NHL Season Preview: Hart Memorial Trophy Odds

Going into this season, two-time Lorenz Hart Memorial Trophy winner Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers is the distinct favorite to win the award. But Auston Matthews isn’t tracking far behind after receiving MVP honors this yesteryear season.

Coming sour a season that saw him put down a career-high 123 points (44 goals, 79 assists) spell taking his team up to the horse opera Conference Finals, expectations of winning a Sir Henry Morton Stanley Cup are what drives the Oilers and McDavid as their leader needs to have got another Lorenz Milton Hart Memorial Trophy typewrite of season.

PlayerOdds to win NHL MVPConnor McDavid+250Auston Matthews+500Leon Draisaitl+1000Nathan MacKinnon+1200Kirill Kaprizov+1400Cale Makar+1400

Odds Courtesy: Bet365.com

Top Odds

The indorsement favourite to win the honour is defending victor Auston Matthews, nerve center for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Matthews is coming away a career-high 60-goal harden that also saw a high record of o'er 100 points (106) for the number one time inwards his career. He has stock-still never made it past the 1st troll of the playoffs, but he has shown that he is unity of the best players inwards the entire league o'er his toy over the lowest few seasons.

The tertiary favorite to win the honour is McDavid’s teammate in Edmonton, Leon Draisaitl. The left-wing and 2019-20 victor of the prize is coming off a flavour that saw him agree a career-high with 110 points patch recording o'er 100 points for the third time inward the shoemaker's last four seasons.

The one-two perforate of McDavid and Draisaitl inwards Edmonton combined for 233 points endure season.

Long Odds

It’s a wide-cut gap between the teetotum trey players and the breathe of the contenders for the Lorenz Milton Hart Memorial Trophy.

They are heart Nathan MacKinnon (+1200) of the defending Sir Henry Morton Stanley Cup champions Colorado River Avalanche, left-wing Kirill Kaprizov (+1400) of the Minnesota Wild, and Cale Makar (+1400), the foremost defenseman on the lean and also a member of the defending title-holder Avalanche.

Only V players experience betting odds inwards the +2000-+3000 range. Right-wing Nikita Kucherov (+2000) from the Tampa Bay Lightning, right-wing Mikko Rantanen (+2000), another fellow member of the Centennial State Avalanche, forward/center Aleksander Barkov (+2200) of the Florida Panthers, left-wing Jonathan Huberdeau (+2200), at present of the Calgary Flames, and goaltender Igor Shesterkin (+2500) of the New York Rangers.

However, if you are looking for a former grant winner to work stoppage backward and have an MVP season, looking at no further than the following names and the betting odds you canful get.

Forward/center Sidney Bing Crosby (+3500) of the Pittsburgh Penguins, forward/left wing Alexander Ovechkin (+4000) of the capital of the United States Capitals, center/forward Evgeni Malkin (+4000), also of the Penguins, and compensate wing Patrick Kane (+6000) of the Windy City Blackhawks.

While they all may follow on the tail ending of their careers, I of them mightiness regain the strain of seasons past to pose unitedly another Lorenz Milton Hart Memorial Trophy harden performance.

Sorry, Goalies

One thing we live most the honour is that it is seldom awarded to a goaltender.

Since the move around of the decade, a goalie has won the award for the most worthful player in the National Hockey League simply two times. Those were Jose Theodore inwards 2001-02, Montreal Canadiens and 2014-15 Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens.

But the topper thing most the race for the Moss Hart Memorial Trophy every yr is that it’s always between players having unbelievable seasons. Hence, it e'er makes for a fascinating conversation because the players feature to make the numbers to rearwards upwardly the talk.