According to NHL.com, "the Hart Memorial Trophy is an annual award given to the player judged to be the most valuable to his team. The winner is selected in a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association in all NHL cities at the end of the regular season."
A player's value to his team can be measured in many different ways but last season, the hockey writers were in near-unanimous agreement that the most-deserving candidate was Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens. Hockey Reference noted that the goaltender cleaned up with 139 of 157 first-place votes for the 2014-15 campaign.
Will the voting be closer this year? Perhaps.
The field of worthy candidates remains quite narrow, but among those candidates, some intriguing arguments can be made.
As the regular season winds down, here's a look at the NHL players who are most deserving of Hart Trophy consideration in 2015-16.
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