Connor McDavid

Connor McDavid dazzled scouts with extraordinary acceleration and high-end speed, uncanny on-ice vision and a seemingly endless array of moves. It was a given that Edmonton, which won the NHL Draft Lottery, would select him at No. 1 in the 2015 NHL Draft. McDavid took his game to another level in 2016-17. He led the League with 100 points (30 goals, and 70 assists), won the Hart Trophy voted as NHL most valuable player and the Ted Lindsay Award as the most outstanding player as voted by members of the NHL Players' Association to help the Oilers reach the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2006. McDavid signed an eight-year, $100 million extension with the Oilers on July 5, 2017 and repeated as NHL scoring champion in 2017-18, scoring 108 points (41 goals, 67 assists) in 82 games, and winning the Ted Lindsay Award for the second straight season. He didn't win a third straight scoring title in 2018-19 but had an NHL career-high 116 points (41 goals, 75 assists) and finished third in Hart Trophy voting. In the abbreviated 2020-21 season McDavid torched the NHL, leading the League with 105 points (33 goals, 72 assists) in 56 games. He averaged 1.88 points per game, the most by any player to play at least 50 games in a season since Mario Lemieux (2.30) and Jaromir Jagr (1.82) in 1995-96. McDavid scored at least one point in 45 of 56 games, including 18 with at least three points. McDavid was voted the winner of the Ted Lindsay Award for the third time and became the second-ever unanimous winner of the Hart Trophy, getting all 100 first-place votes from members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association. The only other unanimous winner was Wayne Gretzky in 1981-82.