70 times to 29 players since its introduction in the 1947–48 NHL season. Ross is also known for his design of the official NHL puck, with slightly bevelled edges for better control.

The current holder is Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning.

History

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} The Art Ross Trophy was presented to the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1947 by Arthur Howey "Art" Ross, former general manager and head coach of the Boston Bruins and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee as a player.<ref name="nhl.com"/> Elmer Lach of the Montreal Canadiens was awarded the first Art Ross Trophy at the conclusion of the Template:Nhly season.

Players from the Pittsburgh Penguins won the trophy 15 times and the Edmonton Oilers have won the trophy 13 times, while the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks are tied for third with nine times each. Although Joe Thornton, winner from the Template:Nhly season, started the season playing for the Boston Bruins, he finished with the San Jose Sharks and the award counts for the Sharks. Therefore, Boston Bruins have seven players winning the trophy, fifth overall.

From 1951 to 2001, Jean Beliveau, Marcel Dionne, and Bryan Trottier were the only single-time winners of the scoring title, while Gordie Howe, Bernie Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Jaromir Jagr all won it on multiple occasions. For two decades, from 1981 to 2001, only three players won the Art Ross Trophy: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Jagr. The streak ended when Jarome Iginla won the trophy in 2002.

Gretzky has won the trophy a record ten times, seven consecutively, during his 20-year NHL career. Gordie Howe and Lemieux have each won it six times, while Esposito, Jagr and McDavid each have five. Jagr, from the Czech Republic, has won the award the most times as a non-Canadian. Patrick Kane is the only American-born player to win the trophy, doing so in 2016. Gretzky is the only player to win the trophy for more than one team, while Thornton is the only player to win it while playing for two different teams in one season. Stan Mikita is the only player in NHL history to win the Art Ross, Hart, and Lady Byng Trophies all in the same season, which he did twice (Template:Nhly and Template:Nhly, with Chicago; Gretzky, Bobby Hull, and Martin St. Louis all won each of those awards at least once and won a combination of two of them in the same season, but never all three together). Orr is the only defenseman to win the scoring title, doing so in 1970 and 1975 with Boston, and in 1970 he became the first player to capture four individual awards in a single season as he won the Hart, Norris, and Conn Smythe Trophies that year as well.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2007, Sidney Crosby became the youngest player to win the Art Ross Trophy at age 19, and also became the youngest scoring champion in any major North American professional sport.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> At almost twice Crosby's age, Martin St. Louis became the oldest player to capture the Art Ross at the age of 37, also having the longest gap between scoring titles (nine years). Henrik and Daniel Sedin are the only siblings to win the award, in 2010 and 2011, respectively.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Since 2001, only five players, Connor McDavid, Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, St. Louis and Nikita Kucherov have won the award more than once: Crosby in 2007 and 2014, Malkin in 2009 and 2012, St. Louis in 2004 and 2013, McDavid in 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and Kucherov in 2019, 2024 and 2025. McDavid and Gretzky are the only players to win multiple Art Ross trophies before age 21.

The NHL rules stipulate three tiebreakers in case two or more players are tied in points:<ref name="nhl.com"/>

1. Player with most goals
2. Player with fewer games played
3. Player scoring first goal of the season

Scoring ties happened in the Template:Nhly, Template:Nhly, and Template:Nhly seasons, all of them being decided by the first tiebreaker of scoring more goals. In those respective seasons, Hull won over Andy Bathgate, Dionne over Gretzky, and Jagr over Eric Lindros. The NHL's award to recognize the leading goal-scorer, the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, does not have a tiebreaker, allowing multiple winners to be recognized in any one season.

Winners

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Wayne Gretzky, record ten-time winner

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Gordie Howe, six-time winner

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Mario Lemieux, six-time winner

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Phil Esposito, five-time winner

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Jaromir Jagr, five-time winner

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Connor McDavid, five-time winner

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Stan Mikita, four-time winner

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Guy Lafleur, three-time winner

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Evgeni Malkin (left) and Sidney Crosby (right), both two-time winners

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Henrik Sedin (top) and Daniel Sedin (bottom), back-to-back winners

Template:Legend Template:Legend Template:Legend Bold Player with the most points ever scored in a season.

Art Ross Trophy winners

Season	Winner	Team	Points	Win #
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	061	Template:Sort (2)Template:Efn
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	068	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	078	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	086	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	086	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	095	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	081	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	075	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	088	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	089	5
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	084	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	096	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	081	1
1960–61	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	095	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	084	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Detroit Red Wings	086	6
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	089	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	087	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	097	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	097	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Black Hawks	087	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	126	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	120	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	152	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	133	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	130	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	145	5
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins	135	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	125	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	136	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Montreal Canadiens	132	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	New York Islanders	134	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Los Angeles Kings	137	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	164	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	212	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	196	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	205	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	208	5
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	215	6
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	183	7
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	168	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	199	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Los Angeles Kings	142	8
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Los Angeles Kings	163	9
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	131	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	160	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Los Angeles Kings	130	9910
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	70	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	161	5
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	122	6
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	102	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	127	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	096	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	121	5
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Calgary Flames	096	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Colorado Avalanche	106	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Tampa Bay Lightning	094	1
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sort dash	Template:Sort dash	Template:Sort dash	Template:Sort dash
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Boston Bruins/San Jose Sharks	125	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	120	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Washington Capitals	112	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	113	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Canucks	112	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Vancouver Canucks	104	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	109	2
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Tampa Bay Lightning	60	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Pittsburgh Penguins	104	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Dallas Stars	87	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Chicago Blackhawks	106	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	100	1
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	108	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Tampa Bay Lightning	128	1
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	110	1
Template:NhlyTemplate:Efn	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	105	3
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	123	4
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Edmonton Oilers	153	5
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Tampa Bay Lightning	144	2
Template:Nhly	Template:Sortname	Tampa Bay Lightning	121	3

See also

• List of National Hockey League awards
• List of NHL players
• List of NHL statistical leaders

References

General

• Art Ross Trophy Template:Webarchive at NHL.com
• Art Ross Trophy history at Legends of Hockey.net