FLORIDA — Connor McDavid took house the Conn Smythe Trophy on Tuesday morning, Swedish time: the award given to essentially the most worthwhile participant within the Stanley Cup playoffs.
McDavid received the award regardless of the Oilers shedding to the Florida Panthers 1-2 in Sport 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, which occurred at Amerant Financial institution Area in Florida.
He’s the sixth participant to win the Conn Smythe Trophy and lose the Finals on the identical time, and the primary since Mighty Geese of Anaheim goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere did so in 2003, when Anaheim misplaced the Cup Remaining to the New Jersey Devils in seven video games.
McDavid is the primary Oilers participant to win the award since goaltender Invoice Ranford did it in 1990.
The Oilers captain completed with a playoff scoring complete of 42 factors (8+34) in 25 video games, fourth all-time in a playoff recreation. Wayne Gretzky holds the document of 47 (17+30) in 18 video games from the 1985 playoffs.
McDavid scored 4 factors (2+2) within the Oilers’ 5-3 win in Sport 5 and 4 factors (1+3) within the staff’s 8-1 win in Sport 4. The Oilers rallied from a 0-3 deficit in video games, to 3-3 earlier than match 7.
The Oilers reached the finals by way of victories over the Los Angeles Kings within the first spherical, the Vancouver Canucks within the second and the Dallas Stars within the Western Convention finals. This was the membership’s first Stanley Cup Remaining since 2006 once they misplaced to the Carolina Hurricanes in seven video games.
This season, McDavid can also be a finalist for the Hart Trophy, which matches to the common season’s Most worthy participant. He received the award final yr in addition to in 2020-21 and 2016-17.
McDavid scored 132 factors (32+100) in 76 video games within the common season, third most within the NHL behind Tampa Bay Lightning’s Nikita Kucherov 144 (44+100) and Colorado Avalanche middle Nathan MacKinnon 140 (51+89). Kucherov and MacKinnon are the opposite two finalists for the Hart Trophy.