The best player in the world today is taking home some more hardware after another sensational season. When the final buzzer sounded on the 2025-26 regular season, Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid won the Art Ross Trophy as the leading scorer in the NHL for the sixth time in his superb career.

McDavid joins Hockey Hall of Famers Mario Lemieux and Gordie Howe for the second-most Art Ross wins in NHL history. The three superstars trail the fellow Oilers legend Wayne Gretzky, who won the award a record 10 times. It is McDavid’s first individual regular-season trophy since the outstanding 2022-23 campaign, when he won the Art Ross, Hart, Rocket Richard Trophy, and Ted Lindsay Award.

The 29-year-old had another terrific season. In appearing in each of the 82 games for the first time since that 2022-23 campaign, McDavid scored 48 goals and 90 assists for 138 points, capped off with a four-assist effort against the rival Vancouver Canucks in the season finale on Thursday. He ended up several points ahead of Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, who finished with 130 points. It’s the sixth year in a row that McDavid has reached the 100-point mark, and the third time he has posted 130 points. McDavid has only missed the century mark twice in his career — his rookie season, where he missed 37 games due to a disastrous shoulder injury, and the COVID-shortened 2019-20 campaign, where he still scored 97 points in 64 contests.

McDavid was a vital piece in helping the Oilers overcome another rough October, pushing the team back up from the bottom of the Western Conference to contend for a Pacific Division title. While the two-time defending conference champions failed to beat out the Vegas Golden Knights for first place, Edmonton was able to punch its ticket to the postseason for the seventh year in a row. With McDavid carrying the load with players like Zach Hyman and Leon Draisaitl all missing time due to injury, there’s no question that McDavid is a favourite to win the Hart once again.

In the first 11 seasons of his NHL career, the Richmond Hill, Ont. native has scored 409 goals and 811 assists for 1,220 points. He’s won the Hart three times, the Ted Lindsay four times, as well as the Conn Smythe Trophy in the Oilers’ run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2024.

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