Oiler Draisaitl and Jets goalie Hellebuyck among finalists for NHL's Hart Trophy

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With 52 goals, Edmonton's Draisaitl led the NHL successful scoring this season, portion Winnipeg's Hellebuyck led the league with 47 wins.

Draisaitl led the NHL successful scoring, Hellebuyck led league successful wins

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 01, 2025 2:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

A hockey subordinate wearing a achromatic jersey takes a changeable connected a goalie wearig a acheronian jersey.

Edmonton Oilers guardant Leon Draisaitl and Winnipeg Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck are finalists for the Hart Trophy, the NHL announced Thursday.

Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov is the 3rd nominee for the award, which is fixed annually to the subordinate judged astir invaluable to his team.

Draisaitl, from Cologne, Germany, led the NHL with 52 goals to triumph the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy and added 54 assists for 106 points, helping Edmonton decorativeness 3rd successful the Pacific Division. He antecedently won the Hart successful 2020.

Goalie Hellebuyck led the NHL with 47 wins, a 2.00 GAA, and a .925 prevention percentage, adding 8 shutouts portion guiding Winnipeg to its archetypal Presidents' Trophy. The 31-year-old, who is simply a Vezina Trophy finalist and already captured the William M. Jennings Trophy, is the archetypal subordinate successful franchise past to beryllium named a Hart finalist.

He aims to go the 4th netminder successful the enlargement epoch (since 1967-68) to triumph the award, joining Dominik Hasek (1997 and 1998), Jose Theodore (2002), and Carey Price (2015).

Kucherov, from Maykop, Russia, topped the NHL with 121 points to seizure his 3rd Art Ross Trophy. The 2019 Hart victor helped Tampa Bay scope the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season.

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