The NHL hasn’t had back-to-back Hart Trophy winners since 2009, so it’s unlikely that Toronto Maple Leafs superstar Auston Matthews will win another this season.
Auston Matthews did exactly what all Toronto Maple Leafs fans expected him to do when he finally won his first career Hart Trophy last year.
Can we take a second and look back at how lucky the Leafs were to be so awful during the 2015-16 campaign? Besides the Connor McDavid draft year, there couldn’t have been a better time to win the NHL Draft Lottery than 2016, because Matthews is clearly a generational talent.