New Jersey Devils 2024-25 season awards

While it was an up and down season for the Devils, there were still plenty of great performances to come from it.

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The New Jersey Devils were a roller coaster ride in 2024-25. They looked like legitimate Stanley Cup contenders in 2024 and closer to a non-playoff team once the calendar flipped.

There were a lot of positive individual performances, though, and I’m going to highlight some of them in my annual team awards.

Art Ross: Jesper Bratt

Jesper Bratt put forth a monster season offensively. He set a new career high with 88 points in 81 games and led the team in scoring by 18 points.

The injury to Jack Hughes (again) turned this into a one-horse race but Bratt deserves a ton of credit for the year he had.

I mean, the Devils struggled to score goals for a healthy chunk of the year. Bratt still tied Mikko Rantanen for 15th in league scoring and finished 5th in assists. Only the best of the best ranked ahead of Bratt in that category.

With any luck, Jack Hughes stays healthy and reclaims the team scoring lead next season.

Rocket Richard: Nico Hischier

Always an excellent finisher (he has never shot below 10.6% in a season), Hischier ramped things up another notch this year.

He shot the lights out, finding twine on 18.7% of his shots en route to a 35-goal campaign.

It doesn’t feel like a crazy high number on the surface but only 17 players scored more goals and just eight hit 40.

Hischier tends to rely more on his playmaking than his shooting, and that’s fine, but I’d like to see him up his volume a little bit.

He is a career 13.3% shooter and has finished at a higher rate than that in four of the past five years.

His quality-over-quantity approach is a driving factor, no doubt, but there are times Hischier passes up dangerous shots he’s more than worthy of taking.

Hart Trophy: Nico Hischier