Hart and Lindsay nominations since 2005/06

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There have been 57 nominees for both the Hart and Lindsay since 05/06. Here are some interesting stats:

Forwards account for 50 Hart nominations and goalies with 7 nominations (no D-man has been nominated)
Forwards account for 50 Lindsay nominations, goalies with 4 nominations and D-men with 3 nominations

45 out of 57 times (79%), a player received both a Hart and a Lindsay nomination
6 times out of 19 seasons the nominees were the same (including 2008 to 2010) with 2 of those 5 seeing a different winner
14 times out 19 seasons (73%) the winner of each award was the same, a different winner has only happened once since 2013
1 out of 19 seasons saw a winner not appear as a nominee for the other award (McDavid in 2018)
1 out of 19 seasons saw a winner other than a forward (Price in 2015)

Players receiving the most nominations for both awards:

Crosby - 13 in 8 seasons (7 wins)
McDavid - 12 in 7 seasons (7 wins)
Ovechkin - 11 in 6 seasons (6 wins)
MacKinnon - 7 in 4 seasons (1 win)
Malkin - 6 in 3 seasons (2 wins)
Matthews - 5 in 3 seasons (2 wins)
Kucherov - 4 in 2 seasons (2 wins)
Kane, Stamkos - 3


The lowest a Lindsay nominee has finished in Hart voting:

Karlsson (2023) - 15th
Benn (2015) - 12th
St. Louis (2013) - 9th


Quirky nominations:

In 2011, St. Louis was 3rd in the Hart, and Stamkos was 11th yet Stamkos got the Lindsay nomination

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14 times out 19 seasons (73%) the winner of each award was the same, a different winner has only happened

From the inception of the Pearson/Lindsay in to 2004, 21 times out 33 (63%) seasons saw the winner as the same.

 

[MadLuke]

No D-man even selected for the Hart, yet they won 4 Conn Smythe out of 19.

Voters that watch all the games, best forward often not winning the cup opening the field up... long overtime that make the huge minutes player more valuable to their team than in the regular season... ?

 

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No D-man even selected for the Hart, yet they won 4 Conn Smythe out of 19.

Voters that watch all the games, best forward often not winning the cup opening the field up... long overtime that make the huge minutes player more valuable to their team than in the regular season... ?

It's interesting that goalies and d-men have won the Smythe about the same amount of time over the past 40 years and a G or D wins it about 50% of the time. Clearly the single MVP award vs. Hart/Norris/Vezina is a factor.

Perhaps the general increased focus on defense in the playoffs, tighter defensive games, and the better defensive teams coming out on top more often than not is a factor.

 

[MadLuke]

For goaltender at least there is an element of they tend to play all playoff games while not playing all regular season game and a hot goaltender performance is hard to beat in terms of value, that make the short tourney versus 82 more likely as well.

D vs F could be Norris, because those types of reasons are less clear.

Niedermayer played 29:51 per game in the playoff vs 26:52 in the regular season
Keith 31:07 vs 25:34
Hedman played 26:28 vs 24:04
Makar 27:04 vs 25:40

Every stars tend to play more in the playoff, but maybe the effect is bigger for those big #1D and like goaltender they are just objectively more valuable in the playoff vs the regular season has they play more of their teams minutes.