Overview
- Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov ranks fifth in the Hart Trophy polling with 9 points from the NHL site’s staff vote.
- Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon tops the Hart list with 73 points and 10 of 16 first-place votes, followed by Connor McDavid (59) and Macklin Celebrini (56).
- The Vezina ranking lists Logan Thompson (63 points), Scott Wedgewood (57), Jake Oettinger (33), Andrei Vasilevskiy (22) and Igor Shesterkin (20) as the top five.
- Shesterkin has 34 games, 17 wins, a .913 save percentage and one shutout, while Vasilevskiy has 26 games, 17 wins, a .914 save percentage and one shutout.
- The Hart is ultimately decided by the league’s journalists association, and recent history notes Connor Hellebuyck as last season’s winner, with Shesterkin (2021–22) and Vasilevskiy (2018–19) past Vezina recipients.