Robertson behind only McDavid and Matthews in the MVP race

As most teams approach the halfway point of the 2023-24 NHL season, now is a good time to check back into all the futures bets we placed at the beginning of the campaign. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the NHL awards, the Hart Memorial Trophy is given to the league's MVP. The Vezina Trophy is awarded to the league's best goaltender, the…

Week 2 in the 2023-24 NHL season has wrapped up and the outlook for the Hart Trophy has significantly changed from what it was at the beginning of the month and the future market is already undergoing notable transformations. The award is presented annually to the league's most valuable player. We'll take a closer look at the contenders and what…

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The 2023-24 NHL regular season is almost underway and it's time to start picking out which players you want to bet on to win MVP. That group of players may not be very large when looking at the odds. Edmonton Oilers C Connor McDavid ran away with the Hart Trophy as League MVP last season, scoring 153 points, the most in a single season since the…

Do we even need to talk about the Hart Trophy? We're going to anyway, and we'll cover Connor McDavid plenty. But it's starting to feel like his award to lose each season. Last year, McDavid set a career-high with 153 points, 64 goals and 89 assists in all 82 games. The Edmonton Oilers center enters 2023-24 as the betting favorite by a wide margin.…

The Hart Trophy is given to the most valuable player (MVP) during the regular season, voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. The odds to win the award are out and they suggest that there will be a back-to-back winner for the first time in over a decade. With just nine days from the start of the 2023-24 NHL campaign, there's many…

The 2023 NHL playoffs begin in one week, and two of the game's biggest stars will be looking to win their first Stanley Cup. Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews are already starting to run out of room in their trophy cases, but to this point, the Stanley Cup has eluded both players. The Edmonton Oilers selected Connor McDavid with the No. 1 overall…

You really aren't supposed to use the word lock in sports betting, but Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid could go on an Aaron Rodgers-style darkness retreat the rest of the regular season and still win the Hart Trophy as the NHL's MVP for a third time in his career. FanDuel currently lists McDavid as a whopping -4000 favorite to win the award.…

A lot has been said about Jack Hughes over the last few weeks. He's been given several titles and labels during this heater he has been on..... A Goal Scorer, Otherworldly, Playmaker, The Big Deal. If I wanted to use a now-dated Game of Thrones analogy, I'd argue he is indeed The Prince that was Promised. If I wanted to use an even more dated…

The NHL has been dark since Christmas Eve - the longest stretch without games this season besides the All-Star break in early February. The holiday break ends tonight with 11 games on the schedule. There were originally 12, but Buffalo at Columbus was postponed. The Sabres were unable to fly out of Buffalo because of the heavy snow there. Let's…

The Edmonton Oilers will travel south to face the Dallas Stars. Two of the league's top players (Connor McDavid and Jason Robertson) will go head-to-head in this exciting matchup. In addition, both of these teams are in playoff spots. The Oilers are in the second Wild Card spot with 36 points. However, they could move up to one or two spots with a…

The Hart Memorial Trophy is an annual award given to the most valuable player in the NHL. According to hockey betting sites, Connor McDavid is the runaway favorite right now. But if you're looking for value, you'll have to look outside of McDavid. Connor McDavid is tearing up the National Hockey League right now with 59 points in 30 games. He's on…

The Maurice'Rocket' Richard Trophy was introduced in 1999 and is awarded to the NHL's leading goal-scorer each season. It could be called the Alexander Ovechkin award because the Great Eight has claimed the trophy a record nine times (41%) since its inception. Auston Matthews has taken home the title in back-to-back seasons and is very much looking…

Let's imagine a hypothetical hockey player. Say they're a left winger for some team in the Central Division, and are currently in their third year in the NHL. To drive home the idea that this player is not real and is completely made up, we'll give him a nonsensical name: Rason Jobertson. Jobertson had an excellent rookie year, scoring only a few…

With 19 goals in 23 games, Jason Robertson has seemingly come out of nowhere to lead all players in the Rocket Richard Trophy race. But it's not the only award that the Dallas Stars' sniper could be after this season. Robertson, who is also second in the Art Ross Trophy race with 36 points - three back of Connor McDavid - now has the third-best…

With 32 points in 16 games, Connor McDavid is running away with the scoring lead so far this season. And the Edmonton Oilers captain, who has a 15-point lead on the next-highest scorer, appears to be running away with the Hart Trophy as well. According to covers.com, McDavid is the+140 favourite to win MVP. Last year's winner, Auston Matthews, is…

LAS VEGAS -- Connor McDavid leads a three-player race for the Hart Trophy in a preseason poll of his peers. The Edmonton Oilers center was selected as the favorite to win the 2022-23 regular-season award given to the most valuable player. Seventeen of the 49 players who were polled selected him first. Toronto Maple Leafs forward Auston Matthews,…

It was during a conversation last month about whether he wanted to win the Hart Trophy, when Nathan MacKinnon expressed frustration that has no doubt affected several players over the years. The MVP is a popularity contest. "I used to really care about that for sure, but It's just tough to put your happiness in the fact that Jim from Philly didn't…

The race for the NHL Hart Trophy, the most valuable player in the league, will be THE race to watch heading into the upcoming season. The odds for this prestigious trophy have come out and there are superstars up and down the list, including three former winners of the award. The 2022-23 season is just under a month away and it's one of the most…

With the North Division spillover finally finished, the 2020-21 NHL regular season concluded on Wednesday. With that, quite a few 2021 NHL Awards became official - even if you could see the winners coming a mile away. With 105 points (in 56 games!), Connor McDavid won the 2021 Art Ross Trophy. Auston Matthews locked up the 2021 Maurice Richard…

To mark the halfway point of the 2022-23 regular season, NHL.com is running its third installment of the Trophy Tracker series. Today, we look at the race for the Hart Trophy, given annually to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team as selected in a poll by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. There are two important…

The Professional Hockey Writers Association's definition of the NHL's MVP tends to ebb and flow. During periods in which no dominant superstar lords over the league, we see occasional seasons in which the purist definition of the award wins out - such as 2017-18, when Taylor Hall put the New Jersey Devils on his back and took home the Hart Trophy.…

Discussions about awards usually begin with the definition of honor being twisted into a pretzel. The Hart Trophy arguably leads in this regard, with people often convoluting'best' with'most valuable.' The NHL's definition aids in the interpretation, stating that the Hart Trophy is "an annual award given to the player adjudged to be the most…