40 Fun Facts About Art Ross Trophy

Which player won a record ten Art Ross Trophies, seven of them in a row with the Edmonton Oilers?

Wayne Gretzky is also the only player to win the Art Ross Trophy with two teams. He added three more scoring titles after his 1988 trade to the Los Angeles Kings.

Who is the only defenseman ever to win the Art Ross Trophy, doing so twice in the 1970s?

Bobby Orr led the league in points in 1970 and 1975. In 1970 he also took the Hart, Norris and Conn Smythe trophies, the first player to win four major awards in one season.

Which Pittsburgh Penguins center became the youngest Art Ross Trophy winner, at age 19, in 2007?

Sidney Crosby's 120 points made him the youngest scoring champion in any major North American professional sport, not only in hockey.

Which Chicago Blackhawks winger became the first American-born Art Ross Trophy winner in 2016?

Patrick Kane led the league with 106 points that season and was also the first American-born player to win the Hart Trophy as most valuable player.

Which Washington Capitals winger won the 2008 Art Ross Trophy in a season when he scored 65 goals?

Alexander Ovechkin became the first player to sweep four major regular-season awards: the scoring title, the goal-scoring trophy, league MVP and the players' own top award.

Which Czech winger won four straight Art Ross Trophies with the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1998 to 2001?

Jaromir Jagr's first title, in the shortened 1995 season, came on a tiebreaker: he and a Philadelphia rival both had 70 points, but he had scored more goals.

Which Edmonton Oilers captain won his first Art Ross Trophy in 2017 with exactly 100 points?

Connor McDavid was only 20 when he won it. At the start of that season, at 19 years and 266 days, he had become the youngest captain the NHL had ever had.

Which Penguins star won the 1993 Art Ross Trophy despite missing two months for cancer treatment?

Mario Lemieux came back from radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma 12 points off the lead, then won the race by 12 points with 160 in only 60 games.

Which Detroit Red Wings right winger won four straight Art Ross Trophies from 1951 to 1954?

Gordie Howe, the man known as Mr. Hockey, finished with six scoring titles. The last came in 1963, twelve years after his first.

Art Ross, who donated the NHL's scoring trophy, was the first coach and general manager of which team?

Art Ross ran the Boston Bruins from their founding in 1924 and even chose the nickname, taken from an old word for a bear.

Which Canadiens legend lost the 1955 Art Ross Trophy by one point after a suspension that sparked a riot?

Maurice Richard never won a scoring title, finishing second five times. A teammate passed him while he sat out the last games of 1955, and Montreal fans booed the new leader.

Which Russian center won the 2009 Art Ross Trophy, then the Conn Smythe as Pittsburgh took the Stanley Cup?

Evgeni Malkin won the scoring race with 113 points a year after finishing second, then was named playoff MVP. He took a second Art Ross Trophy in 2012.

Which Tampa Bay Lightning winger won the 2024 Art Ross Trophy with a season of exactly 100 assists?

Nikita Kucherov finished with 144 points and became the first winger in NHL history to record 100 assists in a season, a mark only four centers and defensemen had reached.

Which Edmonton Oilers forward became the first German winner of the Art Ross Trophy in 2020?

Leon Draisaitl's 110 points also earned him the Hart Trophy as most valuable player and the players' own award for the most outstanding player, both firsts for a German.

Which center won the 1969 Art Ross Trophy as the first NHL player to score 100 points in a season?

Phil Esposito blew past the barrier to finish with 126 points, then won four more scoring titles in the next five seasons.

Art Ross, namesake of the NHL scoring trophy, redesigned which piece of hockey equipment with bevelled edges?

The puck Art Ross designed had bevelled edges to stop it bouncing so much, and it was made of synthetic rubber instead of the natural rubber used before.

No Art Ross Trophy winner is listed for 2004–05, the only gap since 1948, for which reason?

A season-long lockout over a salary cap wiped out all 1,230 games, the first time a major North American league lost a whole season to a labor dispute.

Twin brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin won back-to-back Art Ross Trophies in 2010 and 2011 with which team?

The Vancouver Canucks had never had a scoring champion before Henrik, who clinched the title when his closest rival went pointless in his final game.

Which center won the 2006 Art Ross Trophy after being traded to the San Jose Sharks early in the season?

Joe Thornton is the only player to win the scoring title while splitting a season between two teams, and he was voted the league's most valuable player as well.

Which undrafted Tampa Bay Lightning winger became the oldest Art Ross Trophy winner at age 37 in 2013?

Martin St. Louis won his second scoring title nine years after his first, the longest gap between Art Ross Trophies for any player.

Which Montreal Canadiens right winger won three straight Art Ross Trophies from 1976 to 1978?

Guy Lafleur, known to fans as the Flower, was the first NHL player to put together six straight seasons of 50 goals and 100 points.

Which Calgary Flames winger won the 2002 Art Ross Trophy, ending two decades of wins by just three players?

Jarome Iginla led the league in both goals and points, with 52 and 96, and his fellow players voted him the season's most outstanding player.

Which Dallas Stars captain won the 2015 Art Ross Trophy on an assist with 8.5 seconds left in the season?

Jamie Benn piled up four points in the final game to finish with 87 and overtake John Tavares of the New York Islanders at the last moment.

Which Chicago center won the Art Ross, Hart and Lady Byng trophies in the same season, twice in a row?

Stan Mikita had been one of the league's most penalized players until he decided to clean up his game. He swept the three awards in 1967 and 1968, and no one else has done it even once.

Which Detroit winger won the 1950 Art Ross Trophy and later had the players' own award named after him?

Ted Lindsay, a fierce competitor nicknamed Terrible Ted, earned that honor for helping to organize the first players' association in the 1950s.

Art Ross, donor of the NHL scoring trophy, is credited as the first coach to try which tactic?

Pulling the goaltender for a sixth skater did not save Art Ross's team in a 1931 playoff game, a 1–0 loss, but the gamble became standard practice across hockey.

Which Detroit Red Wings captain scored 155 points in 1988–89 yet finished only third in the Art Ross race?

Steve Yzerman ran into two of the greatest scorers in history at their peak, yet his fellow players still voted him the season's most outstanding player.

Which Flyers center tied for the NHL points lead in 1995 but lost the Art Ross Trophy on a tiebreaker?

Eric Lindros finished level on 70 points in the shortened season but had scored fewer goals, the first tiebreaker. He was voted the league's most valuable player anyway.

Which Montreal Canadiens winger, an early master of the slapshot, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1955 and 1961?

Bernie Geoffrion got his nickname, Boom Boom, from the thunder of his slapshot, and he was the second player ever to score 50 goals in a season.

Which Swedish center won the 2003 Art Ross Trophy and Hart Trophy with the Colorado Avalanche?

Peter Forsberg had sat out the whole previous regular season to recover after having his spleen removed, then returned to lead the league with 106 points.

Which Montreal Canadiens center, a member of the Punch Line, became the first Art Ross Trophy winner in 1948?

Elmer Lach had already led the league once, in 1945, before the trophy existed. His 61 points in 1947–48 made him a two-time scoring champion with a single Art Ross.

Which Kings center tied a teenage Oiler on 137 points in 1980 but took the Art Ross Trophy on goals?

Marcel Dionne had 53 goals to the teenage newcomer's 51, and that two-goal edge settled the only scoring title of his career.

Which Islanders center won the 1979 Art Ross Trophy, the first winner from a post-1967 expansion team?

Bryan Trottier scored 134 points and was named league MVP as well. That same season he set a record with six points in a single period.

Which Chicago left winger won the Art Ross Trophy in 1960, 1962 and 1966, leading the NHL in goals each time?

Bobby Hull, nicknamed the Golden Jet for his blond hair and speed, took the 1962 title only on a tiebreaker after finishing level with a New York Rangers star.

Which Canadiens center won his only Art Ross Trophy in 1956, then the first Conn Smythe Trophy in 1965?

Jean Béliveau was also league MVP in 1956. He went on to win the Stanley Cup 17 times, ten as a player and seven as a team executive, more than anyone else.

Which Montreal Canadiens left winger won the 1958 Art Ross Trophy despite playing with a broken wrist?

Dickie Moore finished the season with his wrist in a cast, then won again a year later with 96 points, a new NHL record for a single season.

Which Chicago Black Hawks winger, overshadowed by brothers Charlie and Lionel, won the 1949 Art Ross Trophy?

Roy Conacher was known as the forgotten member of his family, yet he joined both brothers in the Hockey Hall of Fame, the only trio of siblings enshrined there.

Which Canadiens forward led the NHL in points in its first season, 30 years before the Art Ross Trophy?

Joe Malone scored 44 goals in only 20 games in 1917–18, and no NHL player since has bettered that goals-per-game pace.

Art Ross designed which B-shaped piece of rink equipment that the NHL used from 1927 to 1984?

The net Art Ross created had its back moulded into a B shape so that it trapped shots better, and the league kept it for more than half a century.

Art Ross won the Stanley Cup as a player with the Kenora Thistles and which other club, in 1908?

The Montreal Wanderers ceased operations when their arena burned down in 1918, which ended his playing career and pushed him toward officiating and coaching.