There are a number of ways to compare Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin to each other. You can evaluate who is the better player overall, who is more valuable to their team, who is the greater scorer or who is more likely to win the Hart Trophy. This last one is the topic of this particular article, and is a matter of figuring out who will avoid certain criteria that is commonly used to rule a player out and then determining which player will provide the most offense.
Even though the Hart Trophy is defined as the player most valuable to his team, don’t confuse that with an article about which player is more valuable. The winner of the Hart Trophy is decided by the voters of the Professional Hockey Writers Association (PHWA), and they all have their own level of exposure to the various teams and players and their own perspective on how players provide value to their team. That’s often why the Ted Lindsay Award, which is awarded by the players of the NHL from their own perspectives, selects a different player on a reasonably common basis.
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Article written by Rob Vollman