Connor McDavid Ties Wayne Gretzky's Record with 5th Ted Lindsay Award as Most Outstanding NHL Player

Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid has been voted by his peers as the NHL's most outstanding player, collecting the Ted Lindsay Award for a fifth time.

The Ted Lindsay Award is determined by members of the NHL Players' Association.

McDavid joins Wayne Gretzky as the only five-time recipients. He also took home the Ted Lindsay in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023.

The trophy will return to McDavid in 2026 after he led the NHL with 138 points (48 points, 90 assists) while playing all 82 games for the Oilers.

McDavid marked the scoresheet in all but 14 of those games to help the Oilers rank second in the Pacific Division and clinch a playoff spot despite missing Leon Draisaitl down the stretch of the regular season.

His most dominant span of the season took place in December, when the Oilers captain racked up 19 goals and 46 points over a 20-game point streak heading into January.

This season marked McDavid's seventh time as a Ted Lindsay finalist and his sixth career Art Ross Trophy.

The Oilers might need to take action in order to continue building around McDavid. Both he and Draisaitl expressed discontent with their team following this spring's first-round loss to the Anaheim Ducks.

Edmonton will now look to retool this offseason in order to construct another Stanley Cup Final contender around their perennial MVP.

San Jose Sharks center Macklin Celebrini, who ranked fourth in the league with 115 points, finished as a finalist after joining Gretzky as the second teenager in NHL history to top 40 goals and 70 assists in a single season.

Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov, the reigning Lindsay winner, also earned a finalist spot after ranking second behind McDavid with 130 points (44 goals, 86 assists) in 76 games.