Nikita Kucherov Wins 2026 Hart Trophy

By Bradley Keith | at June 11, 2026 6:38 pm Tampa Bay Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov has been named the 2026 Hart Trophy Winner, the annual award for the top player in the National Hockey League. The honors were announced this evening on ESPN’s “The Point” prior to Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. Awarded to the player selected in a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers Association in all NHL cities upon the end of the regular season, Kucherov takes home the MVP for the second time in his career, the first coming in 2019. The soon-to-be 33-year-old...