Art Ross Trophy
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40 free Art Ross Trophy trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Art Ross Trophy goes to the player who finishes the National Hockey League regular season with the most points, goals and assists added together. It has been handed out since the late 1940s, and its list of winners reads like a history of the sport's greatest attacking talent, from the Original Six era to the stars of today. This quiz covers the winners and the stories behind their seasons: record streaks, teenage champions, races decided on the final night, ties settled by a tiebreaker, and famous names who somehow never won. It also looks at the man the award is named for, a player, coach and tinkerer who left his mark on the tactics and equipment of the game. It is written for hockey fans who follow the scoring race every spring and for quiz hosts who want accurate questions with the answers ready to read out. The questions run from household names to deep cuts from the trophy's first decade.
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Q 01Which player won a record ten Art Ross Trophies, seven of them in a row with the Edmonton Oilers?
Wayne Gretzky
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.
Q 02Who is the only defenseman ever to win the Art Ross Trophy, doing so twice in the 1970s?
Bobby Orr
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.
Q 03Which Pittsburgh Penguins center became the youngest Art Ross Trophy winner, at age 19, in 2007?
Sidney Crosby
Sidney Crosby's 120 points made him the youngest scoring champion in any major North American professional sport, not only in hockey.
Q 04Which Chicago Blackhawks winger became the first American-born Art Ross Trophy winner in 2016?
Patrick Kane
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.
Q 05Which Washington Capitals winger won the 2008 Art Ross Trophy in a season when he scored 65 goals?
Alexander Ovechkin
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.
Q 06Which Czech winger won four straight Art Ross Trophies with the Pittsburgh Penguins from 1998 to 2001?
Jaromir Jagr
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.
Q 07Which Edmonton Oilers captain won his first Art Ross Trophy in 2017 with exactly 100 points?
Connor McDavid
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.
Q 08Which Penguins star won the 1993 Art Ross Trophy despite missing two months for cancer treatment?
Mario Lemieux
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.
Q 09Which Detroit Red Wings right winger won four straight Art Ross Trophies from 1951 to 1954?
Gordie Howe
Gordie Howe, the man known as Mr. Hockey, finished with six scoring titles. The last came in 1963, twelve years after his first.
Q 10Art Ross, who donated the NHL's scoring trophy, was the first coach and general manager of which team?
Boston Bruins
Art Ross ran the Boston Bruins from their founding in 1924 and even chose the nickname, taken from an old word for a bear.
Q 11Which Canadiens legend lost the 1955 Art Ross Trophy by one point after a suspension that sparked a riot?
Maurice Richard
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.
Q 12Which Russian center won the 2009 Art Ross Trophy, then the Conn Smythe as Pittsburgh took the Stanley Cup?
Evgeni Malkin
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.
Q 13Which Tampa Bay Lightning winger won the 2024 Art Ross Trophy with a season of exactly 100 assists?
Nikita Kucherov
Q 21Which Montreal Canadiens right winger won three straight Art Ross Trophies from 1976 to 1978?
Guy Lafleur
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.
Q 22Which Calgary Flames winger won the 2002 Art Ross Trophy, ending two decades of wins by just three players?
Jarome Iginla
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.
Q 23Which Dallas Stars captain won the 2015 Art Ross Trophy on an assist with 8.5 seconds left in the season?
Jamie Benn
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.
Q 14Which Edmonton Oilers forward became the first German winner of the Art Ross Trophy in 2020?
Leon Draisaitl
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.
Q 15Which center won the 1969 Art Ross Trophy as the first NHL player to score 100 points in a season?
Phil Esposito
Phil Esposito blew past the barrier to finish with 126 points, then won four more scoring titles in the next five seasons.
Q 16Art Ross, namesake of the NHL scoring trophy, redesigned which piece of hockey equipment with bevelled edges?
The puck
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.
Q 17No Art Ross Trophy winner is listed for 2004–05, the only gap since 1948, for which reason?
A season-long lockout
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.
Q 18Twin brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin won back-to-back Art Ross Trophies in 2010 and 2011 with which team?
Vancouver Canucks
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.
Q 19Which center won the 2006 Art Ross Trophy after being traded to the San Jose Sharks early in the season?
Joe Thornton
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.
Q 20Which undrafted Tampa Bay Lightning winger became the oldest Art Ross Trophy winner at age 37 in 2013?
Martin St. Louis
Martin St. Louis won his second scoring title nine years after his first, the longest gap between Art Ross Trophies for any player.
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.
Q 24Which Chicago center won the Art Ross, Hart and Lady Byng trophies in the same season, twice in a row?
Stan Mikita
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.
Q 25Which Detroit winger won the 1950 Art Ross Trophy and later had the players' own award named after him?
Ted Lindsay
Ted Lindsay, a fierce competitor nicknamed Terrible Ted, earned that honor for helping to organize the first players' association in the 1950s.
Q 26Art Ross, donor of the NHL scoring trophy, is credited as the first coach to try which tactic?
Pulling the goaltender
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.
Q 27Which Detroit Red Wings captain scored 155 points in 1988–89 yet finished only third in the Art Ross race?
Steve Yzerman
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.
Q 28Which Flyers center tied for the NHL points lead in 1995 but lost the Art Ross Trophy on a tiebreaker?
Eric Lindros
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.
Q 29Which Montreal Canadiens winger, an early master of the slapshot, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1955 and 1961?
Bernie Geoffrion
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.
Q 30Which Swedish center won the 2003 Art Ross Trophy and Hart Trophy with the Colorado Avalanche?
Peter Forsberg
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.