Ranking the Top Candidates for the Hart Trophy in 2014-15 NHL Season

December 29th, 2014 by Steve Macfarlane Leave a reply »
We're going back to basics for this ranking, an updated version of the top candidates for the Hart Trophy in the 2014-15 NHL season. 

By basics, I mean the actual definition of the Hart criteria—given annually to the player judged to be most valuable to his team. He doesn't necessarily have to be the league's leading goal scorer or point producer or advanced stats leader, but someone whose team couldn't possibly be as successful as it has been so far this season without his services.

Plenty of those players have come to light with the addition of the past month's body of work. Others have made it even more difficult to judge who the top dog is on their own team. This has decreased the value of a guy like Sidney Crosby and Jakub Voracek, who are backed by the likes of Evgeni Malkin and Claude Giroux in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, respectively.

Previous versions of the ranking did take the literal translation of MVP of the team rather than the league into account to some degree, so there are still familiar names in similar positions, but there are many new additions that have rocketed up based on contributions to their team's relative s ...

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