The NHL announced the early end of the regular season – the teams had 68–71 matches, but due to pandemics, they will have to, without playing a dozen meetings, immediately go to the cup of the championship. This means that the statistics of hockey players in the regular season will no longer be updated, and you can summarize immediately in two major categories – the best scorer and the best sniper.
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For the first time in the history of Art Ross, a player from Germany took over – Edmonton striker Leon Dreisaitl. He was the only one who broke the mark of 100 points. Alas, Artemy Panarin did not have a few points.
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And Alexander Ovechkin again became the best NHL sniper – however, this time he will share the victory with the Boston striker David Pastrnyak. Before the traditional fifty dollars, Ovi did not have only two goals.
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For Ovechkin, this “Maurice Richard” is the ninth in his career! Despite the fact that Alexander spent 15 seasons in the NHL. Over the past eight years, he lost the sniper race only once – in the 2016/17 championship, when Sydney Crosby received the prize? No one in the history of the NHL has become the best goalscorer of the season even eight times, not to mention nine. Phil Esposito (6) and Bobby Hall (7) have more than five victories. Of the Russians, Pavel Bure became three times the best sniper, once Alexander Mogilny and Ilya Kovalchuk.
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Now the number of individual Ovechkin prizes in the NHL has reached 18. In addition to nine Moris Richard, he has one Conn Smythe (MVP playoffs), three Hart Trophies and Ted Lindsay (MVP regulars according to journalists and players), one “Art Rossi” and “Calder Trophy” (the best newcomer to the NHL).
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