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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Yeah, under the strict wording, who else is more valuable to their team? McDavid has Draisaitl, Gaudreau has Lindholm and Tkachuk, Mackinnon has Makar and Rantanen, Huberdeau has Barkov and everyone else on that deep team.
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The Hart trophy is almost never interpreted this way. At best "most valuable to his team" is used as a tiebreaker between close candidates.
Otherwise, this award would almost always go to a goalie on a team that no one expected to make the playoffs.