2021 NHL Hart Trophy Odds Tracker

• Who are the top contenders for the 2021 NHL Hart Trophy?
• Connor McDavid is the current favorite to win the 2021 Hart Trophy
• Track and visualize how odds fluctuate throughout the 2020-21 NHL campaign

The Professional Hockey Writers’ Association has awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy to the league’s most valuable player since 1926, a whopping 16 years before the original six era officially began. With 31 teams in the NHL and league parity at an all-time high, the Hart Trophy race has never been more exciting.

We’ll be tracking all the odds available at sportsbooks all year, providing you with coverage on how notable players’ odds to win the Hart fluctuate throughout the season.

Odds for Top Hart Trophy Contenders

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• [Feb 22]: Auston Matthews is now the second favorite to win the Hart behind Connor McDavid with +288 average odds. Matthews has seven goals in his last four games.
• [Feb 2]: Connor McDavid remains the favorite at +275 average odds. Jack Hughes’ average odds have shortened from +9000 to +2900 after starting the season with eight points through nine games.
• [Jan 22]: After a full week of the 2021 NHL season, the biggest mover in the Top 10 average odds was Brayden Point from +1450 to +1800.
• [Jan 8]: With the NHL season less than a week away, Connor McDavid is the new favorite at +453 average odds. Nikita Kucherov, Tyler Seguin, and Vladimir Tarasenko have fallen out of the odds due to injuries.
• [Nov 9, 2020]: Nathan MacKinnon has opened as the favorite to win the 2021 Hart Trophy at +650. Last year’s winner Leon Draisaitl has opened at +1150 odds

Hart Trophy Odds

Odds taken Feb. 22

NHL Hart Trophy Trends to Consider

• No non-forward has won the Hart in the last 15 years with the sole exception of Carey Price in 2014-2015.
• It’s almost impossible for players to win the Hart Trophy if their teams don’t make the playoffs. It hasn’t happened since Mario Lemieux won the trophy in 1988 and only four times in this history of the league.
• The player who wins the Hart will likely lead the league in either goals, points, or both. The only two post-lockout exceptions to this rule are Taylor Hall in 2018 and Carey Price in 2015.
• Hockey writers not only focus on larger market teams when they cast their votes, but they tend to vote for players in the Eastern Conference. In the post-lockout era, 10 out of 14 Hart Trophy-winners have played in the East.

2021 Hart Trophy Odds for Players on Canadian Teams

Canadian teams are home to a lot of top-flight talent this season, including three of the last 10 winners in Leon Draisaitl (2020), Connor McDavid (2017), and Carey Price (2015).

2021 Hart Trophy Odds for Previous Winners

The last player to win the Hart Trophy in back-to-back seasons was Alex Ovechkin (2008 & 2009). Wayne Gretzky won the award eight times in a row from 1980-1987.

 Last 10 Hart Trophy Winners

The median age of Hart Trophy winners in the last 10 years is 25. The youngest winner over the last 10 years is Connor McDavid, who was only 20 when he won the Hart in 2017.

Carey Price was the first goaltender to win the Hart Trophy in 2016 in over 10 years. Jose Theodore won the Hart in 2002 with the Montreal Canadiens as well.

 Players with Multiple Hart Trophies

Archived Hart Trophy odds: 2020, 2019