Oilers’ Connor McDavid wins sixth Art Ross Trophy, second most all-time

The greatest player in the world is adding another trophy to his mantle.

At the conclusion of the 2025-26 season, Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid clinched the Art Ross Trophy as the leading scorer in the NHL for the sixth time in his legendary career with 48 goals and 134 points.

McDavid joins Hockey Hall of Famers Gordie Howe and Mario Lemieux for the second-most Art Ross wins in league history. The trio trails the great Wayne Gretzky, who won the award a record 10 times. It is McDavid’s first individual regular-season honor since the incredible 2022-23 campaign, when he won the Art Ross, Hart, Rocket Richard Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award.

The Richmond Hill, Ont. native had another terrific season. In appearing in his first full 82-game season since that 2022-23 season, McDavid scored 48 goals and 88 assists for 136 points, finishing a few points ahead of Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov, who finished with 130 points. It marks the sixth year in a row that he has hit the century mark in points, and the third time he has posted 130 points. McDavid has only missed the 100-point mark twice in his career – his rookie season, where he missed 37 games due to injury, and the COVID-shortened 2019-20 campaign.

McDavid was a key part in helping the two-time defending Western Conference champions overcome another sluggish October, dragging the team back up from the bottom of the Pacific to, at one point, contending for a division title. Yet, the team had to settle for a lower seed, despite clinching a spot in the postseason for the seventh consecutive season. There’s no question that McDavid’s efforts have placed him in the Hart conversation once again.

In the first 11 seasons of his NHL career, the 29-year-old has scored 409 goals and 807 assists for 1,216 points. He’s won the Hart three times, the Ted Lindsay four times, as well as the Conn Smythe Trophy in the Oilers’ run to the Stanley Cup Final in 2024.