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Nikita Kucherov Wins Ted Lindsay Award

June 4, 2025 at 10:05 am CDT | by Josh Erickson 8 Comments

Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov has won this year’s Ted Lindsay Award for the league’s most outstanding player as voted on by his peers, the NHL announced Wednesday.

Kucherov wins the 2025 honors six years after his first win, when he led the league in assists (87) and points (128) in the 2018-19 campaign. He also won the Hart Trophy that year, which he’s a finalist for again this year alongside the Oilers’ Leon Draisaitl and the Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck.

This year, Kucherov was the only overlap between Lindsay and Hart finalists – the latter voted on by Professional Hockey Writers Association members. For the player-voted honors, Kucherov beat out Avalanche stars Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar.

It’s not as if Kucherov needed any more hardware to cement his Hall-of-Fame case, but it certainly doesn’t hurt. The Russian superstar turns 32 later this week but is still fully in his prime, now capturing back-to-back league scoring titles in addition to his 2019 Art Ross. He becomes the 12th player in league history to win multiple Ted Lindsay (formerly known as the Lester B. Pearson) Awards, joining Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, and Alex Ovechkin as the only active players to do so.

The award stands as nice recognition to a season full of even more milestones for the two-time Stanley Cup champion. He recorded a league-high 121 points and 84 assists in the regular season, the latter of which made him just the fourth player in league history with three consecutive 80-assist seasons. He also led the league outright in points per game (1.55), primary assists (56), power-play points (46), and power-play assists (38) in 2024-25 while averaging 21:11 per game, the second-highest deployment of his career after last season.

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  1. FeeltheThunder

    2 months ago

    Congratulations to a very well deserved Nikita Kucherov on his second Ted Lindsay Award making Tampa proud.

    I’ve always found the Ted Lindsay Award more meaningful than the Hart Trophy primarily because it’s voted by the peers of the player which speaks volumes over the media voted Hart Trophy.

    Kuch has a strong possibility of winning the Hart as well especially since he’s the only player nominated for both the Hart & Lindsay awards this season. We shall see what happens.

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    • Lightning Strike

      2 months ago

      Glad he won the Lindsay, well deserved, but I think Hellebuyck gets the Hart. Carried WPG on his back until the playoffs, and even then gave his team a shot against a superior Stars team until an OT PPG in Game 6.

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    • FeeltheThunder

      2 months ago

      If Conor Hellebuyck wins the Hart it wouldn’t surprise me & it’s well deserved. But it wouldn’t surprise me if Kucherov won it either. Being the only player nominated for the Hart & the Lindsay awards would IMO give Kuch a little bit of the edge of being the favorite but we’ll see what happens on June 12th when the Hart winner is announced.

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  2. based

    2 months ago

    Sure didn’t look like most outstanding player in rd 1.

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    • FeeltheThunder

      2 months ago

      When you’re getting doubled & tripled teamed every time you touch the puck in the playoffs, it’s rather hard (though he still produced 4 points in round 1 behind only Jake Guentzel’s 5 points) but that doesn’t change the facts that Kucherov was the best player in the regular season. Haters gonna hate.

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    • based

      2 months ago

      No hate, just a lil criticism. He’s gotta give a lil more than 7 SOG & 0 G in 23 TOI. Let’s be honest, if McDavid were to have a series like that in the Finals he would get crushed. Kuch is a great player- no disrespect.

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    • FeeltheThunder

      2 months ago

      No, that’s a fair assessment in your latest post. I agree with yeah.

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  3. Nha Trang

    2 months ago

    Pfft, Kucherov could get hit by a Mack truck tomorrow and still make the HHOF first time out.

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