Who carried the decade. Every season is scored against its own league with VAL, so a player is measured against the peers he actually faced, never against a different era's scoring environment.
Player of the decade
Connor McDavidBest single season
Nathan MacKinnon · 2026Evidence
5,658 player-seasons
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (24.3)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2026 (24.9)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (23)
R · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (24.3)
L · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (24)
R · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (23)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (22.5)
R · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2025 (21)
L · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2025 (22.3)
R · 6 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (23.2)
R · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (22.1)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (20.8)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (21.4)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2026 (21)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (19.9)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (20.7)
D · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2025 (21.3)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2024 (22.6)
L · 6 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (24.3)
L · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (24.6)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (20.4)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (23.4)
L · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2022 (20.5)
C · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2023 (17.9)
R · 7 seasons in the decade · best 2026 (19.5)
Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.
| # | Player | Season | VAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nathan MacKinnon | 2026 | 24.9 |
| 2 | Nathan MacKinnon | 2024 | 24.7 |
| 3 | Johnny Gaudreau | 2022 | 24.6 |
| 4 | Matthew Tkachuk | 2022 | 24.6 |
| 5 | Connor McDavid | 2023 | 24.3 |
| 6 | Jason Robertson | 2023 | 24.3 |
| 7 | David Pastrnak | 2024 | 24.3 |
| 8 | Connor McDavid | 2026 | 24.1 |
| 9 | Artemi Panarin | 2024 | 24 |
| 10 | Connor McDavid | 2022 | 23.8 |
VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade — no rated seasons for 2027, 2028, 2029, so the ranking covers the rest of the decade only.