Vancouver Canucks: Henrik Sedin Will Win the Art Ross Trophy

January 14th, 2012 by Joel Prosser Leave a reply »
Last year, Daniel Sedin won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer for the 2010-2011 season.

In the 2009-2010 season, his elder (by six minutes) twin brother Henrik won the Art Ross.

The back-to-back Art Ross trophies by teammates marked the first time this has happened in almost 20 years.

Jaromir Jagr (1993-1994) and Mario Lemieux (1994-1995) won the Art Ross in consecutive seasons back during the Super Mario era of the Penguins.

The Penguins collected an amazing seven Art Ross trophies in a row during the dominance of Super Mario and Jagr. Then Jagr left Pittsburgh for greener (or richer at least) pastures, and Lemieux retired.

Since Jagr's last Art Ross in the 2000-2011 season, no single player has won the Art Ross more than once.

Jarome Iginla, Peter Forsberg, Martin St. Louis, Joe Thornton, Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Henrik and Daniel Sedin have all won the scoring race once in this span.

This streak of individual winners is going to fall, as a Sedin will win the Art Ross Trophy in 2011-2012, thereby being the first player since Jagr to win multiple Art Ross Trophi ...

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