Art Ross Trophy

The Art Ross Trophy is an award given to the National Hockey League (NHL) player who leads the league in scoring points at the end of the regular season.

It was presented to the NHL by former player, general manager and head coach Art Ross.

The trophy has been awarded 61 times to 25 players since its inception in the 1947–48 NHL season.

The current holder is Martin St. Louis who scored 60 points in the shortened 2012–13 NHL season.

The scoring title came nine years after St. Louis won the Art Ross in 2003–04 (the longest gap between wins by any player in NHL history).

At the age of 37, Martin St. Louis is the oldest player to win the scoring championship, displacing Bill Cook, who was 36 years old when he won it while playing for the 1932–33 New York Rangers.

History

The Art Ross Trophy was presented to the National Hockey League in 1947 by Arthur Howie "Art" Ross, former general manager and head coach of the Boston Bruins and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee as a player.

Elmer Lach was the winner of the first Art Ross Trophy, which was awarded at the conclusion of the 1947–48 NHL season.

Players from the Pittsburgh Penguins have won the trophy 14 times (within 24 seasons); players from the Montreal Canadiens have won it nine times; and the Chicago Blackhawks have seen players win the award eight times.

From 1963 to 2001, Marcel Dionne and Bryan Trottier were the only single-time winners of the scoring title while Stan Mikita, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr had won it on multiple occasions.

For two decades, from 1981 to 2001, only three players won the Art Ross Trophy: Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr. The streak ended when Jarome Iginla won the trophy in 2002.

Wayne Gretzky won the Art Ross Trophy 10 times, including seven consecutive, during his 20-year NHL career.

Gordie Howe and Mario Lemieux each won it six times while Phil Esposito and Jaromir Jagr each have five. Jagr (from the Czech Republic) has won the award the most times out of non-Canadians.

Gretzky is the only player to win the trophy for more than one team while Joe 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 and he did it twice (1966–67 and 1967–68).

Only one defenseman has won the NHL scoring title, Bobby Orr (who did it in 1969–70 and 1974–75) also the only player to capture four individual awards as he won the Hart, Norris, and Conn Smythe Trophies in 1970 as well.

In 2007, 19-year-old Sidney Crosby not only became the youngest player to win the Art Ross Trophy, he is the youngest scoring champion in any major North American professional sport.

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 2009–10 and 2010–11, respectively.

Since 2001, only two players: Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin and Tampa Bay's Martin St. Louis have won the award more than one time, Malkin doing so twice in 2008–09 and 2011–12, and St. Louis doing so twice in 2003–04 and 2012–13.

The NHL rules stipulate three tiebreakers in case two or more players are tied in points:

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

Scoring ties happened in the 1961–62, 1979–80, and 1994–95 NHL seasons, all of them being decided by the first tiebreaker of scoring more goals.

Interestingly, the NHL's award to recognize the leading goal-scorer, the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy does not have a tiebreaker so multiple winners can be recognized in one season.

Art Ross Trophy Winners

Key

• ^(#) Including the number of scoring titles prior to the inception of the trophy
• * Season shortened by the 1994-95 NHL lockout
• ** Season shortened by the 2012–13 NHL lockout

• (Blue: player is still active in the NHL)

Art Ross Trophy winners

Season	Winner	Team	Points	Win #
1947–48	Lach, ElmerElmer Lach	Montreal Canadiens	061	0001 !1 (2)Template:Efn
1948–49	Conacher, RoyRoy Conacher	Chicago Black Hawks	068	1
1949–50	Lindsay, TedTed Lindsay	Detroit Red Wings	078	1
1950–51	Howe, GordieGordie Howe	Detroit Red Wings	086	1
1951–52	Howe, GordieGordie Howe	Detroit Red Wings	086	2
1952–53	Howe, GordieGordie Howe	Detroit Red Wings	095	3
1953–54	Howe, GordieGordie Howe	Detroit Red Wings	081	4
1954–55	Geoffrion, BernieBernie Geoffrion	Montreal Canadiens	075	1
1955–56	Beliveau, JeanJean Beliveau	Montreal Canadiens	088	1
1956–57	Howe, GordieGordie Howe	Detroit Red Wings	089	5
1957–58	Moore, DickieDickie Moore	Montreal Canadiens	084	1
1958–59	Moore, DickieDickie Moore	Montreal Canadiens	096	2
1959–60	Hull, BobbyBobby Hull	Chicago Black Hawks	081	1
1960–61	Geoffrion, BernieBernie Geoffrion	Montreal Canadiens	095	2
1961–62	Hull, BobbyBobby Hull	Chicago Black Hawks	084	2
1962–63	Howe, GordieGordie Howe	Detroit Red Wings	086	6
1963–64	Mikita, StanStan Mikita	Chicago Black Hawks	089	1
1964–65	Mikita, StanStan Mikita	Chicago Black Hawks	087	2
1965–66	Hull, BobbyBobby Hull	Chicago Black Hawks	097	3
1966–67	Mikita, StanStan Mikita	Chicago Black Hawks	097	3
1967–68	Mikita, StanStan Mikita	Chicago Black Hawks	087	4
1968–69	Esposito, PhilPhil Esposito	Boston Bruins	126	1
1969–70	Orr, BobbyBobby Orr	Boston Bruins	120	1
1970–71	Esposito, PhilPhil Esposito	Boston Bruins	152	2
1971–72	Esposito, PhilPhil Esposito	Boston Bruins	133	3
1972–73	Esposito, PhilPhil Esposito	Boston Bruins	130	4
1973–74	Esposito, PhilPhil Esposito	Boston Bruins	145	5
1974–75	Orr, BobbyBobby Orr	Boston Bruins	135	2
1975–76	Lafleur, GuyGuy Lafleur	Montreal Canadiens	125	1
1976–77	Lafleur, GuyGuy Lafleur	Montreal Canadiens	136	2
1977–78	Lafleur, GuyGuy Lafleur	Montreal Canadiens	132	3
1978–79	Trottier, BryanBryan Trottier	New York Islanders	134	1
1979–80	Dionne, MarcelMarcel Dionne	Los Angeles Kings	137	1
1980–81	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	164	1
1981–82	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	212	2
1982–83	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	196	3
1983–84	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	205	4
1984–85	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	208	5
1985–86	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	215	6
1986–87	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Edmonton Oilers	183	7
1987–88	Lemieux, MarioMario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins	168	1
1988–89	Lemieux, MarioMario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins	199	2
1989–90	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Los Angeles Kings	142	8
1990–91	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Los Angeles Kings	163	9
1991–92	Lemieux, MarioMario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins	131	3
1992–93	Lemieux, MarioMario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins	160	4
1993–94	Gretzky, WayneWayne Gretzky	Los Angeles Kings	130	9910
1994–95 Template:Efn	Jagr, JaromirJaromir Jagr	Pittsburgh Penguins	70	1
1995–96	Lemieux, MarioMario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins	161	5
1996–97	Lemieux, MarioMario Lemieux	Pittsburgh Penguins	122	6
1997–98	Jagr, JaromirJaromir Jagr	Pittsburgh Penguins	102	2
1998–99	Jagr, JaromirJaromir Jagr	Pittsburgh Penguins	127	3
1999–2000	Jagr, JaromirJaromir Jagr	Pittsburgh Penguins	096	4
2000–01	Jagr, JaromirJaromir Jagr	Pittsburgh Penguins	121	5
2001–02	Iginla, JaromeJarome Iginla	Calgary Flames	096	1
2002–03	Forsberg, PeterPeter Forsberg	Colorado Avalanche	106	1
2003–04	St. Louis, MartinMartin St. Louis	Tampa Bay Lightning	094	1
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2005–06	Thornton, JoeJoe Thornton	Boston Bruins/San Jose Sharks	125	1
2006–07	Crosby, SidneySidney Crosby	Pittsburgh Penguins	120	1
2007–08	Ovechkin, AlexanderAlexander Ovechkin	Washington Capitals	112	1
2008–09	Malkin, EvgeniEvgeni Malkin	Pittsburgh Penguins	113	1
2009–10	Sedin, HenrikHenrik Sedin	Vancouver Canucks	112	1
2010–11	Sedin, DanielDaniel Sedin	Vancouver Canucks	104	1
2011–12	Malkin, EvgeniEvgeni Malkin	Pittsburgh Penguins	109	2
2012–13 (Season shortened by the 2012–13 NHL lockout)	St. Louis, MartinMartin St. Louis	Tampa Bay Lightning	60	2
2013–14	Crosby, SidneySidney Crosby	Pittsburgh Penguins	104	2
2014–15	Benn, JamieJamie Benn	Dallas Stars	87	1
2015–16	Kane, PatrickPatrick Kane	Chicago Blackhawks	106	1
2016–17	McDavid, ConnorConnor McDavid	Edmonton Oilers	100	1