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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I personally value goals considerably higher than assists especially due to the 2nd assist padding point totals. You can definitely make a case for Ovechkin being not only the Hart Trophy winner but an underrated/underappreciated player as we are talking about a player with 465 goals in 744 games played. He's 5th all-time in goals scored per game over his career ahead of HOF players like Gretzky, Hull, Bure, etc and as prolific a goal scorer Stamkos is it's unlikely he will ever come close to Ovechkin's career numbers. He's simply one of the greatest goal scorers in the history of the NHL so if he won the Hart Trophy this season I would be fine with it as he's leading the league in points and goals.
For the record I voted yes only because I will never vote for a Habs goaltender to win the Hart after the debacle that cost Iginla his Hart trophy.
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Good point about the Habs goalie. That was robbery.
Although Iggy won the Pearson that year, which like I said in the OP is the Big One IMO.