Will Connor McDavid win the 2024-2025 Art Ross Trophy?

[Regal]

Its funny because some posters were looking down on fact that crosby finished third in scoring at 27 and 28. Yet mcdavid finished third last year at 27 (76 gp is more than enough) n this year started off slow n is now injured.

Last year McDavid was good enough to win the Art Ross in most years though and the difference in pace was minimal. Kucherov and MacKinnon were just that good. When Crosby finished 3rd at 27 and 28 it wasn’t against very good competition other than Kane in ‘16 and Crosby was well behind his pace.

 

[ViD]

He is capable of winning it if he really wants to try, but I don't think he cares anymore about racking up regular season stats. He looks like he is happy to play a safer game instead of trying to beat guys 1 on 1 driving to the net and risking injury. I hope he gets a Cup in the next 2 seasons so we can see another year like 2020 or 2022 where he goes all out in the regular season.

Weird comment after he went 132 in 76. That wins Art Ross 9/10 times

 

[authentic]

No I know, I just wasn’t sure if you were suggesting I was focusing on certain years to make McDavid look better relative to Kucherov.

I think a lot depends on how things shake out relative to each other. If McDavid is close in PPG again this year it’s a bit different than if he was significantly outplayed. With Crosby a big part of the “grace period” was also that it wasn’t the same guys being better each year, so he was still the best somewhat by default for his consistency.

No I wasn’t suggesting that at all and was half joking but it’s interesting to think about as it does seem very possible that Kucherov could outplay him yet again, and perhaps even next season as well.

I agree with your point about Crosby as well.

 

[authentic]

Last year McDavid was good enough to win the Art Ross in most years though and the difference in pace was minimal. Kucherov and MacKinnon were just that good. When Crosby finished 3rd at 27 and 28 it wasn’t against very good competition other than Kane in ‘16 and Crosby was well behind his pace.

But also expanding on your last point about Crosby he had 33 goals and 74 points in his last 60 games after starting with 11 in 20 in 2015-16 so he was roughly scoring at the pace of Kane for 75% of the season and then followed that up with a 75 game pace that would’ve had him only 3 points behind McDavid but far ahead in goals the very next season, so interestingly enough I believe the following year is the first one you could conclusively say he was no longer the best player and McDavid took over.