The Art Ross Trophy is awarded to the

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(NHL) player who leads the league in points at the end of the regular season. It was presented to the league by former player, General Manager, and head coach

Art Ross Arthur Howe Ross (January 13, 1885 – August 5, 1964) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and executive from 1905 until 1954. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era by his peers, he was one of the first to skate with the puc ...

. The trophy has been awarded 70 times to 29 players since its introduction in the

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. Ross is also known for his design of the official NHL puck, with slightly bevelled edges for better control. The current holder is

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of the

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History

The Art Ross Trophy was presented to the

(NHL) in 1947 by Arthur Howey "Art" Ross, former General Manager and head coach of the

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and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee as a player.

Elmer Lach Elmer James Lach (, January 22, 1918 – April 4, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 14 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL). A centre, he was a member of the Punch line, along with ...

of the

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was the winner of the first Art Ross Trophy, which was awarded at the conclusion of the season. Players from the

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and

have won the trophy 15 times each; while the

and

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are tied for third, as players from each of those teams have won the trophy a total of nine times. Although

Joe Thornton Joseph Eric Thornton (born July 2, 1979) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He has previously played for the Boston Bruins, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Florida Panthers of th ...

, winner from the season, started the season playing for the

, he finished with the

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and the award counts for the Sharks. Therefore,

have seven players winning the trophy, fifth overall. From 1951 to 2001, Jean Beliveau,

Marcel Dionne Marcel Elphège "Little Beaver" Dionne (born August 3, 1951) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers. Marcel Dion ...

, and

Bryan Trottier Bryan John Trottier (born July 17, 1956) is a Canadian-American former professional ice hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Penguins. He won four Stanley Cups with the ...

were the only ''single-time'' winners of the scoring title, while

Gordie Howe Gordon Howe (March 31, 1928 – June 10, 2016) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seaso ...

Bernie Geoffrion Joseph Bernard André Geoffrion (; February 14, 1931 – March 11, 2006), nicknamed "Boom Boom", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey ...

, Dickie Moore,

Bobby Hull Robert Marvin Hull OC (born January 3, 1939) is a Canadian former ice hockey player who is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. His blonde hair, skating speed, end-to-end rushes, and ability to shoot the puck at very high veloc ...

Stan Mikita Stanley Mikita (born Stanislav Guoth; May 20, 1940 – August 7, 2018) was a Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, generally regarded as the best centre of the 1960s. In 2017, he was ...

Phil Esposito Philip Anthony Esposito ( , ; born February 20, 1942) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, coach and executive, and current broadcaster for the Tampa Bay Lightning. A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, he played 18 seasons in ...

Bobby Orr Robert Gordon Orr (born March 20, 1948) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time. Orr used his ice skating speed, scoring, and play-making abilities to revolutionize the pos ...

Guy Lafleur Guy Damien Lafleur (September 20, 1951 – April 22, 2022), nicknamed "the Flower" and "Le Démon Blond", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 50 goals in six ...

Wayne Gretzky Wayne Douglas Gretzky ( ; born January 26, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. He played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for four teams from 1979 to 1999. Nicknamed "the Great One ...

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, and

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all won it on multiple occasions. For two decades, from

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2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

, only three players won the Art Ross Trophy: Gretzky, Lemieux, and Jagr. The streak ended when

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won the trophy in

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. Gretzky has won the trophy a record ten times, including seven consecutive, during his 20-year NHL career.

and Lemieux have each won it six times, while Esposito and Jagr each have five. Jagr, from the Czech Republic, has won the award the most times by a non-Canadian. Patrick Kane is the only American born player to win the trophy, doing so in 2016. Gretzky is the only player to win the trophy for more than one team, while Thornton is the only player to win it while playing for two different teams in one season. Stan Mikita is the only player in NHL history to win the Art Ross, Hart, and Lady Byng Trophies all in the same season, which he did twice ( and , with Chicago; Gretzky,

, and

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all won each of those awards at least once and won a combination of two of them in the same season, but never all three together). Orr is the only defenseman to win the scoring title, doing so in

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and

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with Boston, and in 1970 he became the first player to capture four individual awards in a single season as he won the Hart, Norris, and

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Trophies that year as well. In

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became the youngest player to win the Art Ross Trophy at age 19, and also became the youngest scoring champion in any major North American professional sport. At almost twice Crosby's age, Martin St. Louis became the oldest player to capture the Art Ross at the age of 37, also having the longest gap between scoring titles (nine years).

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and

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are the only siblings to win the award, in

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and 2011, respectively. Since 2001, only four players, Connor McDavid, Crosby,

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, and St. Louis have won the award more than once: Crosby in

and

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, Malkin in

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and

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, St. Louis in

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and

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, and McDavid in

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and

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. McDavid and Gretzky are the only players to win multiple Art Ross trophies before age 21. The NHL rules stipulate three

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s in case two or more players are tied in points: #Player with most goals #Player with fewer games played #Player scoring first goal of the season Scoring ties happened in the , , and seasons, all of them being decided by the first tiebreaker of scoring more goals. In those respective seasons, Hull won over

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, Dionne over Gretzky, and Jagr over

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. The NHL's award to recognize the leading goal-scorer, the

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, does not have a tiebreaker, allowing multiple winners to be recognized in any one season.