Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon won the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award, being honored as the NHL’s Most Valuable Player on Thursday at the NHL Awards ceremony in Las Vegas.
The 28-year-old Canadian, the NHL Draft’s top pick in 2013, was second in league overall scoring with 140 points on 51 goals and 89 assists over 872 games.
MacKinnon won the Hart Trophy as MVP in a media panel vote and captured the Lindsay Award in a vote of players union members as the NHL’s most outstanding player.
Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov was also a finalist for both awards while Edmonton’s Connor McDavid, the NHL playoff MVP in a losing cause to Florida, was a Hart finalist and NHL scoring leader Auston Matthews was a Lindsay finalist.
Chicago’s Connor Bedard won the Calder Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year and Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s top defenseman in media voting.
Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goaltender for the second time, having also captured the honor in 2020.
Hellebuyck went 37-19 with four overtime losses, a 2.39 goals-against average and a .921 save percentage with five shutouts over 60 games.
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