Leon is and should be the winner. anyone else is a massive mistake

Maybe. The one thing that concerns me, and it is not taking away from him, is that he is playing with another Hart Trophy winner. I think that Eichel has a legitimate shot this year because he has absolutely nobody around him.

My pick would be Panarin. He led a team without much firepower into the playoff picture (Mika was out for a while). He's also is elite offensively and defensively.

As i have said:
Hart: "player judged most valuable to his team"

If you had to trade either Leon or McJesus, you would you keep? You would keep Mcdavid.
If the player you want to be the Hart winner isnt even the most valuable on his team, he cant be the most valuable in the league.

Winners:
1. MacKinnon
2. Panarin
3. Hellebuyck
4. Eichel
5. Drai / Mcdavid
6. Marchy / Pasta

EDIT:


Well said

If Chabot is there then Josi should absolutely be there

Leon played on the same line as Connor less than 50% of the time.

553:21 with McDavid
610:24 without McDavid

All Draisaitl's metrics (CF%, SF%, GF%, xGF%) are better without McDavid.

Mika was out as much as Ollofson and I would say that Eichel was even more valuable than Panarin. Eichels defense is waay worse than NYR. I mean Eichel doesn't have a goalie that comes close 2 the Rangers 3 goalies. Ryan Strome, Mika, Trouba, Fox, Buchnevich are all playing better than most players on the Sabres. I get Panarin played very well but that team was a lot better.

That criteria doesn't work so well when you consider that the award is for 1 season only. There are all sorts of reasons you might want to keep one player over another that have nothing to do with single season performance.

500 minutes is more time than almost 99% of players in he NHL.get

some of these guys have way to much help to win.
I do think Panarin is probably the most deserving.
He has the least amount of help and if he wasn't on that team, they'd really suck.

Panarin would be a good pick, although I have to disagree with your assessment of the NY Rangers. They do indeed have quite a lot of firepower, in fact they are 5th in the league in goals-for, just 4 behind the 2nd place Leafs.

Here's another way of looking at a player's impact on his team's offense: take the player's total points and divide by the team's total goals.

Draisaitl 49.3%
McDavid 43.5%
Pastrnak 41.9%
Panarin 40.8%
Eichel 40.4%
MacKinnon 39.4%
Kucherov 35.0%

As far as offensive production goes, Leon Draisaitl is far and away the most valuable player to his team.

I guess you missed the part where Draisaitl performed better without McDavid than with him?

See post #11. Your assertion that Panarin had the least amount of help simply isn't true.

I hope u missed the part where that would make sense. Who do the other team March there best lineup against

is this for this year ? or potential for the future as well?

I don’t think theres a goalie currently in the nhl that can win the Hart, carter hart or vasy would have to have a ungodly season to win it

Makar? Cmon.

Conner Hellebuyck is a top 3 contender for Hart rn

That doesn't really prove anything. % doesn't mean not having help.
It's the other guys around you that is where they help is.
I'm sure OV has a high % too, but he has help on his line with Wilson and Either Kuzy or Backstrom.

Panarin though is a one man guy on NY. He doesn't really have help. His linemates are Fast and Strome. He's basically carrying that production himself on his back.
Dri on the other hand had Yamamoto and RNH to help. So he's had some help.
On top of it, Teams will put their best line on McDavid. Panarin got the other teams best line every night because he is their best line.

Ovechkin was involved in just 28.4% of his team's offense, so you're wrong about that too.

McDavid and Draisaitl faced opponents best pretty much equally. Total TOI vs Elites:

Draisaitl: 420.1
McDavid: 382.75

28% is a lot for 1 guy.

yeah they are still splitting time though.
come on post panarin on there. I mean that 1st line in NY isn't really all that great.

It's low relative to the other players listed.

Panarin 400.90