BLOG: Draisaitl wins 2019-20 Art Ross Trophy

EDMONTON, AB - The NHL's Return To Play Plan on Tuesday didn't delay the inevitable.

Leon Draisaitl is your 2019-20 Art Ross Trophy winner as the League's top scorer.

With the official conclusion of the regular season on Tuesday, the German forward ends his sensational campaign with 110 points (43G, 67A) in 67 games and his first major piece of NHL hardware.

Draisaitl outpaced the League offensively all year to sit alone atop the scoring race, finishing 13 points up on teammate Connor McDavid and 15 ahead of the New York Rangers' Artemi Panarin and Boston Bruins' David Pastrnak.

The 24-year-old exceeded his exceptional standard of 50 goals & 105 points last season to amass 44 power-play points (16 goals) and dominate at five-on-five on a line with Kailer Yamamoto and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins during a season where a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup at its end would be the only goal for both Draisaitl and the Oilers.

Later this summer, in a best-of-five Qualifying Round against the Chicago Blackhawks, that opportunity will come.

Draisaitl is the third Oilers player in club history to win an Art Ross Trophy (Gretzky, McDavid) and the first German-born player to achieve the feat. He and McDavid are also the first teammates since 2013 to finish one-two in the scoring race.