When the 2024-25 NHL season is over, the award for the NHL’s best player – the Art Ross Trophy – will be voted upon. Looking at what’s happened thus far in the NHL, two players seem to be the frontrunners for the prize.

The Edmonton Oilers wake up this Sunday morning in First Place in the Pacific Division, and third overall in the NHL. The Oilers went 2-1 with Connor McDavid out due to suspension and have been 25-8-2 since November 9 th. How different will the Oilers look when Connor is back is not the question. How officials will look at him…is.

Connor McDavid will lead the Edmonton Oilers against the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena, Denver in back-to-back games after playing the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday.

The 2 Mutts Hockey Podcast, an inside source that has accurately reported Oilers news this season, has said that Connor McDavid will scale back NHL media activities in response to officiating.

Taylor Heise, Natalie Spooner, Marie-Philip Poulin, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, and Nikita Kucherov are the Team of the Year forwards

Nathan MacKinnon has the inside track on his second-straight Hart Trophy winner. Here are four other names to watch in the NHL's MVP race.

The one-sided melee lasted nearly 10 seconds before McDavid was finally able to rise up and, with no indication of a penalty forthcoming from the officials, took matters — and his stick — into his own hands, making it one-sided no more.

The Colorado Avalanche got a taste of their own medicine, ceding a 3-0 lead to the Edmonton Oilers, eventually losing 4-3.

Answering for his suspension on Wednesday, Connor McDavid made it clear that he just wants what every player wants. For the rule book to be applied through 60 minutes of hockey, 82 nights a year. Mark Spector has the story.

TSN analyst Martin Biron picked the field over Connor McDavid for the Hart Trophy on SC with Jay Onrait. McDavid, on course for over 120 points, could join Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Phil Esposito and Marcel Dionne with four straight 120-point seasons.

Some days ago, it was suggested that the Toronto Maple Leafs could trade for Flyers Centre Scott Laughton. The idea, originally proposed by James Mirtle in The

The word “blockbuster” gets thrown around a little too often in today’s NHL, often for trades unworthy of the term, in the same way that anything might feel like a five-star meal to a starving man. But the deal that dropped on Friday night? That one deserves the title, no questions asked.